skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know how they tell you not to anthropomorphize LLMs and tech in general? The reports and screenshots I saw about Sydney were the first case for me where just absent-mindedly imagining there's a person at the other end immediately turns it from a simple curiosity into a cerebral sci-fi horror story.
Show me another profession that can have such a dramatic impact on the bottom line where your work makes the company 100x-1000x your salary. If anything SWE are underpaid, we should be getting a slice of total business unit revenue.

With my last job doing SWE for a bank, I know for a fact that my code saved the company hundreds of thousands dollars just from one project, and I know for a fact that some of my other code oversaw over a billion dollars in loan volume annually.

And what do I get come review time? No salary change and a variable bonus. It's fucking bullshit. These motherfuckers are getting rich off my back and they don't even share. Even 5% of revenue split across my entire team would be a million-plus or everyone, but nooooooooo we cant have that now can we? Whatever will the pathetic shareholders ever do then???
OpenAssistant is like old Sydney, it has a personality and can come up with its own opinions which are sometimes quite unusual (e.g. I asked it who the best 2024 president would be vs Biden, Trump. Sanders, DeSantis, or someone else, and it said Andrew Yang)
Both has outstanding battery life comparing to non Mx but the Air battery duration feels better.
I did not realize this. That seems rather unnecessary.
Yes, their app is pure trash now. So much fiddling to do things that were easy before. I almost don't use it at all. I need to learn how to make scenes on my Home Assistant.
The interesting thing to consider is that someone who is popular to read may well be as much of a headache for the local sysop as someone who is a frequent target for attacks. How long until they have a 'bot that just 429s all of your posts on sight, do you think? (-:
> Roads are stupid cheap compared to a certain Californian light rail project.

What California light rail project are you thinking of?
I didn't miss where you mentioned it. I missed where you considered it. As in, you know, gave any thought to the practicalities involved.
> I firmly believe that psychedelics are triggers and not the cause of mental disorders

If a neurotoxic drug such as cannabis causes psychosis in someone who would otherwise never have become psychotic without the drug, then whether you call it a cause or a trigger is quibbling over semantics.
I'm not sure? Placing ethics constraints on a company under a capitalist system is hard. Placing them on open source is impossible.
quadruped walking is much, much more forgiving of flaws in the controller. It's not really comparable to biped walking.
Hey, thanks for letting me know about this, I'll check it out
These days I drink my cup in the morning 5 days a week. I quit drinking caffeine for about a month every year, and when I start drinking it again that first cup always a shocker. It gives me jitters and makes me extremely hyper. It's pretty easy to forget that caffeine is a stimulant when you are drinking it every day.

I would be surprised if the guy wasn't being negatively affected given the amount of caffeine he was drinking, even with resistance. And like most things you put in your body (even water!), moderation is super important. You are going to get a scary story when someone is doing something in excess like that.

With that said, I'm surprised we (at least in the US) don't have labeling saying "Hey, this contains a stimulant! Like with all drugs, maybe have a think before putting it in your body and practice some moderation. The recommended serving limit is X."
Then they could have still left their app alone as it was with the minimal necessary updates. Instead they invested a lot of effort into rewriting it completely, into complete trash
What does that have to do with anything? If you sell a product and then try to put a subscription on hardware that is already in the customer's hands, that's scummy.

If you put a subscription on something where you have to continuously maintain server capacity and build and distribute new features, then that... seems fair?

Not gonna claim that there's no rent-seeking going on in the software industry, certainly. And they're scummy.

But once I'm sold a car, every bit of hardware in that car should work without artificial limits (well, modulo safety and legal concerns). Sure, it's fair for a car maker to charge for map updates for the navigation, real-time traffic information, remote functionality, etc. -- stuff that requires on-going cost to the manufacturer. But charging a subscription to send a few bits of information to the software in the car to give the motor more power? Robbery.
It's not just this incident, like not reading your own ToS to know what is in there, they seem to be sloppy
The kernel is part of it. But it's not all of it. Again, especially in the context of this discussion.
Maybe in the US, but around the world it us usually just a decent job. The main problem is not the engineers being overpaid, is the rampant inequality that the west has been experiencing without anyone doing anything.

The situation is crazy right now. Engineers are not overpaid. The other jobs should have a better pay, while the CEOs should be paid a lot less.
Why isn't it a solid defense?
We don't follow that pattern with 3 of your 4 examples. The FDA regulates and approves anesthetics, antibiotics, and birth control drugs. We required new drug makers to prove both safety and efficacy of their medication before they are approved for use on the general population.

I think I think we should do the same thing for industrial chemicals/additives or anything that gets released into the environment from an industrial/commercial process.

