skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well many fell for Watson, I'm not sure how MBAs just believe anything marketing says.
No idea where you are from but I'm French and my family has owned a farming equipment dealership for close to 50 years. I haven't seen this mass incorporation you speak of.

Farms have indeed grew larger through consolidation (no one got expropriated - farming is now capital-intensive and economy of scale kicks in with larger farms - small owners either bought their neighbours and became big, sold or went bankrupt) but nearly all of them are still privately owned by people whose family history is in farming.

I find the nostalgia for small scale farming somewhat amusing personnaly. In my experience, it mostly comes from urban people doing white collar jobs. The reality of managing a small farm is not fun.

Livestock farming is the only activity which remains somewhat widespread on a small scale here and it's miserable. It's a buyer market. Farmers are being squeezed out as much as possible by their distributors.
> As a suggestion, take another look at Qt. At very least MuseScore and Ardour use it.

Ardour uses GTK 2, and only minimally at that: https://discourse.ardour.org/t/gtk-2-has-been-deprecated-is-...
yes the trend is that some of those outsourced EE stuff is now back from overseas, we're going to make more devices here hopefully before the last generation of EE engineers die out.
> that was generally phased out in the 70s

Untrue.
Here are some samples generated on DATASAAB D21 (recorded 1967) and D22 (recorded 1970) computers: http://www.datasaab.se/D21_D22_musik/musik.htm

More background on the computers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasaab
http://www.datasaab.se/eng/
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The icons and toolbar items do not scale up to respect my accessibility display/font settings.

even windows 10 allows me fine grained control over all UI sizing elements. but Apple apparently has other priorities.
Linus did something that was definitely not hobby-level stuff at an obscure university in Finland with, on-paper, less prospects and at a probably younger age then you.

It would be less impressive if Linus did the same at age 27 after a Master's at a top tier US school, but likely still enough to get a nice FAANG job with solid promotion prospects.

That's likely what the parent meant, you need to show, something, in the 99th percentile among your peer cohort.
Candid Culture
Let's be honest: obviously the companies that have put a lot of money in it will try to put entry barriers, like licenses to linear algebra or other requirements by law. It is not to benefit humanity, but to monopolize their industry and prevent new participants.
We shouldn't allow that kind of restrictions, just because people that doesn't understand how it works are afraid of a killer robot visiting them by night.
> Why might it be goos to not use derivatives?

Sometimes you really don't know how to calculate the derivatives.

But perhaps more often, even if in principle you could do the additional work, formulate how to calculate derivatives, and add the required extra code, you just don't want to invest the additional resources, when you can just call a derivative-free optimization library. The optimization will run slower, but perhaps you have some extra seconds so spare.
Recent Atom CPUs (since Gracemont) do support AVX and AVX2.
Or you could drink an energy drink/sugar free cola instead.
wait they are talking about licenses for giant arrays and for loop interactions? I know I am wildly oversimplifying, but yes that is nonsense.
I found LinkedIn was bringing grifters, salespeople who couldn’t sell and dreamers who couldn’t execute into my life so I deleted my account long ago.

(Occasionally though my spammer evil twin wants to give it another go…)
I'll do you one better--to negative infinity mod points and beyond! I can put a 13b parameter LLM on my phone. That makes it a bearable arm. Arms are not defined under the US Constitution, just the right of _the_people_ to keep them shall not be infringed, but it is a weapon to be sure.
No, I have not. Just don't log in if you are not looking for work.
Nobody goes there any more, it’s impossible to get a table
‘Dream glove’ boosts creativity during sleep
Fake headline. Real headline is: "Why you can't trust Twitter's encrypted DMs"
God forbid they would use the actual name of the chemical in the title.

Journalists and their tricks are so tiresome.
Yeah, backprop gives efficient gradient calcs to train at a given net architecture. To find the best architecture though people try various other methods, eg random search or Gaussian processes, which don’t evaluate derivatives wrt architecture Params.
It’s the reverse. People wanted decaffeinated coffee and the TCE stayed for the ride.
Human DNA can be pulled from water, sand, and even air
It's pretty common for corporate networks to have MITM devices snooping on all traffic by default (usually exceptions are made for known medical sites and for high-bandwidth traffic like YT). This is a big enough use-case that special provisions were made for it in TLS 1.3.
Journaling has fundamentally changed my life in almost every measurable facet. It is the single habit I can point to that helped me accomplish things like in my personal life - stop biting fingernails, run a marathon, run the Boston marathon, be a more engaged Dad. It has also helped diagnose lots of professional patterns - good bosses, bad bosses, understanding that everyone has value and has flaws.

