skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The greatest benefit I have seen so far is using AI for composing code in unfamiliar frameworks and languages. You do not need to read the docs. It is a stackoverflow killer.

If you already can speak the language, the best it can do is provide the boilerplate.
2.5 families per what? Acre? Farm? Pond? I'm gonna need a cite on this one.
Starting a VC backed startup is hard.

Starting a trade business is orders of magnitude easier, especially right now with a shortage.

I helped a friend lease a floor sander and they make almost what I do in tech after a couple years (I took a pay cut for reduced work load; not making FAANG cash) Bought their own floor sander.

The VC-tech bubble really screwed up the economics for the majority. Will be great if higher rates mean bunch of people working for funds and yet another clone of bear are scooping ice cream in a few years
Calling the most successful space company in history 'not a success yet' is an insane position to hold.

Its not a success to have more launch payload to orbit then double of the rest of the world combined. To return the US to human launch. Having the most reliable rocket in history. Having revolutionized both the launch and the sat industry? Launched the largest rocket in the history of the world.

Not sure what those things are other then great successes.

If you are referring to the idea that SpaceX isn't profitable, then I would just say that SpaceX core business is very profitable and high margin. Because it was so profitable and high margin the had many investor to double down and take an two massive projects, Starlink and Starship.

Starlink just recently has turned cash flow positive. And Starship is progressing very fast, just reticently a new world record in rocket engines was achieved with Raptor 3.

Calling this anything other a brilliant success is just bad faith.

Also, Zip2, Paypay are successes by any metric. Boring company is not a clear cut success but its also not a failure, most people would be happy having created a company like that, in Musk terms it isn't very successful yet.

Also counting two 100 billion $ business 'a success' is a bit of an understatement.
> ”How do I make a website in 2023?”

The same way you have in previous years… using the tools you are familiar with.

Don’t waste time on shiny new tech, it’s a huge time investment.

But, if you enjoy the process of learning it, then go dive into some new stacks!
This feature sounds like it's there to be nice to consumers, but it's actually probably there to be nice to developers.

When a customer refunds a game, steam keeps its 30% cut. This lets players try games without punishing the developer by making them pay that 30%

I suspect anyway
>The company pitches this as a way to prevent spam. The blog post says that "abandoned accounts are at least 10x less likely than active accounts to have 2-step-verification set up," and once they get compromised, they become vectors for spam and identity theft. Deleting old accounts and freeing up storage is also probably a good way to cut costs,

Just say it’s to cut costs, preventing spam has nothing to do with it, a compromised account used for spam and identity theft, is NOT an inactive one.. and having 2FA won’t prevent that either so I don’t know why google is trying to confuse the readers/users.
Ada is gone!?!?! Are all those weapon systems and European banks gonna' program themselves?
Indeed it is. Every biological renaissance in known history was preceded by a mass extinction event.
How exactly does one manage to obtain employment as a software engineer without having read a large quantity of technical writing?
How does one get a car wash in the first place? It seems to me that either:

a. You start a new car wash which, given that the market for car washes is already saturated, probably has a much lower success rate than 70%. You also need to be able to afford the startup costs, which are substantial.

b. You buy it, in which case you already have money, and you're probably better off investing in index funds.

c. You inherit it.

It seems like the best way to have a successful car wash is to be born into it. But that's true of many things, and not necessarily relevant to those of us who head the misfortune to be born to parents who don't own a car wash.
“The generated file is 7.7MB, which is quite impressive for a Java application since this executable does need a JVM.”

I assume this is a typo and they mean “does NOT”?
50% sparsity is almost certainly already being used given that it is accelerated in current nvidia hardware both at training time, usable dynamically through RigL ("Rigging the Lottery:
Making All Tickets Winners" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.11134.pdf )--which also addresses your point about initial conditions being locked in-- and at accelerates 50% sparsity at inference time.
Venture backed CEO makes desperate attempt to justify the value of her obsolete business. More news at 10.

Edit: Corrected gender.
And how come we got just one?

We need more moons! Just think of the night views.
Love it - it's become a valuable part of my workflow, is built like a tank, and sounds great!
I keep a rolling Twitter thread with all the UI bugs I notice: https://twitter.com/underyx/status/1600943582760042497
If you minify, aren't you increasing the overall information entropy, and thereby decreasing the amount that can be gained from compression? I'm sure overall there's still a net gain but I wonder where the point of inflection is.
Some elegant abstractions are created too. JS modules, for example. Or, in another field, the Language Server Protocol.

But yes, humans are humans and everything that is "simple" will get built upon and then become the backbone of something complex that will engulf and smother it as it evolves.
True. I'm just playing devil's advocate here. In unsafe rust, technically deref you can for types that have niche optimization.
I suspect that like all of their other partial attempts, this won't include expats, who although live, work, and spend money abroad, must report all of their income to the IRS. I don't actually have to pay the IRS, since my home county taxes me more, but due to how complicated it is to report, it ends up costing in the hundreds to have someone file my taxes.

