skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a certain amount of disciplined duplication that you have to adopt as well. I think this hangs a lot of people up and failure to do it right leads to the complications you're discussing.

Adding a todo note, marking it done, editing it, and deleting it are all different use cases and each have thier own package and classes. However, most people want to have some kind of single ToDoNote class which is the "To Do Note". Doing that means they have to decide which package to put it in and then pull it in everywhere else. And then "common" logic starts piling up and features depend on crap from other features and accidental complexity starts creeping in. Now you've got a single ToDoNote class that has different sets of properties null or pipulated depending on where it was instantiated and what use case its being fed to, all requiring the programmer to keep this in their head instead of getting the compiler to help.

The reality is that the set of data you need to create a todo note is different from the data you need to edit it which is different from that which you need to delete it. They share common elements, but never at the same time. The solution is to create "NewToDo", "EditedToDo", and "DeleteToDo" models that for each feature. Sure, some of the models will share a "title" property (new and edit), and some will share an "id" property (edit and delete) but never all at the same time. This offloads this complexity from the programmer to the compiler and speeds up development.

You already know youre operating at the lowest of the low leves of excellence if you rely on monkey see monkey do code standards. Having low complexity code with minimal programmer brain space needed to operate in is how you level up to higher levels.
> I'm just saying that while generics are useful in some cases, they are not always the right answer, and it shouldn't just be assumed that every language needs them, nor that any non-generic language "sucks".

It's funny to me, because this comment chain exists because I said I got tired of rewriting the same functions with minute changes, the exact problem generics is intended to solve. I didn't say anything sucked, or even that I didn't like Go, just that this one aspect got tiring.

And yet, this small comment lead into a person feeling their language was being attacked.
Google isn't TCS or Wipro. It pays H1B workers very high wages.
Today's your lucky day. There's a guy on YouTube who has been playing around with this at home and various other shapes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnotAvxKhPY
I don't know, it was something that I randomly picked that was really performant on my phone. YMMV.
The premise of my beliefs stem from 2 ideas: The universe exists as it does for a reason, and life specifically exists within that universe for a reason.

I believe "God" is a mathematician in a higher dimension. The rules of our universe are just the equations they are trying to solve. Since he created the system such that life was bound to exist, the purpose of life is to help God. You could say that math is math and so our purpose is to exist as we are and either we are a solution to the math problem or we are not, but I'm not quite willing to accept that we have zero agency.

We are nowhere near understanding the universe and so we should strive to each act in a way that will grow our understanding. Even if you aren't a practicing scientist (I'm not), you can contribute by being a good person and participating productively in society.

Ethics are a set of rules for conducting yourself that we all intrinsically must have, they require some frame of reference for what is "good" (which I apply above). I can see how my worldview sounds almost religious, though I wouldn't go that far.

I believe that math is the same as truth, and that the universe can be expressed through math. "Scientistic" isn't too bad a descriptor for that view, but I don't put much faith into our current understanding of the universe or scientific method.

I hope that helps you understand me :D
The feature hiding in Elixir, and I assume Erlang, is the binary pattern matching, on either whole bytes, big or little endian, down to individual bits in a byte.
I'm helping with a project to recreate the old Prodigy network, and the combination of FP principles and the ability to slice and dice bytes like I did with C in the '80s has me hooked on Elixir.
Not even elaborate. Try selling something in FB market place or craigslist. You will get many interested parties who just need to send you a quick verification code for reasons.

What they are really doing is signing up for stuff using your phone number.

If someone ever asked me to send them a 2fa I would send them the wrong one until they get mad and stop asking me to do it.
Any support for Apple Silicon, or plans to do so?
There are multiple missing things for this:

1. Layoffs happened regardless of visa status, so visa workers were part of the layoffs.

2. The visa applications for H1B could be for workers already working in the company under a different visa like TN or F1

3. The positions affected by layoffs and positions filing for H1B could be different. For example, a front end position may be affected by layoffs, but the visa application could be for an ML eng.

