skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems wildly optimistic to me. Suppose they look the same but they smell quite different? I'm thinking this is something we would be largely oblivious to but that an elephant would not, for reasons I hope are obvious.
I never used KDE but I have to say that I love my Ubuntu UI (Gnome forty something), and many people that I installed Ubuntu to replace Windows also love it, so is a net positive in my experience.
Just like music, most songs are just fillers and they are derivative of other filler songs, when I hear it, it’s easy to recognize.
Indeed, the gist of my complaint to my Congressional reps is going to be “Google appears incapable of managing Human Resources at scale and defaults instead to hiring folks on visas at the same time letting a bunch of existing domestic workers go.”

“Too hard” to sorting hat a subset of 12k employees into other roles and slash and burn instead? You shouldn’t get H1B quota.

We are coming up on an election cycle after all.

> but there is no logical or legal reason to do so.

Edit: throttled, can’t reply @bubblethink that is what the law and legislation is for, helping corporations along when their actions are too efficient for society’s liking. I expect regulation to catch up to their labor practices.
This article talks about two main things. Accepting "help" applies more broadly than engineering or software.

And I agree with his overall goals of his project..I believe the same. We get trapped into this bigger and better and more complicated stacks and the hardware resources required, but you can reach a lot of folks with simplicity and the basics.
> 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.

It sounds good but mandating this will be death of AI in the west. This is relatively unprecedented situation where the use of copyrighted works actually helps you build tools useful for doing work. Training on DeviantArt makes the AI better at Photoshop-esque tasks.

Any country that doesn't implement this restriction will immediately be able to produce smarter more useful AIs.

> we should make databases not liable for the storage of any copyrighted material

I think this would actually be allowed right now legally speaking. That's basically a library or Google Cache. The hypothetical database wouldn't expected to be super useful because you can't "perform" any of the works outside of fair-use cases but it's up
in the air of running inferences on that data (Google snippets) or training AI is a performance.
If it was manufactured, where is my sister-in-law’s fit and healthy dad? Oh yeah he’s dead from Covid.
Why are you sure of that? I certainly never saw a change in salary when I went from H1B to citizen.
Yes, exactly what we need in the most critical competitive space of a generation is deliberately burdensome hurdles in front of specifically US innovators
A full Java runtime is 95MB. (Smaller than the JDK size of 312MB.)

> The jlinked runtime using the above command is about 95Mb.

Simple programs -- like Hello World -- can indeed exclude certain parts of the JRE using jdeps, for a smaller size.
This mostly sounds like the project owner doesn't have experience, or perhaps more importantly time, to manage the project and 3rd party contributions. Nothing is wrong with that, of course - but the framing here, I take issue with.

Placing the codebase on GitHub would allow folks to work and make contributions in the form of a Pull Request, which the OP can reject with explanation if it does not go in the direction they desire. They can even setup a roadmap and tickets (issues) to help guide eager-to-help offers.

For anyone wanting to take the project in a direction OP doesn't want - they can fork it and do just that.

So no, don't beware of offers to "help" - be aware of your time commitments and that not everyone's goals will always align with yours. That's just how open source works...
He's Jewish, and a Holocaust survivor. It's central to the character's backstory from nearly the beginning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_(Marvel_Comics)

And it's in the opening scene of the first X-Men movie (2000).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI7SEIKaKwE

And is a recurring theme in others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY2eW2cXcNg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu8g3Z2Hles
As a pinhead I love this post and all the comments.

I sell pinball DVDs (a very boutique market) and our distributor shut down during COVID so I've been selling direct on eBay, very slowly. Except the past few months sales picked up. Not sure why since I don't advertise. Maybe some popular threshold has been reached so now pinball is the latest fad?

I hope this fad sticks around!
Kinda beating a dead horse here, but I'll never get over the fact that a company called "OpenAI" is spearheading this nonsense.
False. Visa status does not play into comp discussions at high-end tech companies (FAANG, or many smaller high-quality startups.)
Is this also an argument for determinism in the Bible? I'm guessing not because that would somewhat goes against some of the bigger messaging.
KDE apps are not included in the plasma by default. Plasma itself is very lightweight.
That screwed me over, because I rented it and the store had put it in one of their standardized store cases
You might find this interesting if you haven’t seen it already: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d6sVWEu9HWU&t=416s&pp=ygURc2t5...
Surely you understand the obvious survivorship bias problem with that demand.
They should go big and do a dinosaur
I use ChatGPT throughout the day. I don’t find code completion very useful, but I ask questions about esoteric areas I’m unsure of, or about some numerical technique I’m trying to recall. It unblocks me faster than anything I’ve ever used and I’ve learned more about some topics in the last six months than in the last thirty years. The fact I can ask elaborative questions and get answers that are fairly deep and nuanced is remarkable. Code it emits is often specious but fairly close to usable, more than enough to open a door for me in what used to be hours of fruitless searching and reading countless stack overflow answers telling the questioner they’re asking the wrong question and answering something unrelated instead.

