skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Try dressing different from the norm in the 1990s before people even had cellphones in class and you'd definitely end up ostracized

I think that's a part of OP's point. After that, if you wanted, you could go away to college and buy normal clothes and reinvent yourself completely.

Nowadays, if you're a person who agrees for whatever reason is a shitheel, you're that same shitheel forever, and the inertia required to overcome that is greater.

You're right in the sense that the internet also allows to find sympathetic others, but that doesn't shake the stigma, merely exposes it to more people. (Which has the added benefit of contributing to polarization.)
LangChain taps Sequoia to lead funding round at a valuation of $200M
> Just a project to bind an existing GUI toolkit into your favorite language can easily overwhelm a dedicated team of multiple people

I have to disagree, it's not that hard and can be done by one person. Red language did it, it has very clear declarative GUI toolkit for Win/macOS/GTK in <2MB executable. So no, it's not that hard.
SCITT is pretty much just a late copy / paste of what sigstore has already done, save swapping out COSE for X509.
https://archive.ph/PNRaO
Meta is doubling down on VR gaming and “retooling” headsets
At what point does reducing white collar labor headcount begin to reduce aggregate demand for the kind of products and services produced by said labor?

At some point, if all firms participate in this, the decrease in demand would cause the benefits of white collar labor replacement to diminish to 0, no?

Or, perhaps, firms with goods broadly consumed by (relatively) irreplaceable blue collar labor would have a competitive advantage in such an environment and would be able to benefit more from white collar labor replacement. Hmm.
What? A unix terminal is literally one of the most fantastic, beautiful, and long-standing interface designs in human history.
:/ sigh, desperate times, desperate measures.

In reality, I'll probably just have to divest from their platform, which is unfortunate. Everything else just tends to work.
Home ownership is actually higher in many non-Anglosphere developed countries than the Anglosphere. Even with a relatively low home ownership country like Germany, it's a fair bet that the home is the most valuable item in the savings of most of the half of the population that own their home, and most of the half that don't own homes have relatively little in the way of savings...
There's not much from the 90s at all really. While some stuff is there, most of the stuff I remember from the 90s isn't on archive.org and probably nowhere else, except maybe in someones old hard drives or floppy disks at the bottom of a drawer.
how do you know what it's telling you is correct and not (as the open ai paper has labeled it) "hallucinating" answers?

over Christmas, I used chat gpt to model a statically typed language I was working on. it was helpful, but a lot of what it gave me was sort of, in a very deceptive way wrong. It's tough to describe what I mean by "wrong" here. Nothing it spit out was just 100% blatantly incorrect. instead it was subtly incorrect, and gave inconsistent evaluations / overviews.

not knowing a bit about type theory, I wouldn't actually be able to evaluate how good the information I got out of it was. I'd be hesitant to take anything chatgpt gave me at face value, or feel confident in being able to speak precisely about a given topic.

did you run into similar problems? and if so, how'd you overcome them?
This seems like an unwarranted assumption. Some people are going to want to keep others out, other people will have a different attitude. Why would you assume the incentives run the same way for everyone?
I'm still mostly inline that anything that gets people engaging together will increase their willingness to do so. If that is playing a sport, that works.

I'm less enthusiastic about a lot of the big corporate push into many sports. Not just at large, but in the reach out to youth. Happy for my kids to get involved with sports at the local level. Annoyed at how much effort seems to go into funneling local assets into marketing that larger organizations clearly could be getting elsewise.

That said, I'm almost socialist enough to have a crap ton of completely incoherent ideas about how those that are succeeding should be doing their best to make sure those that aren't could. With no obligations attached.
That's a separate question. But I think all evidences points to that NOT solving any housing crises.
> Because it's a 3rd party, it cannot be non-compliant?

Not at all. My point was that they are not offering that as product.
When you convert your traditional IRA to a Roth you immediately owe taxes on the amount. Then, presumably, due to your income, you can no longer contribute to it. Makes sense to me.
Although from the same perspective the phonetic similarity "port" and "board" is probably not ideal, either.
I moved from west Los Angeles (Mar Vista near Culver City) to Dublin and my rent is significantly higher in Dublin (renting a new-ish build 2br 800 sq ft near the Canal, city center). Dublin's a lovely city -- but it's a lovely city of half a million people in a country of 5 million, less than half greater Los Angeles county. London, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles are major cities of the world. Dublin is a regional city. It's absurd. I never thought I'd live somewhere _more_ expensive than LA.
Therapy is a great garbage collector. One doesn't need perceived psychological issue to benefit. And it doesnt have to be trying to resolve some hidden childhood pain or whatever. Sometimes it's so much better to pay someone to dump your trivial mental garbage on knowing that:

1. They arent going to find it gossip worthy and spread it to one or more people in your social groups.

2. You get to unburden yourself without burdening friends on the regular.

3. Sometimes there is real benefit to having a neutral 3rd party to help provide a different perspective on something that may be blocking some minor thing - and gets you on your way quicker
Oh right, nice one btw, but seriously how are you not glueing prefabs?

