skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has worked at a "Project/Service" company for way too long, I wholeheartedly agree. It's a horrible way to build software and will drain your soul. Good software is both much more expensive and much more valuable than most people realize, and one contract or client is never enough to give it the attention it deserves. Your clients will wonder why your $200k custom software doesn't work like Excel / PowerBI / some other product with tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of investment. It will wear on you that you simply can't give your software the love it deserves solely on the tab of one single client.
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One would think Linux would make sometging clean and responsive, instead it's a hot sticky mess. Remember i was aleays looking for that clean distro, elementaryOS luna was the pinnacle, then came updates and bloat
One thing that might be worth pointing out is that the transformer architecture owes a great deal of its success to the fact that it can be implemented in a way that it can be massively parallelized in a very efficient manner.
While we could discuss about that, Apple also blocks or alerts for genuine parts so they can't use that defense either.
Wow, so much for treating your biggest fans with any respect. Not like he stole them, it would have been interesting had he stood his ground to see what they did. Shame he didn't have video of the encounter like Afroman did when raided.

If I were a fan, this would have sobered me out of it immediately.

Now I wonder what happened to the guy selling Zelda Tears of the Kingdom two weeks early that "fell off the back of the truck". Nintendo probably read this and put these thugs on retainer for the next major release, if they don't already.
If restitution was the most important goal here, they'd allow her to work a (monitored) job on house-arrest with massively garnished wages.

Seems like silly posturing to order massive restitution while also sending her to prison — you can't have your cake and eat it too. Make up your mind which is more important — punishment, or compensation for victims.
Or it’s that as computers learn to solve problems previously reserved for humans, people tend to shift the goalposts of what counts as real intelligence accordingly, similar to the so-called "God in the gaps" fallacy. (Incidentally, something very similar has been going on as our understanding of animal intelligence has improved.)

That said, I agree that however impressive narrowly intelligent tasks computers have learned to excel at, most of the research involved has not helped us make much (if any) headway towards figuring out how to create a fully general machine intelligence despite the early optimism.

But that said, for the past several decades the mainstream AI research community has mostly not even attempted to pursue AGI research, being entirely content with working on different types of narrow AI and indeed trying to dispel any illusions that their work might have anything to do with "science fiction AIs". This, of course, exactly because of those broken early dreams and the AI winter that followed.

So, at least within the field itself, I don’t really agree that there has been any tendency to assume that narrow AI breakthroughs imply that AGI is just around the corner. The current hype around GANs and LLMs is an exception, not the rule.
I’m shocked the Pinkertons still exist. None of the bigger unions tried to pull strings to get them destroyed for past atrocities against the labor movement?
Pine Ridge Trail
Nothing, it is a union.
I would think the cops are experts too.
ZMK [1] has support for Bluetooth, but I don't know how many keyboards (or any consumer keyboards at all) it supports.

[1] https://zmk.dev/
This reminds me a lot of my experience programming for the open source game Space Station 13. We simulate basically everything we can in that game, and it fills me with so much satisfaction to think about how my code is responsible for the operation of the organs inside every player's body, ticking away silently but allowing for really complex and nuanced interactions when necessary. Most people will never know where that code came from or what the game was like before, but that's fine. It just existing is enough, in a sea of code made by hundreds or thousands of other people.
An AI may be more likely to hallucinate the wrong comment, but also much less likely to forget to update the comment when the code changes. The net result could be better comments.
This line of reasoning reminds me of a common misunderstanding of depression I've seen from people who've never been clinically depressed (1). It's an understandable mistake, albeit potentially dangerous (2).

Depression isn't on the happiness-sadness scale. It's quite tangential to that. In fact, perhaps quizzically, you can be happy and depressed. It's fairly common for people who learn about the loss of a loved one to recall how happy them seemed the day before.

Depression treatment, therefore, doesn't make one "less sad". And consequently it wouldn't make a healthy patient "more happy".

(1) I don't mean this in a negative way towards the comment I'm replying to. Nor am I implying that the commenter believes this. I just noticed a pattern and I'm responding in the spirit of education.

(2) It's okay to not understand depression; not everyone has to be an expert on everything. It only becomes dangerous when providing ill formed advice. Which is unfortunately common when it comes to depression.
You must be from a planet with very long years!