My approach is to read journal entries written on this date from previous years. For example, this morning, I read what I wrote on 5/16/20, 5/16/21, 5/16/22.

I wrote down my methodology here: https://mcook.fun/journaling
This plugin: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/21056-codegpt

Works great. I have an openai api key and I've configured the plugin to use gpt-4.
Twitter works fine for me.
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If the only way that agriculture can sustain itself in i.e. Germany is by subsidies covering 50% of farmers' incomes and all of their profits, then the way we do agriculture/food is fundamentally wrong.

Also, how self-sufficient are you really if your entire agricultural system is predicated on access to chemical fertilizers, which in turn is produced from natural gas of which you have to import close to 100%? The subsidy system is thoroughly dysfunctional and doesn't solve a real problem anymore, except by supporting existing economic structures.
I care about press freedom. But honestly I have been very sceptical about WikiLeaks since Hillary Clinton's emails got leaked.
When you have the power to leak. Then you also have the power to decide what to leak and even have the power to modify the content of what you leak.
Considering the timing and that WikiLeaks previously have refused to leak certain information about Russia makes me extra critical of this shit site and its founder.
Much of the industry uses algorithm and data structure problems as a way of assessing "smartness" in interviews -- the idea is that even though it's often not needed for the job, giving people the challenge of learning that area at the intersection of computer science and software engineering correlates with how strong a contributor they'll be. I.e. if you don't know it but can pick up an area like that, that's a good signal. So a course like this (doing all the homework exercises) would definitely help with interviewing and getting jobs that people are competing for, if that is something that interests you.

The actual content in this data structures course obviously will mostly not appear in any interview, but the homework exercises will make you stronger in a way that is definitely desirable for interviews. And of course, interviews aside, it will all be interesting for anyone that has an intellectual interest in software engineering.
That sounds like a credit score of sorts.
>> bunch of code-as-XML for configuration

Code as json or yaml is fundamentally the same while being nicer to look at (yaml at least).
I am not familiar with these algorithms, but:

Many common functions have non-derivative friendly discontinuities. Logic functions, rounding, conditional clauses, sawtooth functions, etc.)

Other non-derivative functions have flat constant zero-derivative areas. Like logic functions & rounding (again), etc.

Some functions have derivatives but have so many minima (or maxima) that non-optimal or non-acceptable minima are likely to trap learning. Sine and cosine waves, for instance.

Some functions even have repeating discontinuities going through +/-infinity. Tangent and secant.

Or, in some cases a model may exist of the system (or part of the system) to be optimized, which can be used to calculate the system response, but it contains relationships that are not easily accessible, so accurate derivatives are difficult or time costly to estimate. Since there is no symbolic expression to allow for efficient calculation of the derivatives.
That's true, though I think statistically, the higher up the food chain you are, the more likely HR is going to be your friend. Leadership tends to band together and influence HR policy to favor managers over do-ers.
Yes, I think journaling has improved my life.

What originally started as blog/newsletter fuel has become a way to offload thoughts. As I work through a new sense of identity being a father, it has helped lighten my mindset. By getting the bad/sad/unfortunate things "on paper" I feel like I am more equipped to take on the work day.

My technique is as simple as possible. I open a new Notion doc, start a 10 minute timer, and write until I hear the ding. If I could disable the backspace/delete key I would. The goal is just to write with no priority given to quality.
And … ? Companies have policies against workplace romantic relationships for reasons that we eventually concluded in the 90s as needed to protect women.

I still don’t understand. I’m pretty sure the crowd of outraged people have never been a manager or an employer.

Employers realistically need to collect large amounts of information for all sorts of reasons. Especially JPM as the world’s largest bank and custodian.

But even the activity level issue. These days employee can try to sue you and claim all sorts of fabricated reasons for their dismissal. By having detailed event logging you insure you have an accurate proof of empirical facts.

This whole antiwork fiction story post is a bit embarrassingly childish in my opinion.
It's also highly toxic, works as an anaesthetic (i.e., knocks you out); it also decomposes into phosgene and hydrochloride when exposed to light and air. But on the other hand, it is a great organic solvent.
That's youtube.

I shudder to think what will happen if youtube closes or radically changes operation. It will be even worse than burning the library of alexandria
Right now the solution is vector databases; however we could envision a different state representation in the transformer decoder which is the main component of a GPT; for example, you could summarize your architecture and tests and implementation with compressed / smaller vectors for each piece and organize that stuff in a tree structure. Then just concatenate the tree to the context and user query. It’d require you to rewrite the multi head attention function or make a wrapper, and it’d add an ETL step to create the tree, but then you could have that whole compressed representation of your codebase available when you ask a question. It would necessarily be an abstraction and not verbatim copy of the code, otherwise you’d run out of room. Funny how everything runs into Kolmogorov complexity eventually
> Prove to whom? Snowden proved a lot, and what changed?

