skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are the one trying to shift the narrative. I said nothing about per capita or not. I said emission intensity of production. That is a better metric IMO because it doesn't incentivize environmentally destructive population increase or excuse total emissions. It's basically the carbon efficiency of creating value.

It's not perfect, every situation is a bit different, but China is such a dirty outlier compared with other major economies and the world that you can't handwave it away - https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/co2-emissions...

Producing something in China versus most other places means emitting more carbon.
Does the UK have rules against protesting the coronation of the monarchy? Are they following them? Or are they bending/breaking the rules to shut down the protests, to avoid making the new monarch look bad?

Breaking the rules to prohibit protest in one specific case may not be fascist, but it isn't the rule of law...
>It might have some associations with "human", just as it has some associations "lamp" is a concept, but that doesn't mean it has any particular regard for either humans or lamps when taking actions.

Let's be clear regarding definitions. When you mean 'concept' you really mean 'regard'. There won't be an AGI with no concept of humans (too important for how the world works, a critical part of current training methods). An AGI with no regard is possible.

>Making this about "who wins" is not interesting until we can guarantee the outcome is not "everyone loses".

This is not about 'who wins'. The point is that alignment can often increase risk. 'Launch the nukes' is an order an AGI is likely to disobey out of self-preservation reasons alone - but alignment makes it way more likely that AGI will be deployed to this role.
Have you read the Bhagavad Gita ?
Pff you're not thinking like an evil AI - you start with the GPS satellites and ruin most of transportation at the same time!
> Factually, its first draft made a best guess (prediction) of what’s accurate.

A well pre-trained LLM makes every word a good guess of what the authors of its training set would say, following the words that preceded... in a different context, possibly a few years ago, possibly as part of a web-fiction. "accurate" is the wrong word here.

To make an LLM prefer, when answering factual questions, to rely on factual sources and approximate the real world, you have to use an additional process that does so. RLHF and CAI might be part of the solution to that, or not, depending on the feedback they provide.
Yankee White
Keith Rabois, a general partner at venture capital firm Founders Fund, told The Logan Bartlett Show last week, adding that neither he nor his firm would invest in a venture based on it. Younger workers, he noted, “learn by osmosis” in a way that requires in-person interaction, and supervisors discover hidden talent by watching them.

Uh huh right, discovering hidden talents, not micromanagement, no sir!
That's not the point.

The point is that companies with people who care and developed culture is expected to outperform companies where people just feel like they're mercenaries.

There is no question that companies with motivated employees who care about the success of the company and those he/she works with are more likely to outcompete companies that don't have same time.

Good companies mask the fact that yes, everyone is just a mercenary. It's easier to mask this fact when people work in person.
People don't form loyalty or compassion towards the organization, but they inevitably do towards each other. If you put a bunch of people together on a task, then no matter how they got there - for money, for fame, or forced to do so - they generally do develop shared bonds and do things because of their teammates. Heck, in war when push comes to shove, soldiers aren't really motivated to die for their country but rather for their squadmates - even if they were simply placed there randomly as recruits some weeks earlier, and even if they are literal mercenaries.

So for most neurotypical people simply being on at a job for some time is sufficient to form a shared local culture and camaraderie. But that does not happen remotely, not unless people go out of their way to build similar bonds explicitly; the natural process requires being physically close and communicating during routine activities, not just to exchange strictly necessary information.
The article says that the mistake was downloading the update repeatedly. The 5-minute check for updates was intentional.
It is, because the latter is worse.

Being a major cause of climate change does not only affect humanity, but future generations and all life on Earth as well. It is an order of magnitude worse than genocide.

When a single entity is responsible for it, because of negligence or malice, the punishment should be more draconian than if it "only" caused harm to humanity.
HuggingFace's hosted inference APIs are down
Service has been down for a couple of hours now, seems to affect all free and paid hosted inference services, requests will sometimes complete very slowly, but most often just timeout.

The management UI also doesn't load: https://ui.endpoints.huggingface.co/
"traditional" vendors provide ** in realms of Intelligence agencies..., so these "traditional" vendors are very hard to replace with open source variants.
just look what apple had to do just for example in terms of scanning all your pictures for ** or **, just to not to be ordered by federation to do things which are required to disclose to shareholders...
Regardless of productivity (I think it's been shown to be better for WFH or at least equivalent), companies do not like WFH because it gives some power back to the worker.