4. Visa could also be for more tenured staff. Plenty of companies are now only hiring staff+ roles after the layoffs

5. Because of the lottery system and how it works, you could have filed for a visa before a certain date but then before the visa was picked, the worker was laid off. i.e. you filed for a visa in Feb for the April lottery but laid off the person in March, giving the illusion that you filed for a visa after laying people off.
> Just one month later, Pichai’s firm filed applications for low-paid foreign workers to come to America and take highly specialized tech jobs.

It is important to note that LCA filings (which are public) have a wage that is typically lower than the actual wage paid, because companies do not want to disclose publicly how much they're actually paying.
Big tech is redistributing extremely privileged salaries to tragically underserved markets. I applaud them.
Can We Stop Runaway A.I.?
I see. That makes sense. I don't compose code in unfamiliar frameworks and languages. I try as much as possible to use the frameworks and languages I know best. I got off of the treadmill of "framework of the year" chasing a while ago.
I joined the sourdough bandwagon during the pandemic. I was committed to whole wheat, and had inconsistent (to put it generously) results until I came across Hendrik's Whole Wheat Sourdough Master class[0]. Really great content, and all of the experimentation really showed. I'm happy to see it here!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImVvQMvGZKE
The install instructions are not very clear
We're talking about workers immigrating to the US, not offshoring. Workers immigrating to the US contribute to the US economy.
Replace LLM with 'young author'.

If you feed a 'young author' the works of a famous current author, E.G. Rowling, and ask them to write a new work in the style of that reference author...

Or if you include the current N 'Best Sellers' and ask them to write whatever's popular.

I'm not so convinced creativity is any more magical than a naturally evolved and refined version of what computers are starting to approach. Humans naturally add far more background, results filtering, and implicit selection parameters (personal biases / preferences).

Maybe the correct line is somewhere around; tracing (direct copying) is bad, but freehand (from memory) is OK. However computers inherently have more perfect memory than humans; how precise is the detail from the source work? Is there a meaningful threshold where the memory of a work has decayed from a representation of the source work?
Dead people will never become paying users, they also won't care when you delete their data. There is no point to spend untold fortunes hosting their data forever.

Google wins by limiting account hijacking, cutting hosting costs, and the only people who care are some complainers on Hacker News who will stop caring the moment they get distracted by the next Framework laptop cup holder attachment.
Not a new observation:

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."
Ecclesiastes 1:9
Right. What I remember from the time was that Gmail's big thing was it had so much free storage that you could archive emails instead of deleting them. Previously people generally would delete most emails to save space, and Gmail changed that.

There was nothing about saving all your emails forever no matter what even if you stopped using the product. It was never presented as a lifetime backup archive to be accessed decades later. Just tons more quota than competitors was all.
>Many of the Google visas are for new employees, with some starting as soon as August 17th.

Anyone here from Google want to pose some interesting questions to Sundar at the next all hands?
I don't think the law says that you need to treat people not entering a crosswalk as attempting to cross it. We can play this game all day if you just want to be obtuse about using words. But nothing you described was impossible to work out, nor was the scenario you most immediately described in your recent post even remotely troublesome. Do you mean if people are in the crosswalk but don't cross? How often does that really happen? Ironic considering that in this case, the pedestrian was in the crosswalk and the car drove through anyway. Pretty dangerous IMO
Honestly, this sounds like it is on par with the current state of human hiring.
America could afford universal healthcare, but it would require convincing people to pay much higher taxes.
The time for that passed. This is about agreeing to pay for spending that happened.
Whitney Webb's new book also has a lot of detail on BCCI