A lot changed - maybe not what some hoped, but still. Fwiw I don't think much changed for the better

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_effect#:~:text=Accordi....
Sorry I don’t understand this question
For ease of reading for other users, here is a quote from the article about the Personal Voice feature:

"For users at risk of losing their ability to speak — such as those with a recent diagnosis of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or other conditions that can progressively impact speaking ability — Personal Voice is a simple and secure way to create a voice that sounds like them.

"Users can create a Personal Voice by reading along with a randomized set of text prompts to record 15 minutes of audio on iPhone or iPad. This speech accessibility feature uses on-device machine learning to keep users’ information private and secure, and integrates seamlessly with Live Speech so users can speak with their Personal Voice when connecting with loved ones.

“At the end of the day, the most important thing is being able to communicate with friends and family,” said Philip Green, board member and ALS advocate at the Team Gleason nonprofit, who has experienced significant changes to his voice since receiving his ALS diagnosis in 2018. “If you can tell them you love them, in a voice that sounds like you, it makes all the difference in the world — and being able to create your synthetic voice on your iPhone in just 15 minutes is extraordinary.”
If you are the author, and you are in this thread: those graphs are stunning. Would have never thought to superimpose graphs over maps. But you folks made it work, and it's not just a gimmick, it provides information in a helpful and intuitive fashion.
I have never actually gotten a job from LinkedIn, the social media aspect is the most potent form of cringe.

I really should delete it too but I just never log in.
I'm not arguing for or against whether they are in the dominant position; what I'm doing is pointing out that the grandparent quoted part of the text (and argues against it) without quoting the justification the author provided that is directly relevant to what they say.

> There’s an important notion to address here. Open source code on GitHub might be thought of as “open and freely accessible” but it is not. It’s possible for any person to access and download one single repo from GitHub. It’s not possible for a person to download all repos from Github or a percentage of all repos, they will hit limitations and restrictions when trying to download too many repos. (Unless there’s some special archives or mechanisms I am not aware of).
Indeed. Like thinking Tiktok is "such a serious danger" while having apps such as Spotify, Snapchat, and Amazon or Meta < anything > installed on our phones, using Google < anything >, or using devices such as "smart-tvs" and computers with Windows OS. Let's not forget the mild tinge of prejudice/racism that colors the messaging.

Dissonance is just that.
> some of them even quite severe

I doubt as severe as what Epstein did.
> I can guarantee your compliance department was monitoring all of your private communications and not telling you about it. This is just what happens in the finance industry

It’s a little bit like the government’s argument that they collect data but they don’t read it

Lots of companies track you, the flow of data, your use of USB ports, web traffic, etc. But they don’t do anything with it 99% of the time. The one time Google or Goldman Sachs realizes you’ve exfiltrated source code or something though, they have the full paper trail they can pull up at will should they choose to pursue it
Save 5 hours of commute time... per week?
I criticize the title because it says something vague piggybacking on the idea of freedom to guilt-trip its readers to support a controversial opinion that has barely anything to do with the title in question. And I can only learn the content by clicking on that clickbait title that provides no information.

Well, if it is common in English to refer to the situation when the public opinion about you is allegedly shaped by your last work as "not allowed to make bad work" than indeed I do not know English on the third level of OECD literacy. But that sounds like a very peculiar trait of English, and a very deep ideological commitment incorporated into the language on a level that I couldn't expect.
The apocalypse isn’t coming. We must resist cynicism and fear about AI
So what?

As along as it's not literally 100% of the population, which I highly doubt, there should be more then enough customers to get a foothold.
Why do people keep posting links to this on HN? Not a complaint, just curious.
Hi! I am CTO of Hushl. We launched the product 2 months ago. It is powered by GPT-4, creative writing tools and APIs to provide an ecosystem spanning across LinkedIn, Whatsapp and Chrome extension to help user create content with ease.
They can be doing limited testing for now. I worked for a company that tracked everything they could get away with and managers routinely enforced minimal threshold of activity so I won't be surprised if some larger bank jumped on the same bandwagon.
It sounds just crazy to me. Reason 10231 I'm thankful my employer doesn't issue us "Work laptops", and just outright buys us ours which we happen to use for work _and_ personal use.
Even some of the most famous recipes can change over time. I’m sure that things like McDonald’s burgers are slightly different now.

Perhaps the most enduring a chef can do is invent a new technique.
Even if you’re not on the company vpn?
I’ve also been using the 5 minute journal on and off for 8? years. Its my tool to get on track if I ever feel emotionally vulnerable / unstable.