There is no way I can even begin to digest what you have said in your comment.
Obviously this depends on the location and the management company. Mine takes 50% of the first month's rent for finding & qualifying a new tenant, then 8% of the following rent payments. So far they have done a decent enough job - I just have to prod them on repairs to not use the absolute cheapest approach (my theory is a nicer house can justify a higher rent, vs. all the ones in the market that are run by corporate landlords and look like it)
Curious to try this but I’m unfamiliar. What kind of enzymes did you find helpful? (What’s the name of the product if you don’t mind sharing?) Are they over the counter or prescription?
Ask HN: Is this is a new kind of war?
Today I read a headline in the NY Times[1]:
> Ukraine and Russia Agree to Extend Black Sea Grain Deal.

Meanwhile Russia is raining deadly missiles on Ukraine, who are fighting back with all they've got.

I'm struggling to think of another conflict where the combatants were this cooperative with each other.

Also, the war is probably the first major conflict between large nations that is being streamed live as it is happening.

Which is to say, the war is really weird.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/17/world/russia-ukraine-news
Don't have a small child be responsible for protecting your sheep from wolves? Esepcially if you have already determined not to come if he shouts for help.
If you want to go back to the Labor movement, the Pinkertons practically committed war crimes. When people say the police evolved from a misanthropic idea of keeping the peace, they are specifically thinking of the Pinkertons as an example. Hired thugs meant to keep those in power in power, not to protect the citizenry.
Maybe not "depend on", but "adapted to" ...

"Coast redwood are adapted to fire and other disturbance. Seeds germinate best on mineral soil as is exposed by flooding, fire, or wind throw for seed germination and establishment."

"The fire return interval in coast redwood forests varies drastically with latitude, microclimate and distance from the coast. In general, forests that are further north, closer to the coast, or located on mesic sites tend to burn less frequently."

From https://www.nps.gov/pore/learn/management/firemanagement_fir...
That all makes sense from a construction cost perspective.

But you were making an argument about how unholy dangerous nuclear plants are as a reason not to build them, barely even mentioning cost. If that danger is real it should be more important than those billions. There's also a fourth option of tearing down nuclear plants and replacing them with a mixture of wind solar and coal, to mitigate that enormous danger at a reduced cost.

If the danger isn't actually enough to motivate plan 3, then you were massively overselling it. Even more so if it's not enough to motivate the cheaper plan 4.
Wouldn't the song have been "Positronic Android" though?
>Is there a law that states the deposit must be one month?

No, but the market rate is at one month.

>My deal with the landlord is that I'll just pay for whatever damage is done, even if that's higher than my deposit.

Every tenant claims to your face he's a billionaire and that he will pay for everything, but then bolt it the week before the end of the contract, leaving you with a damaged apartment and unpaid bills. Such claims are difficult to enforce and a bird in the hand is worth more 10 in the bush.
By comparison the old US POTS phone system was required to maintain downtime of less than five minutes per decade. I have no idea what rules, if any, apply to the modern wireless systems.

Note: The consent decree, the actual legal obligation of the Bell system, actually specified the percentage of times someone would pick up the phone and not get a dial tone or operator. It was surprisingly high -- IIRC something like 2%, which is why you can see people toggling the hook in old movies. The five minutes per decade constraint I know because some of my old customers made digital phone switches and they had to provide that SLA to their phone company customers, or else not get the order.
Aren't you somewhat leaving out the fact that she may still have assets (she may not, I don't know) ?
What job is she going to get that will get anywhere near $452M?

> posturing to order massive restitution while also sending her to prison

Under what legal theory can someone only be punished once in one way?
Low margins :) This is a passion project and we wanted to make it accessible
There isn't any. The Screen Actors Guild is a union that merged with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union to make what the grandparent comment is likely referring to as the "actor's guild". They are a traditional labor union and member of the AFL-CIO. They are also seemingly poised to go on strike at the end of next month.