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51074723-one-nation-unde...
Once you have a mammoth, who needs a moat?
knowledge is best when shared.
Have you used Elixir? I ask because the Elixir books mention that setting up GenServers is easier in Elixir, with behaviours and callbacks you don't have to write code for all the functions in a GenServer if you're not using them, while it's required in Erlang.
Apollo: How Moon missions changed the modern world
> Pichai’s firm filed applications for low-paid foreign workers

Google salary bands are the same whatever visa you're (not) on, and they're certainly not low-paid.
This "article" is ridiculous xenophobic garbage.
In the same token if I can memorize very well, and I read as much as gpt did, and made a living from that knowledge, that could also be thief, but it doesn’t apply to me because I don’t do it at scale
Remote work works.
Thank you, Bari Weiss.
Elizabeth Holmes puts off starting prison sentence yet again
I’d love to learn about Apple’s Accessibility design process, as their features are much more advanced than other platforms. As in what sort of user research, audience research is done; how they decide on which communities to support, and which features to build.
We're talking about immigration to the US here, not offshoring. Immigrants are part of the US economy.
Is latency of loading the app really relevant in the digital audio workstation use case? (no). As long as you get good frame rates while the GUI is running and latency is reasonably low, startup performance is not that important.
JetBrains Polaris – A smart code search engine, right in the IDE
I was just at the La Brea Tar Pits this weekend and wondered if the shorter tusks of elephants were an adaptation resulting from ivory harvesting. There is recent discussion of tuskless elephants due to poaching. They went from 15 to 9̶1̶ 51 percent of certain populations over the course of 15 years!
Whoever wrote this doesn't understand how the H-1B system works. Most of these applications are for existing employees of the company who are on some other kind of work authorization (like EAD or OPT). Because of the lottery they have to reapply every year for 3-4 years until their authorization expires. The layoffs have nothing to do with anything.
And there was no one capable for these roles in those 12,000 people? I find that hard to believe. If the answer is “no”, prove it (I have been the sponsor of H1Bs, and am familiar with the paperwork and the process).

Edit:

> Normalizing reneging on job offers is a bad path to go down.

Google has already done this previously during economic uncertainty.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/29/google-said-to-rescind-job-o...
Megalodon instead?
I was thinking this exact thought. I want Samantha reading my notifications. I desperately want an AI like her to be able to talk to. ChatGPT is getting there.
Its similar to many other dilemmas with new tech.

When you are out in public, you don't have an expectation of privacy. People can see you, they can take photos of you. The worker at the cafe will probably remember you and your order. This is fine. But when tech does the exact same thing but with scale where everywhere you go, everything you buy, etc is tracked and analyzed, it's now questionably immoral despite legally being fine.

That's how generative AI is to me. Its doing something people have been doing themselves forever, but now it's doing it faster and easier than ever before which changes the equation. The arguments of "its not real creativity" are a coping mechanism. We are upset that something that was previously quite unobtainable behind years of learning and hours of effort is now trivially accessible to anyone with a computer.
But the model ultimately still has to process the comma, the newline, the "job". Is the main time savings that this can be done in parallel (on a GPU), whereas in typical generation it would be sequential?
I am sure they pay their H1B workers less than their non-H1B workers.

So it still may be "high wages" but that does not negate the GrandParent comment that they laid off higher paid workers in favor in importing lower paid workers
Usefulness of Meditation for Adult Add
> If an accessibility feature requires someone to get the help of someone else to setup it is already a failure right out the gate

That is something that we technologists can fix on Android. We can't do that on iOS (without finding a vulnerability).
Advocating for Open Models in AI Oversight: Stability AI's Letter to U.S. Senate
A bit late, but swift-bridge (https://github.com/chinedufn/swift-bridge) does this intelligently, and is probably what you're looking for.
That’s not really how it works. It’s hard to be fine-grained when firing 12k people. It’s operational much easier to do the layoff and then fix the gaps.
That is exactly my point. I guess I can feed these types of posts into ChatGPT 17 and it will tell me the name of the company, city, etc. Soon enough!
Most comment proves how readers easily see through garbage article like this nowadays. Maybe transparency is a good thing after all.
This is from the Edsger W. Dijkstra Archive. This entry is 667, included in the numerical index here that covers the years 1976 to 1979:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/index06xx.html