The act of sitting down and ruminating on what went well during the day, as well as planning each day for simple achievable goals has had a very calming effect on me.

Unfortunately I don’t seem to get much of it if I’m already happy and fulfilled - so I mostly stop journaling when I’m OK but resume if something is amiss.
Further down the article it explains that the terms have been used interchangeable for a long time. Language is a funny thing.
> addict populations to facilitate trade

That's a bit of a stretch. You could say that about any popular products - smartphones, soap, ...

Some say the industrial revolution was facilitated by the switch of Western people from alcohol based drinks to caffeine based ones.

> Those who drank coffee instead of alcohol began the day alert and stimulated, rather than relaxed and mildly inebriated, and the quality and quantity of their work improved … Western Europe began to emerge from an alcoholic haze that had lasted for centuries.”
As a former employee of some of the largest European corporations I can assure you they usually operate way pass legal boundaries. The absolute worst that can happen to them is to get fined, which is not enough deterrent as usually the fines eat a tiny portion of their profits. No one goes to jail either, a major corruption scandal may send a CEO on early retirement with a full compensation package and/or to work for a competitor. So assuming European companies won't spy on employees just because it is illegal is pretty naive. Always assume you are being monitored by your employer, because more likely than not you are.
I Redhat's cockpit tool can provide this. If you just want the bare log (no UI) there's systemd-journal-gatewayd.
Finally! Grandma mode! With how hard it is to find uncomplicated dumbphones that work on AT&T, this will be an alternative for if we need to get my grandma another phone.
Wait... Are you saying that I shouldn't be eating tide pods?
Nope, I still use it. It's the only place people from my city are coordinating on, aside from twitter.
It seems that optimal calorie output from all our available land involves some intermediary animals that eat whatever humans can't eat.

I agree we're raising far too many cattle, but just wanted to point out it's not very simple.
Frankly, I think Assistive Access could be great for a lot of boomer parents/grandparents. My dad is unwilling to learn how to use a smartphone and this could be sufficiently approachable to let him overcome his fear of it.
Musk’s Pick for Twitter CEO and the Glass Cliff Debate
There is certainly more space available than is currently being filled. I.e. I have lived in more than a dozen places around the EU and Africa and have never had access to one of these types of farmers, despite being heavily inclined to buy from them.

I don't doubt that direct to consumer regenerative agriculture will never be 100% of the market, even in wealthy societies. But it still has tremendous potential to grow.
It might still be used in other countries.

Might even be unknowingly imported into other countries
I wish people would stop abusing the word trauma. If you actually see moving jobs as a "major life trauma" you are much too fragile and would likely benefit from building some resilience
> Mega farms already receive subsidies — why is that fine, but subsidizing a less damaging method not?

It's fine and might be a solution to the problem but purposefully orienting subsidies towards something and putting tariffs in place are as far removed from "the natural outcome" as you can get.

> Finally, the Dutch farmers currently having their farms seized seemed to be doing fine — except for political interference in the name of environmentalism. Why is that intervention fine, but supporting small farmers rather than mega corporations not?

I have trouble following your argument. Are you or are you not in favour of top down policies and mass expropriations by the State? If that's the case, see the original point about the Great Leap Forward. I think you are trying to have your cake and eat it too here.
If you would just vote correctly corrupt D DAs wouldn’t need to enact The Purge!
People have been able to commit malicious acts by themselves historically, no AI needed.

In other words, LLMs are only as dangerous as the humans operating them, and therefore the solution is to stop crime instead of regulating AI, which only seeks to make OpenAI a monopoly.
Visual art is overrated and misunderstood IMO. Artists of the past were basically human rendering engines, which was very important because we didn’t have any other kind of rendering engine and looking at artificial images can be pleasing.

Can you imagine what seeing a nice painting of a person was like when you had never seen any other kind of artificial image in your life besides handmade ones? It was probably mind blowing.

Photography has probably totally destroyed our relative reaction to visual art, like someone who eats way too much sugar trying a sweet apple.

But now we seem to be running on cultural fumes in this area. It’s as if people still bought hand cobbled shoes for millions of dollars and displayed them pretentiously.
I wonder what chemicals from today we are going to declare toxic in next 20 years
Do you guys read the whole thing from start to finish or just look up things you want to understand more from time to time? It's like the thickness of LOTR, so that would take extraordinary patience.
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I expected them to recognize and assess risk.
Here are a few: more traffic and pollution, more traffic accidents and deaths, increased budgets for roads to accommodate, reduced family time, higher stress and increased medical costs, increased transportation costs born by employees and government transit authorities, …