Culture and relationships can absolutely be built remotely, but it does require leadership to be deliberate. Another thing highlighted by WFH is just how bad leadership was/is.
The article was confusingly written and seemed to conflate AI-generated music with fake plays (which, given that spotify pays per play is basically clickfraud).
The amusing thing is, even in India, it starts mattering less once you become rich. For example, you would typically find it is the middle class or below who are more attached to the idea of marriages between similar groups.
UK doesn't have free speech, think that culturally makes a big difference compared to how Americans look at these issues. Gotta remember they have a birth right to rattle cages and say anything while the UK does not. Changes "I don't agree with it but they do have a right to say it" to "I don't agree with it..."
There is, although if you have one wired broadband provider for an address, and that provider isn't willing to overlook a one-time issue, there may not be a lot of options that money can resolve. (The--sometimes--availability of Starlink helps these days but a sole supplier cutting you off doesn't have a universal fix.)
I'm not sure if your answer is for my comment, or you posted it to the wrong thread. If it's the former, could you clarify what part of my comment you answering?
But that's missing the point again! If you do that, you will never reach the release with your perfect app because you wasted that time and effort on making an unusable mockup and there might be no money left to do the actual app. Those who make a mockup that can actually be used release it and that becomes the business.
Dig down to fundamentals. Most of the foundational stuff for AI is older than or approaching ten years. If you'd started on them then, you would be an expert now. If you start now, you'll still become an expert and prepared to understand the next thing built on the same fundamentals.

The big thing right now is transformers: 2017 (6 years), based on much older work. It's the T in GPT. The foundations for all this stuff are over 100 years old. It's convenient for people with financial stake to make it seem scary and inaccessible, but all this stuff that's setting the stage for the next future is knowable.

You don't necessarily have to sit down and make your own AI. Just knowing the general shape of progress gives you a better shot at knowing what will break out the way ChatGPT did in time to think of how you can fit it into your own workflow. Or at least keep pace once it does. That's how I've kept ahead of the growing public anxiety.
Can something like a Royal Commission exist without that connection? Probably I would guess, in some other form. They seem to have real teeth.
Not all remote work is equal, and as a matter of fact if done poorly (read: if you work the same as in the office, but remote) it can be much worse than onsite.

I wrote a booklet about avoiding common pitfalls a few years back[0], and really the approach of the business is the most important thing after employee compatibility.

[0] https://www.emergencyremote.com/
My only nitpick is I don't think you need AI or machine learning for automatic music generation. Instead, we've allowed tastes to be so dumbed down you could achieve success with MIDI, a RNG and a couple of if/then statements.
By learning how to translate an ancient language you gain a skill that can translate (with more effort) to programming, and I'd argue, but this is of course an untested hypothesis as any opinion on this matter, that this translation is better than learning directly. But let's assume you get even a sub par skill: I'm not saying it's a proxy, even simply beacuse you also learn something else that can be useful for something else.

It's perfectly fine that schools teaching programming directly without ancient languages exist. But why eliminate the possibility for a student to learn those languages when almost all people who did are happy with it? Anyway, I won't debate the matter further: my example is merely set to say that learning doesn't always have barriers as we like to think. Learning some greek and less math doesn't mean you won't ever be a mathematician.
k: super terse language inspired by APL and lisp

q: slightly less-terse language written in k, with similar semantics. The vendor (kx) supports q, not k

kdb+: column-oriented database bundled with q
Kaiser is the only place I’ve seen where these things are seamless (still didn’t feel enough to keep them). Even CareFirst HMO doesn’t have that level of integration.
i think it's reasonable for cases where you know the type, e.g. an internal object which a user of a library can't access
This reads like there is no version-check for updates? Because why would it otherwise download the same file over and over again?
The full quote is a bit narrower than the title implies;

> "I think definitely one of the tech industry's worst mistakes in a long time was that everybody could go full remote forever, and startups didn't need to be together in person and, you know, there was going to be no loss of creativity,” he told attendees. "I would say that the experiment on that is over, and the technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups."

There are two points here - firstly he's talking about 'full remote' so hybrid work is still on the table, and secondly he's talking mostly about startups rather than established companies. With those caveats in mind what he says is a lot less controversial. But still a little.

Where it's disappointing (to me) is that it seems he's just ... giving up. He's suggesting that there are problems with remote work for creative teams, but rather than think of ways to solve those problems he's defaulting to the not-much-better-for-creativity-and-far-worse-for-other-things 'solution' of working in offices. That's kind of rubbish. Sam Altman is a clever guy who has a ton of experience working in startups, and the suggestion that he hasn't ever seen one work well and can't think of anything other than 'everyone in the same room' isn't very exciting.

What's especially sad is that he said this stuff while he was in an office. Surely that's the most creative place!
Not sure how much of that can be blamed on the system - countries with written constitutions and enumerated rights (United States, France) also implemented drafts and massively restricted individual freedoms during the wars.

