skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda like needing to enter your password again to change your account settings if you're already logged in. (I don't necessarily think all these rules are good and just, but if they were, it would make sense to have some redundancy.)
My solution for years is to hit the thrift store and opportunistically grab pants that are in good shape but too big, and then take them for alteration. For a few bucks plus tailoring, I can have something that will fit me better than anything off the rack.
I don't think the quality will go down. For the average user, LLMs will make the Internet better.

Currently, if you search for something there's a good chance you will need to wade through a lot of irrelevant blogspam that's only vaguely related to what you're looking for.

Soon, your search will return blogspam that's much closer to what you're looking for, likely generated with a LLM using the exact same prompt you typed into Google, and higher quality than a typical blog. The Internet will basically become a cached repository of LLM outputs, and it will be better for it.

Niche communities will boom, supported by AI posters. Your favorite underwater basket weaving subreddit will have an endless stream of entertaining, helpful and engaging posts every day from thousands of friendly users, and even though only three of them are humans they will be happy to be part of such a large and active community.
Why is it so hard to understand? I don’t think anyone here is saying there is no legitimate use for narcotic pain killers. If anyone is in huge amount of pain, by all means, take what you need. However it should almost never be default first line pain management outside of the hospital.

People don’t give ibuprofen enough credit.
Great step for the West and civilized nations!

Countries with similar civilized values should not be naïve and be ready to stand up to barbarians including being aggressive when needed, and yes, EXPAND!

And certainly the West should not be ashamed for standing for its values and what is right, otherwise there is a wide range of ambitious nations who think that their way is unique and the only way to deal with others is power, while despising fundamental human values.

While power may beat everything in some cases, but for some reason citizens of those barbarian countries want to move to the West rather than enjoy their countries' glory in a concentration camp.

I'm saying this as Ukrainian.
Instant Videos Could Represent the Next Leap in A.I. Technology
Would be nice if the intro video would demonstrate how it works. Easier to show, i.e. make the intro a fake meeting call with the minutes summarising your tool's capabilities.
Why isn't that solved by k8s + a node autoscaler such as Karpenter?
Nope, only the person that didn't thought about backups of that.
came here looking for this. i would HIGHLY recommend trying this if you, like me, suffer from wrist pain due to extended mouse use
You can prompt it for an outline, and then prompt it to go section by section. It’s a lot more work than “write 300 pages!”

It’s actually more like working with a junior copy editor that you have to constantly correct, so you keep wondering what you’re even paying them for. But at $20 a month it’s worth it for that.
*/acc will usually refer to the different flavors of 'accelerationism' that emerged after left-accelerationism became a thing. Here's a good primer by the infamous Nick Land, arguably the father of accelerationism.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220718163330/https://jacobitem...
It's completely irrelevant. And, yes, reducing you spending does lead to job losses.
It is secured through force of arms though.

As a Lithuanian... If we weren't in NATO, we'd either have a very very serious problems now. Or be a vassal state like Belarus.
Nobody in NATO wants to invade Russia and have a nuclear war. 20% of homes there don't even have indoor plumbing. Nobody wants anything from Russia except to not be attacked by them.
Your argument was that "so and so did break the law". I answered that just because something is a law, it isn't good or correct. If you don't see the relevancy, I don't know what else to tell you.

I don't think people should pay other users because of their comments. On the contrary, my argument was that they shouldn't have to pay.

As for hostile work environments, my opinion is that people should simply quit their jobs if they are unhappy with their work environment. I don't think governments should interfere with how companies conduct their business.

I even think racism should be legal. Don't get me wrong - I don't like racism. But the government shouldn't be allowed to tell people who they have to like or dislike. If somebody doesn't want to work with somebody else because they don't like their nose or whatever, it should be in their rights to refuse to work with them. In general, people should be allowed to do with their money as they please, so also to pay for work who they want.

One thing I heard is that the guy in question here even tried to get a relative a position at Tesla, which seems odd if he thought the work environment was so bad. Not sure if that is true, though.
Fascinating little feature for Apple to add to their GPUs - I wonder if it's tech they licensed from PowerVR or they invented it. I'm not aware of an equivalent in the Windows space or on game consoles but it would be cool to see one.

Typically textures are just swizzled.
If a buzzword is a portmanteau of a previous buzzword (DevOps), combined with a newly hot buzz word (ML), then chances are it's something in disguise.

