skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree that is a bit of an extreme statement (many companies are also adopting LLMs from what I've been reading here on HN), this part just below that does seem insightful:

> Unless you work for OpenAI, your GPT leverage is likely wasted on trivial business code, and even more likely that due to the overwhelming amount of poor code, GPT with its 4/8k context window is unable to optimize, further weakening the leverage.

If you are sitting at a company in this situation it is of course arguable that you were already experiencing a negative return pre GPT-4, but certainly that productivity feeling from GPT-4 probably makes it seem even worse.
AI Malware: A Silent and Looming Threat in a New Era of Cybersecurity Risks
There is a legitimate issue in bond reform though - the poor typically do not have the money to bond out and therefore support their family while in jail awaiting trial and the middle-class (through bail bonds) and rich (though having money and property) do. This is a fundamental issue of equity, and I'm not sure what we can do to deal with it other than to say nobody gets bail (which is unconstitutional) or that bail is computed based on the defendant's financial situation (which is done in some places already).

This is a subset of the problem with crimes that are only punishable by fines. In that case, they are de facto legal for the rich and middle class unless the fines scale by the defendant's financial situation as some countries already do.
This is probably good but it seems very low on the actual problem list. What really needs to be first priority in most of the places with this problem is bringing the building/development permit process towards a system that is both highly predictable before one starts, is highly likely to end in approval, and take an amount of time measured in a few weeks for building/development permit and not more than a couple months if rezoning is required.
Just watching the incessant popups was frustrating.
That's fantastic to hear. The guy who leads GDG for North America and Canada grew up in Nigeria and got his education there. He's the most enthusiastic and passionate developer I've ever met. I love the reach google has in inspiring new engineers. Thanks for sharing your story.
Samsung probably had a word then.

Pixels normally are very generously priced, especially outside the US compared to Apple.
its easy to write everything up to negativity, but if you been in the industry for some years and know a few old timers, you may know the job itself is declining in prestige and pay and is currently facing uncertain times....

its not really encouraging when the career you threw your life to may change from ground up into something you may not even enjoy and like (due to AI etc)

lets have at the popular horse analogy; sure people could have always retrained to be "taxi drivers" but what if some of them just enjoyed riding the damn horses and feeding their family at the same time? and did the 20 years of horse riding on the prehistoric CV really translate well when applying for the new fancy taxi driver positions?
you can disable stage manager. i believe it is off by default
Depends on the people you speak with. Even the most fascinated folks i know are now completely aware that there is nothing being created.
the other person replying to me. they equivocated the two authors whereas in reality they couldn't be further opposed.
Yes, that's actually my case. But, getting a salary on par with your skill set may require you to work directly with the employer or a lot of negotiation.

I've seen cases of top developers earning almost 50% less than their peers because they were hired via subcontractors.
Didn’t know the language can be a factor. I was always told any language is fine.
I know someone who substituted water for diet coke. He had no water for 6 months or so.
Comedy demo of the "four chords":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I&pp=ygUPYXhpcyBvZ...
Sites such as Imgur and Giphy were created to solve this problem.

A lot of users simply don't know or don't recall just how barebones the original Twitter app was.
Former 35mm projectionist here. This statement is flat-out wrong:

A 35mm film projector was a machine with a handful of parts. If one broke, theaters could be back up within a matter of hours.

Are you kidding me? A 35mm projector has hundreds of precision engineered moving parts. If one of them breaks, you're not swapping it out with a replacement from Radio Shack. You might not even trust the pimply teenager running the projector (me) to touch any of the interior parts or gears.

You're going to the pros: Authorized service techs, or a specialized AV supplier who may have it in stock, but is definitely not open on the weekend when these things tend to break. And, the supplier may have have to order the replacement part from Japan or Europe.

If you're part of a chain that uses standard equipment (not a given, considering consolidation) you might be able to borrow parts or spares from your pal running the show at the multiplex across town.

Worst case: Because most theaters operate two sister machines for each film (a reel can only hold ~75 minutes of film max, so you have to switch over to the second machine halfway) you can technically swap reels on a single machine with a 5 minute intermission.

The 35mm projectors were professional-grade machines designed to last for years. Our theater used 25-year-old Italian projectors made by Cinemacannica which is still around today (https://www.cinemeccanica.eu/cinema-products/), and looks like it has moved into digital exhibition.