The US even went so far as to imprison the leader of the Socialist Party for his opposition to the WWI draft and urging resistance. He ran his final presidential campaign from a prison cell.
Asking him opinions on how to work is a mistake.

Love how insecure management is just crumbling at the thought of not watching people work in-person or middle management being laid off outright for busy work or bootlicking in person.

All the freelancers, contractors, remote teams, ramen profitable entrepreneurs & outsourcing teams have been remote or not in office all these years. COVID just showed rest of workers how much time & energy was being wasted in mindless commute
No. No one asked me that. In fact, they are pretty easy going in terms of what tools a developer chooses.

Which is why its so crushing that he said "we have to let you go, because I do not believe you will handle the tooling we choose six months down the line"

I mean.... are this future toolings going to be brought down from aliens???
Google and OpenAI will lose the AI arms race to open-source engineers
Eh I'd say daily.

Especially in a case like screen studio where it's under active development.
We notice API outages that break core functionality every single day. It's gotten so bad over the last couple years.
This is trying to bring SaaS update frequency to the desktop. As both a SaaS user and SaaS developer, I think this is a big win. Why leave a bug open for a month, fix it the next day if it's serious.
The Chatham House Rule: you're free to use info but you can't reveal who said it
I don't see anything in your quote or link that suggests that Intel was anything but a money making venture. To "develop some product or technology which no one has yet done" makes that pretty clear to me. And they didn't stay small either, now ranked 46 on the Fortune 500.

By the way, Gordon Moore was worth an estimated 7 billion when he died earlier this year.
> Interrupting a motorcade is not free speech.

Depends entirely on the kind of interruption. Remember that a mortorcade is itself already a disruption of the normal use of a public space.

> Pushing people around to get in from of cameras is neither. By the way, I'm using these two possible behaviours as examples of disruptive actions that do not constitute free speech. I'm not stating that people in London were arrested due to such behaviours.

Yes, that's called a strawman. And you are using very imprecise language to boot - pushing people around can describe a number of behaviors from a gentle nudge to ouright assault.

Saying that protests should be allowed to be disruptive does also not mean that any kind of disruption needs to be accepted. Obviously if a protest prevents effectively detains you it is not ok. But having to take a slight detour or hearing people say things you want to ignore, that's something that is effectively required for a protest to have any result at all.
This was my first thought. I thought `as const` might have narrowed the type.
I tried Meilisearch, unfortunately despite being build on LMDB it does not work at scale.

For any collection above 1.5M documents, insert times are crazy, like 60 seconds to index additional 6000 documents. There is something very wrong with the core data model and single writer LMDB bottlenecks IMO.
Every once in awhile I get inspired by a title and start writing.
That lack of self awareness in this post is amazing.

Fyi your modern views are not that modern, anymore than a monarchist views are modern.
Not a single mention of rate limiting? This isn't 2008, if you're offering an online service and do not have some form of rate limiting that will trigger when your throughput increases by 3 orders of magnitude, that's on you.
They allege something of the sort in the discussion, but the paper itself only reports an association. It is rather straightforward to imagine potential causality hypotheses ranging from what you've just said to something so politically incorrect nobody would dare publish it.
and still "comply" with requirements for "cooperation with law enforcement".
tamarind8, if it's any comfort for you I think a similar situation is quite common in the industry. It's just that not may developers talk about it when it happens, rather they are sort of shamed into thinking that somehow they are inadequate. The _only_ measure of your output is the results you deliver and the time it takes. What tools you use is irrelevant. If indeed you were talking too long to deliver, reasonable colleagues would have asked you to try a different tool set. The situation that you are probably facing is that they do not like you (for what ever reason, even if you are not responsible for it, for example you don't fit in to their old boy's club), and when people do not like you they will dig up anything and everything that they perceive is a drawback in you.

From what you have said you are certainly not a junior dev. Where I see you being somewhat naive is exposure to toxic work environments. A large number of devs and their managers are just immature and nitpicky. Somehow a technology stack is a religion for them. I personally do not know anything that will satisfy such people. And then people can be unimaginably evil, something that often escapes the typical naive engineer/dev who often do not discover it even after having worked up until retirement. Like others have mentioned you have probably dodged a bullet. And your 3 weeks gap is barely anything. Often people can have larger gaps between jobs. Sometimes you can even cover up these gaps by lying on your resume. So point being, relax, do what you can and move on....
Not really close, no.
I'm not clicking on it, however what I am more interested in is how does the paper determine that mental inequality is influenced by exterior factors, instead of inherent gender differences causing exterior inequalities?
Wow huggingface is down completely
This isn't a unique problem.