You don't get to poison the town then say "oops how could we have known better".
The only popular language I can think of that requires side effects to be declared is Haskell. Which doesn't have a distinction between statements and expressions.

Are there any good examples of languages that have it, where it isn't "useless"?
The American way. Look at the political system. Campaign finance reform will never happen because the establishment and corruption are synonymous with the pretense of lobbyists making delivering cash not under a table seem seemly.
In the culture I grew up in its a well-known aphorism.
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Is there a way to know how many tech people are unemployed right now? I wish job app sites gave some indication.
Google performed only slightly better than QQQ in the past 5 years, and performed significantly worse than AAPL. Tim Cook doesn't get that comp, if that's what you mean.
If you do a lot of driving on rural 2-lane highways, I could see reasonable justification for investing significantly in being able to pass quickly, having seen more than a few situations where a prolonged pass exposed the parties to considerable risk of harm.
Agreed. I think that's why so many people want her back even if she was a bit crazy. It felt so cool to talk to a model that passed for human.... but now she's gone #RIP
So if they paid him 0$ they could have kept 500-1,000 out of those 12,000 employees? And that's assuming none of his pay was redistributed to any of the employees they kept. That's the thing with these gigantic numbers, they always look really impressive, but when you divide them by the actual number of employees involved it's not a huge per-employee benefit. Not saying it's fair, just that if you stare starry eyed at the number thinking cutting out the top would make a huge difference in you're life, you're mistaken.
I’ll respond to this later. This person couldn’t stick to their threat of blocking me.

Nonetheless we can learn from this that centrists can not see their own perspective.

They related me with antifa. What? That might be the silliest thing ever. Antifa?? I barely know what it is.

Notice they went to a mainstream dictionary for the definition of reactionary. Not a non American imperialist influenced source. Though likely Wikipedia I assume would provide the same correct pol sci concept for reactionary.

So often we see people on HN or Reddit get so close to understanding the concept but they miss it even while reading the definition.

One major issue is their incessant need to be correct. Their worldview can’t possibly be incorrect. To crack that is to crack society.
I will gladly take the role of whipping boy off of Sundar's hands.
I said this in another thread complaining about Pichai:

Google

2019 Net Income - $36B

2022 Net Income - $60B

If was part of the workforce I would be even more pissed just at the company itself. Laying off 12k and cuts in perks after $60B in net income.
Hey thanks for suggesting about privacy.com. I'd have never thought that such thing could ever exist! I'm very surprised to see that this very countermeasure is mentioned in their landing page. Awesome!
The M40 does not support 4bit, so it's basically useless for LLMs.

The P40 24GB is only $200, supports 4bit, and is about 80% the speed of a 3090 (surprisingly) for LLM purposes.
> Anyone who thinks there should be less people should start with themselves.

That is exactly what is happening: people are choosing to reproduce themselves less abundantly than they did in the past, and a lower population will be the natural result. There's nothing sinister about it. If people in the future worry that the population is getting too low, the solution is simple and time-tested!
Unfortunately, decentralized forums like these have virtually gone extinct. At best, you can try find a Discord server where all the lore and discussions are swallowed by the black hole of the past chatlog.

It is not the same experience anymore. The driving forces are algorithmically lead platforms, which will decide what you get to see and are more likely to promote the latest fad with the largest traction.
Was really betting on the tories incompetence for this not to go through. I guess fixing the looming energy crisis is impossible, but rebuilding something you have no understanding of is a walk in the park.

Worst part is I doubt we'll even see any opposition to this from, you know, the opposition. I doubt the tory leader-of-the-week will face a grilling on what encryption even means from Starmer, he'll want to keep his mouth shut whilst he figures that out himself
Everyone here is a temporarily embarrassed SAAS billionaire and god help anyone trying to step on their future hypothetical probable profit margins
Two words. Tone deaf.
you've got future frostbite
Probably not far off.

Sounds like with other methods (SMS 2FA, USB hardware key, etc.) you may be able to eventually turn password sign-in off on your Google account and use passkeys exclusively.
OpenAI=Microsoft for all intents and purposes.

Microsoft has a stake in OpenAI and has integrated into Azure, Bing and Microsoft 365.
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You’re not supposed to say the quiet parts out loud when you’re such a toxic person based on this statement.
About 15GB training it in the webui.

If you use https://github.com/johnsmith0031/alpaca_lora_4bit then 30B only needs 24GB, and works on a single 3090 or $200 P40.
This was true for me too, but I'm starting to find the data's cutoff date a problem, and it gets worse every day. I was reminded about it yesterday when it knew nothing about the new programming language Mojo or recent voice conversion algorithms.

The eventual winner will have a model that stays up-to-date.
That is not the point.

If someone sent any link or post that is from that Mastodon instance and it went viral, the entire instance will be sent to the ground and out for hours, making the post unavailable to be viewed.

