skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Stanford doesn't really know how to do real math. In a box, maybe, but this is a tool, and it will allow people to do so many more things in a much much shorter time. This will definitely help advance technology much much faster. On the flip side, like any tool, it can and will become very dangerous. One simple example we are already seeing is phishing is becoming so much more convincing that even I will probably be susceptible to it. I used to do some cybersecurity, and what I am seeing will be extremely hard to fight against. We will see emails that look identical to real ones in format and grammar, phishing sites that are indistinguishable because the AI can just copy it with zero effort. Phone calls can now sound almost identical to a target. I'm not sure if we will be fast enough in the cat and mouse game before the bad guys win.
If you have asians in your city you probably can, you just have to find their markets and look for the frozen natto in little styrofoam containers
Cython lets you incrementally add types to your python code and transpile to C. Its best feature is the html output that highlights which part of your code still has an external dependency and is thus not directly translatable to C.

Numba has an amazing jit decorator. It can even build on numpy functions. Once I had a simple sum loop and it was compiled into O(1).

Pyston is very cool, it outputs C++ code that you can statically build into your project. Still needs libpython.

Pypy speeds up plain python code. It can even install from pip. I tried it on neat-python package, solid 40% improvement.

Nuitka is different. It is a packaging system which embeds the python interpreter and your code into a distributable binary.
1M or so streams per month is still indie realm isn't it? And anyway, if it's less, that just makes the point harder: 'nobody is suing indie artists for the 70k they didn't make last year'.
Strictly speaking you are being judgemental - assuming of course that like most people that say such things without invitation that you’re acting on a limited set of knowledge about that individual and their circumstances.

It’s one thing to state that collectively, people are more obese these days than in the past, and that certain proscriptions (food intake type and quantity, activity type and quantity) are called for. In most cases such statements would be unremarkable and get broad agreement. But you don’t know me or what I’ve been doing/trying etc, so on what basis do you think you can make a comment like that about me and expect me not to be offended? I find that expectation quite remarkable. It’s not that people are more offended these days as much as it is people find it perfectly acceptable to do and say what in the old days would be considered “rude” or “impolite”. Civility has been upended by “truth telling”. Can’t say I’m a huge fan tbh.
I really appreciate your work on this--we have been building on rasa and looking into alt ways to use new LLM models. The question is, do we even need Rasa anymore, does it make sense given that RasaX is behind a very expensive paywall.
I think nobody linked to Axis of Awsome's 4 Chords Song yet. A good example of chords vs. songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
Now I only need to know what Lighthouse does to figure out what this does.
Vicuna-7b-v1.1 can get this right with a slightly tuned prompt:

Prompt:
The following is a logic question. Answer it based on analysis of the logic only, not based on actual weather: "Any day that it rains, I drive home from work. If today I did not drive home from work, did it rain?"

Response:
Based on the information provided, it can be concluded that it did not rain today, since the speaker did not drive home from work. This is because the statement "If today I did not drive home from work, it rained" is true only if it rained. Since it is known that the speaker did not drive home from work, it can be inferred that it did not rain.
Redefining Productivity: How GPT Squeezes the Bell Curve
Yeah, I meant dB.

And, no, I wasn't very careful at all. This was done with an uncalibrated 30+ year old sweep generator with questionable attenuator, a 40 year old power meter that's only rated up to 10GHz, AliExpress connector adapters, and an assortment of coax cables that I took from my stack.

At 20GHz, it shows a trend at best. (I wrote as much at the bottom of the blog post, but I forgive you for not reading that far!)
How about making it impossible to trademark common words (words that appear in lowercase in a dictionary)? Maybe it would incentivize companies to come up with more creative names.
that sounds like a russian story :/
Tech will have a slow death
Salary will be realistic and jobs will be less stable. It will be a offshoot of the gig economy.. make quick buck ...with less stability. The future of work in general is going to be loads of flexibility and less certainty. That's the only way forward.
In this respect it was a slave-labor based economy like most of the civilizations of that time. It took millenia to deligitimize the notion of different classes of humans and that process is still mostly incomplete.