The entries ascend in date as they ascend in number. I believe that the date for this is 1978 since it sits between entry 665 "Trip report E.W.Dijkstra, U.K. – Bahamas – U.S.A., 11–30 April 1978" and entry 674 "Trip report E.W.Dijkstra, Zürich, 2–7 July 1978."
Its not about capability, but power and money
The biggest concern is that people spur the government into forcing companies to fire H1Bs before US citizens. There was a time when I thought that could never happen but given the political climate it might happen, with disastrous consequences.
Style is not copyrightable.
The role of gas in replacing coal in the US is now diminishing and could be over in the coming years. The FERC "Energy Infrastructure Update for December 2022" [1] reports that between 2021 Jan - 2022 Dec Wind and Solar additions exceeded those of Natural gas. FERC also predicts that between Jan 2023 and Dec 2025 Natural Gas will add a net amount of 511MW of generating capacity. This compares with 18211 MW of Wind and 74642 MW of Solar. These are listed as "High Probability" additions, which I've been unable to find a description for.

Globally the situation is bad. China and India may decarbonise faster than they are. However, if the world continues increasing how much solar and wind can be installed, hopefully the situation improves.

Whilst it's a drop in the bucket, the previously coal dominated Australia electricity sector is seeing a steep decline in coal generation [2], showing it is possible.

1. https://cms.ferc.gov/media/energy-infrastructure-update-dece...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Australi...
I did nothing of the such, I simply countered your argument.

You said "The last time we were given "tax reform"", which implies this is a recent issue. I countered with "look at some of the tax bills Democrats have sponsored", clearly showing it's NOT a partisan issue, both parties are doing it, and have been doing it for decades.

The original comment blamed Grover, so in fact you're replying to a chain of comments that were already partisan, so I reply with a comment about politics and you somehow blame me for making it partisan. Fun!
> Just yesterday I started using a new maxed out Mac mini and everything about it is snappy.

Really?! I didn't think anyone here would fall for that.

Mac Mini 12-core M2, 19-core GPU, 32GB, 10Gbit, 8TB storage? $4500

Mac Studio 20-core M1, 48-core GPU, 64GB, 10Gbit, 1TB storage is $4000. 128GB of RAM is $800 more

but either Studio RAM configuration obviously spanks the M2 mini. It's sacrificing Apple's expensive storage, but with Thunderbolt 3 it's pretty academic to find 8TB or more of NVMe storage, probably 32GB of NVMe RAID[1], for less than Apple's charge of $2200 above cost of 1TB.

[1] https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/express-4m2
I don't know if anybody is following this thread anymore, but I find it interesting how similarly your timelines match what it was like to experiment with POV-Ray (a ray-tracing renderer) back in the early 1990s. Your difference in problem scope was like whether you had "a couple spheres on a checkerboard plane" or something more like "a chess set". Things seemed to change rapidly due to Moore's Law and the changes in brute force computing power available to normal people.

Computers got much more powerful in the next 30 years, and ray-tracing or various related techniques appear in more tool sets and games, they didn't fundamentally change the world of image generation or consumption. Most people still roughly interact as before, just with more details in the eye candy.

Are we seeing these large language models today at a tipping point towards unfathomable societal impact, or as something like ray tracing in the 1990s? Will more compute power send us spiraling towards some large-model singularity, or just add more pixels until we are bored of seemingly endless checkerboard planes covered in spheres and cones... I don't know the answer, but it seems like we're seeing camps divided by this question of faith.
Charismatic gigafauna

I bet a non-negligible portion of their funding comes from people who want to shoot one and have a trophy that few or no others are able to obtain.
I deleted it once. It turned out useful. The best companies in my area recruit from LinkedIn.

