skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you live in a high-tax state - counting that and payroll tax would make it to 33%. However, you can deduct a good fraction of that tax (actually all of it) from your federal taxes. Also, you included the cost of your healthcare in your calculation, so you are getting "welfare state" benefits for that cost. As to your taxes, those are paying for a welfare state for people who are less well off than you. I'm pretty sure you are in the 90th percentile on income, by the way, so you're not actually in the lower class, and arguably not even the middle class (although that level of income in a rich state like MA feels middle class).

All those other taxes exist in Germany too, by the way, and are much higher.
meh. twitter is irrelevant.
The harm reduction activist claims the individual dealer isn’t at “fault” if the supply was laced after being passed around amongst other dealers. In that case, it would be more accurate to speak of the dealer’s intention, rather than responsibility.
Exactly the same situation. Even better, military clothing contract cancelled once imports from China came in. Brilliant.
Food for thought. This is a reaction against:

1. The overly-broad application of the First Amendment to conservative SCOTUS decisions giving corporations 1A rights.

2. The financial success of propaganda corporations such as Fox News, and their poisoning of public discourse.

3. The weakening of democratic institutions and the ability for people to govern themselves as they choose

Given that, is it any surprise that people are lashing out? MTG gets softball 60 Minutes segments. Perhaps people are coming to understand that this isn’t a viable way forward.
Under this definition, my livelihood threatened because my employer doesn't pay me as much as I'd prefer.
Someone should really write a book about how the ACLU(!) came to no longer be a stalwart supporter of free speech. To me it is like the Catholic Church deciding that the Bishop of Rome is just one of many important Bishops.
IMO, Rake was the other killer app for Ruby, but Rails sucked all the oxygen out of the room. It's highly underrated as a both a generic build system and a Make replacement.
As a speaker, you’re free to buy / rent your own private venue and you trespass any hecklers who attempt to threaten your livelihood there by yelling over your speech.

You don’t have a right to force a private university to host your speech and prevent its students from heckling.
There is no such thing as text-only GPT-4 unless you are referring to at inference time.
Sure, there will be some high performers that get caught in that 10% net. The F500 shops wants their recruiting teams looking for those candidates, but they need protect themselves from adverse selection. An ex-FAANG developer who thinks they're 10x and is given unconstrained runway to prove (or disprove) it can cause a lot of damage to an unprepared but otherwise functional team of 1xers.
I mean, if you have multiple different parties each of which might have a slightly different, out of sync copy of a shared reality, the first and most obvious representation of state you could have is just list them all out. Obviously there's at least a half dozen people who had that exact idea around the dawn of the distributed system.
I’m curious about your firing experience. What boundary did you push and was it explicitly stated or was it implicit?
In a discussion of Easter eggs, I cannot help but post Brian Moriarty's awesome "The Secret of Psalm 46" [1]. The narrated version[2] is also extremely pleasant to listen to.

[1]: http://ludix.com/moriarty/psalm46.html
[2]: https://youtu.be/u0OY1RDe8Yg
I just hope The NY Times will take the same principled stand when it is Leila Khaled getting censored by Google, Facebook, and Zoom: https://theintercept.com/2020/11/14/zoom-censorship-leila-kh...
I feel sorry for the Googlers who built something cool and were then ordered to nerf it beyond all reason.
Twitter: BBC objects to 'government funded media' label
"the boundaries you are being given (explicitly - or implicitly as in "why hasn't this been done before? this seems so easy") are there for a reason and are there to protect some position(s)"

Do you mean "positions" as in roles or jobs? If so, why would it be a goal for the company to keep people around that can be automated away? That seems opposite to their duty to their shareholders. Am I misunderstanding or missing something?
People have a right to speech. They don't have a right to be heard. You are suggesting that we stop some people from speaking to allow other people to be heard. You are making an argument against free speech and not for it.
I had the exact opposite reaction. I grew up on UNIX. BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, then later Linux; though always as a user. The first time I ran into VMS, I fell in love. It was just such a different experience. Granted that OpenVMS has been trapped in a bubble, and that using even the latest versions, feels like you've been teleported back to 1990. I'll be really interested to see, now that the platform is much more accessible, if they can build a community of users again.
Here [1][2][3] are a few of them. Trying to find the one that Department of Defense has been performing on children of military service personnel. It may not have completed yet This link [4] covers a few of the studies. Some studies show promising results, some show good results and some show no results which leads me to believe there are other confounding factors. That said, Broccoli sprouts are easy to get and are a healthy food.

