skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well unlike Michael, I left after six months. I thought the job was a lot of BSing (and I decided to work at Bain after my SW eng interships which I felt did not move fast enough and had a lot of wasted time; I can be very type A and demanding for constant stimulation). There was a lot of time spent basically making things up to satisfy customers. There was also huge pressure to spend ungodly sums of money as an associate, because everyone's posing to one up the others (I'm talking about.. let's go do a birthday in Cabo every other weekend). So I had decided I didn't like it, but wanted to last at least a year.

Anyway, my colleague / mentor who's supposed to be helping me, instead tells me that I need to do better at making things up for customers essentially. It's quite the intense conversation. I can feel I'm not his favorite associate. Anyway, he ends his criticism by telling me not to jump out a window (we're on the 33rd floor).

Well, a week later, an associate at Goldman Sachs (which had an office in the same building) does indeed jump out a window.

A week later, I resigned.

All in all, it was very enlightening. I got to see how the rich really live. And most importantly, I realized they're no different than anyone else, just willing to sacrifice more. As my actual boss told me... family was for when I turned 30 (I was engaged already at the time I joined Bain). I recently began listening to 'Woke Inc' by Ramaswamy, and he has similar experiences at Goldman Sachs. Including the fake philanthropy stuff.
How about ChatGPT producing a suitable CNC program?

(I have no idea how feasible that is, I'm just curious.)
Photography is an art. And as with art, there is no "good" or "bad" art, only something that meets personal taste or not. Dismissing one form of art because of personal taste, is, well, weird.

Edit: Anselm Adams was a landscape photographer, a really good one. I think his work and portfolio is impressive without people in it. On the other hand, Henri Cartier-Bresson created an equally impressive catalogue of work with basically no landscapes in it. That alone proofs that both photographic styles are equally valid. As is architecture photography, and fankly, any other style.
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I don't know about a /complete/ vindication. She was still a weirdo that occasionally got to wedge her shitty attempts at art into stuff created by people more talented than her, just because she was in a relationship with one of the Beatles. Can't forget Bill Burr's rant about Yoko Ono appearing alongside a performance by Lennon and Chuck Berry, screaming into the mic like an idiot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4K07Kz7M8Q
I have no particular love of legacy systems (whether they be banks, imperialism, or Electoral Colleges), but what about your comment is plausible given the widespread recognition that blockchain technologies have been oversold, leading to widespread fraud and failure?

Maybe I’m missing something, but the above comment reminds me of the blockchain naïveté of 10 years ago. I don’t mean to be dismissive; I’m suspending disbelief long enough to ask what you mean in detail.
Engineering disciplines had often started like this. When something is non-deterministic and unpredictable, people call it magic. But it doesn't need to remain this way. To give an example in construction and architecture, from about a thousand years back:

Then all the host of craftsmen, fearing for their lives, found out a proper site whereon to build the tower, and eagerly began to lay in the foundations. But no sooner were the walls raised up above the ground than all their work was overwhelmed and broken down by night invisibly, no man perceiving how, or by whom, or what. And the same thing happening again, and yet again, all the workmen, full of terror, sought out the king, and threw themselves upon their faces before him, beseeching him to interfere and help them or to deliver them from their dreadful work.

Filled with mixed rage and fear, the king called for the astrologers and wizards, and took counsel with them what these things might be, and how to overcome them. The wizards worked their spells and incantations, and in the end declared that nothing but the blood of a youth born without mortal father, smeared on the foundations of the castle, could avail to make it stand. -- excerpt from, The Project Gutenberg EBook of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round
Table, by Unknown

It takes a bit of effort to get rid of astrologists and false magicians and put in a bit of drainage to stabilize the thing. But it can be done. And in time skyscrapers can be architected, engineered and built.

There is plenty of actual research available on prompt engineering. And it is great that the community is engaged and is experimenting. Gamification and play are always great! Here's my attempt at it - A Router Design in Prompt:
https://mcaledonensis.substack.com/p/a-router-design-in-prom...
These are all problems and we need a better solution that includes some sort of oversight over the care of these folks.

But the solution can't be that severely mentally ill people can say NO to treatment and then are allowed to basically threaten anyone on the sidewalk 24/7 and/or camp because they refuse housing.

This is just not working and the 98% of the rest of us have had enough. There needs to be a way to get them help, with oversight from someone that advocates for them, but without a mechanism where they can just say no. They are mentally ill and not competent to make these decisions.
You are correct, of course. I was writing in the context of the above story, but I failed to clearly express that.

I should have written,

"Updating someone else's GPL code ..."