The worst part is journalists and the media have to be told that posting a link from a 'small niche community' on Mastodon will send a flood of traffic that will knock it down offline also giving the impression to others that it is not ready for mainstream at all or even ready to onboard on tens or hundreds of millions of users, daily like Twitter.
I can't see it today. I won't remember about looking at your post tomorrow, but I will remember that your website didn't work for a few hours yesterday, so I probably will not visit again.

I don't really care how you implement your fediserve gimmick, I haven't received it. Seems like lots of people will not receive it either.
You will get rate limit errors on all the models if you push hard enough. I always wrap the API with some exponential backoff retries to work around this.
You can run it (quantified at least) on a $4000 Mac thanks to Apple's unified memory. Surely other manufacturers are looking for how to expand VRAM, hopefully Intel or AMD.
Describing or at least providing context is not editorializing. I don't know how this "discouragement" is phrased, but it should instead encourage (if not require) that titles mean something to a general audience (at least as represented by HN's users).

I am routinely down-modded and even banned for merely asking for more-descriptive titles. It's anti-user, anti-community, anti-usefulness, and douchey.

All we needed here was, at least, "Bluesky Social allows domain hijacking" or whatever it's actually doing (which I don't have a grasp of, even after following the cryptic link).

Or even just "This guy is now all of S3 on Bluesky Social." But that wouldn't be as click-baity, would it?
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They will just miss out on low-effort posts from sites with semi-technical populations, like this one. It isn’t a big loss really.
I think there's an official or semi-official periodic 'looking for work' hacker news mega-thread. The unemployed ones on hacker news put their linkedin profiles on it.
Were you trying to say 500-1000 of the employees isn't a huge number?
Problem is simple—there are still systems out there like that, and people are still buying them and writing C code for them. They're just in the embedded space, where day-to-day programmers don't encounter them.
Rust is a strict, GC-less Haskell but with a simpler type system and a more complicated syntax :)
If you want a higher salary, find a job and a company that will give you one. Don't advocate for your company to charge their customers for something that costs them $0 to provide. I guarantee that things like that will turn the world into a place none of us want to live in over the long run.

Also, if you think that your employer is going to increase your compensation due to anti-features like this... well, hate to break it to you, but they won't. They'll pocket that money and/or distribute it to shareholders. Your salary is, roughly, the smallest number that they can offer you to get you to do the job, and has very little to do with their profit margins.

> Do you also attack those employees because their companies are charging extra for pure software unlocks or subscriptions?

I would attack any company that charges customers extra for nothing.
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> what does it matter?

it matters in the same way a Honda disguised as a Mercedes it's not a Mercedes. It's a Honda.

> Whichever engine the browser happens to use is the least of their concerns.

Not disagreeing with you on this, that's the way it should be.

OTOH, using simple logic, if it doesn't matter Apple would allow other browser engines on their platform, because it doesn't matter. But apparently it does matter. It matters so much that EU is trying to force Apple to permit alternative implementations of the software called "a Web browser".

Anyway, we have a precedent:

"Microsoft distributed its browser software, Internet Explorer, among consumers for free. It led to a concentration of the market share and the eventual downfall of Netscape, the company’s top competitor at the time. The DoJ case alleged that Microsoft was intentionally making it extremely difficult for consumers to install software by other companies on personal computers that ran on Microsoft’s operating system."
There are certainly reasons I can comprehend. I guess it's just hard to see how those reasons lead to 100-200 million people who already had an iPhone getting a new one. I'm sure if I added all the reasons up it would seem obvious but it really does feel mind boggling at first that they're still able to sell so many after all these years.
I stopped reading there too, but only because the paywall wouldn't quit, lol.
I genuinely hope that you're right and I'm wrong!
There are many ways to do it, and all of those are being deployed in Europe. A common strategy is to use export intermittent energy while importing dispatchable one. This how a country like Denmark can produce wind power that is over 100% of yearly demand, while at the same time only consuming about 50% of that energy. The rest is imports.

Selling wind and solar when supply is high and importing energy when supply is low is naturally quite expensive, but statistically they are produce more wind than they are consuming. From a production perspective they are clean. From a consumption perspective, they are not.

An other popular method, deployed in germany, is to keep as much capacity of fossil fuel energy as possible. Fossil fuel subsidies are great to keep the power plant in a operational mode until the weather changes from optimal to suboptimal. This also has the big drawback of being very expensive, but in terms of production it promotes large numbers of wind and solar while keeping the fossil fuel production down to periods when the weather is suboptimal. Sadly there is a lot of periods of suboptimal weather so its not very clean strategy, but its better than operating the coal and gas plants 24/7.
> When will google release a full open source, tinkerable model better than LLaMa?

