skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as documented in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35889463 this would prevent you from translating lapack into your ideal language

you have to get rid of order comparisons too, though, or people will just replace a == b with a >= b && a <= b

also it seems like a compiler attempting to determine whether two pieces of code are equivalent (so it can throw one away) needs to be able to test whether two constants in them could ever produce different computational results; this is important for code-movement optimizations and for reunifying the profligate results of c++ template expansion

similarly, a dataflow framework like observablehq needs to be able to tell if an observable-variable update needs to propagate (because it could change downstream results) or not; for that purpose it needs to even be able to distinguish different nans. like the compiler, it needs the exact-bitwise-equality relation rather than ordinary arithmetic equality

where i think we agree is that floating-point arithmetic is probably a bad default for most people most of the time because it brings in all kinds of complexity most programmers don't even suspect

your comment reads to me as 'i don't understand floating point equality and therefore no human does so no human should have access to it'

but there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy, tialaramex
We're not american.
> If I have Premium and I watch a creator, does YouTube pay them some tiny % of my subscription fee to offset the ads that I'm no longer watching?

I'm not a content creator but Google do claim that a small % of the pool goes to the creators you watch, I guess kind of like a Spotify model.

> Will creators still be paid with YouTube Premium?
Yes. In fact, YouTube Premium gives a secondary revenue stream for creators in addition to what you're already earning today through ads.

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en#zipp...
sigzero doIt.
I'm a developer in my late 40's. Just like a LOT of other developers, I have a stackoverflow profile, a set of (active) personal Github repos, and a presence on LinkedIn.

I love clear, to-the-point video instruction. I don't think it's age-specific, but I really like "Tech World with Nana" on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TechWorldwithNana

Hacker News (this site) is where I follow industry trends, along with Ars Technica, and TechCrunch. Again -- nothing out of the ordinary.

What might be unusual to younger devs is that I really enjoy mentoring. It reminds me why I got into this business, and sharpens my communication skills. I would encourage any senior dev or manager to seek out mentors to work with.

Oh! And don't be afraid to pick up hobbies. I picked up guitar, camping, and weight training in my 40's. You're never too old to learn something -- it starts with a choice.
Accelerating Large Language Models with Mixed-Precision Techniques
Yeah - not thinking tech skills. More along the lines of sometimes it's nice to hash things out with people who are approximately same age/experience level. I love working with younger devs and manage/mentor and appreciate the energy and perspective. But at the same time it's fun to shoot the breeze with someone who lived through the EJB hype in Java land to give a specific example.
> But I am on the luck side because I get tipped well

That's curious! Do you know why you get tipped well?
And shooting enthusiasts. Decent ear pro significantly slows down the process, but it doesn't eliminate it. I'd love for my eye floaters and gradually-increasing tinnitus to be non-invasively curable (or at least treatable) before I die.
Ok, but my point was to be readable and easy to understand by using elementary shapes (rectangles), not to be as small as possible. (My version is much bigger than the comment it was replying to.)
Florida did lockdowns right.

They flattened the curve and then managed limited social resources.

Many other states just went into irrational and indefinite Long term lockdowns. Illinois for instance was locked down for months and months despite having enourmous hospital capacity - the lack of which was the whole reason for entering the lockdown in the first place. It just didn't make sense after a while except as a political tool.

Early on there was a lot of metrics-driven decision making, and metrics changed as new information came to light. That was good. Florida would still lockdown if done in that light - not without bellyaching but yes it would. When the metrics go out the window so too would Florida's compliance.
> I read for probably 8-12 hours a day

Jealous. What's your job?
I wish I could short MSFT, but it still seems like a bad move. The whole company is built around being just barely good enough and hard enough to remove that they stick around forever from inertia

The products are all going to keep getting worse as they lose the talent to maintain or upgrade them meaningfully, but it'll take a long time for the company to fade away
Not the OP but JP Morgan’s Kapital system which underpins their credit hybrids business was smalltalk.

I say was because i believe it’s been deco’d in the past few years but i don’t know for sure, when i worked at JP it was still a core breadwinning system.
If it was Trump's fault, why was most of the developed world in lockdown too?
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35902861 for more examples
Why not just go on a daily walk to get your Vitamin D?
It doesn't. Once bitten twice shy...
> Based on that alone I now know the unique ID of the people who went

What unique ID do you mean? I can't find any unique ID type of column in any of the files published.

> the courses they took

In what file can you see the list of courses they took? I don't think it's shared anywhere.

> and subsequently their start and end date, their gender

> now we're friends and I'm sure they wouldn't mind me knowing what I learned

You're friends and you just learned their gender? Sorry to be nitpicking like this. You had known their gender previously and that helped you identify them in the dataset, not the other way round?
CIAM vs. IAM: What's the difference (2022)
Should you be paid to be on-call?
Fear gets your population to largely go along with horrendous gov't actions. I've seen it twice in my life, America's actions post 9/11 and COVID lockdowns. Terror over nuclear annihilation from the USSR allowed western gov'ts to fight Korean/Vietnam war with drafted citizens also.