Thank you.
> AI porn is essentially a perfect technology: there's no performers, so there's no consent or abuse questions

What about AI porn that depicts illegal activity?
Seeing many of the EU's laws - I feel that they have given up in innovating, and have designed to go all in on legislation. Many of the rules they make are completely unnecessary IMHO. They treat their citizens as totally incompetent and incapable of evaluating alternatives themselves.

I expect the EU to continue to falter in cutting edge tech as a result. Software in particular.
> Continued commitment to privacy. Privacy is still at the core of the Fitbit experience. Your Fitbit health and wellness data won’t be used for Google Ads, and it will continue to be kept separate from Google Ads data

Hmm I think Privacy is not something that I would associate with Google and I'm guessing it would be fairly easy to pull a bait-and-switch by Google by offering a new incentive to accept sharing fitbit data for Ads or just changing the T&Cs later on. I'm positively surprised thet data sharing was not the case yet.
>Most developed countries are already worried about declining birth rates

Yes, because of housing, healthcare, childcare and education costs spiraling out of control and the difficulty of getting well paying jobs to cover those costs are pushing youngsters to spend their youth and most fertile years hunched behind a desk studying and working to climb the corporate ladder to afford a home bigger than a shoebox in the sticks with a 30 year mortgage, not because of AI generated porn.

Graphic porn has been around for over 100 years and blaming it now for falling birthrates has got to be the silliest things ever, up there with blaming avocado toast for millennials being poor.

Present society is economically fucking the young generations for monetary gains, and they're aware everything is stacked against them, so instead of taking part in this impossible to win ratrace/squidgame, they choose to check out of the most expensive things in life (traditional marriage and having kids) and instead spend their adulthood on various hobbies and individualistic hedonistic endeavors (smoking pot, VR porn and anime waifus, videogames, being a perpetual nomad in cheap countries, avocado toast, lattes, etc.). All these things are the effect, but not the root cause.
I think it’s an acceptable price to pay in exchange for the massive amounts of clean energy they create.

And we can probably find ways to extend the lifespan, it we want to.
Talking about differences between genders lands you in hot water quickly nowadays. People may simply wish not to discuss it or think it should not be discussed, hence the downvotes.
Prompt shaping isn't much different than filtering and sorting a query of words, only with a different kind of filtering and sort shaped around words, and how they are used together from the perspective of a statistical model.
(Largest tides on the planet. The bay acts as a kind of resonant organ pipe amplifying the tides on the Atlantic Ocean.)

Hey; if they can handle 52ft tides, they can handle anything.
I knew about gddccontrol, it's just not what people were looking for when they were asking me about an alternative to Lunar. I obviously gave them any alternative I could find, but all the responses I got were that a simpler easily reachable UI and keyboard shortcuts for changing brightness were what they expected.
It sounds like a great opportunity for the field to put their skin in the game and replicate it.
On a smaller body of water is that mostly wind?
The Meaning of an Employment Report
Uh, no. It's a bad proxy, for the reasons just stated. As the spec gets more detailed, it gets easier to implement, not harder.
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And therefor you don't need to maintain a puddle in the workpiece. I'm assuming silver tig welds like copper, the heat flows away from the puddle so fast that the entire thing turns into a blob.
In extreme cases mental illness manifests in violent behaviour, suicidal behaviour, etc.

Most of us, including those of us with mental illness (which is effectively everyone to some degree), don't want to live in a society in which antisocial individuals are permitted to "refuse" to be treated. Their victims do not have that same privilege.
I suppose you could write into your license that EU users have a licensing fee of $x where $x is large enough to capture your lawsuit risk.
Yeah but with very simple tasks with the 2k tokens limit. Let alone the fact that it can't access the internet, or have more powerful extensions (say Wolfram).
Your dad has a beautiful street gallery. Thanks for sharing!
"Listen, I'm trying really hard to create a false dichotomy out of thin air so this suddenly becomes an issue. And I need to assume there are literally zero LGBTIQ contributing to Open Source so we can discuss this".
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Thank you. Of all those links I found this the best primary source

https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/ipa-reports/GSA%20...

I don't really understand it, but IMO it will be a real shame if interagency squabbling or whatever this is forces the public to using id.me for login. Fingers crossed things shape up!
Depends on the people you want to stop saying it.

There's people like me, who moved from the UK to Germany as a direct reaction to Brexit. I don't have a Boolean heaven-or-hell (Devon-or-Hull?) attitude to any of this — Brexit itself was stupid, but not (yet) the worst thing the Westminster government did to United Kingdom people. Sure, a repeat of the Potato Famine may happen, but probably not.

Then you've got people who have made it part of their identity. On both sides, they're never going to admit the possibility of Team Them making the slightest of mistakes.