But that doesn't make it any less legitimate - DevOps came from Dev + SysOps, but nobody is arguing DevOps shouldn't be a thing (although you might argue it's no different from SysOps).

In general, buzzwords align pretty closely to VC funding cycles.
In Visual Studio there are lots of subtle actions that start with ctrl+k then some other letter. They can be hard to remember/discover.
> AI is going to allow companies do do a lot more work with far fewer people.

Or just 2-10x the amount of work with the same people? There will be some economic equilibrium, but I don't imagine companies seeing competitors pumping out 10x the amount of work going "Oh we should fire 9/10ths of our staff to accomplish the same amount of work". We're entering unknown territory though, so I'm not sure existing economic models really are going to be able to predict the outcomes and impacts of this enormous technological shift.

I think 2 is correct. I don't think any job falls into category 3, in the long-term at least.

I think all of us should be (a) seeking to add value to the world, (b) seeking to raise the quality of life for all humans. I don't think AI changes that. Once we get over the initial hurdles and hiccups, it will hopefully make it a lot easier. (Some will probably call this idea naive).

I would just continue to learn as much as you can about AI, and not just LLMs.
> However, it seems that XYZ is more or less a typical engineer who acquired skills..

This is true for pretty much every engineering discipline/role.
Reminds me of getting my peanut butter taken away, because butter is dairy.

For all the fuss about whether oat milk should be called milk, there are people of room temperature IQ level intelligence that get confused by peanut butter.
the thread below is really peak HN - a beautiful mix of people who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about (having not read the article or union press release or looked into UK employment law) alongside sociopaths suggesting employees should never demand anything or act as a group.
Clothing, besides for utilitarian purposes like heat regulation and skin protection, is also about signaling and communicating to others. So I would expect it to be rare to find it divorced from that secondary purpose anywhere.
B/c the cold hard truth is that people would rather the 3-4x salaries.

https://jobs.theguardian.com/job/8512191/head-of-cyber-secur...

You have the head of cyber security making almost 1/2 as much as many CS grads right out of college.

People can and will say they want more rights... but if that were _really_ true you would see tons of tech workers breaking down the door to get into Europe. As it stands, the complete opposite is happening.
Then I get home and think: how come we're collectively killing the biome that sustains us and degrading its ability to nurture human civilization? Then I remember I need to race to the bottom with everyone else to get that cash son!
You hire the bare minimum. Also, the French market is within the EU/EEA, so there's always Switzerland right next door (plus CH also supports German and Italian markets so you can merge your DACH, Francophone, and Italian operations in one country).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
There's a lot of projection going on here, as far as I can tell. The author is about as neutral as possible in describing these traits / behaviors. None of these traits are mutually exclusive with being a jerk, and in my experience, more often than not the people that exhibit these traits tend to also be jerks to compensate for their inability to get high quality work done!
> But it is unfair to compare press and AI. Press just gives you text.

The press I know has a lot of pictures. And the comparison is not unfair at all. Both are Parrots repeating and recombining information from somewhere else, or just inventing new noises if there is nothing to copy.
Great story and write ups. Thanks for sharing it!
This is very neat, but I’m a bit surprised by their headline examples:

> Materials admitting diffractive optical phenomena are visible: (a) a Bornite ore with a layer of copper oxide causing interference; (b) a Brazilian Rainbow Boa, whose scales are biological diffraction grated surfaces; and (c) a Chrysomelidae beetle, whose colour arises due to naturally-occurring multilayered interference reflectors in its elytron.

These are all local surface properties, in the sense that light hits a surface, does something wave-like, and interferes with itself on the way out. I would expect a shader could do a credible job of emulating all of these.

I would be more excited to see examples of interference between adjacent rays, like diffraction from the edge of an object. For example, if you close your eyes part way and look through you eyelashes on a bright sunny day, you see blurring and colors due to diffraction.

edit: My inner pedant feels obligated to clarify: by “interferes with itself” I mean interferes with slightly displaced versions of itself that are propagating in the same direction. If a plane wave is incident on an oil slick or a beetle, multiple reflections of the plane wave interfere with each other, but the result is, at least over distance scales comparable to the feature size of the surface (many wavelengths), a plane wave. And you can treat the reflected wave as a bundle or parallel (or not-quite-parallel) rays just like you treat the incident wave.