If that fear returns then the population will go along with whatever terrible intervention is proposed, at least until that fear dissipates.
What if someone is obsessed with heavy machinery, wants to try operate them for fun and maybe make a couple of pounds as a bonus?

Minimum wage laws are there to prevent exactly this scenario. It is deemed better to let inefficient enterprises that cannot pay even minimum wage to implode and support unlucky people via government programs rather inefficient enterprises.
Well, yes, but the complexity of TAGE is nowhere near the complexity of a modern deep neural network where you essentially have no chance of figuring out how its predictions are made. Branch predictors based on multi-layer networks, RNNs, LSTMs, or networks with more than a handful of neurons is a hot research topic, but has not, to the best of my knowledge, found their way into any modern cpu.
I would go the contrarian way and suggest Snowy 2 is one of several examples that demonstrate that spending the same amount of money on more renewable generation and some battery storage would provide more reliable power for less money.

Which makes the geography question moot. But most people's intuitions on renewables/battery are years out of date so it's confusing to respond to their sarcastic "are we just going to build lots of batteries, LOL" with "actually yes that's going to be sensible for 80% of the world's population".

edit: long article comparing Snowy to more solar plus batteries:

https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/snowy-2-vs-battery-stora...
So what was weird exactly?
react is not JS. nextjs is not js..... same way spring boot is not java.
JS is the way it is. Most of it complainants has issues as they usually come from synchronose language and when JS (its true power) uses its async nature, they can't comprehend it and think its weird, why would it do so.
If your rational is that its slow, you should probably use assembly to write the most optimal code. If you want a high level language then JS brings most paradigm than competing languages. If you argue to want all features high level, low level and speed go for C++.
Yeah. I agree with that. It might give me a boilerplate starting framework for something. Or it might give me a decent parenthetical explanation of a term (though Wikipedia probably would too).

It's mediocre, generally lacks nuance, and is pretty boring for the most part. On the other hand, it's grammatical and, in my experience, mostly not actively wrong. So as paulg says, that's at least no worse than a lot of stuff I skim over from people cranking out thousands of words a day for peanuts.
Automation is great. I do it all the time. Sure I could spend my life manually configuring switch ports, copying and pasting information into 50 pointless repositories, but that would be tedious, so I automate it.

Same in a shop. It's far better for a machine to stack a shelf than for a person to do it, it leaves the person free to do something more useful with their life.
> I have yet to meet someone with ADHD who enjoys the medication. In fact, most folks I know with ADHD are often trying to avoid taking them.

I love my ADHD medication, but it probably has to do with the fact that I'm taking pure dextroamphetamine directly instead of Adderall (which also contains levoamphetamine). When I did Adderall, it did nothing for weeks until I raised the dose all the way to 20mg and then it suddenly made my ADHD way worse.

Switching to dexedrine fixed everything and zapped my ADHD completely for a while. I don't really have any side effects besides urinary retention, which is very tolerable in return for what I get, honestly.

Everyone's mileage varies, but here I am, someone who enjoys their medication~
Oops, my fallible memory bit me. We weren't specifically running into OOM, but into strict overcommit (which we had turned on on some machines). OOM will only kill big things, so it would be weird for bash (as /bin/sh) or small Python programs to get killed off. But strict overcommit favors already running things (who've already claimed their memory) over newly started cron jobs.

(You could criticize the shell for needing to do dynamic allocation in failure paths and so being exposed to malloc() failing, but this is a hard area and lots of code assumes it can malloc() on demand, some of it in the C library.)
Are you paid during it?

Usually, that's a full-time job, i.e not compensated hourly.

Alternatively, if you're not paid...I haven't heard of an employer only compensating for typing into Jira but not dragging tickets.

Is there another analogy familiar to us, where we're blocked on waiting for an employer to find us work, and we're not paid during it?
Automation isn't keeping up with the decrease in fertility rates.

There's considerably less young people entering the workforce in the west now than there were 40 years ago.
Minimum wage does not apply to self employed people.

Definitely doesn't apply to visaless drivers borrowing accounts.
Of course, also, can't fight "Moloch". To best help the future, we should change ourselves in the present to not fall into the traps, local minima, "Moloch" has set out. This isn't going to happen through any philosophy or social program, we need to change ourselves as humans into something else. Some genetic change to change our brain to not 'keep up with the neighbors', and all of the other drives that make us form hierarchies and consume. But then, we wouldn't be human anymore, so does this violate longtermism?