For example, the specific mistake of the government passing a law that allowed a regional ambulance service to find out the preceding 6 months of internet domains accessed by any person, without any need for a warrant; something that was obviously not compatible with the Human Rights obligations but which the government passed anyway, and as that government was loudly conflating the EU with the human rights courts, I just assumed they'd force it into effect regardless of any objection I could bring, when they actually managed to leave the EU.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016

"Less bad" isn't automatically perfect (the topic of this discussion may be an example of such an imperfection), but it is less bad.
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That way of interacting with the Internet wouldn't be that strange at the very beginning... it probably seems like integrating things into emacs from his point of view.

I use noscript and uBlock... my wife thinks about that the same as you think about RMS' 12ft pole browsing. However she is just perfectly fine with Linux as her OS for 20 years now. How Linux came about IS bound up with - is thanks to - RMS and his particular place in the autistic spectrum. If he wants to use email as a frontend to the web instead of wget what's really the problem when his other activities have led to net wins that have affected everyone positively? Can you really sum both things up fairly with one word, "Lunatic", because it's not how you'd browse the web?
I mean, the newspapers already do that with the GDPR regulations, so it may be inevitable
The market will clear one way or another. Investment will fund schemes that work in the new state of energy and labor availability, or it will be lost. Retirement schemes will either work in this new regime, or go bust.

What will the state of those labor and energy markets be? If you know, and there's a killing to be made. Perhaps Africa is poised for 100 years of insane growth as the increasingly-wealthy Asian countries outsource production there. Maybe more expensive transportation will mean the end of meandering, globe-bestriding supply chains and the localization of manufacturing, with exports being concentrated in high-value items like machine tools. Maybe industrial civilization simply isn't possible within the energy and population limits that a global economy without fossil fuel can sustain, or maybe we can only sustain something like a 1960s (or 1930s or 1890s or whatever) standard of living. Maybe there is some deus ex machina technology that will mean limitless free energy and raw materials from the asteroid belt or something, and we'll all mostly live as westerners do now but with weirder social problems brought on by uncontrollable advanced AI manipulating our elections and culture.

Any of this is within the realm of possibility, and in every scenario there are winners and losers. Investment will go somewhere, the question is not how hard or easy it will be to attract it, but whether the fossil fuel wealth we've managed not to piss away in the past couple centuries is enough to bootstrap us into some sustainable form of civilization. If it is, will we manage to do it? Will we destroy the whole biosphere or only most of it? Will something recognizably human exist in the future? If not, when do we wink out?
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"the people" are not "the best", they don't need to hire top 1% ivy league only, to teach 100% of the taxpaying public whom pay for the CC.

The local CC paid TAs the same at 2 year CC as at 4 year state U. Odd that they charge differential tuition to students while paying the TA the same. I had a programming grad student TA and a History grad student TA who both commuted to also teach at the 4-year down the road 30 miles.
Indeed. Its strange how people have no issue with forcing medical treatment (which carries serious side effects) on the mentally ill, while at the same time, opposing mandatory vaccinations (which carry vastly less serious side effects, and are incredibly effective at reducing injury and death from infectious diseases).

It's obvious why this hypocrisy is present. Mentally ill people are 'scary' and forcing treatment on them makes them uncomfortable, and me comfortable, it's an easy sell. But when medical treatment is forced on me, all of a sudden, my body autonomy becomes the most important thing in the world, and I'm dipping into horse paste and counting each myocarditis case. (And conspicuously neglecting the consequences of not vaccinating.)
I was on and off homeless for over a decade so I have my own experiences and opinions of this.
Reasonably regulating payment processors is far from authoritarian.

If you are on a scale like Visa and MasterCard you're not just any private company anymore. Just those 2 companies control well over 75% of the US market alone. Not having access to a debit/credit card today will effectively block you from taking part in many aspects of modern life. It's absolutely reasonable to place stipulations on what they can and cannot do.
> People shouldn't have kids if they can't afford them!

People can't afford kids and aren't having them

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How do you even start implementimg such a spec? I know it's probably a dumb question but how would one structure their code to check all those boxes? Does it usually involve reading the entire spec, then figuring out the foundational parts and building from there? Does that work when you need multiple specs to "fit" together?
How do you make sure or even check that some code you built for some part of the spec does not interfere with something else?

I implemented a few specs in my short career but nothing even close to that. It's actually mind boggling that we manage to have all those moving parts fit together.
Show HN: LlamaChat - interact with your favourite LLaMA models on macOS
Excited to launch a side-project that I've been working on over the past few weeks, LlamaChat: an open-source SwiftUI app which allows you to chat with your local LLaMA models right on your Mac.

Powered by the excellent llama.cpp (and Swift wrapper, llama.swift), LlamaChat allows you to import your local LLaMA models (and Alpaca, GPT4All, and soon, Vicuna and Koala) and interact with them locally.
> The immediacy of transfers seems to be the main reason why companies use credit card services, not buyer protection or actual credit.