"Reviving" means obviously the good bits, unless you claim that the only possibility is an all-or-nothing replica.
> There’s only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music.

At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, I find very sad the fact that pop songs have become nothing more than 4 chords just repeating over and over, with a thin veneer of inconsequential melody over them, serving a never ending stream of banal lyrics. Is this really the best of what award-winning musicians like Sheeran et al can do? I mean, they don't even bother changing the harmony for the chorus, and where has the bridge gone?
> I doubt Columbus's conquest was uniquely brutal for its time

"Uniquely brutal" is a very high bar. I trust you didn't mean it as a rhetorical technique to require demonstration that no one else was as brutal as he was, before acknowledging that he was brutal even for his time?

Since you argue that Columbus was unique in "that he discovered America", then he is also unique for being the first European to lead slave raids of indigenous Americans, and the European to introduce the genocidal encomienda system.

And he was brutal. If Bobadilla's accusations of Columbus's brutality are correct, then Columbus's conquest was exceptionally brutal, even to other Spaniards of the time.

From Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus

"Bobadilla reported to Spain that Columbus once punished a man found guilty of stealing corn by having his ears and nose cut off and then selling him into slavery. He claimed that Columbus regularly used torture and mutilation to govern Hispaniola.[l] Testimony recorded in the report stated that Columbus congratulated his brother Bartholomew on "defending the family" when the latter ordered a woman paraded naked through the streets and then had her tongue cut because she had "spoken ill of the admiral and his brothers"."

Columbus was removed as Governor of the American due to these accusations, though later pardoned by the royals.

When do we teach this history of Columbus in school?

> and kicked off the events that led to the formation of the US

What an odd focus. Using the exact same argument, Henry the Navigator also kicked of the events that lead to the formation of the US, because of his work to initiate what is now called the Age of Discovery.

And he was unique for that.

When is Dom Henrique day?
The point was that some artist may have created a work representing a complex fractal, perhaps through code since it can be quite difficult to manually compute some fractal patterns.

And that in that case, g(x) that can produce a perfect copy of the artist's work without having the image in the training set provably exists, and is the actual mathematical fractal function itself.
~2 years ago I used it to create a dashboard (a fancy table) that renders some data it fetches sporadically from the web.

It was a lot of fun to make and stylize, but felt slower than it should. I guess it was the “layout stage” (IIRC lots of h/v-boxes).

It was 2 years ago and seems like it’s been well maintained, so maybe they sorted those things out.
What would you use if you were building a consumer facing chat bot, if not Rasa?
Fair point on general.

My limited experience with probabilistic sorts of programming though is that the risk of misunderstanding/misuse is very high relative to the implementation complexity. Cars and. X-ray machines don't have simple implementations.

Often very little code but a lot of opportunities to goof up one assumption or another.

But yeah I'm probably overgeneralizing from limited experience.
Maybe this is a Danish thing, but around here the absolute best benefits are always found in “boring” places like banking, healthcare, energy sector, public sector and similar enterprise. Sure it’s not foosball and beer, but stuff like good pensions, being able to get paid leave for more than the nationally granted first day of child sickness, paid launch (you effectively work 2,5 hours less a week), extra paid vacation options beyond the 6 weeks and stuff like that. Finance often has decent healthcare insurance options as well (this is basically skipping the queue for non-cancer type illnesses).

Startups tend to be really fun environments to work in when you are young. With things like foos and beer, but once you get older, the ability to take two or three days off or semi-off when your children are sick is just sooo much more valuable.

