skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two related questions:

1. Global temperature is rising. Any water that used to be above 4°C (or the equivalent for salt water) now takes more volume. But what about water that's below 4°C? Wouldn't that water compress? What portion of the ocean is colder than 4°C? I'd imagine all of the Arctic zone and near Antarctica is, which is an awful lot of water to offset the tropical water. An even more nuanced perspective would be to look at the actual temperature distribution and use it to weight the dV/dT of water at different temperatures.

2. Global temperature is rising. Ice is melting into water. This is new mass entering the ocean. Why can't the sea bed, which is under more pressure due to extra mass, expand? The sea bed isn't a steel utensil, it's sand and rocks. And it's constantly shifting. And it's composition is different in different regions.

Has anyone done a detailed computer simulation of the whole earth's geology under rising temperatures? There might be feedback loops that might amplify or negate some effects so it's quite important to account for all variables. And obviously there's a lot of variables to account for.

(It's sometimes scary how little we know about our own planet. I'm not talking about the things in my comment because I'm sure it's just my ignorance.)
It was enlightening to me when I started applying to jobs to find out that the companies which were renowned for their innovation and productivity had a several week, 5-stage+, committee-based hiring process that made you feel like a sow getting its haunches graded before slaughter
Patents have to be issued in the name of people (although they can ultimately be assigned to companies). So you could institute some kind of ban for 10 years or something if too many of the person's patent applications turn out to be total BS.
Sure, technology evolves, and the solution to Current Problem Is Only One Paper Away, but it's extrapolating to the problems arising from the next paper that matter more. ChatGPT citing fictitious articles as backup for fictitious conclusions as responses to prompts about real people wasn't a pervasive problem until recently, if memory serves.

Novel problems arise from novel solutions to yesterday's novel problems, and the cascade shall continue.

>Additionally chatGPT is in fact already superior to people in many instances of writing. For example, composing a rhyming poem about some obscure topic; chatgpt likely will blow most of us out of the water in terms of quality.

Sure, it can eventually settle on some nice output, but knowing it was created by a statistical model makes it about as impressive as a hyper-realistic painting of a human face displayed on a webpage.
To the extent that this is an accurate characterization of the status quo, its a social problem, not a technological one. No amount of technology will save us from power and its abuse and, in fact, the idea that technology will save us from the problem of building and participating in a just society is, in my opinion, part of the spectacle that keeps us docile in the face of power.
For precisely the reason you state.

They're in the business of making money, not agi, yet all it takes is a carefully-crafted name and people forget about their legal motives and can't stop thinking about Skynet.
Please see: https://www.businessinsider.com/stanford-professor-mass-layo...

I felt the same way about the big tech layoffs and hiring freezes in 2008-2009. (Followed by huge, across the board, non-merit based salary boosts in 2010 and a hot job market to follow.)

For the startups maybe it's a different calculus, but for the big guys they're mostly doing fine and it's not really about cutting costs. It's that some group of consensus-makers decided that laying off is the appropriate, responsible, even inevitable trend in business.

Relatedly, when the socially acceptable thing was to over-hire blindly, few people called them out.
Yes, and it is always COLD. (Newly engaged I took my fiancée to a beach west of Saint John and decided to go for a swim. I mean, I should have known better, I grew up there. It was a shallow slope, so by the time it was deep enough to dive in, I couldn’t feel my ankles. It was a short swim. It’s not like I was going to wimp out and turn back in front of my sweetie. Ah, the pride of youth.)

Re the tides: when Charles ame Diana visited NB in 1983, they disembarked at high tide in the Saint John harbour. The gangplank was at about 45 degrees, slopes down to the dock. A few hours later, it was 45 degrees down to the royal yacht. Some of the sailors, many of whom had long experience, having served in the falklands, among other places, had never seen anything like it.
> The only guardrails that work to prevent abuse are community connections and the right to refuse.

These aren't the only guardrails that work to prevent abuse, and each has their limitations. Independent oversight and advocacy also work: in family court custody disagreements, the court appoints an advocate for the child, who has access to inspect living arrangements and gather other information to determine if the child is being abused or neglected by one or both parents. Of course these systems have limitations also, and the reality is that ALL these systems ideally would be in place.

As usual, the underlying problem is greed. For-profit healthcare means that healthcare providers will cut cost and fight regulation on anything they can get away with, and that means that oversight is lax and independent patient advocacy is absent. Until we stop trusting corporations and assuming that amoral profit-seeking will lead to good results, these problems will not be fixed.
I feel like you may have misunderstood what kling is saying. He's not saying "we will cut any corner to get Twitter to load", he's saying "we look at what it would take to get Twitter to load, read through the relevant specs, and try our best to implement the required features cleanly and correctly".

