skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From personal experience: no it is not. This mentality leads to nothing but frustration and burnout as upper management sends you to tackle your "staff"-project.

Titles are all based on organizational politics and the macroeconomics at the moment. Were you hired during the 2021-2022 hiring spree where companies would give anything to keep engineers from getting poached? You probably were hired at Staff. If not, then what were you doing? Lol these folks were the first ones laid off.

Personally, I received my highest raises in 2021 and 2022. Multiple salary (and equity) bumps; a title bump. Life was fucking good.

Nowadays, you can just be glad not to get laid off. Instead of the promotion they promised, you get a slap in the face and some chump change.

I know I sound jaded but the fact that there are MULTIPLE books on "Staff"-level engineering (all un-ironically written by managers and executives rather than ICs) is completely laughable.

/rant
> armed protests

How many have you seen? How many have you 'seen' on social media?

As for laws, I really think you're missing the bigger picture. Anti-LGBT people had the law on their side a few years ago much more than today (and accordingly, they had less reason to protest.)
I gave it a different pmid and it failed. not sure what's going on.Great idea,however

Edit: that was a 2020 paper. I fed it a 2015 paper.Still couldn't find it.
> Who exactly are the boogeymen who are tunnel visioned on making "numbers go up"?

If my (literally and proudly to-the-left-of-Castro communist) ex is anything to go by: billionaires.

I am not clear if she's representative in this regard, what with her being an actual communist and all.
> "remains at the injection side" was one of the more blatant lies.

Correct: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9313234/
Sad to see such a cool project using Discord.
Social responsibility in CS, in my experience, means that if a given function doesn't produce equal outputs for two given inputs, all it takes to suggest that the function is biased is an assertion that the outputs should have been the same if the function weren't biased. How different the inputs were, even along the criteria that the function actually uses in order to produce its output, is completely irrelevant.
I feel we have "depression" the same way we get "colds", try to rest hoping it goes away. Most of the time it does, and sometimes it's something else completely, but in contrast to colds, we have no good tool to properly diagnose the exact illnesses, and are probably lumping together myriads of different things under the "depression" umbrella.

That also matches how treatment for depression often involves throwing spaghetti at the wall and see what method and treatment sticks. Even medication usually goes through trying different chemistries a month or two at a time and see what has any effect.

I've had friends who went out of depression by quitting their soul crushing jobs to start solo businesses. I expected they would slack a bit more and be more relaxed as self employed, but from the sidelines they looked way more busy, working way harder and longer than before. Except it seemed to work for them and they're still doing i years later.

Your story kind of resonates the same to me, and
I assume the family building part can be proxied by different goals, stuff that actually matter and bring sense to what someone is doing in life and/pr a different human environment. It might not work for everyone, but I agree there must be a sizeable portion of "depressed" people who's cure are not more medication or less work, but radical changes in other aspects of their life.
Go to Settings -> Beta Features toggle on 'Web browsing'.

Then when you start a chat, choose GPT-4 with Web Browsing.
> You can easily add a USB LTE modem if you'd like.

Would you like some help with that?

I was only planning to add sixel support, but I could prepare you a simple configuration to use a cheap 4G module like the Quectel EC25 () at least for sending/receiving SMS, and maybe acting as an access point.

() Other options would also be possible, like Qualcomm SDX55 and SDX62/SDX65 for 5G, but the Quectel has more community support since it's also used on the linphone
You say it as if there is a one-directional flow of information between PMs and developers.

In this case, perhaps, yes, the developers don't care and just do what the PMs tell them to do.
I’m a collaborative pianist by profession (an ‘accompanist’). I use the forScore app as do the vast majority of my colleagues who play from an iPad. The annotation, cataloguing and metadata tools are superb.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/allen-texas-mall-mass-shoo...
> The way the “dual intent” thing works is not by making it a non-temporary, or immigrant visa. It is still a temporary, non-immigrant visa, and the law still says that having immigration intent still is grounds for refusing entry.