In order to save humanity, we would need to stop being human.
OR the opposite, humans are not going to make it.
Hopefully this wouldn't affect whoisprivacy
> we could agree that current lives and suffering are morally superior to possible lives in the future

This isn’t even necessarily true, but the thing is that you can’t predict the future with 100% certainty. The influential longtermists pretty much all thought Sam Bankman-Fried would have his tens of billions forever (which even without his scamming wasn’t a certainty, crypto is absurdly volatile and fortunes appear and disappear overnight), I highly doubt their ability to predict much of anything
They’d obviously do it by total hours worked vs the amount Uber/etc pays out each paycheque, not going through thousands of Uber receipts, calculating the percentages paid out + time spent doing the delivery, and totalling them up. That’d be pretty hard/impossible at scale.
No - the 'gig economy' provides a way to pay people substantially lower than they would have to otherwise, often lower than minimum wage, provide no benefits or long term viability, shift social spending to government, and to create an underclass of voiceless powerless serfs.

The naivte here in these comments is deeply disturbing.
Unfortunately we printed only the Italian version :( Sorry. It very impractical to print the English version from italy and sell it from here, and finding an US publisher was out of my abilities: I've zero contacts.
I do believe that future people do have moral value and deserve ethical consideration.

The fundamental problem with longtermism, like with utilitarianism, is our limited capacity to understand and predict chaotic systems.

Thus justifying horrific acts in the name of some "predicted good" becomes an act of enormous hubris.

We are better off striving to act virtously towards utilitarianism towards utilitarian / longtermist goals since that reduces the chances that a misprediction leads to our acts having a net negative result.

The underlying valuation is
> The project no longer involves collecting new bat samples or working with live viruses. WIV has no role beyond contributing more than 300 whole and partial genome sequences of SARS-related bat coronaviruses from its collection, Daszak says.

I join others in their skepticism, but, as a layman, I'd like to know: Is this gain-of-function research as described? What are the risks if the research doesn't involve live viruses?
High levels of concern in the Chinese government in Fall of 2019 about goings on at WIV are certainly interesting, though circumstantial evidence. On the flip side, there's is little evidence that it wasn't a man-made disaster.
Can we hook them up to a generator?
Still quite a few postings in that search that are under $100k.
Yes this exactly. Once you've been through a few cycles of madness it is fun to chat with others who have as well (plus helps you keep your sanity and perspective).
Adding Voice Biometrics Security is as Easy as A-P-I
What is this atittude to law, ehy do you think it's as optional guidelines when it comes to companies?

If something was outlawed yesterday, and you committed thay crime today, do yoy think you would get away by claiming you need time to adjust? Why is law not optional for 'little people'?
It's not for me either.

I don't think that makes it bad.

Just built to a price point that makes economic sense.

And for market segments where $1500 is not a non-starter.
26 individuals, total.

table 2.

many of these were pros in more way than one.
Best way to get it right: autistic people argue for a stronger voice in research
I've been wondering what the purpose of those super-long ads is for some time, but now it suddenly occurred to me: they're for unattended youtube players.

Plenty of shops, waiting rooms, lounges, bars, etc have a TV which is simply tuned to a youtube playlist. Whoever is issuing those ads is counting on that the operators of those TV's for whatever reason (either because they don't care, don't notice, or don't have access to the controls) don't skip them.
>they were trying to engineer a variant of bat coronviruses that could cross into humans.

Right, because bat coronaviruses very famously have never crossed into humans. Google "SARS-CoV-1".
Wonder if that'll be the case with fish if they ever recover. Halibut and Salmon have vastly decreased in size just over my lifetime.
i mean i don't know that she's a blackpink or bzrp level celebrity

prolly beats zamfir tho
> Seems like the title should read that gig workers would make more nominal dollars if they spent their time waiting for gig work working a minimum wage job…

So... halfway through making a burger they drop what they're doing to go pick up their next Uber passenger?

Waiting for the next job is dead time if you have no idea how long you'll have to wait and limited or no choice about when it will start. Edit to clarify: the point is that in this case you're on the clock whether you are nominally 'working' or not - it's still work time.
What happens when Amazon rolls back from serverless?
More than just side hustles to earn extra cash, respondents spent on average 28 hours a week undertaking gig work, comprising 60% of their total earnings.

This makes me wonder what the other 40 percent of their earnings is from, how much time it takes and how well it pays.
Waiting for a ride is part of the job.
Everyone is struggling to understand the last innovations and applications in the field. Regulation made by old politicians that struggle to understand how Whatsapp works will only harm Brazilian tech industry and professionals.
> it shouldn't be someones main source of income.

Interesting, because as companies continue to find ways to pay less for their labor by moving folks from W-2 to 1099s, gig work will become a larger portion of the only kind of work available for people's main source of income.