Are you writing your own db engine? Network layer?
Three of the authors of this paper work for Stability AI currently.

One of them even said: "Unfortunately we cannot release the weights. That's why I joined @StabilityAI to work on OS video models"

- https://twitter.com/andi_blatt/status/1648598423526932483
if somebody has some 90s webpages in their drawer: Please reach out to archive.org ;)
Their recommendation for multitennancy is to create a db schema per realm and spin up separate instances
Aside: this is the deeply unobvious optimisation video "Performance Matters" by Emery Berger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-TLSBdHe1A - they got a 25% speedup in SQLite in 2019!

Start at 9:30 and watch to 10:40 if you want to jump straight into the entré. Dessert discusses SQLite at 40:25 to 41:25.

Summary: A: Causal analysis is needed to discover opportunities for improvements - they developed a technique and tool. B: Modern CPUs have so many hidden causes of performance variation, that you require special tools to actually measure small performance gains. C: They found a surprising difference between -O2 and -O3 that implied overfitting (false reporting of performance improvement).

I presume these techniques are used in large software companies, but I am guessing many (most?) developers in smaller companies know little about the topic. I still find it unobvious.
This is actually a really interesting potential pitfall of TDD that I don't think I've seen discussed before.

The idea that test design can actually constrain your solutions if your tests are too opinionated about implementation is fascinating.

Seems like maybe optimization needs to be a loop of "we optimize the code, then we optimize the tests"

Something to that effect.
I'm somewhat politically engaged in my local municipality over this issue; we're a small suburb directly adjacent to Chicago, and every viable piece of residential land was developed, overwhelmingly SFZ, decades ago.

The problem we have here seems like the solution this article proposes: any new development will, automatically, generate organized opposition from the block (and neighboring blocks) it's sited on, and the challenge is ensuring that the planning and zoning variance process makes decisions for the good of the municipality, and not just to suit the preferences of the neighbors.

I don't know how much our experience ports over to Ireland (probably not that much), but to me this is the opposite of what you'd want; rather, you'd want to do what California ostensibly does: moving control over residential zoning/planning to a level of government high enough that concentrated local interests can't derail the more important diffuse interest in getting more housing built.
I enjoy my job too, but it took easily five or six years after finishing school before I got a job I actually enjoyed and felt valued in for the first time. Ultimately, work is what pays the bills.
>Really? NYT is employing this? What organization is doing this (outsourcing their core competency) and succeeding bigly?

What's with NYT again? I already wrote NYT will be the last holdout, i.e. NOT using this, but that means nothing, because 99% of news and content websites are not the NYT or have the same constraints and reputation to uphold.

>A good 99.99% of websites don't even matter, are just private personal sites with no product or business attached to them, so I'm not even sure what the assertion is there.

I'm not talking about personal websites. This is in the context of news and content websites, not personal homepages. We were talking about websites currently employing journalists and writers, and the danger AI would be to their jobs, remember?

>I don't think AI, even at present capabilities, is capable of replacing graphic designers at any business where graphic design is the core competency.

Which is irrelevant. It can still replace them where graphic design is not the core competency, but still provides a livelihood for hundreds of thousands of people - small time web designers, logo makers, etc. working for small businesses, individuals, and so on.

Dismissingt this as "where graphic design is the core competency", is more or less again like saying "David Carson and big design brands will do fine".

>But just as "stock photo libraries" didn't kill the photography profession, nor did even putting a HD camera in everyone's pocket with amazing filter and stabilization effects...

You'd be very surprised. Photography as a profession is near ly dead. The vast majority of professional news photographers, whole teams, have been fired from all major and minor newspapers that used to have them, and the profession in general has depreciated greatly.

If you mean "there are people who still do it as a profession", sure, it wasn't killed. People still offer horse carriage rides too, at least photography fares considerably better than that.
Sounds like an opportunity for a new JS framework, because nobody wants to write this stuff themselves
Idk the exact mechanisms that should be used, but have long said that copyright protection of all forms should be dependent on the rights holder depositing and funding the archival (to a minimum length of the expiration of the work's copyright + x years), such that public has access to the work upon expiration.

Include a mechanism that allows encryption keys to be held in escrow, to be released publicly for all drm schemes the work is released on.