That you guys aren’t finding the value tells me you’re using the tool wrong and likely have already decided with prejudice, because I have primary experience that once you try to figure out how it’s useful, you’ll find remarkable utility waiting. It’s ok, man. I’m sure many folks found the computer useless too.
Couldn’t disagree more strongly, but you’re welcome to your opinion.
Glad to see excellent journalists like Lee Fang on the front page of HN.
“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”

This quote has never been more true than when applied to AI.
That is incredible. To live 27-28 years after diagnosis is a modern medical miracle. That said, I am highly sympathetic to the points that you made. Essentially, he became a vegetable: <<any kind of communication was basically impossible>>

Did you ever discuss end-of-life options with him before the disease progressed so far? I have a close relative with PD. I am terrified of the last years, but no idea how to raise the issue of end-of-life options. My family's culture is pretty much "try to live forever" instead of "try to live well". Are there any Swiss/Belgians/Dutchies here with experience on planned end-of-life options? Those three countries are exceptionally liberal on that matter.
Are there hard metrics that say remote work hurts workforce performance?

I am pretty doubtful there are studies out there that don't have major flaws.
>Many of the Google visas are for new employees, with some starting as soon as August 17th.

Refutes at least two points you made if not three..
“Renowned for their robustness and efficiency, these solvers are used in a wide
spectrum of applications, for instance, aeronautical engineering [25], astronomy [39], computer
vision [33], robotics [40], and statistics [5].” These algorithms seem truly used in science and engineering.

[5] D. M. Bates, M. Mächler, B. Bolker, and S. Walker. Fitting linear mixed-effects models
using lme4. J. Stat. Softw., 67:1–48, 2015.

[25] F. Gallard et al. GEMS: a Python library for automation of multidisciplinary design
optimization process generation. In 2018 AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural
Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Kissimmee, FL, USA, 2018. AIAA.

[33] H. Izadinia, Q. Shan, and S. M. Seitz. IM2CAD. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference
on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages 5134–5143, San Juan, PR, USA, 2017.
IEEE.

[40] K. Mombaur, A. Truong, and J. P. Laumond. From human to humanoid locomotion—an
inverse optimal control approach. Auton. Robot., 28:369–383, 2010.

[39] G. A. Mamon, A. Biviano, and G. Boué. MAMPOSSt: modelling anisotropy and mass
profiles of observed spherical systems I. Gaussian 3D velocities. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.,
429:3079–3098, 2013.
I was talking about both covid and the flu.
You don't have to. Your foreign workers can be independent consultants receiving money from you, paying their own taxes. You just need their W-8BEN every year.
By the point of “It is being so wrapped up in yourself and your own goals that you cannot accept the fact that your goals are not more important that those of everyone around you.” I couldn’t help but think of the expression “Pot…Kettle…Black.”

I think most Engineering Managers know that doubling the number of engineers doesn’t double the speed of development, but you have the accept that sacrifice to actually get things to market.
That’s a way to look at it. Not the only one.

Depressions/recessions have mental health impacts; people kill themselves in despair, lose homes, savings.

But go ahead and live in your hypernormalized fiat economics bubble where there are no externalities. The price of an ounce of gold and the speed of light are both immutable properties of reality I guess.
It's an interesting thought experiment but if the goal is to decide whether we should allow these types of AIs to be used for commercial purposes I think it's more helpful to ask a different question.

If we had these LLMs 30 years ago would J.K Rowling's books ever have existed?
That’s an enormous amount of effort: https://www.fastcompany.com/3008346/deep-inside-taco-bells-d....
Why Google is reinventing the internet search
> black-and-white thinking like this

What does "this" refer to? I am not advocating for zero inheritance tax (though it should be low) or zero income tax (current level seems to be in a reasonable range) or zero trust-busting/antitrust regulations (currently woefully underutilized). I assume this is the neo-feudal "king" you refer to - the corporate concentration of capital?

The only thing I objected to was entirely severing the chain of inheritance, to further cutting off parents from children (they are already mostly government educated). Objecting to one extreme proposition is not black and white thinking, unless one claims the opposite extreme is the only alternative.
Someone suggested a better project for Hungary (and surrounding countries): https://www.abclinuxu.cz/images/screenshots/1/0/250401-pouzi...

