skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You also might get a lead who can ramp up the effectiveness of an entire team by say 3x at most. If the size of the team was N, then it's N*3X. If N is like 4 then it's a 12x increase. This is the closest thing to an actual 10x engineer. But it's not actually a 10x engineer here it's just better management.

All of that are arbitrary numbers. 10 is arbitrary and not actually measurable, but your 3, 4 are as well.

But I think you're on the right track with this thinking. "10x engineer" does not make things 10 times as fast as "1x" engineer does, they do qualitatively different things

Take an example of an engineer who sees through the bullshit of a "cloud architect" who specifies a complicated architecture with novel technologies to pad his resume. Cutting down on this can easily save the project / deliver much faster.

This is kind of an interesting view - 10x engineer does not make projects run 10x faster, but they prevent mistakes which would slow down the project by factor of 10.
Why would price per TB be the same? The whole point of cramming more levels into the same cells is that you can store more data in the same number of flash cells.
Ask HN: Do you find Copilot useful?
I finally installed Copilot to see what the fluff was about, and I have to say I’m pretty disappointed so far. The suggestions are either completely nonsensical, or mostly correct but it takes me more time to review the generated code than to write it myself. Does it get better or is this the expected experience?
Chrome 112 Released with WASM Garbage Collection Trial, CSS Nesting
We had 7 policemen with rifles and machine guns go thru entire suitcase of 2yo's doodles because I've put my bluetooth speaker there.
It's not playback speed that's slow. It's the sophomoric definition of stereo. It's the absolute dragging of the feet to deliver that definition that isn't even a good description of stereo.
> Trap 10 engineers in a futile skunkworks project.

This is the business model of roughly 7 out of 10 startups.
> Not every state is Texas

Just FYI a different state would have been more appropriate. Texas has sit-down slot machines in gas stations.
Oh, a settings assistant is much easier to get right.

It is just completely against the modernly accepted "best practices" for devices and interface development. So I don't see how we can get it. But yeah, it could be good.
Headphone cable extender is a must for me ever since the first time I stood on a cable and broke off the 3.5mm plug on a pair.

Plus, I get enough distance to wander around the room. I'll eventually upgrade to bluetooth.
There was never a drone delivery dream. This has been PR since Day 1. And this article is proof that it worked.
What do you suspect could go wrong? Not attacking, just curious.
Fixie got a 17M seed so I guess not LOL
Few months ago at Amsterdam's Airport security sakd I could keep the water. I was mad at myself for being so happy about it.
I'm replying to myself to lay out the timeline of Yvonne's death, since that is when people claim this switch happened.
So first Yvonne's husband Joseph requested leave from the military and was granted it because his wife was sick, we have the record of that from the military.
There is a picture of Yvonne at a sanitarium for TB patients around this time period, further establishing she had TB and was ill.
Then the priest administered last rights and Yvonne died. There was a funeral mass that many people attended and a viewing of the body at the family home. This is in newspapers from the time.
There are no accounts of Jeanne being ill in this time period.

So for this switch to have happened we would have had to have the daughter sick, then the mother secretly gets sick just in time for the daughter to recover. The mother dies and they come up with this plan to dodge taxes, even though presumably it would be risky and Joseph could lose his position as an officer in the army if they are caught. They get the town's doctor, priest, and newspapers to go along with the fraud. All of this to avoid a tax of about 6% of Jeanne's wealth, a considerable sum but do you really think it would be worth all the risk?
At the end of the day, because of her status as the world's longest living person Jeeanne's life has been studied mroe then any other supercenturginarian, and no one has ever found proof that anything happened. We have census records from multiple decades, marriage and childbirth records with the government and church, and multiple mentions in newspapers.
It's a monstrosity of a lawsuit, all pun intended
6502 has too many ways to address the memory (incl all the zero page), it will require quite a few pages not a single one. Indeed the lda/ldx/ldx change the flags unlikely 8086's mov.

I learned 6502 assembly as a kid right after basic... and ever since always had enjoyed it. Pretty much until the compilers became better optimizing code than me (not the 6502 one, of course)
Much of what is in this article seems like bunk.

I don't believe for a moment that these things are fully solar powered. Are they saying they can collect enough power from the panel on top to run the lights, and the pump, and charge people's phones, and still be competitive with an actual tree?

There's mention of particulates, but no assertion that the machine actually removes them at a useful rate.

"Microalgae can be capable of removing CO2 at a rate 10 to 50 times faster than even mature trees" links to a paper which doesn't make that claim.