The LoC may or may not be the best avenue for such a scheme, but it should be funded by the rights holder as a condition of the protected term (or maybe for an extension beyond a base term of ~12years ala patents).
Disclosure: I'm a Swede who previously worked in various primarily Norwegian-owned software companies for two decades. I'm mostly happy about how it went. I also got some insights about Norway along the way via the 100+ trips to Oslo during that last decade when I had an engineering management role. That travel schedule was exhausting.

My pet peeve about Norway and oil: How very few people ever call them out on being the Saudi Arabia of the north (well, minus the murders/various other kinds of oppressions).

They do so much (excellent!) PR that shows them being the ethical/environmental leaders.. that totally ignores the fact that they are the people making money on pumping old fossil remains out from their seabeds. If they really meant it, they could, like.. stop doing that? I mean, pick a lane.
"Agent" Smith?
Presumably you want to attend headbanging parties still.
I made the repo public and open source here: https://github.com/ddj231/GoGoBrowse-Client

(forgive the spaghetti code -- I treated this more like a hackathon to get a proof of concept working)
> I think you mean within reasonable programs that's not a metric that matters because most programs solve problems that don't need much autogeneration to be solved. For problems that do need autogeneration macros are one of the strongest ways.

No, I meant languages (as in programming languages), not programs.

> A good way to become convinced of the power of macros is to try and write a web app in Arc to generate lots of HTML.

I'm already convinced macros are powerful. The problem is that they're also extremely error prone, and can be extremely difficult to debug when errors inevitably occur.

This isn't controversial. Land Of Lisp[1] has a section titled "Macros: Dangers and Alternatives". The elisp docs[2] contain a section on "Common Problems Using Macros". Paul Graham's On Lisp[3] contains a chapter on variable capture which consists mostly of sections on avoiding variable capture problems, followed by a chapter called Other Macro Pitfalls.

These are the people who like Lisp writing these things. The controversial thing I'm saying is that I don't think the power/danger tradeoff is worth it. That's pretty subjective and it's reasonable to disagree with that, but you can't reasonably disagree that macros are error prone when even the people writing Lisp variants are saying they are error-prone.

The best HTML generation I've experienced is with Ruby templates. They're not as terse as Lisp macros, but I don't end up having to debug them very often, and when I do end up debugging them, the bugs are usually trivial to find and fix.

> Autogeneration can be done with macros and is simpler with macros.

I have never spent hours debugging an IDE autocomplete. I have spent many hours debugging macros.

You're only looking at the positives of macros and ignoring everything I've said about the negatives.

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/land-of-lisp/9781593272...

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Pr...

[3] https://redirect.cs.umbc.edu/courses/331/fall10/resources/li...
Everytime I ask someone who knows their way around cars, they recommend a Toyota.

Why doesn't everyone just have a Toyota then? It's what every car guy I know recommends
Apologies, I meant that the negative moods and mental instability predating these events. I am open to the idea that they could be getting exacerbated by them. It is odd now that I have kids. I have no doubt I will change thoughts as years go by. In ways that I can't fully understand, yet. The way that anxiety clearly hits some of my family more than others is hard not to see.
Yes, certainly. But, for me, the reason I’m telnetting to ports is because I just want to check as a one off. If I check so frequently that I need an alias, I’ll use something else. So if I want a quick hack, I just need a quick hack.

Not sure why nc is that much better for me to tell if something is listening on a port.
Lots of rare music found nowhere else was lost when what.cd got shut down
right, it's a huge challenge.

I think the tuning the models to the hardware piece is important, and of course there is much more incentive to do this for Apple than nvidia because of the distribution and ecosystem advantages Apple have.

But also, I don't know... let's see what the curve looks like! It's only been a couple of years of these neural engines. Let's see how many flops M3 can hit this year. And then m4 the next. Again, 5 years is a long time actually when real improvement is happening. I am optimistic.
Founder of Pavlok here. Awesome to read this!!
Pretty good because most of my current value to my employer is based on confidential information we keep hidden from the public. If we were to feed all that to an AI it might be a different story.
I’ve been having ridiculously good code generation results. I mean projects that took months delivered under one hour.
Gprepo: Load a Git Repo into ChatGPT
> incentivizes mortgaging the long-term health of the company for short-term gains

Private company Boards can be more ruthless than public companies’. (Historically, this was the norm.) Much of tech’s myth of quarterly metrics and short-term planning in public companies comes from unfamiliarity, not fact.