When edges are involved, the surface varies abruptly on a scale that is small compared to the wavelength, and the resulting wave is no longer a plane wave that propagates in roughly one direction.
In some ways, in Haskell, type-classes are passing around "dictionaries". You can implement a similar pattern as in Gleam, in Haskell, by explicitly passing around those dictionaries. In Haskell it makes for some pretty ugly code though.

But type-classes get a dual use also as constraints for parametric polymorphism. This gives you some more immediate feedback from the type checker and also lets the programmer extend type checking with their own rules.

Never the less I sometimes use this pattern of grouping functions together into a record along with pointers and handles they need to shared resources to make running those functions, passing them around, and cleaning them up easy and explicit -- when it is called for.

From experience I find I doubt that we tend towards complexity or enjoy writing complex code. Most people I know find complex code takes quite a lot of effort to write, understand, test, and make useful. The majority of people I've worked with want to write simple, elegant code and find joy in understanding a problem. It happens that some times we either judge the problem to be more simple than it is or we can't formulate a succinct specification of the solution. This leads to code needing some solution to the inherent complexity in the former case. And in the latter it means we don't know what we're doing and are getting lost in the weeds. In both cases a liberal application of good-old-fashioned thinking tends to do the trick.

When thinking is insufficient it always helps to have coding guidelines, mentors, and access to experienced colleagues. The last ditch effort of course is searching the good, old Internet.
If the company was never going to hire again this might make sense, but laying off 12k people to just re-hire those roles in a year is counter productive.

The absolute cost to not laying them of is a small proportion of the cash in the bank, and the company would have maintained the pretty great culture it had, kept the loyalty that has otherwise been burnt, and saved on future hiring costs.
This looks like the behavior of management in a company where I worked.

The business was relatively 'boring' - core product would move slowly. But management kept hiring bad people and losing talent.
At some point the ship started to slow down.

Those smart people quit to competitors and even some launched their own company that is growing fast.

No bad employee was ever fired, their tasks were just allocated to the few good ones. Who started to quit en masse.
Hi dang!

I think we had a short conversation about this a few months ago.
Mostly this is coming out of the success of the "Who's Hiring" model. No sign-ups, no filtering. Contact whoever you'd like to contact.

On a personal note, I've met some of the most talented colleagues I've ever had a chance to work with here on HN.

I wanted to recreate the same opportunities that HN's "Who's Hiring" opened for me but focusing on Co-Founders.
And what happens when the company wants to fire a different bunch of people that don't voluntarily want to leave?
Or maybe some sailing experience. It didn’t sound to me that they are active sailors.

Will there be a keel or any other foils to help create lift to not just get blown sideways?

To me this seems like solar roofs on electric cars. An obviously good idea that doesn’t really have a meaningful benefit.
I mean, they can still apparently send neverending waves of convicts to rape and pillage, which is worth avoiding.
It's not questionable at all. For five percent of the annual US defense budget it has destroyed approximately half the total warmaking capacity of Russia. That's a damn good return on investment.
My biggest gripe is that the web UI for Google drive seems exclusively designed for tablet users. Enormous icons with previews, little text, no real hierarchical organization, assumption of search-based navigation of docs, it's just so difficult to organize and use. It's like every thing anyone ever knew about organizing and finding files was just thrown out the window. As someone who has used computers for nearly 30 years at this point, I find it infuriating how hard it tries to make my skills useless.
Program Semantics and Verification Technique for AI-Centred Programs
So if there are over a billion phones sold per year Arm clearly don’t charge anywhere near $10 per smartphone CPU.
> The problem is Russia. Russia could be a normal country like its neighbors and make money from trading goods
> No one is encroaching on Russia's borders.

This is really horrifying how the perspectives on the current directly oppose each other, completely Orwellian.

It's not like it's some ancient history, all of this is following the lessons learned from interactions in the 2000s - when the US had been violating the INF treaty with missile "defence" system in Poland and had uncorked local ethnic conflict with arms supply.

From Russia's point of view the events of 2013 in Ukraine along with the previous grievances (the Second Chechen War, Georgia, NATO missile systems, etc), along with the denial of its pleads of new security agreements - were all a consecutive persistent strategy against it.

And sorry, sue me, downvote me and tell me I'm brainwashed all you want, but this is a fair point - let's not pretend that NATO is a strictly defensive organization and nothing ever more than that.
> I am in favor of free speech and people being in charge of their own companies.