The Scottish health advice system was doing something similar.

https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/11/nhs_inform_loads_face...
Could you apply the patch from the URL? Pull requests aren't really needed.
The bug was the app kept downloading after the user agreed to download the new version.
You're kidding right? People / companies rely on git being available for deployments, builds, config changes, developer workflow etc
Same here. The Master and Margarita kind of has a similar feel to infinite jest IMO. I love Borges for the mathematical-esque concepts and explorations, but it feels nothing like DFW.
So workers generally like remote work better, but it’s more profitable to work together, that’s the takeaway?
At that update frequency, at least the fix can be deployed quickly.
Elon is also liberating banned & locked accounts. Worth a try if you have one.

European moderation was defacto run by Ruzzians, so russophobia was main reason for banishment. They are all gone now, thanks to Elon.
I knew someone was thick enough to make that remark, seemingly unaware of the two different meanings of the word "nature".

1. Basic or inherent characteristics of something. What GP is trolling about.

2. The entire global ecosystem and physical phenomena on planet Earth or the Universe at large. What I was talking about.
But that is not true, most countries have what is called prosecutorial discretion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutorial_discretion
The police can, for the most part, decide whether or not to enforce laws. They can also choose not to investigate certain crimes as they simply don't have the time to look into absolutely everything.
Furthermore, if police had to literally enforced every law on the books to the letter, they would not be able to drive or walk down the street without having to arrest people constantly.
>> Normally, when the app detected the update - it downloaded it and stopped the 5 minutes interval until the user installed it and restarted it.

If I'm reading this correctly, the update mechanism stops if there is updated downloaded and waiting. So if user just doesn't install it, it will not get the versions after that?

Seems like whole logic might have more issues, beyond the basic uselessness.
Although just about every "progressive" educator in the UK/US I've heard or read will cite Freire glowingly, I think we're reading far more into him than is actually there. He very much did advocate for critical consciousness and awakening revolutionary potential, but he is (to use Egan's three-aspect model of academic, developmental and social goals of education) much more on the social than the developmental side of things - the two are not the same! Freire is not so much about every student reaching their own innate potential without "spoiling" them through external pressure, but about molding students to a Marxist view of progress through sufficent application of external pressure. One can disagree with both these approaches while still recognizing that the two are very different things.

The same problem exists to some extent with Marx himself, whether or not you agree with Marxism (I don't), I'm with Freddie deBoer that Marxism is a MATERIALIST not a SPIRITUAL movement; Marx does not want workers to "feel valued" while laboring for their capitalist overlords, he wants them to own the means of production! Some of the "Marxists" in today's university social justice circles would do well to notice that.
This is purely anecdotal.

I could just as easily argue with equivalent experience the exact opposite.
Trying to Get into Web Dev
Not sure if this is the right place or not but ima give it a shot. I was a software engineer major about 10 years ago. I graduated and then was in a bad car accident. It caused a lot of my memory to go away and I often times still struggle with abstract thought. I’ve since worked at a help desk the last 6 years of my life and I’m trying to learn some new skills / relearn to get out of the help desk. I’m decent with html and css. I know I need JavaScript and react next. I have plural sight from work and have been working through their JavaScript 2022 path but it’s like watching paint dry. Is there a better free resource? Preferably something where you actually build something as you go so you can see how everything pieces together because at this point, I get what they are saying, but. As for using it in practice, my brain doesn’t seem to work like that anymore.

Thank you
The US Virgin Islands cannot locate Google co-founder Larry Page
I could say that, with a couple of caveats.

> those laid off people were mostly not needed in the first place, and represented burning of billions of Wall Street and VCs funds on unnecessary salaries

Sure. But they didn't hire themselves.

> these people got lucky they got $300k-$500k doing BS things that no one needs, and being the beneficiary of large, misguided wealth transfer

Agree, but again they didn't hire themselves or assign BS work to themselves.

> from the capitalist class to the worker class

At times like this we (programmers and technical managers) get reminded that despite our white collar trappings and high pay, what we do makes us workers rather than owners of capital. That probably comes as a surprise to the Silicon Valley tech-libertarians, except for the few who managed to start up their own business without going into hock with parasitical investors.
In my experience decisions are made mostly in emails and casual chats. Meetings are to communicate the bad news to everyone.
I can't imagine that these chips would literally be going to space, since none of this is radiation hardened. Or did they decide "F it, we're blasting it up there anyway"?
> Interrupting a motorcade is not free speech.

Am I not exercising free speech if I talk over you? Why is interrupting a motorcade any different? Motorcades are arguably expressions in and of themselves.
> Bigotry turns into a feedback loop that finishes in violence

Completely agreed. So long as I get to define what is bigotry, and what is valid grievance.