Often times when someone criticizes the idea of unions, it is because they don't fully understand their purpose, flexibility, and flaws. For example, that comment could imply that unions somehow cap payments and benefits, but that isn't some universal truth of unions (that person also could just be using guild as a synonym for union, but that isn't necessarily true and it doesn't appear to be how they're using it). Unions negotiate on behalf of their members. If the union members don't want caps on compensation, the union can negotiate for no caps.
All things in a hype cycle have this characteristic but not all this that have this characteristic are a hype cycle. The iPhone is an example. I remember iPads people laughed “it’s a giant phone! So silly!” Etc. To the point made, something can be in a hype cycle because it is obviously useful, but for what we aren’t sure - so there’s a huge creative grasping, and convergence of hucksters and con artists, that boils down into what is the long lasting utility. (Ala microwave)

The thing is the utility is realizes right now by a lot of folks and the only tool folks are using is a crappy web UI onto a chat bot. Crypto had no utility ever, just some crypto anarchist dream of a world without the Treasury. VR is neat but rarely useful.
It has been said the opposite of communism is not capitalism but math.
Should lead with the comic, which is a good synopsis.
> I really don't understand why people ascribe emergent behaviors to these systems such as "theory of mind". It's just randomness. I'm presuming there's just a lot of psycological pareidolia going around.

Ah yes, "just randomness":

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From the above text, generate these variations:

1) For each word in the text count the number of letters in the word and append the count to the word in parenthesis.

2) Write each word backwards.

3) Write a similarly structured text that argues the opposite of the original text.

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1) I (1) really (5) don't (4) understand (10) why (3) people (6) ascribe (7) emergent (8) behaviors (9) to (2) these (5) systems (7) such (4) as (2) "theory (6) of (2) mind" (4). It's (4) just (4) randomness (10). I'm (3) presuming (9) there's (6) just (4) a (1) lot (3) of (2) psychological (12) pareidolia (10) going (5) around (6).

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3) I absolutely comprehend how people can accurately identify emergent behaviors in these systems like "theory of mind". It's far from random. I'm convinced that these are genuine insights being recognized.
>> Humans don't breed when their own lives are precarious and it's rational and realistic to assume the lives of their kids will be even more so.

> I do not think this is a generally true notion. There are so many people living in precarious circumstances in large parts of Africa, Asia and South America. But the highest population growth is right there.

Yes, but wealthy technological society enables it, because modern birth control technology is what makes reproduction so much of a choice.

In earlier times and in less developed places, if you really wanted to be "child free" you'd have to take much more extreme actions, like adopting celibacy or being OK with infanticide.
I'm going through this right now but already have a remote contracting job for less than I was making but putting out feelers for in-person. The in-person jobs are usually an hour away and pay more.

Problem is waking up everyday at 6:30 am so I can be in office by 9 is a huge mental and physical stress. Moving closer isn't an option because I own my house. Right now my thinking is do I want to spend an extra 4-5 hours per day on my career just to work in a shitty cubicle for only 30k more? I'm honestly leaning towards putting up with less money and waiting for another opportunity to cross my path.

If shit really hits the fan I can sell my California house and buy a whole house outright in another part of the country and sustain myself easily. I'm just choosing to stay here but I really don't have to.
Offshoring to the lowest bidder and hiring remote from all over the world are completely different things and not remotely comparable.
I suppose if someone was en route to visit Stonehenge or Avebury it could be tied in!
I remember bypassing so many "school lockdown" tools by opening a file browser and then using that to become a web browser and versa vice.
Well... how about reading my text trying to interpret it and the world around us? In the sense that things are going so fast that we will soon have the answer and most probably _some_ jobs will be replaced yes (and that it won't take another 50 years as implied in the parent comment to have the definitive answer for it).
Interestingly the author still blogs:

http://www.andrewturnbull.net

I wonder what they're using these days?
Absolute BS. Transformers were literally introduced by that paper.
Holmes probably deserves all this, but we should recognize that the reason she's being punished and no other CEO is is because she was a bit of an outsider and she managed to con top members of the ruling class. Her investors were war criminals and other American elites. You don't con them out of their money and get away with it.
>in the UK

Like I said before, "where I live there's no insurances covering tenant damage". It's great it's a thing in the UK but I don't live there.
The guy behind This Museum is (Not) Obsolete has a youtube channel Look Mum No Computer where he creates massive, insane musical instruments out of furbies, hand-made syths, etc. Truly impressive and very entertaining and educational.
Yeah, that's what severance is for. Sign this paper that holds us harmless. We give you money to never see you again.

This is a problem that could be solved with money. If Charlie is as bad as described the boss would pay for them to go away instead of dragging it out through a drawn-out documentation process.
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> Ha ha ha ha. You don't believe in Jesus?