Some of the claims also show up in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/annethegnome/status/1642575285563592709

I wonder if the article author was cribbing from that, or if they are both based on a press release or something.
Neither Assange nor Snowden were leaking political manipulations in the statistical office. Please don't derail the conversation.
A local vegetarian restaurant in Santa Cruz called themselves McDharma's and McDonald's made them change it. I always thought that was strange.
My Brompton becomes my shopping cart.
As I suspected, this browser, just like the Tor browser, does NOT protect you from basic browser leaks. There are gaping issues and after looking at the github issues, the maintainers are certain that their current strategy is effective. This makes me continue to question this project and Mullvad.
They ARE the standard size of the surrounding text, not smaller. They have a larger initial letter, for the first letter of a paragraph, sometimes.
Trees in tropical climates don't have rings because they grow year round. If you took a tree that normally has rings to a climate where it would not be exposed to hot and cold, the tree would either die or not have rings:

https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/how-climate-works/tree-...
I have used macro assembler to generate 4 different targets from the same source - powerpc, micro blaze, x86, and C and it worked wonderfully. a caveat being that the projected language was specifically for this one piece of firmware and would likely not generalize. for example the firmware used the ppc cache management instructions and they weren't available on the other platforms, so they were nops there.
I think this is something that would've been great to include as an intro, and would've completely removed the negative atmosphere that some people (including myself) got from the article.
Hm, I thought that stereo vinyl records are recorded in a way that vertical groove profile is V=L+R and the horizontal represents H=L-R. It's backward compatible with older mono gramophones that read only L+R and stereo players do H+V=2L and H-V=2R to decode.

Also, while writing this, I realised that it's exactly the same as in the article. Just another way of thinking about it.
Or Warner Bros Records: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_(R.E.M._album)

Great album, incidentally.
If I subscribe to Disney+, chances are I'm not also subscribing to another streaming service. As a result, people get fired and I contributed to it.
These issues are effecting all prescription stimulants.
Except... Monster sponsor a lot of gaming things, so they might have applied for and been granted ownership of "Monster" as a trademark, designmark, and copyright within the gaming market as well. Also, I think there's at least one Monster branded supercross video game. They also have https://twitter.com/MonsterGaming

Suggesting they only have drinks interests is not correct.
I played another game fairly recently where people could negotiate trades for resources. Also a mistake in game design. I want to say it was Moonrakers?
Everyone wants to generate AI content, but no one wants to read it.
OMG. I fell afoul of commenting AND coding "standards" when I used Duff's device in an embedded system and my comment was something like.

/* Using Duff's device see <reference> for speed and code size */

The poor developer assigned to replace it with "better code" had an impossible task because they couldn't find anything to replace it that wasn't either much slower or much bigger.
I have the (now discontinued) Logitech G13 gameboard. I mainly use it for gaming, but it's also useful for creating hardware-macros and have these be linked to the application in focus.
They Outlasted the Dinosaurs. Can They Survive Us?
Building AskHN
I'm interested in building a LLM trained on the corpus of hn's archive. I don't want to work on this by myself, and I'm wondering if anyone wants to do it with me?
Ted's major major mistake was using violence and intimidation to raise awareness
This could really benefit from a max-width that is smaller.
Yeah, wow, a 17M seed round and not a hint of irony. Ferocious. Capital is DESPERATE to throw money into anything that appears to be related to LLMs. "Value creation event of our lifetimes" etc. There's grift money to made here and I'll be damned if some decent proportion of the "API wrapper + template UI" startups masquerading as AI companies aren't cashing in. Not sure I blame them.
You know there are entire companies using Haskell in production successfully and have been for years, right?
Alpaca GarbageCollector – Curating high-quality data for open-source LLMs
We'll continue to ship you a new one each month until you finally remember to jump through the hoops, er, call our operators who are standing by to cancel
Where's your evidence?

AI content will surpass human content in quality and quantity. Moreover, it will enable vast numbers of people to do things they were previously unable to do due to budget, time, resources, depth of talent, opportunity cost, etc.

Meta point: I've never seen so many smart people so bearish about the future. The science fiction dreams and utopias we've celebrated since our childhoods might actually be feasible now, and yet so many are wearing frowns.
And companies even block them for security.
Shares held by brokerages in street name are still legally owned by you. There are very few situations where direct registration has any kind of practical meaning.
Dang, you changed your comment between starting my reply and sending it. For context it was originally asking whether I thought the current path and model of AI development had a small chance of causing a catastrophe down the line, or something like that.

I don’t know how to answer that question because I only care what AI development looks like now and what’s possible in the practically foreseeable future, which I don’t think will cause a large catastrophe at all.