Loading Twitter (etc.) is not really the goal, it's more of a prioritisation mechanism for tackling a huge spec. Actually getting Twitter to run is a nice reward for all that hard work though, and a series of such rewards keeps the contributors motivated in the marathon that is building a browser.
Yes, I actually do have an iron similar to the one I posted. I like it, but I typically leave it at its highest temperature (which, as you state, just means full power).
> There needs to be a way to get them help

Cool it with the doublespeak. If you don't let them say NO you are helping yourself and not them. This is hardly the first time I have seen calls to "get them help" when really it's all about getting rid of undesirables.

> because they refuse housing

That too should result in us investingating why they refuse that housing rather than forcing it (or worse) upon them.

> They are mentally ill and not competent to make these decisions.

And that kind of thought has lead plenty of abuse.
Seems like a good way to incinerate your professional relationship with your outgoing manager. I guess if you would never use them for a reference anyway, that's fine, but what if you do want to use them as a reference in the future?
I expect we will see the biggest jump in performance if (when) consumer-grade coprocessors like mobile GPUs start incorporating attention layers as a primitive building block at the hardware level, e.g., with instructions and memory layouts engineered specifically to make ultra-low-precision (say, 4-bit) transformer layers as compute- and memory-efficient as possible on consumer devices. That seems almost inevitable to me.
What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines?
“There are many many services for the homeless”

the services don’t do anything though. much like in general healthcare there is no incentive to helping people, its just a method of transferring wealth from poorer taxpayers to rich people using taxes.

helping homeless people really wouldn’t be that hard its just that people with the power to make a difference aren’t even aware there is a problem. for example you think there are services to help the homeless but there really aren’t. there are just people who receive money and say they help the homeless but they don’t, and you don’t know any better because you don’t know any homeless people.

insitutionalizing a violent mentally ill man is not in the same category as “helping the homeless”. its about equivalent to locking up a person who says in a therapists office yeah obviously I’m mildly suicidal like almost everyone else. it has nothing to do with helping people it’s just a way to make money and police the culture
How is rail safety handled in the US? Is every company responsible for itself with little oversight or are there more detailed rules? I wonder how this:

> It happened in September 2005 when a 1.5-mile-long BNSF train tried to fit into a siding in Missouri that was 1.4 miles long.

could have happened. It does not make sense to me. Shouldn't there be a computer saying no to the scheduling or at least some rail safety system?
The Full Circle on Developer Productivity with Steve Yegge
it’s a non-square shape that does not and cannot repeat
I understand the civil liberties concerns, but you really want to treat severe mental illness as soon as possible. Earlier treatment is linked to better outcomes, lower costs, and a significantly higher chance of being reintegrated into society as a whole.
> I suppose the more common it becomes, the less the "offer" process will mean in practice. Candidates will hedge their bets.

My partner was shocked I was still interviewing after accepting an offer - this kind of story is generally why. Sucks for the hiring managers, I guess, but I care more about my mortgage/income/whatever than their time.
Doctors don't just "go to medical school". They are licensed professionals who are required to complete extensive theoretical, practical, and professional education in a system designed and governed by the state and relevant professional bodies. They take an oath, and they are personally responsible for their mistakes and the consequences of those mistakes. They are required to conform to a rigorous system of ethics, and they can lose their license and their livelihood if they do not.

All of these facts are also true of "real engineers", and it's why coders are not "real engineers", regardless of whether they have a CS degree.
I find myself just really annoyed with the author here. Yoko may not have been the catalyst for breaking up the Beatles, but let's not pretend like she was advancing feminism just by being present in the studio, much to the dismay of the other members of the Beatles [1]. She's just being rude in the same way it'd be rude for someone to be standing next to me while I'm on the toilet. She might not be doing anything but her presence is certainly disruptive.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Na7ZY7W3pk
They’re crude but will be getting better quickly.
This is the nth post on this thread where you repeat the argument that because you believe IQ research is suppressed, absence of evidence is in fact evidence of presence.
I guess if the hardware is cheap for some uses speed is not so important, you can just walk away and let it grind.
You probably think bandwidth costs are something you can squeeze out of thin air....
I fail to see the reason for why ban on revoking offers would cause 2x more interview rounds.
Exactly this - tires can be a bigger impediment to travel than fuel - can be easier to get hold of more fuel in the outback than the tires you need.