An immigrant visa to the US is a green card.

Having immigrant intent is not a barrier to admission on a dual-intent visa. H-1s do not have to demonstrate that they have a "residence in a foreign country which he has no intention of abandoning" and "the H category is specifically excluded from the I.N.A. § 214(b)'s presumption of immigrant intent;" [1]

> Before 1990 or so, as soon as you applied for a green card while on H1B, your visa (though not status) became effectively invalid. You couldn’t leave the country, because you’d be denied entry, given your immigration intent. You couldn’t also apply for extension of H1B visa for the same reason.

This is exactly what happens today if you file I-485 on a non-intent status like a TN. It doesn't happen on a dual-intent status.

> Today, according to law, you are still not allowed to have immigration intent while on H1B, it’s just now applying for a green card does not constitute evidence of immigration intent (which is, of course, entirely a legal fiction).

Regulation 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(16)(i) states: "The alien may legitimately come to the United States for a temporary period as an H-1C or H-1B nonimmigrant and depart voluntarily at the end of his or her authorized stay and, at the same time, lawfully seek to become a permanent resident of the United States." [1]

Also you can possess immigrant intent and even petition from non-intent status like TN, so long as you developed said intent after arrival, and once you take steps (I-485 for instance) you can’t renew. A lot of folks apply for a green card from TN status, it’s just risky since you can’t leave until advance parole and if denied you may be deported.

Applying for a green card through adjustment of status absolutely 100% counts as demonstration of immigrant intent. That is filing for I-485. Having your employer file I-140 doesn't because you didn't file it, your employer did.

This is basically all wrong.

Except for the part where you say that the US immigration system is silly - it is - and the part where you say that a system more like Canada and Australia would help - it would.

[1] https://isss.temple.edu/international/h-1b-temporary-employe...
> Americans don't realize how bad they have it.

I don't know about that. At the very least, a large percentage of Americans know how bad they have it.
Life doesn't evolve to cope with anything. Life evolves as it adds variety and some of it gets cut down by the environment. Narratives implying teleology are misleading and wrong.
It is quite obvious what's going on: so-called protectors of the environment and of peoples' rights can now be judged by their actions. The Democratic Socialists of America's primary achievement is blocking building of homes so that golf courses can be preserved. The Sierra Club's primary achievement is ensuring urban sprawl. Burning Man's primary lasting achievement is the stalling of geothermal power.

POSIWID. The Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea is not judged by its name but by its actions. So be it for the environmentalists and their ilk.

If you fail at X and succeed at not X, you're a Not X organization. Sure, I know I know it's the corporations. But you did act as well, and you always succeeded at not X and failed at X. That makes you a Not X Organization. What you win at is what you are.
Pray for all those scripts out there that assume /bin/sh or /bin/bash exists. Sounds like they only have a couple more years of error-free life
You may be interested in our other product Franky then :)

https://sqfmi.com/franky/
It's something even more fundamental than all that.

If someone does a prescribed burn (say, a local government), and it gets even slightly out of control and accidentally burns down a few homes, they will immediately face a huge amount of blame and consequences and probably get run out on a rail. But if they don't do a prescribed burn and then the inevitable wildfire burns down a bunch of homes, well then, tough luck. That's just an unlucky act of god.

Ultimately it's a trolley problem.
and anybody that wants to go serious/pro, there's Snoman's Dance Music Manual, 4th edition but earlier editions shd still be useful.
You've got a good point, but HN doesn't want to hear it (demonstrating your point.)
It’s kinda straightforward forward that without cutting greenhouse gas emissions any five year period for the foreseeable future will be record-breaking, right?

And even if we were cutting down emission to zero today, we would still get a warmer planet for the next 10-100 years or so. Because that’s the natural rate for greenhouse gas removal from the atmosphere.