I don’t think deep learning, transformer models, GAN, gradient boosted decision trees, or minimax with alpha-beta pruning will cause catastrophes. I don’t wring my hands about a completely uninvented and hypothetical future development until it’s no longer hypothetical, by which I don’t mean once it’s already causing problems, but once it’s actually something people are working on and trying to do. Since nothing even resembles that now, it wouldn’t be productive to worry about, because there’s no way of knowing what the threat model is or how to address it - it’s reasonable to consider Ebola becoming as transmissible as the cold, it’s unproductive worrying about silicon-based aliens invading Earth and forcing us to become their pets.

I think the issue is people assume AI researchers and engineers are sitting in dark labs not talking to each other, when there’s actually a lot of communication and development you can follow. It’s not people coming out of nowhere with radically different approaches and shipping it by themselves, it’s highly iterative and collaborative. Even if it did happen, which it never does, there’s be no way to stop that individual person without creating a dystopian panopticon, since it’s basically terrorism. You can be sure that if the actual people working on AI get worried about something they’ll get the word out because they do think about potential nefarious applications - it happened years back with deepfakes for example.
It is, but it'll still get copious funding and let a few sly engineers escape the Matrix - so what's the harm?
I see. So is the idea to avoid companies that are getting resources to improve their product and grow faster?
This! I'm still using the original joycons I got with the switch. Any time I get joystick drift, I crack the joycon open and swap the joystick out. Takes five minutes and I'm immediately back to gaming. I bought a bunch of replacements off aliexpress a few years back, so each repair costs me less than a dollar.
That would collide with this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_...
I see got it.

Anyway stuff like this https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/six_causes_of_...

is why suggesting taking supplements to cure burnout and dropping an irrelevant link to a study about mental illness is uninformed and what I said isn't unsubstantive.

I'll hit report in the future then, thanks for the back and forth and explaining.
Process has to do with people. Hire mature and proactive people, you don't need process but context. As company grows, both culture and talent gets diluted and managers get increasingly removed from reality while more mediocre managers get increasingly more worried about covering their asses. Naturally, processes ensue.
"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy. Whatever you want you'll rent and it'll be delivered by a drone."

8 Prediction for the World in 2030 by WEF in 2016
May I please have your permission to continue enjoying my e-bike? At my advanced age and with my sore old knees, my Tern e-bike allows me to get up and over hills and make longer trips that just aren't possible for me any more with my non-e-bike.
> You guys? Who do you mean by that?

Feminists.

> I use that language because these things happen on the socio-cultural level and are perpetuated indirectly through norms.

Belief in patriarchy is superstitious in nature. The patriarchy is everywhere, and nowhere. Its a global conspiracy. It is composed of powerful men and all men and all people both men and women and no-one all at once.

In this way, the patriarchy is unfalsifiable.

When speaking about the patriachy, feminists use the passive voice to tap-dance around having to make any specific claims otherwise they would be immediately falsified.
Thanks. In India, we often refer to it as CTC (cost to company).
Ah, now it makes sense, I was so blind.
This is a great example of why some people are being paid $350,000/year to prompt LLMs while the rest of us are going to be living in cardboard boxes.
That's the black box.

The rest of the narrative implies there is a person inside. That's just what happens when you call something "AI": personification.

The ultimate irony of LLMs is that they are inference models, which means they can never "know" anything explicitly; but it also means that we can never "know" them explicitly.

Everything we have heard about inference models was itself inferred by humans! Do we truly have the same limitation, or can we take another approach?

I don't think that is the case. I don't think we are limited to modeling what the thing does through inference. I think we can construct an explicit understanding from how the thing is designed to work, because all of that exists as explicitly written algorithms.

We need to stop personifying the thing. We should probably also stop calling it a "Language Model", because that means we are studying the resulting model, and not the thing that constructs it.

I prefer to call them, "Text Inference Models". That's actually pretty easy to conceptualize: it finds patterns that are present (inference) in text (not limited to language patterns).

That gets us asking a more useful question: "What patterns are present in text?"

The answer is, "Whatever the human writer chose to write." In other words, the entropy of human writing.

That gives us a coherent source for what patterns an LLM might find. Some patterns are language grammar. Some are more interesting. Some are helpful. Some are limiting.

Most importantly, there is no categorization happening about the patterns themselves. Each pattern is on equal footing to the rest: each indistinguishable from each other. That means we can't ever choose the ones we like or avoid the ones that break stuff. Instead, we can only change what is present in the text itself.

Knowing that, it's easy to see where "limitations" come from. They are just the reality of natural language: ambiguity. That's exactly the problem inference models are intended to work around, but the problem could only be moved, not solved.
If we distill it down to its very root, its a technology that has potential negative externalities that we choose to ignore. Even if we "solve" the issues with AI today, in the future there will be some new technology, because we choose to solve problems as if they are all bespoke instead of distilling them to the roots and resolving the true causes of these symptoms.