I think the above is quite wrong (with moderate confidence). Is the above claim consistent with survey data? It is my understanding that:

1. companies care a lot about risk reduction. This includes protection from chargebacks.

2. companies benefit when customers have credit: it enables more spending and can smooth out ups and downs in individual purchasing ability

3. Yes, quick transfers matter, but not in isolation from the above two.
I'm not saying AI porn is the cause of it, I'm saying it's going to be another thing added on to the stack of issues that already exist.
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I think there will still be celebrity models and tabloids/paparazzi that follow them around -- but that's the high end. Anybody stuck in the middle is at risk. Public outrage doesn't last forever and is easily managed by PR firms.
As someone who loves doing street photography, I agree with all of this. It's not impossible to tell a story without people, but it's a whole lot harder.

> The later two style of photos people avoid out of fear. It's quite scary to ask someone for their photo and it's a bit rude to take photo without permission. I advise you to just go for it and not care.

Most people won't notice or care either. In the thousands of street photos I've taken, I've had exactly one person give me trouble (it was a stupid situation to give me trouble too, it was literally crowd of people and he wasn't even in the center of frame) and maybe a few people notice and gesture a negative (which I respected). I've asked people to take their pictures, but as soon as you do it sorta ruins it IMO, but I'm also not particularly interested in portraiture.
No PayPal is basically a credit card company. It is an intermediary which gives short credits in order to achieve near instantaneous payments. And extracts fees along the way.
> You are going to spend the clear majority of your waking time (%75+) over the next 27 years confined to working, with the remaining 25% or less actually enjoying your freedom (holiday/vacations away, social visits, recreation, etc) before finally retiring.

You have substantially miscalculated: 9 working hours out of 15 waking hours per day you are at work (including mid-range commute and lunch break and generous 9 hours sleeping) is already only 60% of your waking time. Then taking into account weekends and annual leave / bank holidays = 38% of your waking time at work (or 41% if in USA with no annual leave and 10 federal holidays).

Besides, you have equated being in prison with being at work. It's as if you're saying, they're both not enjoyable, and therefore the same. I am lucky enough to enjoy my job, but I've been in crappy menial jobs for summer work as a student and they're still better than being in prison - not just a bit better but so far off I don't see how you could compare them.

If you are in a high pressure job where you hate working and are working a lot more than I just calculated then maybe by your logic (and I actually would agree with this) you should take some much lower paid job where you don't have ridiculous expectations on your life. You shouldn't need to hate your job more than going to prison to come to that realisation!
I'm sure they play a role, but I have read that even teenagers are having less sex.

I don't think teenagers are thinking about housing and childcare when not pursuing sex.
This law kinda only needs a few changes to actually increase the protection of consumers.

- it only applies if you are directly selling a IT product/software to consumers.

- when you use third party components and find a security flaw in them you have to inform the third party immediately.

- in addition if you find a flaw in open source code you should send a patch if you are capable of doing so.
I could be wrong but I think they're rubber tracks:

https://patents.google.com/patent/EP1564118A1

or something like:

http://www.americantracktruck.com/index.php?page=track-syste...

https://mattracks.co/

Could be the article got their terminology a bit mixed up?
Predictable outputs for a given input. Do you think a civil engineer just hopes for a sound structure? Or do they know the structure is sound before construction begins?
Is this bad for Cloudflare? aka this is competition to their "Workers" product?
> The underlying technology is well-hidden — as it should be.

Sounds pretty bad.

> Customers want technology that “just works.”

This shouldn't be the same as a "well-hidden technology".
but see, that is how humans logic and reason. humans are given a set of specs, write code and the client often comes back and says that it's not what they wanted, because their spec sucked or wasn't specific enough.. this happens daily on development teams everywhere. Gpt4 literally is doing the same thing, trying to fulfill a spec, which is whatever we give it and sometimes we just confuse it.

I'd be rich if I had a dollar everytime a stakeholder confused me trying to explain their desired outcome. Especially when I was a junior, now I'm more careful about starting, before understanding but that's equivalent to my version of: sorry I'm a human developer, not a kind reader, i.e. as a large language model...
The problem though is that this desire is incompatible with the existing definition of Free Software. The principle that users are free to use the code however they see fit, and distribute it to others as long as they extend this right to others, explicitly allows this type of Amazonification.

That is, Amazon offered their users every right and information about how Elastic Search works. All of their modifications are public. I believe they even offer deployment information if you want to replicate it. The problem is that they are out-competing Elastic's managed offering on price and overall integration, and that they are not contributing to the Elastic Search code base, they are simply offering the existing code. This is all fully within the letter and spirit of any GNU license, and any further restriction would in fact be a violation of the 4 Freedoms described in the GPL. This is/was not a TiVo situation.