On top of all that, humans have already committed to long-term warming and it’s consequences. Carbon is forever and reversing climate change is a very slow process.
At the time of the Gilded Age, there was no income tax (personal or corporate), and government expenditure as a ratio of GDP was at single-digit percents; yet there was massive productivity gains and corresponding massive real wage growth among unskilled workers[0], even against the backdrop of surging immigration. Stupendous private fortunes later funded philanthropic efforts behind some of the most renowned institutions of today.

In contrast, today, we have government expenditures at a full third of GDP[1] and progressive taxation (with public calls by elected officials for truly confiscatory levels of taxation), yet real wages (as you point out) are rising a lot slower[2] than in the Gilded Age, and the poverty rate has more or less remained constant for decades[3].

I, too, wonder if we can move towards an economy made for man again.

[0]: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w14555/w145...

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=8fX

[2]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

[3]: https://aspe.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/private/pdf/154286/...
Fascinating. Thanks so much for taking the time to explain
We're talking specifically about Santa Cruz county. SLV is responsible for waaaay more county expenditures than revenue, that might explain why they're slow-balling building permits up along Highway 236.
Are you really telling me you haven't used XFCE4?
I'm surprised not to see anything about data-to-parameter ratios for optimal scaling. My superficial understanding per the Chinchilla paper is to target 20 to 1.

I'm also confused about this:

> ~$1 million: Cost to train a 13 billion parameter model on 1.4 trillion tokens

This is apparently related to the LLaMa paper, but that paper seems to cite 1.0T tokens (rather than 1.4T tokens) for the 13B model. Also, if 20 to 1 is in fact optimal for the data-to-parameter ratio, then using a 100 to 1 ratio doesn't seem like an appropriate way to arrive at a magic number for training costs. The magic number should really be based on an optimal configuration. Or, perhaps, my superficial understanding here leads me to miss some important distinctions.
He was an early investor. $50m. Maybe that gives him special access to docs.
Can you recommend any command-line pdf tools? As a student I have to look at lots of pdfs and the gui tools for manipulation are very lacking.
That they would.

Without predicting any specific outcome or scenario, though, I do think we are just-getting-started,

the triple threat of climate change impacts, AI, and inequity-cum-ascendant-fascism, broadly construed, make for a lot of destabilization... more than the tiger-jockey plutocrats are ready for.

If I did make a prediction, it would be that disequilibrium is going to as per usual be felt first and hard by those who always take the first fall.

But I am hopeful that we emerge from disequilibrium with the current order dismantled.

Revolution etc. are funny, as with so much else, slowly then suddenly. Etc etc.
I did Skyline to the Sea Trail several years ago with my wife and it was great. https://www.redwoodhikes.com/BigBasin/S-to-S.html We actually were car camping at Little Basin the day before the August 17, 2020 fire. :-( https://www.littlebasin.com/

I too love the redwoods. I used to ride my bike all around Kings Mountain and Tunitas Creek and many other roads and just loved the experience.

When people visit I would always take them to Big Basin or Muir Woods vs. the other usual suspects.
AI at the Helm: Building an Entire Open-Source Project with GPT-4
You're seeing the dark theme for the site. (I see the same thing when I click the checkbox in the top right corner of the page as when I disable JS.) Perhaps it's using JavaScript to detect that your browser is reporting that you prefer light-mode sites?

Admittedly, the site could probably use CSS to make this decision as well, but I figured I'd mention it.
Social responsibility is not programming a nuclear warhead to target Moscow but target an arbitrary location which happens to be the location of Moscow.
Thanks for this clarification dang. I was confused as the title in my RSS feed was much different than when I clicked through to the thread. Thought there was an issue with my rss aggregator for a second.
sounds fun until I have to make an account. then noep. too lazy.
Buying a ton of stuff from China isn't necessarily a bad thing. It depends on the details. Things like specialization can be beneficial for everyone.

And the demographics in China are arguably more challenging than in the US (and the US is probably better positioned to address the challenges via immigration).
Too many workers think the same.