Some of the old 35mm machines are still around, usually at indie theaters. I spotted one a few years ago in Somerville Mass as described here: https://leanmedia.org/memories-movie-theater-film-projection...
So like Erlang nowadays? Or Rust?
This is the main difference between trying to get some ancient code written in C working vs "modern" toolchains - if you have the compiler and the code for C, everything is self-contained; many things like python2 download absolutely tons of support code and libraries to "build" - and when those go offline you can't easily build anymore; and you can't even say "this here VM will build this forever" unless you make sure that it will continue to work (and everything is separately cached/downloaded).
Because it has a new feature that's save the day(if it worked), fixes bugs in a janky patched Julia version, and production in the data science world looks different in research and development phases then it does for software. Production in r and d can simply be, boss wants to see the pros and cons next week with a successful run. Only with Julia have I run into these kinds of predicaments
Gaming, Half Life ALYX is the best experience I’ve had in a video game (using Index) hands down, across all my years of gaming.
If you are a creator that can’t get your ideas across, you’re just like the literally dozen of people who have approached me with a “great idea” with no go to market strategy.
In Indian culture, it is considered rude to say "No", so you will never get a direct No from them. "Can you do this?" - "Yes, I'll do my best" most likely means that you won't get what you asked for.
Do you live on Venus or something ?
I wonder if a big reason is that it is very uncomfortable to move somewhere where you will be in the 1% elite of the local area. My kids would be singled out, our friends/peers would be few and far between. There would probably be few activities for the kid, and so on. This is what a high CoL area gets you.
Negative weight single source shortest paths in near-linear time: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03456

Obligatory Quanta link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/finally-a-fast-algorithm-for-...
Your laptop and desktop are 10 years old, and that’s it. They are not supported by anyone, they just didn’t die on you yet. Apple actually supports their devices for that long easily, that’s one category they really outshine their competitors in.

Also, the macs are not at all locked down if we are talking about that. OSX is pretty much a general linux with a generally supported graphical environment on top.
Well..there goes my dream of owning one. Haha, jk, would be awesome to setup a small community theater though
Lots of shark attacks too
In the uk we’d call it the guardian or the dailymail. Now those are the types of content ai could easily replace.
Having grown up in America and moved to Czechia for college I have to say that I was absolutely shocked by the level of cheating both by Czechs as well as those from "farther east" like Ukraine and Russia. Just brazen obvious sheeting like taking notes into exams and hiding them. Cooperating during exams. Even collaboration to distract the teacher during exams. When I was at college in the US getting caught cheating once meant an instant fail for the course. Twice meant you were kicked out of school and you'd have a cheating mark added to your credit transfer paper so you couldn't move your college credits elsewhere. In Czechia, getting caught cheating meant having to re-take the test. Nothing bad happened to cheaters and they cheated rampantly.
People are greedy to a various degree by nature. Same for violence and desire to control other people. This is in our genes. I have no idea how you could suppress it without The State (comprised of control freaks willing to use violence) being on top
Congrats! I've been waiting for the contest to end before replying too :)
I see. Right, 2017 was the first time I tried Julia and never came really back. Then the Torch, TF, Keras, PyTorch era started and kept ML engineers busy while I think Julia couldn’t keep up. Well, there is Flux. Not sure how it compares.
One can point out someone's observations without subscribing to their ideology.

Not sure why some commenters here saw the name Marx and immediately jumped to the conclusion it was an endorsement of Marxism.
TL;DR of everything Matt Levine has said: Lying and misrepresenting anything at all is securities fraud. Makes it pretty simple to not commit it: DON'T LIE.
I don't understand why this time it's different than every other debt ceiling show. Republicans refuse, Democrats call them a bunch of names, there's a "government shutdown" where about 5% of the federal government is furloughed - the things most visible and painful to the average citizen like passport renewals, immigration, national parks etc... and then the Republicans admit defeat and everything opens up again.
Anything CRDT (conflict free replicated datatypes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...) related is fun to read up on and play with.

Papers and references (page maintained by central academic in the world of CRDTs): https://crdt.tech

Group doing research into how they can be used to build interesting collaborative (and async) applications: https://www.inkandswitch.com

A few of the major open source implementations - mostly for rich text editing or JSON like data structures:

- Yjs: https://github.com/yjs/yjs

- Automerge: https://github.com/automerge/automerge

- Peritext: https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/

- Dimond types: https://github.com/josephg/diamond-types

People building eventually consistent database syncing with them:

- https://electric-sql.com (Postgres <-> SQLite)

- https://vlcn.io (SQLite <-> SQLite)

Open source colaborative servers (coordination, persistance, presence):

- https://github.com/ueberdosis/hocuspocus

- https://github.com/partykit/partykit

- https://github.com/firesync-org/firesync
40k tokens per minute is enough for most users is the next "640K ought to be enough for anybody"
Right! This article very misleadingly confuses leaving the Bretton wood agreement and going off the gold standard as defaults. I think that is the same only in the mind of this author, who seems to be trying to normalize something that would be very dumb to do.
Julia core is backwards compatible all the way to 1.0, libs not so much.