This is in addition to the FBAR horrors, that I won't get into now. And before you say "just renounce your US citizenship", realize that that costs thousands of dollars in lawyers, fees, and exit tax.
Dude.. macbooks are famously outlier way better than anyone else for sound. Framework is the same as 99% everyone else on that item.
I think one cool benefit of AI advances will be, that many more ordinary people will start thinking about philosophical problems such as the one posed in this article.

What is the meaningful difference between something truly being learned, and mere "copying" of "tiny pieces of material" that have been observed in the past?

Could learning exist in a vacuum universe, with nothing to copy?

Is there any LLM output that could convince the author of originality, or will it never be convincing? Can the author always tell whether he's interacting with one?
ah sweet man made horrors beyond my comprehension
India plans to challenge EU carbon tax at WTO
> They probably could've operated under-the-radar for a while but now they have a target on their backs.

They have 85k followers on IG/TT, recruiting, starting a podcast, and are putting out a merch line. They were never trying to fly under-the-radar.

Regardless, I think the most they'd get is a slap on the wrist. Why bother prosecuting a couple of popular public "heroes" over this? Especially if civil booting is likely to be banned in 2024 with a bipartisan vote.
I haven't touched it and it doesn't seem to get a lot of traction on HN, but it has some really cool features, like auto-generating sequence diagrams and built in features (retries, timeouts etc) for connections to third party APIs.
The point this piece is missing is, the defining tech as how marketing defines product. Customer needs evolve and products need to change to cater to that. It is just evolution. The work that under powers the solutions (C Programming language for instance), hasn't changed.
That was not “the media’s” choice of wording in this thread so no hiding behind the nebulous “the media”.
Is the vehicle seized? In a legal sense? The Atlanta ordinance just says you can boot it, presumably as an inconvenience, but it's like the car becomes yours.

http://atlanta.elaws.us/code/coor_ptii_ch162_artv_sec162-261

There may be some context I'm missing, but the Supreme Court seemed kinda down on the inherent right to seize in general. You may apply the boot, only where permitted, so that seems in contrast to general right to seize trasspassers.

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/there-is-no-common-law-rig...

The theft of services I could see, but against the car owner, not the unlocker.
I would recommend drinking bottled water if you live on or near any Military base...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_Superfund_si...
What America does after a debt-ceiling disaster
Elon Musk says ‘get off your work-from-home bullshit’
Who cares... No one is gonna stop me using electricity and my gpu/CPU.
I'm having the worst time hunting down a Cooler Master Mainboard Case ... seems like y'all have not had these in stock the numerous times I've checked, today even, https://frame.work/products/cooler-master-mainboard-case. Any inside info for us from Cooler Master on supply or ETA on stock from your sales page?

I've tried direct with Cooler Master. The online store has 3 pages of cases, https://store.coolermaster.com/us/cases-2?pagenumber=3 none included Framework's. Next I checked CM's 'find a store' which dead ends at suggesting Micro Center or Game Stop, which neither I find carry them.

I don't have a 3d printer on-hand and don't think this warrants 100-200$ printer purchase. Should I go hunt around for some folks to help at a local college or hobby shop instead?

I certainly can see up-cycling my 11th gen mainboard into a homelab asset with proxmox this year though. Without a mainboard case for this 11th gen on-hand though, I'll also not consider a mainboard upgrade.

Any insight or guidance?
Yeah, that would be great in a world where model splitting didn't exist: https://huggingface.co/blog/accelerate-large-models
Not the original commenter but pinball is huge in Seattle, they might be referring the Shorty's, which has been around for 25 years. They also have an arcade including an old school bowling machine and an awesome vibe even if you're not gaming. Just down the street there is Jupiter with even more machines. I'm not so huge on the arcade/pinball so there's more I'm missing too.
Yeah, I think this is a big part of it. Just the general UX problems of hopping into it is a major blocker. I think this is a much bigger hurdle than unit price. Maybe MR will help with this a bit but who knows.
> If you don't know that it's possible, as your family probably doesn't, you won't think anything of it

Unfortunately, they just thought the laptop is buggy, since it was not obvious that this feature existed. This person is also a lead on a consumer hardware product at the big company, and is aware of general privacy shutter features etc. In this case, the issue was just that it was not obvious that there was a privacy shutter on the laptop.
Shapes (and colors) can be trademarked, so yes, they can.
The other alternative, everything is owned by the king was also tried. It ends with the king getting his head chopped off. It's almost like black-and-white thinking like this isn't exactly intellectually curious.
I'm having a hard time fully understanding how this works, but I don't think it is simply template substitution. I think it's creating multiple artifacts and completions from the one document. Because of that it's probably much easier if it is a language that can be easily introspected and doesn't support arbitrary expressions.
Venture backed CEO here. I'm a "her". Also, please see the first footnote in the post.