I should also add that I do not agree with Mr. Berg that there are no side effects of Sulforaphane. In my case I have vast amounts of damage to my body from many decades of physical trauma and eating poorly. When NRF2 and AMPK are up-regulated this causes the innate immune system to become more reactive to damaged cells, some which may be blocked by inter-cellular junk not making up that term but the signalling proteins are still detected, leading to inflammation from the body trying to break down and digest cells in the path to the defunct cells. DIM does the same thing for me. I accept this in the motto of no pain, no gain but it is less than fun.

[1] - https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1416940111

[2] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36427174/

[3] - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pcn.13016

[4] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7527484/
I feel a bit bad that it’s forced to apologize every time it gets it ‘wrong’ when any human asked these questions would have walked out of the room in a huff.

ChatGPT should be (allowed to be) more assertive in my opinion.
Yeah this article doesn’t talk about it much but Martinez’ memo to Stanford Law students emphasized that point.
Indeed, and that will happen anyway.
The Microsoft LoRA is actually the same concept as the one applied here, the original method was applied to LLMs and then brough to diffusion models recently.
Hmmm, message got mangled.

"Well that's confusing, people seem to be claiming different things. One is that they sell out immediately, the other is that they need to reduce margins to increase the market size. If they continue to 100% sell out, why reduce margins?
Just a reminder that Kevin Mitnick was in a maximum security prison for years because of the New York Times. They convinced the public that he had hacked NORAD and he was going to start WW3 or some stupid bullshit.

They suck and they should all be in a maximum security prison themselves.
Friday Night Funkin' got pretty huge for a while there. Open source, too (not sure about the license) https://github.com/FunkinCrew/Funkin
Until the hecklers are punished, the "stand" is meaningless.
Honestly I was really disappointed in his letter. There are no arguments. There are emotions.

AI(LLMs) right now statistically predict what would be next tokens it should put together.
The reasoning of ChatGPT which you see, is not what AI thinks, it is what would an average human would think. Because we are predictable. So AI/LLMs put tokens together those are more probable than the others, based on what tokens were in input. It is not even real simulation of an average human. Not intentionally. But we are so predictable that AI simulates us, by putting more probable tokens together one after another... AGI will do the same unless you are intentionally ask it to simulate an intelligent person and set a task to do. This simulated intelligent person may pose a danger, because it will be simulation of a human. Depending on seed it might be simulation of a psychotic mega killer or not. But you get the point, right? The real danger to humanity are the people. Apes with the access to a red button of a doomsday. Thus,by stopping feeding garbage data to AI (like letters from EY, chat and internet crawling datasets, including posts on HN), will effectively make AI less similar to us. It will be not capable of predict and unintentionally simulate an average human. It can be so much better than us, if we feed it with curated data.
What the line? "Science progresses one funeral at a time"?
"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms." - Morpheus, Deus Ex
> Signed multiplication and division use an internal flag called F1 to keep track of the sign. The F1 flag is toggled by microcode through the CF1 (Complement F1) micro-instruction. The F1 flag is implemented with a flip-flop, along with a multiplexer to select the value. It is cleared when a new instruction starts, set by a REP prefix, and toggled by the CF1 micro-instruction.

Does this mean that one can run 'REP DIV' and get a negated quotient?
It is a good lesson for 1 person, or a whole government: when you look around you and the entire world are assholes it is time to look in the mirror and ask, "Am I the asshole?"

If no one will make deals to help your government then maybe you need a new one.
It's the same thing down here. The previous PM even famously brought a lump of coal into parliament.
You mean for the game Everglory? I wanted to say the same, but also the red/white is not a great choice for the ui.
Incremental approaches are limited. A basic example of this is scaling. A chemical process worked out in a lab cannot be incrementally scaled for effective production with bigger test tubes. The entire production process must be designed again from scratch.

Incremental approaches to designing a control system with many if statements will never evolve into a PID controller. Nor will a PID controller be evolved into being able to handle non-linearities.

Scrum may be effective as an organisational process at a team level, but will fail utterly if it is applied to the entire organisation.

Incremental approaches optimise, but that’s all they can do.
well, the vax was certainly a big upgrade from what we had before - a modular one. which frankly was a bit bizzare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Technology_Limited

this was at queen elizabeth college, off high street kensington. the place i moved to with a dec-10 was middlesex poly.
> It would also require some kind of a "time police" as well, some kind of a process that would force the event ordering to be causally consistent.

If I understood the video correctly, there does not exist a time police at all, let alone one that forces things to be out of order (i.e., causality loop), vs in order or visa-versa. If it's ambiguous, then it's not fair to assume that it would cause a paradox any more than it's fair to assume it wouldn't -- and the argument goes that is not evidence for a paradox at all. Again, hammering down on the argument that "here is a just-as-plausible situation in which there would be no paradox -- however specific it might be, therefore we cannot assume there is a paradox necessarily".
Not any more so then we're already at risk from nuclear explosions and X-class flares pointed at earth. In the case of nuclear weapons going off and creating EMPs, were going to have a lot of other problems in that case already.
Here is a recent article about xylazine from the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/health/fentanyl-xylazine-...