About half a century ago, after some difficult (and in some cases bloody) fights, the United States passed several laws curtailing some liberties a company owner may take with how they run their affairs with the aim of a net societal good. They are pretty well-constrained, place little burden on companies overall, and have the net effect of allowing a double-digit-percentage of working Americans of having a fair shot at doing the work they must do every day to make wage free of a kind of psychological torment that their peers are never at risk of experiencing daily.

It was certainly a curtailment of freedom of speech and expression. It was a curtailment of such with significant positive outcomes and made the country a better place.

Nothing I've seen about the way we are today suggests to me that rolling back the clock on those laws would be a net good.
To remove barriers and give people a chance to achieve what they desire (if they desire). That doesn't mean everyone will have the same opportunities and/or the same circumstances.

And no it doesn't, this is not an argument against assistance programs.
Only in some cultures. For example, in the US, in Hawaii, you will find male politicians wearing more than just suits.
E.g. German employee reps on boards
Oxy: The Journey of Graceful Restarts
I don't think you can count "non-NATO" when NATO did not exist yet.
NSA be like:

"Romani ite domum"

After catching you writing:

"Romanes eunt domus"
> should they employ everyone until they run out of money

I dont know that, but I know they should keep their employees if they made 13 billion in profit last year. I would like to understand if this is anything apart from greed.
How do you make it worthwhile for someone to have a natural gas peaker plant ready to run at any time for only 1% of hours in a year? Where does that cost figure in the tradeoff between renewables + batteries vs nuclear?
If you want to lose weight, just setting a goal is insufficient, you have to change your habits too, no matter how unambitious your goal is. It's the same with climate change.
How do you figure there "is more to lose"? Access to the Chinese market is in the profit column. What do you put in the loss column to counterbalance the profit?
I think this only scratches the surface. China has a social credit system. Who's to say that these major corporations do not have a employee rating system? Speak out about layoffs? Your rating goes down. Agree to come back to the office? Your rating goes up.

How much longer before these types of internal valuations work their way into a database for other companies can see?

Take it one step further: what if you apply for a job, and that job knew that you had walked out in protest at your last job, organized to create a union, or maybe refused to come back to the office because you wanted to work from home.

What impact would that knowledge have on your chances of gainful employment?

Corporations can cancel people too...
Years ago, Puget Systems actually ran some tests on using desktop PCs as space heaters. tl;dr, you can use your desktop as a space heater with identical efficiency to an actual space heater, but with the benefit of computing power to go along with it.
Is your issue receiving technical support from Apple in case of a problem, or is your issue physically getting the laptops to Bolivia? I assume Bolivia has post offices and methods of shipment available where you can ship them your laptops, even if it's a little riskier and more inconvenient.
>even when its not in their own interests

It is not in our interest to emulate Europe when it comes to tech.
At the very least we got some funny pop culture jokes out of it. One of my favorites scenes from The Boondocks makes fun of this.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dalD7_hSXeM
Exactly as it's been run until now? Having access to cheap human labor negates the urgency to adopt AI into the workforce.
I see you worked for both of the past two companies I worked for as well.
I dunno about that.. I'd just say that if you're in good physical shape, have good insurance, and have persistent back pain, that might be something to check into
That really depends how short your management chain thinks the intervals are
That doesn't follow. Laying off people is an admission that they hired more people than they need, that's it.

It's like saying "wow Red Cross, why not just invest in your own employees before you talk about improving other people's lives????"
Add the privacy protections of Purism, and I'm sold!

I'm looking to buy another laptop in the near future, and I'm torn between the offers put forward by those companies.

Openness, Modularity, Privacy... choose two?
Nobody in my country wanted to be bombed by NATO and it still happened.
Who is this absolutely hapless person and why is this linked?
He most probably parsed the research with chatGPT or so I hope. He managed to write a concoction of useless datapoints and ended up piling up mistake and bias in most.
The whole system is made up, I prefer to make it a different way. That is why I reject it, and vehemently advocate for changing this. Advocacy requires me to point out the cruel and unnecessarily unfair nature of this sytem.
Very true.

Though it's good to remember the Soviet Union did even worse things to Russia.
Why do you believe the traits and behaviors outlined in the article are mutually exclusive with being a jerk? In my experience, most of the toxic people I've worked with were toxic because they exhibited a number of these traits and were thus ineffective and using toxicity to compensate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukra...

Russia doesn't have to win in order to be scary to their neighbors—they just have to persuade their neighbors that they're irrational and have no sense of self preservation.
It could simply be that Midjourney doesn’t want any attention from the PLA hackers.