"If I were you, I’d be justifiably skeptical at this point. Wow, a recruiter is writing about how AI can’t do recruiting. Classic Luddite trope, right? Let’s burn down the shoe factory because it can never compete with the artisanal shoes we make in our homes. In this case, though, you’d be wrong. I walked away from a very lucrative recruiting agency that I built to start interviewing.io, precisely because I wanted to be the guy who owned the shoe factory, not the guy setting it on fire out of spite. Recruiting needs to change, it needs disintermediation, and it needs more data. It’s the only way hiring will ever become efficient and fair. I just don’t think AI is going to be that change. If I’m wrong, I’ll be the first in line to pivot interviewing.io to an AI-first solution."
You can change the associated apple id password using only the phone pin, then use that to disable activation lock & find my phone, then the phone is fully yours. Most people use easily guessable pins.
I wasnt the best at staying in contact. I could have met him every morning if i had my shit together, but i caught up with him once every week or 2 in practice. Most of the help early on was guidelines on papers to read, and topics to write a paper on. Towards the end it was much more me driving direction. Like i said the other people in the lab helped a lot especially discussing ideas and learning concepts. We had 'tutorials', where you present at a whiteboard to the 3 other people in the lab something you feel you understand e.g. pca or mfccs. That sort of thing was fun and good for understanding.

The thing to probably note is that the final thesis was supposed to be basically the published papers put together with a story linking them. That isnt how many labs do theses in other fields, but it worked in our field well enough. It gave a good deal of experience in writing papers, but also meant the thesis was basically all peer reviewed before you even submitted it, which made rejection extremely unlikely.
If you don’t make something people want, you fail. If you don’t make the unit then the overall economics work, you also fail. If you fail, no one else is helped.

This is a dumb business to create, not because it’s technically hard, or because it wouldn’t help some people, but because Google is one policy email away from making your business obsolete. If you get traction, they’re fairly likely to do that for the PR.
Or how about a progressive estate tax that is less regressive? I hate how draconian their solution is.

This article is basically click bait to advertise the book "Give Them An Argument: Logic for the Left" and the podcast "Give Them An Argument".

Great job Jacobin...
WhatsApp now lets you lock chats with a password or fingerprint
I’m a huge fan of this idea, except for the practical need for entrepreneurs. I’ve read that entrepreneurs need $20M. That seems like a rather high bar to set, but the unintended consequences of setting it too low would paralyze its implementation.

The reason our society has so many problems is because the elites have alternatives. When Bernie was pushing for universal healthcare, I scoffed that there remained a private option, so my (although highly upper middle class self) only options would be the public system, which would be defunded as soon as enabled, vilified as a bloated government entitlement that we couldn’t afford. I voted against Bernie just for that.
What about medicine?
I had to look it up myself to believe it. It outsold the Rav4, and outsold the CRV. It's outsold everything except the F150, Silverado, and RAM.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g43553191/bestselling-cars...
I really don't understand what people obsession with Hyperloop is. Musk dabbled with it for like a year, released a blue paper and said, I like this idea but I have not time to work on it. Anybody else can take it or leave it and has since mostly ignored the idea.

And 10 years later people clown Musk because Hyperloop doesn't exist.

> Nothing net new

Rapid rocket re-usability is 'nothing net new'. I mean you can argue that Shuttle was 'reusable' but in terms of revolutionary effect, SpaceX is now literally launching more payload to orbit then the rest of the world combined by 2-3x.

If that's incremental, I like to know what you consider revolutionary.

> In previously established fields.

Is your argument here that he has not established a new field of scientific study?

Can you prove and example of somebody that created a new 'field'?
I think this is a fallacy that I see a lot in recent AI discussions. An LLM is not the same as a human brain. You might see some superficial similarities in both being able to produce a block of text, but the method by which the text is produced is entirely different. For example, we can't download entire libraries of books instantly to our brains and then reproduce those books word for word in memory. Things that operate at different scales and by different methods should have different regulations, in the same way a bike or a car is regulated differently from a truck or another piece of heavy machinery.

Also, humans can be, and often are, found liable for copyright infringement or for piracy depending on how they conduct themselves. If a human was to reproduce a copyrighted book word for word, that would consist of copyright infringement regardless of whether it was done by rote memory, by copy and paste, or assisted by a black box LLM. Even if a human paraphrases another work they can still be found guilty of plagiarism if the paraphrase is still overly similar to the original source material. A human can also be guilty of copyright infringement if they use a copyright work as source material in certain ways. If I steal a stock image without paying for a license and add it in my Photoshop collage, I might be found to have pirated or infringed on the original image creator's property.