Personally I’ve worked in both environments and I haven’t found the tech to be particularly boring in “boring” enterprise. I work in the green energy sector right now, and I’ve been able to work with things like Rust in the past year. Some of our stuff COBOL levels of “boring”, but anything new we build is pretty much cutting edge tech. You do not get the opportunity to build things like React so often, however, so if that’s your jam you should stick with tech companies.
This is one of the most level-headed comments I've seen in a long while. :+1:

FAANG only cares about bottom line. Ignore whatever leadership says about overhiring or whatever other BS.
Sounds like this would have been a great candidate for covid patients with immune system issues...like cytokine storms etc.
This is a message I received from a Google recruiter.

--

This is *** again reaching out to see if you were open to new opportunities? The team I am on supports Software Engineer III - in most other places this would be more of a Software Engineer IV or V.

Based on your experience in ******, there were a few specialized roles that you would have been a great fit for, which closed earlier this month. With those positions opening up again in no time, I wanted to have a 30-minute conversation and learn more about your background. If you or anyone you know would be a good fit for one of our opportunities, please feel free to reach out.

If you or anyone you know would be a good fit for one of our many opportunities, please feel free to reach out.

--

So they are reaching out to candidates without even having job openings. This is likely in order to keep pipelines open for when positions become available. But it comes off as though they have low retention, or plan to do more layoffs and replace them with lower paid workers.
I'd be happy to teach you; just let me know.

The syntax is in fact quite simple, and the semantics of the core language is mnemonic and limited, so I believe that a reasonably intelligent person can learn the entire core lanuage in 24 hours of dedicated studies. Subtract a few if the student has a knack for mathematics, but add a few if they have a CS degree.
After looking at the Racket website, from the POV of someone who wants to use or learn Scheme, that doesn't sound like a useful distinction. They have R5RS and R6RS implementations that look to have reasonable conformance with the corresponding standards. I don't see how the fact that the language called "Racket," which is a lispy language that implements (among other things) R5RS, R6RS, and mzscheme even matters. It sounds an awful lot like like saying "foo-scheme isn't a scheme because it's implemented partly in C."
It is not a question of "can" but "when"
"Spiced Mahi Mahi and Beef Casserole with Gruyere Cheese and Coffee Sauce" - https://cookgpt.nl/recipes/8

I'm intrigued, though 50g of sugar seems like a bit much, even for 1,000g of beef and fish.

"Curried Strawberry-Chocolate Amaretto Mini Pies" - https://cookgpt.nl/recipes/33

I...don't know, I'm not sure the curry, garlic chives, and poblanos go with the strawberry, almond chocolate, and marshmallows.
I don't think an Android device with that much RAM would manage much multitasking.

iPhone OS actually could multitask with jailbreaking, though you quickly discovered the limitations of that amount of RAM.
I want that. I very much want someone to take one of the Windows code leaks, use it to train a LLM, and then make a fork of ReactOS with AI-completed implementations of everything ReactOS hasn't yet finished. Because then we could find out if Microsoft really believes that LLMs are fair use:)
Bonobos are exactly as close to us as chimpanzees (by descent). Maybe the “default“ human behavior, independent of the last x thousand years of culture, is closer to one or the other, but I don’t think there’s a good a priori reason to assume that we are “naturally” more chimp-like than bonobo-like.
> Mandarin is a newer language than Cantonese

Both languages descended from a common ancestor, so you can't necessarily say that one is newer than the other. However, it is the case that Cantonese preserves several features that Mandarin has lost, in particular the complete inventory of final consonants and all of the tone categories of Middle Chinese, which makes it seem better suited for reciting 1000+ year old Tang dynasty poetry where rhyming and tones were especially important.

On the other hand, Cantonese has lost other features that Mandarin has preserved (such as medial vowels and the three-way distinction of initial sibilant consonants), but these features aren't as critical with respect to reciting Tang poetry. For this reason, Cantonese may seem "older" than Mandarin, even though in reality, it's simply that they each have preserved different features and the features that Cantonese preserved happened to make it better for reciting old poetry.

> Languages tend towards laziness, so I wonder if it settled on the right number, of if it's an ongoing trend.