It's amazing the reactions I get from people when I tell them the simple truth that nobody is doing you a favor by hiring you. It's a business deal, nothing more and nothing less, and if you aren't thinking of it in that way, you're going to be taken advantage of.
> GDP per capita would effectively give you the same metric

My point is that GDP per capita can increase because of reasons that don't necessarily make your life better. Working longer hours, or even an increase in productivity with a simultaneous increase in inequality, meaning that the per-capita GDP is increasing but income is stagnating.

> unless you're also implying that we need to cull the human population.

My point in bringing up population was that our GDP growth can be attributed to population growth, which is likely going to be a logistic curve. So we can't rely on population growth to contribute to GDP.
Hopefully the AI knows how to update Colab to newer Python versions!
This conversation feels like it’s in bad faith. Pike wrote in 2013 that generics were a “weakness” in Go [0].

In terms of changed circumstances, obviously something caused them to spend the time and effort to get it done. Maybe they thought modules were more important? Features don’t just magically appear, they need resourcing. The rest of your points are asinine. You mention benchmarking twice which begs the question, how did they maintain good compiler performance for all these years? Was it just luck?

This feels a lot like those conversations where the winners get what they ostensibly wanted, but then they want a pound of flesh to go with it. If you don’t like Go then use something else. The world is full of wonderful programming languages.

[0] https://go.dev/blog/slices
Doesn't a controlled burn work by removing a swath of combustible material, so that a subsequent fire cannot cross that area? That material can be removed by other means that don't risk fire.
I was a member of three different unions before I ever switched careers to tech and being able to (and expected to) negotiate my own contracts was one of the biggest factors in me ending up in this industry. I have certainly made orders of magnitude more money and under substantially better conditions.

My experiences in unions were awful and I would never go back to that.
> It's just most racists don't like to have that discussion,
I was being silly with that figure. In general, organic farming isn't scalable, which is why you don't see many success stories.
> Carbon is forever

What exactly do you mean by this?
>The vast majority of folks have no issues enabling terrible situations for a paycheck

Is it really "enabling" when there's a metaphorical (and often literal, in the case of police) gun to one's head? Most of us can't opt out of this arrangement, and that's by design. There isn't even a "run away into the forest" option, because all the forests are already owned by someone. Being homeless is effectively illegal. Being dispossessed in general is illegal, even though the system is predicated on dispossessing the populace to enrich those at the top.

It's less like a dysfunctional relationship and more like a hostage situation. Don't blame the hostages, please.
I was about to say "right wing" hasn't shifted radically in the last decade, but then I guess it has shifted significantly in the UK at least; I hear it's also shifted significantly in the US, but I'm not at all confident in the reporting in that case.
Yup! It should be a drop-in alternative. Other SBCs should also work but requires a bit more tinkering with the software.
Not to disrupt some good humor with boring factual accuracy, but worth noting the "temple money changers" were not Romans or bankers. Historic academics is of course rarely conclusive, especially biblical exegesis, but it's generally accepted by scholars that the "money changers" were Jews, likely volunteers, who provided a service required by Jewish law: exchanging Roman coins for Tyrian shekels to purchase animals for sacrifice. It was not realistic for every pilgrim to the Temple to bring their own animal so out of towners would buy one there, but it wasn't permitted to buy one with Roman money.

For some sources, here's two good threads[0][1] on /r/AcademicBiblical, which is strictly moderated with secular scholar rigor, and a video[2] linked in one of those threads by Dr Ian Mills at Duke University. If you're interested in an analysis of the intended meaning of the passage, there's more in those links.

[0]https://old.reddit.com/r/AcademicBiblical/comments/136pdmc/w...

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicBiblical/comments/5xwjgd/wh...

[2]https://youtu.be/dLp-kgf0Ky4
Won't there be a symlink to keep those working?
Thanks for the thoughts on this. Ya, I am familiar with the technique of summarizing the chat history. It's on my todo list for aider.