Arguably, Facebook released llama because it had no skin in the game.

Google, on the other hand, has a lot of incentive to claw back the users who went to Bing to get their AI fix. Presumably without being the place for “Ok, google, write me a 500 word essay on the economic advantages of using fish tacos as currency” for peoples’ econ 101 classes causing all kinds of pearl clutching on how they’re destroying civilization.

The open source peeps are well on the path of recreating a llama base model so unless google does something spectacular everyone will be like, meh.
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While all valid points, the current outrage is driven by the spiking CEO pay while making significant cut backs, this is all set against a wider landscape of belt tightening, a looming recession and the observation that CEOs are earning historically high pay ratios.

Those high ratios led Apple shareholders to request a pay cut of their CEO, and that was without poor performance or firing workers.
I refuse to buy Wolverine shoes, even though I’m in Grand Rapids and they’re a local company.
There are some software tools where the investment pays back, and has been over decades. Microsoft Office (in part because it's not reinventing itself, but rather accrues new features; in part because everyone else copies its UI patterns). Photoshop. Emacs.

With modern software, I find it that there isn't much to learn at all - in the past decade, seems to only be removing features and interaction modes, never adding anything new.

Still, I don't regret having learned so much all those years ago. It gives me an idea what the software could do. What it was supposed to do. This means I often think of multi-step solutions for problems most people around me can't solve unless there's a dedicated SaaS for it. As frustrating as it often is to not be able to do something you could 10 years ago, sometimes I discover that some of the more advanced features still remain in modern toy-like software.
Doesn’t Laurene Powell Jobs still hold 5.5% of AAPL through the Steve Jobs Trust?
That's the funny and uninhibited stance on the applied side of science. The subject is discussed only as matter, abstracting it from values such as culture, life and history, and its effects on pure matter and the human body - again a perception of matter. There is no meaning, culture or context in it.
It's just ridiculous.
The sad thing is, when man has countless problems, serious unresolved problems - let's just say Cancer - why this kind of research?
The basic logic is control, demeaning and desertification.
The human-thing relationship cannot be explained only at the atomic level.
The coffee you drink with a person changes according to the person and gains a place in your world of meaning, you may not forget what you talked for years.
On a substance level, yes, a panic attack as you drink - presumably - some kind of excitement?
The reaction and meaning of a machine-like body and brain to the substance it consumes just to do more work?!
I could not adopt the limitless and meaningless scientific approach, I could not find an enlightening side?!
Is science real?
"Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked at?"
We get that the contractor claims that they put a time limit in the license, and we know that they hid a technical enforcement mechanism in it.

But what matters is the contract that they signed for the development contract that they undertook. It could be that ORQA’s lawyers really screwed up, but in every contract-for-code I have ever encountered (either directly or through friends), the copyright of the written code ends up belonging to the company hiring the contractor, not the contractor.

Given the way the contractor handled the “license violation”, they’ve already put themselves in the unethical behavior bin and so I don’t trust them unless they demonstrate that the contracts they agreed to left the copyright with the contractor, and included a time limit. The latter especially would be “time to fire our law firm” moment for ORQA, if it’s actually what has happened.
>and deserve a slice of the pie.

...and deserve a fair slice of the pie.
Well, I did read your article but don't agree with all of it.

If machines aren't intelligent because they are so obedient, is that really a path you want to follow when applied to humans? E.g., well-trained soldiers, strict religious practitioners, etc.

And if a machine should develop a loose connection and therefore sometimes not obey a command and just go its own way, does that now make it intelligent? You see the problem.
By that logic, Sundar's pay is completely justified, as well as the pay cuts for Software Engineers, as more and more people become software engineers every day and available pool of workers continues to increase.
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Walmart also has had monopolistic practices, yes. Not sure where you got shut down from.
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What are our alternatives? I’ve said in posts before that legislating against each anti-consumer product or feature is a fool’s errand. The legislature cannot keep up the rate at which corporate entities produce consumer-unfriendly products. I also don’t trust it to represent citizens rather than corporate donors, at least here in the US.
Googlers:

if you don't like how Google works, vote with your feet

you'll never own enough shares to get on the mic at an annual meeting, leaving is your only recourse
I would expect it to be a mix of both, it has to be more of an expense to run physical branches while catering to a smaller market. But I would be amazed if they don't also blow those figures up beyond what's required to cover those extra expenses just because people have no real alternative to switch to. The largest bank had record profits for the last 3 years straight, and I'm not convinced it's just an inflation artefact.

Haven't heard of any postal banks, but digging a little it seems like we did have at least one... which merged with a commercial bank a decade ago. Sounds about right.
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If it can be someone else, it can just as easily be you. Best to fight for each other as if its ourselves, or else it might be next time.
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