LLMs are trained on copyright data and can often reproduce that copyright data. It's an open question how we regulate this.

I personally think it would be fair for an artist or author to say their work was not licensed to be used in training a neural net or otherwise request to opt out.
No way has training hit any kind of cost, computing or training data efficiency peak.

Big tech advances, like the models of the last year or so, don't happen without a long tail of significant improvements based on fine tuning, at a minimum.

The number of advances being announced by disparate groups, even individuals, also indicates improvements are going to continue at a fast pace.
Just subscribed! Very cool channel. Although his latest video outlining some of his experience with migrants in the desert is extremely heart wrenching. It's nice to see it from his perspective, as just another guy.
That's only in a specific domain and for consumer protection (to avoid confusion), not in the sense of copyright
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Gait looks real bad compared to Boston Dynamics.
US on track for default without debt ceiling hike, or a lowering of spending. For some reason "they" always forget to mention the other option.
The pillar box war
Was Google Maps the first JS-heavy app? That's a TIL for me..
A degree from a university that has gotten rid of grades will not be worth much compared to one that hasn't.

> If a student already knew the material before taking the class and got that A, "they didn't learn anything," said Greene. And "if the student came in and struggled to get a C-plus, they may have learned a lot."

Sorry, Jody Greene, you're out to lunch here. The grade is assigned by the lecturer of a course, as a confirmation that the student knows a thing or two about certain fixed topics. If the student learned about those topics somewhere else before taking the course, they earned that A just as much as someone who learned it in the course.

It is extremely important to intellectual freedom that the time and place where some knowledge or skills were attained is considered immaterial. The idea of someone not getting accreditation in a course because they already knew the material beforehand and so didn't learn anything is completely wrongheaded and abhorrent. I dare say, an attack on Western civilization's intellectual legacy.

> And so if we were to shift our focus on to learning and away from grades, we would be able to tell whether we were graduating people with the skills that we say we're graduating them with."

To "tell whether you are graduating people with skills", you need a test of those skills. That's a grade.

A skill test could actually be a lot harder than earning grades in some disciplines.

For instance, if we expect that computer science graduates ought to be skilled software developers and start testing that, it will be a shitshow.
Oh, I'm not arguing about the usefulness of optional - I love them.
why do i feel like the whole Certificate thing is a gaping hole that has gone mostly ignored ? am i just paranoid?
I was thinking about this. Depending on how they "crawl" content, figure out a way to fingerprint their crawlers and when they hit your site, just return disgustingly explicit romance novel copy.

> "How do I make a peach cobbler?"

"To make a peach cobbler, run your fingers aggressively over the bosom of the graham cracker crust...thrust the pie pan deep into the oven; don't worry about spilling the mix."
Thank you for this! GitHub's UI really bothers me, and I can't help but feel like it's gotten flashier but less useful.

Another one: IIRC, for some reason, there is no "fork" button on mobile UI. You have to go to desktop mode to click the fork button.
I think consistency is important between vendors. It would be annoying if one vendor chose orange to mean that you're on camera, and another vendor would show orange to mean that you are off camera.
Author here. 100%. Most recruiters are terrible, and they're kinda set up to fail because the data isn't there in exactly the same way.

The difference is that good human recruiters can make some meaningful warm intros, let 2 engineers get in a room together to see if there's chemistry, and get the hell out of the way.

I should make this clearer in the post. "Recruiters can't do hiring... and neither can AI. Both can't because the data's not there."
I know this was intended to be sarcastic, but it is the exception that proves the rule. The big East India Companies (both the Dutch and English ones) only really lasted so long because of governmental charters that granted them valuable monopolies on trade, and they later became models for Standard Oil and other similar monopolistic businesses that really kicked off the era of the perpetual company. However, they were basically arms of their respective imperial governments.
I see what you mean but i think we are digressing. A human has certain rights while a machine doesnt. If we give ai learning rights then who’s to say a database is not like a human memorising things at a highly accurate level and as such we should make databases not liable for the storage of any copyrighted material. I dont mind ai generating code or art as long as that code and art it was trained on is not our publicly available but licensed work. Eager to try an ai trained against microsoft’s source code. After all, it would be like a human that worked at microsoft and hopped to a better job.
"competent software engineers are not the median candidate applying for most roles"

Most developers with a few years of experience are pretty competent. Most employers are not toxic waste dumps.

Give the worst interview candidates a try and they will do well. Give the best interview candidates a try and they will fail or leave early. Interviewing is a skill, anyone who is extremely good at it most likely practiced more often and that could mean they needed to. The more experienced and poor interview they give the more of an unearthed gem you've discovered
the 400+ comment thread from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35950836