In the [2] link I included above, I discuss the approach you suggest of summarizing the meat of most code. It didn't work well with gpt-3.5-turbo, but I do plan to revisit it again with gpt-4 at some point.

Again, I haven't actually exhausted the context window often in my own use of aider. So it hasn't been a problem in practice. But no doubt it will be an issue for certain code bases and source files. I am quite interested in finding an effective solution, and plan to put in more effort here in the future.
You know the rules, and so do I:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
That $1500/day contact with no computer for a week is an extreme case but paying people to do nothing because the environment its not ready is fairly typical for large companies/governments.

I have done many contracts like these and it went smoothly only once. I arrived first day in the morning, my contact came to meet me, gave me my badge, brought me to the IT department so I could pick up my laptop, on it was a post-it note with my identifiers, I then went to a desk that was cleared for me. An hour later, I was at work. Usually, I consider myself lucky to get to that point in a day. So normal and yet so rare, as if these companies like to pay people for nothing.
Energy is gonna be as cheap as it has ever been over the coming decades, there's no good reason to plan on less.

Like on the whole, people simply won't let it happen. Maybe in a few countries, but the young people in India and the various large countries of Africa aren't going to do with less just because you think it's a good idea.
There is no intent to remove the /bin symlink.
Solution is easier than that. Charge people $99/year to enter the store.

It won't be sold that way. It'll be bundled. You'll pay your fee for free shipping and some music/video access and oh also here are retail stores just for "members".
At this juncture I must heartily recommend the very silly and good natured anime/manga Thermae Romae [1][2]. It's about a Roman bath architect who secretly discovers a way to time travel to modern Japanese baths to steal ideas (though he is slow to understand them). The original run is a little more pure than the Netflix reboot, where the humor / seriousness balance is off (it's never too long of a slog).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermae_Romae#Episode_list_(DL...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermae_Romae#Episode_list_(Ne...
I was looking for a job 2-3 months ago and the market wasn’t great, but I got solid leads for C++ dev positions at a number of companies. Ended up calling off further contact since I luckily secured a position fairly quickly, but if you’re interested shoot me an e-mail (address in profile) and I’d be happy to forward you the details of the companies/positions.
The city of Santa Cruz is like 10-15 miles from Big Basin, which is the area we were talking about. Last I drove along East Cliff, I didn't notice Sequoia in the concentration you get up in SLV, so I don't think we'll need to be setting off prescribed burns at the corner of Laurel & Pacific. Nice strawman though.
Not just that they don't have those people. They also don't have the money. Because most companies are operating with someone else's money. It belongs to the shareholders or the investors or the bank. And they have been entrusted with that money in order to conduct a very particular business venture.

If they go off using that money to spin up side-hustles selling engineering tools, they're taking risks with someone else's money to do something they weren't told to do.
ah ok. well then whats the point of this
it’s ok. you still could, if you build it.

anything less is banter.
Yes, this is why its a controversial thing.
It’s funny how much I want her to go to jail and be punished for her stupidity and fraud and hubris. It’s schadenfreude and not emotionally mature, but I feel this want unlike other few news stories.

I’ve worked in a bunch of startups and realize there is no justice for all the mistakes and poor behavior I did and witnessed so I feel like much of what bothered me over 30 years is finally getting some justice in Holmes going to jail.

I read the book and watched the mini series and her brazen bullshittery is so much. And that she’s been trying to dodge her sentence. And that she had two kids after being found guilty and tried to use that to reduce her sentence. And that she’s still super duper rich due to her fraud and has unearned luxury.

I don’t wish ill will on anyone, but if she gets shanked in prison I still feel like she made out pretty well for living a billionaire’s life for a decade too long.

Oh yeah, there’s also the media hype machine where they praise the wrong people for the wrong reasons. It’s like tech’s Bernie Madoff to me.
Lawsuits will abound shortly.
> Energy is gonna be as cheap as it has ever been over the coming decades

Is this assuming some kind of breakthrough in fusion power? Or just cheaper solar, wind, tidal power?