The last years of public tech companies had zero discipline. Everything was long term. Right now, Apple’s investors are fine with decades-long secret plays while oil and gas companies have short-term investors. Managing your shareholder base is part of managing a large company, public or private, and as with so many thing comes down to the people involved more than any heuristic.
> Just to be clear, this is not indentured servitude. If he somehow manages to pay back the multimillion dollar damages award that he owes them, he would be free and clear. This is more like a cap on how much of his salary will go toward paying off this debt.

A distinction without a difference, it seems. Very few people will earn $14 million over their lifetimes.
You add some excellent background and context. I was reading the article screaming "it's so much more complicated than this".

> Incidentally I'm probably selling my house an hour from Dublin a bike ride from the train with gigabit fibre on 3.5 acres soon if anyone's interested.

I'm curious how much you're listing it above your purchase price. Show me a vendor who doesn't succumb to estate agents whispering in their ear about what you can get for it or a belief they _have_ to participate in 'supply and demand' and I'll eat my hat. (Yes, I'm just as guilty of this)
I believe it is possible it is happening at some municipal levels but my question was more directed towards your statement

>employed by American conservatives ... to deprive the federal government of revenue

which appears to refer to federal level. The general trend of federal receipts have been fairly flat above 15% for decades (except during great recession circa 2009), and the spending slightly different rising a bit above and funded by debt and/or inflationary effects.

My takeaway is here the beast has not been starved, although the beast is spending more of our children's future incomes in the form of increasing debt.

https://stats.areppim.com/ressources/us_spendxrevxgdp_29x10_...
Yeah, chatGPT is a game changer for learning. Because of chatGTP,

"I know GNU Make."

I just love that it's helping me conquer technologies that I've been wanting to learn my entire career but I guess just didn't have the discipline to do it. I'm getting an itch to tackle Emacs next.
At the same time you can't edit or delete others' pages and comments
Yeah, that's what I think goes unsaid in the article: the shift in cost structure from affordable basics with unattainable luxuries to unattainable basics with routinely affordable "luxuries". It's easy to buy upscale consumer goods (craft beer, video games, leisure equipment, nice clothes) but most people in the Millennial generation and younger are simply not able to own a home.
Yeah this was pretty much what I was getting at too.
Curious, why do you think that? My knowledge is limited to marketing material and my M2 vs my 3090, and my conclusion so far would be that’s in every hardware makers marketing claims the past couple years.
Most of this is a hobbyist trap. It's really not the next big thing. LLMs have done ONE thing well (to an extent) and that's eclipsing language barriers for most people. It's an advance in data compression, not artificial intelligence. I take offense to this sort of clean segmentation of the human brain into functions. "AI" is already a solved problem, because "created" intelligence is all around us. The challenge is to design a half-measure that aids us economically (AI (even in disingenuous forms like LLMs) is immaterial to human happiness otherwise, and mostly detrimental to it). This is an entirely NEW class of problem, because everything else that we've invented so far has been truly new and fit into a new niche (cars, electricity, scientific medicine, digital telecommunications, etc). Making "AI" "safe" / "compatible" is like trying to fit a work of art or enforcing a weird, arbitrary piece of legislation. That is why it's ""disruptive"". In other words, this stuff ended up being the centerpiece when it was supposed to just be a sort of financial crutch for companies built on the motto "grow or you're dead".

Also, most of the tech there that's fit into those neat "boxes" is very weak at best. It's like calling a parser a compiler.

And as an aside, maybe GOFAI was "AI-hard". That's likely why the term bowed out so quickly. ;^>
> The primary function of culture is to pass knowledge and habits to the next generation.

At first glance this makes sense, but then if that was really the case, why are we losing cultural artifacts and not protecting them..? Why is copyright law continuing to be weaponized to such an extent..? Maybe what culture “was” has changed and modern culture is just one of ownership and consumerism.
Quantum effects of D-Wave’s hardware boosts its performance
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Pirates are just independent corsairs. The latter are pirates who work for the king, they are doing the same kind of robbery, but since the king profits off it, they are called "legal". That's what modern copyright holders are: pirates backed by the king.
He "only" has to make $14M.
They have said that the alignment actually hurts the performance of the models. Plus for creative applications like video games or novels, you need an unaligned model otherwise it just produces "helpful" and nice characters.
I hope there is at least some centrality to the next "cool place". All the new projects are decentralized (as in the communities are isolated from each other, not in infrastructure) to the point of being like a giant ant farm, it makes it impossible to find things and also makes whatever genuine information they give out really tenuous because you never know how long the particular instance of a platform or chat server or whatever you are looking at will remain up.

Really I just hope all the shit you begrudgingly need to add "site:reddit.com" to in order to get actual search results for is still usable. Watching the site genuinely burn would make me actively worse at troubleshooting tech.