All languages change and will continue to change over time, and while laziness may drive changes in some features of a language, often times other parts of the language become more complex to compensate. This process is called grammaticalization, and is thought to occur in cycles: http://websites.umich.edu/~jlawler/TheGrammaticalizationCycl...
Coming from an Oracle background, both application and data warehousing, I wholeheartedly agree with the articles first paragraph saying that application based dynamic SQL is horrible, but DBA (and I'll include data warehousing) dynamic SQL is great, but it's essentially about how complex the thing is.

A DBA is likely doing things like looping over metadata tables and running

'grant select on ' || some_table || ' to ' || some_user

While an app developer with free reign will end up doing something much more complex, and much harder to reason about/tune
Here's hoping, but Nest was hit hard by layoffs this year :(
While I’d love that, unfortunately the business and unit economics can differ wildly. Some shows may be cheaper to acquire if there’s promotion in the interface (due to tie-ins or newer content like sequels in cinemas), subscribers may churn more regularly if not shown specific things, making marketing less effective and therefore more expensive.

It’s like how a TV with no smart features would have to cost more, because there’s no post-sales revenue. We’d love them. But they’d have to cost more, so most people wouldn’t buy them.
> Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross currently receive a significant portion of the royalties (more than Lil Nas X!).

Do you have any source on this? Reznor has stayed mostly quiet about Old Town Road aside from mentioning it was strange at first but he doesn't really mind it. They worked out a deal but I don't think the terms were ever made public. Could he have demanded a large share of the royalties? Sure. But do you have proof he did?
Same experience here - if the file is long enough, it doesnt find symbols at the end sometimes.
I guess it really depends on "dialect". Try that with Cantonese :)

As mentioned in another comment, single syllable words are much more common in Cantonese, and word combinations are much more "free" in the sense that there are a lot more ambiguity as to what counts as a "word" and what is merely two single-character-words idiomatically used together. There are also cases where grammatical constructs (and also foul words) are inserted in between a two-character word/idiomatic combo, and sometimes the characters are reversed, to the extent that it used to be a meme: https://evchk.fandom.com/zh/wiki/Y%E5%B7%B2x

It's gotten to a point where, after thinking about it for a couple years, I've come to believe that segmentation on Cantonese is a fool's errand...

Of course, there's also classical Chinese where most of the time a character is a word.
To be fair, someone building a panic room/closet for personal protection makes a hell of a lot more sense than buying a gun for a similar purpose.

Unless your threat vector is 'A cartel/the Mossad/the FBI really, really wants you dead', a cellphone and a room with no windows and a heavy door that locks from the inside will solve 99.9% of that problem, without all the problems that guns bring.
It's not the spec's fault.

I'm not defending the defective hardware.

The cable, or one of the devices involved, isn't following the spec.
if someone asked me, i'd help them pick a job that we were going to target, then find/get that job, and training and learning and connections and whatever to achieve that job, or related.

reason is because there are innumerable skills/technologies that are useless to innumerable job listings and companies, so, imo, you need to pick one or three or ten or whatever skills/techs that will 'get you into IT' -- that is, that will land you a specific role.

i feel like security is a good place for newbies, esp if they are not programming/math-inclined. and i'd find 3 or 4 job roles and start applying to them - after using gpt to fix up my resume, obv, then start training, first informally, then maybe formally studying for the various certs.

that's just one path -- security. there are many. i would probably stay far away from anything web dev-related for many reasons - like it's just super-low margin, it's probably going away and already has to a large extent, programming may be going away, etc. etc.

but outside of that, most 'tech jobs' are not actually tech jobs, so there is that option, too. like marketing, sales, finance, training, etc. for tech companies.

nothing is completely safe from ai so i wouldn't really worry about that either. the rules of financial security are not changing.

i'd probably also keep asking if she has thought thru her other field options.

i don't like the "oh, don't do IT, it's _so_ bad now!" option -- one, i don't actually think that (yet?), but i'm sure there are plenty that do. it reminds me of myriad doctors i've heard over the years say, "Don't become a doctor anymore, it's _so_ bad now!" -- what they mean is they can no longer afford a second vacation home. but i don't think IT is the sure-fire thing it was 20 years ago.