Now, something as fundamental as numpy dropped support for Python<3.6 in a minor release: https://numpy.org/devdocs/release/1.19.0-notes.html

And I've been bitten by relevant python libs breaking stuff even in patch releases.

It happens and it's far from particular to Julia. I just make sure to test stuff property before going to production.
CS 168: The Modern Algorithmic Toolbox, Spring 2023

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs168/index.html

I didn't have time to go through all of this, but the parts that I did read were very interesting to me.

It's not even cutting edge new stuff of 202x, probably most of them are new-ish results from ~2000 onwards.
We're living in an age where the accusation means more than the substance of the transgression, whether it took place or not. In the court of public opinion, everyone is a defendant.
Fortran would be an interesting case, because say C++ is polymorphic, and so are all dynamic programming languages with more than 1 type (x == y could be a string or float comparison)

But I would still say that floating point equality is a vanishingly rare operation

I can't think of any real use case for it, other than maybe some (bad, incomplete) unit tests that assert 1.0 == x and assert 1.0 == y

And that use case is perfectly served by float_equals(), and arguably served better if it has some options. Although probably abs(x - y) < eps is just as good, and you don't even need float_equals()

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Can you show some real use cases for floating point equality in good, production code? (honest question)

It's similar to hashing floats, which Go and Python do allow. I made an honest request for examples of float hashing:

https://lobste.rs/s/9e8qsh/go_1_21_may_have_clear_x_builtin#...

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/10bm2...

I didn't get any answers that appeared realistic. Some people said you might want to create a histogram of floats -- but that's obviously better served by bucketing floats, so you're hashing integers.

Another person said the same thing for quantizing to mesh.

One person suggested fraud detection for made-up values, but that was clearly addressed by converting the float to a bit pattern, and hashing the bit pattern.

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This isn't a theoretical question since we're working on this for https://www.oilshell.org.

For that case it seems pretty clearly OK to omit === on floats, since I use awk and R for simple stats and percentages, and that's likely what people would do with a shell.

Though as always I'm open to concrete counterexamples.
I've heard about cloud integration as an issue before, but what is "data engineering"?
Which one of these talks from ML/AI at I/O 2022 would you describe as "just corporate talk"?

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQY2H8rRoyvyY0AsvPIkb...
Disney has a monopoly on media because they still have the copyright to their IP from the 20s? LOL!

Companies that can leverage this new wave of AI will have, in reality, 1000x the advantage that you believe Disney has.
Here's a simple example. In the mid 90s, if you found a website with recipes, it would have been by a cook with some technical ability and it would have been dedicated to recipes.

Such sites may still exist, but heaven help trying to find them amongst all the "professional" recipe SEO spam that exists today.
There's a very well studied decline in trust in America over time. Despite your snark no one claimed we never cheated etc. It's just getting much worse
I wouldn't as knowledgeable and successful in tech without free computing resources from various companies. My parents didn't have any money and I certainly didn't either.

There's a lot of transferable skills gained in these products. You're not just operating a Maytag.
This is basically how western medicine operates in the US to begin with.
Security theater, really.

Most mass shooting happen very quickly. Even if that kid can call 911 instantly, it's not gonna stop a buncha people from getting killed.

The Virginia Tech shooter, armed with 1 x 9mm pistol and 1 x .22LR pistol, killed 30 people (including himself) in roughly 8 minutes. Even with perfect knowledge and alerting there is no way police would be able to get there in time. Similar timelines for many recent shootings, with Uvalde being a notable and egregious outlier -- the cops were on site very quickly but didn't go in, the bloody cowards.

With iPhone or not, the reality is little Timmy is gonna catch two to the chest if something goes down.
Hand gun roster and red flag laws are two good examples.

Allowing the police to seize weapons based on suspicion is unconstitutional.

CA only recently started allowing concealed carry after the Supreme Court forced them.
I hear Zoom meetings are cheaper in Kansas or alternatively how does that pay cut feel for doing the same work?

In today's writeup I tackle the newly emerging problem of paying people differently simply because of where they choose to take their meetings from.

This is also my first post on my newly created substack, so come and sign up for the newsletter.

https://www.avrukin.com/p/zoom-calls-are-cheaper-in-kansas
So when was the golden age of “society” where it was morally better?
They record the brain language processing via fMRI and the activations of some AI models during language tasks, then create a linear map between them. Then they use that map to try to predict how the brain will process a language task using the AI model activations for the same sentence. This holds true for different imaging techniques and different language tasks.