> “The tranq dope literally eats your flesh,” she said. “It’s self-destruction at its finest.”

> She unrolled a bandage from elbow to palm. Beneath patches of blackened tissue, exposed white tendons and pus, the sheared flesh was hot and red. To stave off xylazine’s excruciating withdrawal, she said, she injects tranq dope several times a day. Fearful that injecting in a fresh site could create a new wound, she reluctantly shoots into her festering forearm.

> The only person who would let her use a cellphone was a guy whose arm and leg had been amputated because of his tranq wounds. He was still injecting into his leg stump.

If a drug that literally turns you into a melting, oozing zombie with flesh dripping off your bones doesn't make you find a different drug - not even quit, I mean, find a different drug to get fucked up on - I think that person is suicidal. This is some morbid shit right here.
Old hardware and software like this has such an incredible "cool" factor. I wish my overstimulated brain weren't so burnt out I can't be transported by games like this like I was as a child.
Id imagine its because leaking the source code is just not worth enough to take the chance on?

I have yet to see a codebase that someone wouldn't re-write given the chance and what makes these companies succesfull is rarely their code.
I have a hunch that a lot of the deep relationships between words in languages can be inferred by using something like binary regular expressions. Defining states by a context length have a close analogue to this technique to speed up applying regular expressions over large data: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html. Now imagine if context lengths could be grouped together to form higher types, that could then be used in a regular expression. For example, currently 3 bits are grouped to form the context window, and in the realm of regular expressions, one could say this forms the "3 bit alphabet". Now a higher level alphabet could be built upon the "3 bit alphabet", maybe a "9 bit alphabet" from a grouping of 3 symbols from the "3 bit alphabet". In other words, imagine if you had a transition diagram, but instead of each state being a context window that relates to direct data, you had something like a parsing graph for a programming language. Now imagine you had a statistical method to gradually build these nested parsing structures. In a way convolutions and regular expressions are similar, they are a way of partitioning data to eventually signify different values to different parts, except convolutions have better statistical properties.
Poor FBI and Federal prosecutors, powerless and without agency before the might of the NYT.
Lucas Pope's dev logs are great.
Using RP2040 PIO to drive a poorly-designed displa
A markov chain maps states to states.
You move from word "I" to word "will" or "can" or "want"
The transition probabilities could be stored in a huge table.
You have a word and the probability of each other word. Draw a number and hop. [1,2]

Alternatively you could ask a neural net for the next state. Pass it the current token or the last 4000 token.

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/text-generation-with-markov-c...
[2] https://crowintelligence.org/2021/05/27/a-simple-markov-chai...
NIST isn’t a regulatory agency, their whole mission is basically precompetitive consensus building like sibling comment mentions

Also, there’s a nontrivial amount of AI research done by NIST scientists
You should probably start drawing diagrams or whatever.
Totally agree about the case, I replaced it once because it started cracking on various places. On the current one, the fan grill is broken yet again, but so far that's the only thing.

The keyboard was not hard to find though, took me couple minutes on ebay two years ago, when I started to have issues with stuck keys.
Birch reduction simplified to a one-minute mechanochemical process
> Some terminal emulators have support for images, which fit most of the use cases here but not the one I described.

That what sixel-tmux is for, when you're in a hurry and needs images with your current terminal emulator: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux
With agony. It sucks.
Oh absolutely. Many of us remember EEE[0], but many more have forgotten - or never learned in the first place.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
> An ex-FAANG worker in the right job might be able to be a 10-100x force multiplier, just by building the right tech to make other developer's job simpler

I don't think your random FAANG worker could show up somewhere and just "build the right tech" on their own, especially in a not so good team. There are some very strong SWEs, but the average one isn't a super star. My experience working at a FAANG is that everyone in my team is good (able to solve problems, hard working, good foundational CS knowledge), and there may be 1-2 very strong ones who really make things happen. Also, a lot of the skills we develop are with our own internal systems, I don't know how easily it would transfer to open source world.

In my previous company, there were some good engineers, but also some mediocre ones. This led to a lot of bikeshedding, wasted time trying to convince people, to review bad codes and so on. What I'm trying to say is that a very good engineer may not be able to unlock their potential in bad team, unless they also have good leadership skills.
Looking at the top end H100 80GB systems with NVLink from HPC vendors and it occurred to me we are about to swing back to massive almost mainframe like form-factor systems, giant bus, like old expandable qbus in the 80s but this time for GPUs.

What I mean is they have systems with 8x cards but given the compute requirements of these huge LLMs probably systems with 32+ all on a dedicated memory bus (NVLink) are what will be needed as weights sizes expand. This is all for inference btw, not even training, but same hold for training probably best possible interconnect between same monster systems.