If you read it with that in mind it makes perfect sense:

Although the team knows of ten other carved boabs that, at least at one time, stood sentinel over the red-earthed landscape, they had no way of accessing them during their survey without off-road vehicles with “endless” tires.
Add a seizure warning to this please! There is no indication that clicking to proceed will cause flashing and moving lights.
" Object-oriented design isn't top-down, even when it pretends to be. The decomposition provided by objects is a model of the real world, which is after all where the idea originated"

I've seen plenty of code in "OO" languages that is just the sort of top-down imperative function type thing being described in the article. That is, people using OO solely to encapsulate state and variable scope, using methods more like functions, versus trying to model the real world as objects. I suppose though, that's not "OOD" then?
Neat! I'm working on something very similar for Xfce, but invoking ddcutil natively: https://github.com/apsun/xfce4-ddc-plugin (very much WIP, currently only supports hotkeys and a single monitor)

I've found that shelling out to the ddcutil CLI directly tends to be "lossy" - as in, if invoked very quickly (i.e. via keyboard shortcuts), it will tend to race with itself and fail half the time. So far the best solution I've found is to run a daemon to queue and batch together multiple operations, which significantly improved reliability.
Show HN: Reprompt – Collaborative Prompt Testing
We recently developed an AI app, but we struggled to write good prompts for it. Although GPT3.5 is affordable, we found it challenging to provide effective instructions. We often made changes to our prompts that unintentionally led to poor performance.

Testing prompts is the solution, but existing tools make this task difficult. You must generate an output, review it, delete it, and generate again, which is time-consuming. After only a few rounds of testing, you may think that you have a bulletproof prompt without realizing its flaws.

To address this issue, we developed Reprompt, which enables you to generate multiple outputs simultaneously. This feature allows you to test more data and find inconsistencies more easily. Instead of just testing a few times, you can test dozens of times.

Moreover, Reprompt automatically analyzes all the outputs, eliminating the need to review each response individually. You only need to specify the expected output, and Reprompt will analyze all the responses and provide a score. This score enables you to determine whether your prompt is improving or not.

Lastly, Reprompt lets you share prompts with your team in an easy way so that you can all work together to improve them.

Give it a try and let us know your thoughts. Thank you!
Man, blockchain tech is falling so far behind on the user experience front that it’s not even funny.

There was a bug on Sushiswap, a few days back, that required revoking access to the contract for each token.

To do that, you had to first somehow find the exact contract, find it on Etherscan, give it “write” access from your wallet, then revoke access to each token one by one from your wallet.

This process has literally not changed in 3 years. Metamask is almost 100% the same as it was in 2020.

All that money and dev energy is going into building increasingly esoteric DeFi ponzis. None of them want to fix the actual problem of bringing more users.

Total active crypto users outside of exchanges is in the tens of thousands at most.
Please get back to me once you've gotten a multinational corporation to agree to this (or any other candidate-provided clause) for a non-executive employee.
I doubt they do, if they did it would be in all kinds of marketing articles like so and so Google team used GKE to solve some problem. AWS has so many articles about Amazon using AWS for internal work. Microsoft also has many on Azure. I can't find any usage of GKE by google internally.
If Apple would wake up to what's happening with llama.cpp etc then I don't see such a market in paying for remote access to big models via API, though it's currently the only game in town.

Currently a Macbook has a Neural Engine that is sitting idle 99% of the time and only suitable for running limited models (poorly documented, opaque rules about what ops can be accelerated, a black box compiler [1] and an apparent 3GB model size limit [2])

OTOH you can buy a Macbook with 64GB 'unified' memory and a Neural Engine today

If you squint a bit and look into the near future it's not so hard to imagine a future Mx chip with a more capable Neural Engine and yet more RAM, and able to run the largest GPT3 class models locally. (Ideally with better developer tools so other compilers can target the NE)

And then imagine it does that while leaving the CPU+GPU mostly free to run apps/games ... the whole experience of using a computer could change radically in that case.

I find it hard not to think this is coming within 5 years (although equally, I can imagine this is not on Apple's roadmap at all currently)

[1] https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine

[2] https://github.com/smpanaro/more-ane-transformers/blob/main/...
Some examples of the above (though in no way canonical):

Bystander by Joel Meyerowitz

Heads by DiCorcia

Portraits by Richard Avedon

If you want Americana, then Stephen Shore.
Sounds like there should be a legally mandated escrow for this kind of hiring. The employer should guarantee 2/3 months of employment if they’re asking someone to move across the world. This really shouldn’t be an issue if companies actually fulfilled their duties.
literally no big tech employer is going to allow you to add clauses to your employment contract
Why most people pick the wrong career
Al Jaffee: 1921-2023
The rule of law, and non-elective incarceration for violent behaviour, are about as old as time itself.