Transformers perform qualitatively better than other architectures, and GPT2 (the most advanced public model at the time) shows near 100% accuracy. The best correlate of performance in the experiment is the next-word prediction accuracy of the model. Other AI performance metrics don't appear significant.

The conclusion is that this is strong evidence that the brain processes language using the same predictive algorithm as transformers. And GPT2 may have an architecture very similar to the language processing areas of the brain.
When faced with competing laws, doctors without law degrees are not going to sort things out as efficiently when compared to lawyers in a 10 year court battle.
99.5% of other tech companies are also acceptable guesses. Some will only inform users of service disruption after the media picks it up.
These responses are the worst of bad-faith every time I see them. If you live in a place, with family and friends and social ties, but it has some stuff you want to change, why would the solution ever be "move away" rather than "stay and make it change", except that the former is more convenient for assholes who are fine with how things are?

As far as getting "shot" in Cuba, you're more likely to get shot by a cop in the US than in Cuba for any particular reason. Stop just soaking in wild propaganda uncritically.
> There’s something seemingly dysfunctional in academia that made you get the best degree in quantum physics and then not work in quantum physics.

The following article is the best example of the above quote.

https://nautil.us/what-does-any-of-this-have-to-do-with-phys...
What Does Any of This Have To Do with Physics?
Einstein and Feynman ushered me into grad school, reality ushered me out.
Rarely in real life will the situations not be open book exams. While coding, we have access to interactive/searchable docs, demos, tutorials, and of course SO and the likes. At work, we can chat with co-workers when we're stuck or have an idea but really feel like there's probably something better if more than one head was working on it.
I don't really get this anecdote, this seems less like someone having a different definition of "no" and more like just ignoring you (which happens all the time, it's hard to listen to everything in a workplace slack)
There is a huge difference still.

At 3/4 Capitalist, your nation can prosper dramatically. At 3/4 Communist, you will know nothing but suffering and deprivation.

Countries that have gotten closer to a free market orientation have prospered. Singapore, Hong Kong, the United States; all of the success stories of post USSR Europe are stories of market economics winning (including the dramatic example of the Baltics). All of Scandinavia operates via market based economic systems. Germany is a market based economy, not a Socialist economy, and they're the economic dynamo of Europe; the same goes for Britain, and even France (which certainly has a large welfare state, and is a mixed economy but not Socialist). There isn't a single prosperous Socialist nation in the world today. There are dozens of prosperous market based economic systems by contrast (the top several dozen most prosperous economies are dominated by market systems).

Going the other direction, the closer you get to Socialism, the worse things get. And there are obviously limits to the market direction, anarchy does not work (although I'd argue that's not the market direction; market based economies in particular require the rule of law and a government to enforce it).

The only country that can be argued to stand apart from this, even if temporarily, is China. However they're still drifting on the liberalizations of Deng and the benefits it spurred, that is grinding down under Xi. Their situation has worsened as they have headed back toward Socialism (and its inevitable increased authoritarianism) and away from market liberalization.
Unless you're actually a professional and don't like lying.
I would prefer a more generic "license.txt" i.e. a standard sanctioned way of telling the User Agent that the resource under a certain location is provided with a specific license. Maybe a picture is public domain, maybe is copyrighted but freely distributable, or maybe it is but you cannot train AI on it. Same for code, text, articles etc. The difficult part would be to make it formal enough so that it can easily consumed by robots.

With the current situation you either assume that everything is not usable, or you just not care and crawl everything that you can reach.
>To me, it sounds like both of these can be replaced with a $2,000 laptop.

Presumably the cost comes from the fact it has to be a secure toolchain from studio to projection. If it was just a random laptop then the full res copy could be syphoned off by a rogue employee.

Not defending the prices, just saying the studios have a strangle hold on that industry so you can't just solve problems in a simple cheap way.
That’s factually incorrect. Germany for example does explicitly give machine readable permissions like robots.txt legal weight.

In general without a fair use exemption or permission from robots.txt saving a copy of a website’s content to your own servers is copyright infringement.

Purely factual information like Amazon’s prices isn’t protected by copyright, but if you want to save artwork or source files to train AI, that’s a copyright issue even before you get into the possibility of your AI being considered a derivative work.
Here is the company trying to get the cream to the market:
http://winsantor.com/

I think this was a post by him, however, cannot confirm as the user has been deleted.
https://www.reddit.com/r/smallfiberneuropathy/comments/attfx...
https://www.knowasiak.com