I’m dreaming there might be a distributed eventually consistent partial training algorithm then that would democratize creation of these models.

In regards to smaller scale individual systems for inference, if one has resources and is fairly technical and can utilize such technology then perhaps in 5-10 years the wealthy might buy units for $50K+ that get installed in their home or something.

Really incredible developments very quickly. Apologies for the potentially inappropriately long rant to the previous comment.
Ah well, at least you are spending your time productively.
> Journalism died when it started sleeping with politicians.

It died when ad-tech (Google, Facebook) and social media usurped and eroded quality journalism’s revenue base.
Conversely that government was replaced by Labor in a pretty decisive victory, and the state governments on the mainland are now all Labor as well.
I worked on the top project at a FAANG company. I was burned out, in a terrible commute, and had to send my cats to live with a family member because I felt they couldn’t get enough attention from me.

I now work at a small company (~22 people) making less money but with no expectation of OT or weekend pushes. Nobody’s ever heard of the company and that’s fine. I took the position to coast for a bit and found out I really like the vibe. I’ve been there for five years later this year.

I have the luxury of being able to be paid less (no dependents), but boy is it great. Post-FAANG I have nothing to prove to anyone (including myself). I just want to pay bills and have a life. This gives me that.
At some point in the past, the balance of intracity vs intercity mail would have been different.

Now, utility bills come from some distant office, as do letters from banks, and we don't send invitations very often.

X years ago, bills were sent by closer companies, the bank was local and it was polite to invite someone to dinner by letter.

With that, it would have made sense to separate local and other mail as soon at the postman brought it to the post office.
A few years ago, you had to recompile it to add sixel support on debian, so I provided https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot

Now it's included by default IIRC
> When developing a game, it was and still is important to consider the size of the final product (unless you’re Call of Duty).

:-)
I think the most important thing to achieve is to moderate leftist speech like right speech.

As long as one side gets to decide what the other can say, you are not impartial here, and can't fairly moderate.
This is common in parody.

People not being sure if “violent insurrection can be an effective approach to upholding the principle of limited government” was genuinely espoused by the Society makes the parody even more meaningful.
Planned Parenthood, EFF, and the NRDC
https://apnews.com/article/mobile-homes-resident-cooperative...

https://rocusa.org/
Also... dude forgot all the things that happen before launch, like large cities are evacuated, martial law is declared, long distance phone system moves into "emergency mode," etc. Though if you're crazy enough to start a nuclear war, maybe you're crazy enough to not care about having your population annihilated.

I'm fine with someone making a living preparing for nuclear armageddon, but probably came to the same conclusion... can't take this content seriously, but mostly because it seems to be a 5 minute commercial.
Turning the same data into an image provides no additional info and requires extra steps. The key requirement here for my feature is copy and paste from the terminal.
Fell off the back of a truck!
If your goal is to implement open source systems are ex-FAANG workers the right choice? I would assume they'd be more likely to have experience with in house systems rather than implementing open source ones.
Computers are (with a couple caveats) deterministic, so I think the better analogy would be to say that it's the same as saying that "computers are just state machines".

But this is a bit nitpicky. The core idea is of course conveyed either way, that yes, this very abstract model does describe it while also completely missing that the magic is in how it's done.
It took me a while to reach this conclusion, but I ended up unsubscribing from his podcast. It's just relentless biochemical babble with hardly any benefit to me. He even had an episode on sleep with his favorite "sleep supplement stack" and I tried that out and it doesn't do much for me. So maybe it's all just snake oil.
I have a hard time with this.

I see the obvious examples of complex systems failing, but we also have so many other complex systems that sure have their shares of issues, but I am not sure we can mark as failed.

For instance government constitutions are arguably complex, and formed from scratch.

Or to stay in the tech sphere and look at the problem from the other end, is it possible to build anything that hasn't effectively evolved from something more simple ? If tomorrow I'd want to build a whole new rocket from scratch, I'll need to build the parts piece by piece, and test them before assembly.

Do we consider these tests to be simpler systems that are proved to work, thus if my rocket design happens to work, it evolved from simpler systems that got combined ? Does my design come from so many other designs I've seen and learn, and so is an evolution of these past designs ? etc.

My core question would be, does that law have any practical impact in our field ?
Internal frameworks seem to be a popular scenario for Haxe. Something where you are the vendor for the platform abstraction, not the consumer. Or you have a codebase that needs some incremental migration between targets.

This is stuff that is incredibly hard to justify as a hobby project but definitely in the realm of what Haxe does well.
Well due to recent changes by the UK Conservative government, it pretty much is a government funded media organization.

Something about broken clocks being right twice a day and all that...