Instead, we have to figure out as a species how we can ensure that individual benefits for the societal elite do not take precedence over collective good. If we solve that, we solve a lot of problems beyond AI today, and problems we have yet to encounter into the future.
I now try to favor communication and investigation to reveal the underlying problem that the process was trying to solve.

That sounds like a really great process.
> isn't interacting with customers frequently enough to upend their plans every 1-2 weeks.

As I said, re-planning is more often than not needed because of technical challenges developers are running into. If one person is going to take 4 weeks to deliver something instead of the expected 2 days, lots of things may have to be rejiggered.

But also, yes even "real product driven company with a mature products" are changing plans every 1-2 weeks. Because each new incremental feature is a little project of its own. I never said plans get "upended" but they absolutely need to get re-adjusted ever 1-2 weeks based on both dev input and product/user reaction.

If you want to talk about the iPhone, just look up the history of how the software keyboard was developed. Talk about rapid prototyping and upending plans!
Not sure about other OSes, but I occasionally use a Wacom Bamboo Pen&Touch (CTH-470) on Linux, and I have it set up to do exactly that.
It's really easy to configure it with the KDE settings plugin thingy, but I think that just talks to the Linux Wacom drivers, so it should be possible to do something like this with other DEs too (if it isn't even the default). It's also trivial to set one the hardware buttons to do sruff like send Ctrl+Z or toggle the touch input on and off, which is nice. Plus, they're really cheap to buy used, I bought two for like 15€.

It's not without problems, I personally don't like the pointer speed / acceleration, scrolling and zooming are way too sensitive, and palm rejection isn't too great (it pretty much just disables touch whenever the pen is near the surface). However, I have put exactly zero effort into customising the first two things, so these might be fixable, and for me the latter isn't a huge problem because I don't use the pen and the touchpad together a lot, so having a toggle button as mentioned before works just fine for me.
Who then would be reading this BS?

I believe GPT-X will generate tons of ... something ...

How you would force people to READ IT ?

If you know your incoming info is 90% BS, not a guess, not a thought, just knowledge that this is all auto-generated by some multiCPU entity - why would you read it? What are going to gain or to learn?
> i've never figured out what was going on there

The media lying is what happened. Either because they don't know anything about any subject and misunderstood some very non-surprising papers or because somebody was paying them to lie so people wouldn't believe on global warming.

It's hard to say how much of what reason.

And nowadays people go scrutinize the scientific papers to find the bad ones... and there aren't any. Because there were never any, the entire thing waas invented elsewhere.
This application is highly intriguing. It holds potential as an excellent instrument for experimenting with models and fine-tuning them. However, the $500 price tag for simply trying it out is excessively expensive and inhibits accessibility. I cannot even test things you had in your video.
I want to go one step further than this idea and introduce carbon tariffs on imported goods coupled with price ceilings so corporations can't pass off the tariffs to wealthy people and still profit. The corporations should be paying these taxes and their bottom line should suffer if they're selling dirty goods. They should not be able to make the profit margins they're making today by manufacturing cheap trash in China and selling it for insane markups in first-world countries.

The price ceilings should be set based on some amount of maximum profit margin companies should be allowed to make. If they want to make bigger margins they're going to have to move manufacturing to cleaner countries and then they can apply their insane markups.
This is (very welcome) news to me. Hopefully Starlabs can actually bring it to market, because that would be a good differentiator.
Whatever time pydantic is supposed to have saved me from making dumb mistakes, I've wasted 100x more trying to shoehorn stuff into some poorly thought-out schema.
This is misleading, China is actually slooowly phasing out coal from its energy mix, see https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/china (pretty far down). Yes, they're adding coal but they're adding renewables at a higher rate.
I considered that, but decided the regular bike would be an unpowered glider and therefore the e-bike should at least be an ultralight. ;-)
Were you running bleeding edge Arch updating every day though? Probably not. An RPi is fine for kids. The original comment suggested the sadistic Arch setup, which would obviously just frustrate most kids at worst, and waste their time and creativity at best.
With ChatGPT (GPT-3.5), I thought: "wow, this is really neat! The future is here!"

With GPT-4, I thought: "fuck. It's all over. How soon will I get laid off?"

Only half-joking, but GPT-4 is truly good at complex programming and problem solving, and noticeably better than GPT-3.5.
We have records of the daughters funeral in the towns newspapers. It was well attended and there was a viewing of the body afterward. Many people would have had to have been fooled/in on it from the very beginning.
Planning to :D
Realistically, just steal the prompts and implement my own agents. The framework around it isn't terribly complex and you need to "turn everything off" so to speak when you want it to do your own stuff anyway.
Were these kind of concerns posed when computers first became used by consumers? I'm curious because I feel like that must have had a huge impact on the job market.