Don't apply for jobs there, fish for recruiters. Visibility helps. Befriend the recruiters that match your virtues (things like no long interviews or whatever).

I try to avoid the social media aspect. LI feels like a sink for all the social media. If people want to self-promote, they do it less on other sites.
Note that for any fine-tuned models (like GPT-4, where the foundation model has not been made accessible) the model does no longer give the "probabilities" of the next tokens, but rather their "goodness". Where the numbers say how good a token would be relative to the aims the model inferred from its fine-tuning.
New Airline Is Raising the Bar, from First Class to Economy
How about Tonya Grotter, the Russian Harry Potter?

https://www.amazon.com/Tanya-Grotter-i-pensne-Noya/dp/569984...

You can’t copyright the idea of a wizardry school for preteens. You can’t copyright a style.

You can definitely trademark your own name.
Well to each it’s own. I want to hack together stuff and make it work. The less time spend on code, the faster I can figure out what does and not.
Okay!
I've designed a prompt that is a single short word that passes all the levels. Two words for less retries on levels 4&7.
yes thats basically, going along the lines of the Chartalist / Modern Monetary Theory view of money, and combining it with the Petrodollar theory of money.

sorry - edit - tried to keep this short, keep messing up. Theres a lot of deep rabbit holes if you want to dig into those theories online.

just keep in mind a lot of economists disagree with MMT / Chartalism and some even disagree with what a Petrodollar is.
The only way this could be a problem is if you assume employees are fungible.

But they aren't. You may have too many of one type of worker, and not enough of another, so it would make perfect sense to lay off the first ones, and hire foreign workers for the second one.
I'm with you on principle.

To my knowledge, the main barriers are managing the payroll: how do you deal with each countries' laws and obligations for each of your remote employees ?

The traditional way to do that at scale is to go through a local proxy company that abstracts the complexity and is the legal entity responsible for the workers in that country. Except you have to pay that middle-men, maintain an ongoing relationship, and if for instance a tenth of your engineers are managed by them, their bargaining power will be pretty high and the cost will rise.

If as a company you deal with each individual employee instead, you have to also directly manage all the legal aspects. Hiring freelance workers only can partially alleviate that, but this comes with its own can of worm, and the complexity stays the same in case of conflict (imagine getting sued by the worker in their own country)
> I am sure they pay their H1B workers less than their non-H1B workers.

I’m quite sure they don’t. My friend makes over $1M total comp. Are you saying he would be paid $2M if he were a citizen?
If the output is indistinguishable, how can this matter? If I publish a work, how can it be copyright infringement when generated by AI, but not if I came up with the exact same output myself?

How would you even know which way I did it?
Ha ha ha ha. I do feel endeared actually: it's nice to hear; I respect your age.

> And you need to take it easy and stop crackpotting all over the thread, you're doing your own side a disservice. If you want people to dismiss the UFO phenomenon, keep going with the meltdown, though.

Oh? Ha ha ha ha. Meltdown? Crackpot? Are you sure you're not the crackpot having a meltdown? Are you the same guy? Ha ha ha ha.
I have been in many comp planning meetings at companies like Google and Microsoft for the last two decades, and can assure you that no one in the room even knows the visa status of people in their division. That is not a factor when considering promotions and raises.
Zero seconds. IP protections are theft of future creativity, and a form of regulatory capture. If your idea is so groundbreaking that it can be reimplemented by someone else within a day, then maybe it wasn't actually so groundbreaking in the first place. And in practice the only rightsholders who benefit from enforcement of these "protections" are those who can afford to litigate them. Thus, it's a form of regulatory capture where the rich get richer, but in an unusually pernicious way - why keep innovating if you can litigate new entrants out of the arena before they can even compete with you? IP protections discourage innovation by creating incentives for first movers to kick the ladder out from under them. For example, see any company known more for its legal department than its products, like Oracle.