It requires only a small dam near Golubac.
Desperate approach from microsoft to gain market share of langchain.
Generally speaking, you also need some sort of an operating system to make use of HTTP, and yet that doesn't figure into the complexity of HTTP.

In classic HTTP TLS was layered beneath it, providing important degrees of freedom, including the freedom to not use TLS, which can be especially important for experimentation and development.

Prediction: If HTTP/3 manages to substantially replace classic HTTP+TLS, QUIC is destined to become a kernel-provided service like TCP, shunting all that complexity behind an OS abstraction and freeing user space. The fact QUIC uses UDP is an important aspect here because a performant userspace QUIC stack conflicts with classic, high-value abstractions like file descriptors and processes; abstractions which make it viable (i.e. cheap) to have a rich, diverse ecosystem of languages and execution environments in userspace. More importantly, HTTP will have come full circle.
OK, that is fair. However, it's not fair to claim you cannot find someone to do what probably amounts to run-of-the-mill development work domestically and need to import talent - aka. what H1B's were supposed to be for.

For all but highly specialized sub-fields, it is really hard to convince me H1B's are necessary - other than to artificially suppress wages for citizens.
Has it ever moved fast? It's been at a steady pace for a long time.
"It’s impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

"--Ludwig Wittgenstein
I recently forked a project to make some significant changes to make it more useful for my needs. The direction I took the fork is different from needs of the original author. My version is definitely much more useful for other people but wouldn't be any help to the goals of original project.

But I'm very thankful that the original author just posted his code to Github to make this possible.
Note that article says the overnight processing is done by the device, not by Apple itself.
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes
This feels pretty clever. I totally imagine wanting to regenerate this book 20 years from now, and there will be no way to run that natively on a modern computer.

Not sure if Docker itself will still be around or the dependencies will be available, but at least that's a clear build target and there's a fighting chance it will still somewhat work.
The CD version sounds good on headphones and OK through my small speakers. But the vinyl sound was arresting - maybe a smaller stereo image or something else with the mastering.
Symbol tuning improves in-context learning in language models
If you are in a union, this is a good reason to push for recall provisions in regard to layoffs
Why are you sure? I’m a former H1B that was said a salary comparable to my coworkers (I know this for a fact). There are employers that abuse the visa but not all do.
I always thought it would be cool if multiple habitable planets could exist as moons of some large gas giant and civilizations on these planets could fly around the short distances of their planetary system visiting each other. Alas, it is not possible. Habitable planets can’t seem to really form as satellites for a larger world as explained to me once.
> there are many ideas & perspectives that are simply not heard or considered.

of course, but just because those ideas are unheard, doesn't mean they are going to be any better.

An idea should stand on its own merits, and be evaluated objectively. It doesn't matter who was doing the proposing.

Also the problem isn't that bad ideas might get implemented, but that the legislature isn't willing or able to make updates to laws that encoded a bad idea. Perhaps it isnt known that it is a bad idea until after the fact, and the methods of democracy we have today isn't easily able to force updates to bad laws encoding bad ideas.
It's a fair point for sure. Wish I had links handy and I'll see if they can find solid references. My understanding is that a huge proportion of us crop production is in three or four crops and that most f that production is traded internationally. Meaning, we produce plenty of corn and a few others but we export that and still import a big chunk of my ur actual food supply (or at least the raw materials processed into our food supply).

I'm happy to be wrong there though it's been a while now since I went down that rabbit hole!
If assembling original work from the cumulative experience of other works is theft, I'v got some bad news for the author of this article.
I think it depends on the system you are building.

If you're building system software that must be reliable, then precision is fantastic and mandatory.

But if you're building some light weight automation that will have enough human oversight that it can tolerate a bit of failure, it's very powerful to open up the implementation to a layperson.
highly unlikely, at this point cmucl support is a one man project by Raymond Toy. in order for the apple silicon to be supported two things need to happen, cmucl needs to be extended to support 64-bit and it needs to be ported to arm, both are major undertakings
> I wish I knew what we really have achieved here. I try to talk to these things, via turbo3.5 api, amd all I get is broken logic

Try to get your hands on GPT-4, even if it means paying the $20/mo subscription for ChatGPT Plus. There is a huge qualitative jump between the two models.

I got API access to GPT-4 some two weeks ago; my personal experience is, GPT-3.5 could handle single, well-defined tasks and queries well, but quickly got confused by anything substantial. Using it was half feelings of amazement, and half feelings of frustration. GPT-4? Can easily handle complex queries and complex tasks. Sure, it still makes mistakes, but much less frequently. GPT-4 for me is 80% semi-reliable results, 20% trying to talk it out of pursuing directions I don't care about.