If you feel like our economy should not force folks to have gig work be their main source of income, have you ever thought about how to shape society to ensure that people have jobs with stable sources of income?
Strategies for dealing with ageism would be useful indeed. But otherwise, besides knowing shortcuts to increase zoom/font size for changing eyesight, age brings no special needs.
I considered myself a longtermist, but climate change is the #1 risk to me, not AI, and I thought this prioritization was more common amongst the EA and longtermist communities. But my longtermist views come mainly from Derek Parfit, and it's probably the case that the contemporary longtermists are not of Parfit's kind, and unhealthily intertwined with billionaire weirdos (Theil, SBF).

> But longtermists have an answer to this conundrum: the so-called ‘value-neutrality thesis’. This states that technology is a morally neutral object, ie, ‘just a tool’.

This is indeed a stupid idea, but the writer's following examples don't show longtermists endorsing this view. What Toby Ord is arguing is about an incompatibility between technological advancement and public ignorance (invoking Sagan, as he should). As Margaret Mead said, you can have advancement in technology, but you "have to move the whole pattern". You have to change the social, political, and educational realms in concert with technological change. The editor of this piece really should have fixed this part of the essay, because it's obviously weak.
If they were working in retail, they'd be getting paid to stand around waiting for customers to arrive. Most employees are paid for downtime resulting from slack in demand for their services.
It hardly matters if there's evidence for or against.

Gain-of-function research is ludicrously dangerous anyway!

You need only three facts to take 100% of the action that would ever reasonably be taken:

1) We are doing GOF research that could produce something like (or worse than) COVID.

2) Humans and lab operations are fallible and mistakes will happen at high enough scale over long enough time periods.

3) With MRNA therapies and modern genomic science, GOF research likely provides almost zero benefit in the event of a new virus.
AIP for Defense
> What I find particularly amusing is when the cost value relationship invert, often after a stupidly high price point

See "audiophile" equipment.

It's true that you often can't reliably tell quality from the price tag. I remember in marketing classes learning about what companies do when their product doesn't provide value commensurate with the cost. One approach is to reduce the price. Another approach is to increase the price, make it look pretty, and sell it people who are really buying status. That it sucks won't hurt your sales as much as you'd think, because functionality isn't really the reason people buy it.
I'm curious what your workflow is that not having any disk caching would have acceptable performance.
Project Gameface: A hands-free, AI-powered gaming mouse
Another thing could be that as populations get bigger, so does genetic diversity, creating more sea lions that are bigger than usual. And since bigger male sea lions have an advantage in mating, those traits get passed on to more lions and over generations, become common.
But often enough to be a recommendation?

If you're parroting real search queries I'd expect a minimum threshold for occurrences.
Definitely! Also where are my glasses?
No one would listen to that here my friend, save your energy.
Right, but various things point to ZFS being de facto deprecated: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/ubuntu-zfs-support-statu...
Why? Humanity has had a pretty good run so far with all of its flaws, Dr. Frankensteining the entire species out of some general dislike of competition has barely any upside and a ton of downside
This has nothing to do with bioweapons. The reality is that throughout all of human history, viruses have evolved organically in the environment in such a way that they are infectious to humans. Viruses will continue to evolve and future pandemics will happen. This research is attempting to study how viruses might evolve in a way that is particularly concerning to humans so that we can be more prepared in terms of creating vaccines and understanding the preventive measures that can be taken in future pandemics.
It's dark out for most of the day in some climates. In others, it's dark out for much of the year.
Eh. Bond villains are self-interested and cynical. These are altruistic idealists trying to immanentize the eschaton: The world is unjust and disordered (it’s too short-term focused). And we can fix it and bring about a state of justice (a long term focus). And this is such a big deal don’t need to pay too much attention to how we do it, what we inflict on others by us fixing it, or our conflicts of interest; we’re Justified.
Comparing Speed of Lambda, Step Functions, App Runner, and Direct Integrations
This is what is me as I head into my 50’s. I always knew it was BS, but now I can’t ignore it any more. Corporate culture garbage drives me absolutely to depression now, and I can’t force myself to care any more. I love teaching and mentoring and leading and programming and all those skills. But I can’t muster up to energy to give a crap about anything other than the work itself, the team, the product, etc. I more clearly see the processes that are set up simply to look busy, and I can’t force myself to participate. It’s telling me at some core level it’s time to strike out on my own. But, once you’ve seen the fnords, you can’t unsee them.
And we're shocked... why?

These aren't real contractors, with complex tasks, negotiations for 3-5x salary of a normal employee. Ive done that. No benefits , but paid EXTRAORDINARILY well, like on the range of $300/hr

But "gig work companies" are about bypassing and subverting normal employment by calling it "contract work", and having NONE of the meeting of the minds of a proper contractor.

And it's blatantly obvious why - it lowers cost and transfers liability to people who don't have a clue what those externalized liabilities really are.