But do you also believe in ghosts, extra-sensory powers, Jesus, miracle healing, bigfeet, yetis, etc.? They have the same flimsy "evidence" as UFOs, no?

> You think your stance rational, yet it's unnatural and fringe

If someone demonstrates clear evidence that a UFO is an alien artefact, my stance will be 100% behind it. Same for ghosts, ESP, Jesus, miracle healing, etc. - show clear, repeatable evidence that the phenomena exists and I will be a believer. But without that evidence, it's just faith and that is unnatural and fringe to me.
The actor’s guild is a union.

There are lots of different unions with lots of different structures. This person is saying we should have a union with a structure similar to that union.
The only time I've seen anyone really do half of what this books describes as a "Staff Engineer" was at a small(ish) hardware company, PowerVR, where the OpenGLES driver team was 5-6 people, the team lead was a developer and architect who also did a bit of management, rather than the other way round. Then there was a manager on top of them in turn for multiple teams, but they weren't involved in the technicals at all, not even in the loosest "architecture design" ways, they purely did the people management.

In a larger company now, still working on GPU drivers (AMD, but not the "main" platform), there's a couple of people who might do a bit of this, but feels more like you get specific domain experts rather than anyone designated by the company. The team is notably larger than at PowerVR, and there is a "Manager" who is more involved in doing things like placating customers and prioritizing work and issues, but again completely uninvolved in the actual development.

In none of these examples does the job title have any relation to the differences in their work, both used completely different stacks of terms and difficult to compare cross-company.

But I guess it's all "Hardcore Engineering", and even the newest members of the team are expected to design systems themselves. Hell, straight out of university at PowerVR I was designing and implementing my own stuff, and significant systems not just following an already concrete architecture. But it was a small enough team everyone was involved in feedback, and I did feedback to them in turn. So I guess GPU drivers are still greaybeard "Hardcore Engineering"?

This may be helped by driver development often being pretty well defined, you have a spec (which you may have been involved with designing, but very much a large collaboration), you have hardware architects and another team trying to figure out the next generation might look (are they the "true" architects here?).
London housing issues: there's supply but it's very expensive

Berlin housing issues: it's not too expensive but there's zero supply because of rent control

So which is best? Or, the least worst.
> What job is she going to get that will get anywhere near $452M?

Politician, perhaps.
>> The US requires foreign labour to function.

Maybe at the service/entry level but certainly not for tech jobs. Tech visas have nothing to do with filling the millions of service jobs; they're about filling the corporations' pockets with millions.
Sure: nobody wants the car, they just want faster horses.

> Even at big tech or any nationally-known tech brand, I'd bet at least half the work in maintenance, support, incremental improvement, and integrations.

That's because they are extremely inefficient. Most people build software badly, most companies expect software to be bad, and they hire a bunch of bullshit jobs to do inefficient things to support that bad software badly. The gap between what software could be vs. what it is is so overwhelmingly massive that it's crushing my soul. These people do stupid CRUD API micro-service bullshit because they're blissfully ignorant of how tremendously amazing their software could be if they fired 90% of their boot-camp dev ops and replaced them with a handful of 10x staff-level developers.
This has nothing to do with LLMs. It's bing search not bingGPT.
They're in the process of saving up - family housing in a non stabby areas are really expensive and they need over one years net salary for a deposit(Poole / Bournemouth).
This scenario already happened with Jason Chen/Gizmodo and the iPhone 4G prototype that was left at a bar, and what happened is the cops raided his house and seized his stuff. You would think HN folks would at least remember that…
This, 1000%.

If you're always jamming new media into your brain, it's like you're constantly writing to a hard drive without ever giving it time to defragment.
The Making of a Masterpiece
You choose to put your belongings in a storage locker. You don’t choose to go to jail.
Moving a Community from Slack to Discord
Driving on public roads is a privilege, not a right, which is why it's legal for them to institutes requirements like "must have insurance" or "must have a driver's license".
Her investors were war criminals

Specifically?
During COVID, I made friends who are 10/25/40ish years older than me. I firmly believe we will be lifelong friends, i.e. til death do us apart.

Lasting friendships form in mysterious ways. You need only be open to the possibility.
Well, yes. But I'd say that the direct harm caused by her particular brand of fraud, combined with how utterly ham-fisted it was, also plays a part.