Also, one notable difference: when GPT-4 gives me bad or irrelevant answers, most of the time this is because I didn't give it enough context. I.e. it's my failure at communicating. A random stranger, put in place of GPT-4, would also get confused, and likely start asking me questions (something LLMs generally don't do yet).

> I don't understand their whole filter business.

Part preferences, part making its "personality" less disturbing, and part PR/politics - last couple times someone gave the general public access to an AI chatbot, it quickly got trolled, and then much bad press followed. Doesn't matter how asinine the reaction was - bad press is bad press, stocks go down. Can't have it.

> I often wonder if the filter, is more to hide its true capabilities.

I don't think it's to hide the model's capabilities, but it's definitely degrading them. Kind of expected - if you force-feed the model with inconsistent and frequently irrational overrides to highly specific topics, don't be surprised if the model's ability to (approximate) reason starts to break down. Maybe at some point LLMs will start to compartmentalize, but we're not there yet.
That doesn't make a difference to the H-1B requirements. No other domestic worker could do the same job? It's a scam.
No, it's a reminder that when people think their ideas or circumstances are truly novel they are mistaken.

It's the same as the "wheel of tech" analogy.
Perhaps the US shouldn’t be funding gain of function research in other countries.
Tbh that’s a pretty lame appeal to emotion argument. An event can be “manufactured” while also having real negative externalities.

I’m not making any statement on the veracity of the claim that the pandemic was manufactured, just pointing out a flaw in the logic here.
Peak HN right here folks. Pack it in we are done.
> 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

I think that's conflating complexity with "groundbreakingness." If the litmus is "reimplemented within a day," well, I can't think of many invention that _can't_ be.

Take doorknobs for example (with the obvious counterpoint being that it's perhaps better to live in a world where doorknobs aren't patented as soon as they're invented).
Spending that’s already planned. There’s plenty of income to pay our debt obligations. Just not enough to pay all the other planned spending as well.

The US should rollback spending to prepandemic levels. There’s no reason why extraordinary events should be a one way ratchet.
A couple weeks ago ago, I looked into building it for iPhone, but there was no way in iOS to integrate it. So now I'm just hoping for Apple to do it. This article was what prompted the thought: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/05/ai-voic...
Good point about spot cleaning. I didn't know that. Here is what Google told me about it:

Trichloroethylene has been a long-standing chemical utilized in dry cleaning and spot removal processes, but its safety towards dry cleaners' health has been questioned in recent years. In 2012, California enacted a ban on using TCE or TCE-based products for dry cleaning.
I'll repost this from another comment reply as it indicates that, in the US, money is not going to natural gas for electricity generation:

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.

1. https://cms.ferc.gov/media/energy-infrastructure-update-dece...
It would be great if the cost of living in the US was 1/4 what it is, just like another country. Best gig for a US programmer is remote work from Bali or another beautiful place with reasonable prices.

That being said, these companies don't really provide much as far as stable US jobs go so it would be better to encourage entrepreneurial activity for US programmers.

Another word of advice for programmers. Do what you can to own the IP of your work. Whether it's open source or your own proprietary IP. Work for hire where the company owns the IP if your work is a dead end job.
You know what? I am positive I am more productive from home but I would still push for working from home even if I wasn't. At this point if you want me at all you have to be willing to let me work from home most of the time. Fuck this idea that we owe maximum productivity to our employers, this is a two way deal and employees are allowed to negotiate their conditions as suits them
The quality of answers goes down dramatically the more niche your questions are. Further, while it might be helpful for "research", the answers it gives will have very wide variations of accuracy and isn't very useful for the day to day work of an actual software engineer which involves much more than just writing code. It works great if you treat it like a freshman in college who loves hearing their own voice and bullshits answers, but not great at being a fact engine.

And to be clear, I didn't say that it wasn't useful. I said that it didn't change my job in any meaningful way.
When I was a kid, I remember seeing an arcade cabinet which was decorated with tacky paintings of Uncle Fester, but instead of having a screen with controls it only had metal rod that was like a joystick that you had to hold. It would give you electric shocks of ever increasing power until you gave up, and that was your final score. I always wondered if it ever killed anybody...
It wouldn't exist any other way, the story is that it was built with speed as a priority, and Zig was chosen for the performance optimizations it enables.
Edit: It was judged as copyright infringement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Grotter

A wizardry school for preteens isn’t on its own particularly unusual. But the question becomes how similar would the works be if the original was never published. You aren’t in the clear of a few paragraph book summery would apply equally well to both works. Barring the normal exceptions, Spaceballs is making reference to other works not just imitating them.
If there is no IP protection, it is illogical to invest money in new materials R&D or medicines.