You can remove the laws if you like, societies will simply begin self-organizing around removing antisocial elements (or removing themselves from the situation e.g. downtown decay).
We won't add support for other languages in our Edge Functions (beyond WASM support), but we are adding native support for other languages in our client libraries. For example, we already have C# support: https://supabase.com/docs/reference/csharp/introduction

The idea is that you'd just use the client libraries in your favourite framework.
Keep growing that blacklist and put it online. The cornerstone of the free market is that you have to exercise your power of choice in intelligent pursuit of your best interests
Some people would be fine with it. But enough people do care that we have separate terms for "doctor" and "medical enthusiast". It's simply your priorities and those of society at large that determine the importance of the distinction.
I get it, there are people you want to disappear so you never have to look at them again. Declaring these people mentally ill and letting sanitariums kidnap them off the street for profit is very appealing.
You can't reason the person smearing shit on themselves and screaming at people into treatment.
I posted this on your other comment, but I'll post it here again.

Leaving without 2 weeks notice seems like a good way to incinerate your professional relationship with your outgoing manager/teammates. I guess if you would never use them for a reference anyway, that's fine, but what if you do want to use them as a reference in the future? Or is your experience that your former team didn't actually mind that you just quit one day?
Per The Goal, these sorts of broad untargeted cost-cutting measures usually hit revenue as hard as they do costs, I do wonder if Sundar’s “we're heading for a different economic reality” doom mindset will become a self-fulfilling prophecy... At Google that looks like "oh we lost our gov't contacts because we couldn't meet the new software build-chain rules in time because we were understaffed and trying to bet more people on Bard... now we have to lay off more people" and so on.

But they are definitely so flush with cash that any prediction of a doom spiral of every increasing cost-cutting measures would be way way premature.
Have several friends working in Google. Would be happy to learn otherwise.

For the scalability bit, see the limits here:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/best-practices/cluster-larg...

Borg has much higher limits from what I remember from the borg paper.
Ever since I learned programming, I’ve thought developers are overvalued. And they are.
Once you get past the basics and the Rustonomicon, I think it's well worth your time to follow along with Jon Gjengset's video series.

https://m.youtube.com/c/jongjengset
I have a saying:

> It is useful to appear useless in the eyes of those who intend to misuse us.
Belgium does (did?) the same.

Engine size was the number one driver of tax.

Then turbos came along and engines started to shrink, so tax went down.

As an answer to that CO2 taxes were introduced.

Then companies started to aim for <= 99 gram CO2 / km, with super-small diesels.

But then the report of VW's number fudging came along which caused a shift towards gas again.

I don't know now how it works today, with EVs and small gas ICEs with big turbos etc. I do know that they mandate DEF on diesel cars, and OPF on gas cars.
This AI-era is just a bunch of "it can't do that." ... "soon actually..."

https://youtu.be/jKv2KrXbwIA?t=22
> Personally the whole dick move thing I don't care about.

I’ve met many such photographers when traveling, yep. They make things worse for all of us.
> real utility

There's a lot to unpack here, but I'm not going to bother.

> statistics, topology, thermodynamics, kinetics, quantum mechanics, cellular biology, category theory

I have a CS degree. The only two things from this list that I studied were biology and statistics. The only one I studied with any amount of rigor was statistics, and even that was pretty light. I use none of these in my career software except for some intuition-level statistics on rare occasions. In fact, I use statistics more when I play board games in my free time than I ever do at work.

Your comment doesn't reflect the reality of writing software for what I imagine is the vast majority of people who have CS degrees.
if you are deemed a harm to society due to mental health concerns, you can totally be force admitted to a mental health institution in America, and denied basic guaranteed rights - if you have committed (or have the potential to) crimes - such as the right to bear arms (yes it does happen in America), and the "right" to privacy (registering in a sex offenders registry)
> it's a discussion starter

Anything can be a discussion starter, even "weather is nice", and a lot of it is less privileged/entitled/profiling/inquisitive sounding.

Actually, "what do you do" is as often a non-starter for me if the person tells me about something I am not interested in and it sucks to have to feign interest. It's much better to ask something pertaining to a shared interest. If you actually pay attention you may notice things around the person that reflect their interests, ask about that.

> On the other hand, isn't it a risk with any personal question?

Nah, only those that concern social status, something you cannot change about yourself (origin) or something that could put you in danger (where you live). In a casual setting I don't see any point of those questions except to assert oneself. If you don't expect it you would be uncomfortable but would have to suck it up and reply or be confrontational and reveal insecurity. Sure sometimes it's fun to think of creative ways of answering this questions without answering them but who are you to put me on the spot to do it in real time while watching me? We are all just trying to have a good time.
Is there any pushback from the Twitter "freedom of speech" crowd? That is, are the people who welcomed "The Twitter Files" as evidence of Twitters past suppression of free speech vigorously decrying this suppression?
Agreed, there’s a lot more design space to explore with prompt chains/flows. But a single prompt requires design too especially if it’s dynamically generated. You have to choose what information to provide, frame the question or task you want it to complete in a way that provides good answers and is also extractable from the completion, and fit within the token limits (32k tokens is a lot but expensive and still small for some tasks).

This article only covers the simplest type of prompting you might do.