English is probably super-important. if a non-native English speaker was asking me for advice on how to get into IT, I'd say start practicing your English every day -- you really need to get as close as possible to native as is practicable. listening, written, spoken, slang, etc. i would say this is a prerequisite unless you just never want to appeal to an English-speaking company. maybe that's obvious, but maybe not.
> The exploited host workers then do everything for them, from taking care of their brood to protecting and feeding them. Such a relationship between species is called obligate parasitism, because the parasites cannot survive on their own.

There's a lesson about wealth in here somewhere.
> spends more time code-golfing than implementing practical solutions.

Code golfing is a too-frequent requirement for interviews.

Many companies seem happy to miss out on the senior developers who avoid interview requirements to write code to do a fiddly string manipulation test within 2 minutes.
Unfortunatly cheap led floodlights have made too many houseowners think they need to light up every tree and wall from below for the entire night. In some streets you could turn of the municipal streetlights entirely and not see a difference.
This is getting worse. I was at Jimmy Johns the other day and their POS now blatantly makes it difficult to NOT tip. It doesn't give you a clear option to choose $0, only the three standard options (from memory) of 15,18 or 20%. This on top of my turkey sandwich w/cheese added and chips + drink that came out to like a ridiculous $15.

I was stuck staring at the machine trying to find out how to NOT tip right in front of the register person. I eventually just decided to hit the red button that I thought was canceling the order and it went on to next screen for payment. I was so aggravated in being manipulated into feeling like a cheap non-caring ass I might not go there anymore.
By Big Telco I imagine they refer to ring companies like T-Mobile Vodafone. My understanding is that they are already paid by the end user [0] but want to be paid more for the incoming (video) traffic.

Cloudfpare claims that in the EU there are mostly two ways for them and Netflix to reach a user

1. Connect to a big exchange where every Telco is connected

2. Directly peer with the Telco at much higher prices

The thing I do not understand is why do Telcos accept lower prices from the exchange.

Is connectivity sold auction-, style? Could t-mobile decide to charge double [1] for use of its infrastructure?

Whatever it happening it is unclear to me why they happen to accept lower prices from one entry point and not another. Are these connections materially different?

[0] end user is well defined in the case of someone whatching Netflix.

[1] by net neutrality they cannot charge Netflix more, but they can charge everyone more.
I mean, you're supposed to ask permission to make a cover. That's kind of their choice?
Did someone check if Structured Asset Sales also has investments in AI? I wouldn't even be surprised by now...
Hmm. Same version for me. The only difference is my FF comes from a Snap. Perhaps that has something to do with it.
> is there anything that isn’t meaningless, then?

Invert a binary tree.
All this and we still aren’t at the mid game even where GPT 3.5 equivalent AI models make the leap to consumer machines as apps/packages that can be installed in a standard way.
Let me make it more plain.

Somebody you love is in an life threatening condition. You need advice what to do or you lose them.

You have a one shot option to get advice from a human expert or a LLM.

Which one you pick.
Still different because it wouldn’t be fiat. There is no ability to print more gold.
I think the point was my $0.003/play for me singing in the shower(^) vs. Sheeran's fraction of that after everyone else's cut.

But I don't really know what the point of that is - sure maybe now he could go on his own and take it all, and coast for a while with existing fan base, no marketing or major concerts, etc. - but he presumably (at least at the time he last locked in to x years) thinks that's value for money.

^not actually on Spotify, sorry to disappoint!
The author, Lucas Pope, went into deep detail describing the dithering process and shader used in Return of the Obra Dinn. It's outstanding work.

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg136374...
Gnome also supports this; it's how I have it configured.