skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An online tool to transform text based files (CSV, JSON, XML, anything else) using free text description and AI code generation.
Based on https://github.com/harlev/charmr
>So why the rollback? Most of this rollback is being driven by Private Equity firms who are heavily invested in commercial rel-estate and without staff in offices that rel-estate is tanking.

I agree that a lot of the pressure for the return to office is coming from investment firms that risk losing their shirt in commercial real estate if it doesn't happen. These firms have a lot of influence at the top of major companies. There seems to be a battle underway between the working class and the investment/management class over remote work long term. It is interesting to watch.
This is a good idea but it doesn't address the pollution problem. If a prescribed burn will increase pollution beyond the EPA's acceptable limits then the burn will be against the law.

We need the EPA's emissions/particulate rules to be adjusted to give priority to prescribed burns by certified firefighters and foresters. They don't do burns often enough that the EPA should be limiting their power to manage fire susceptibility. We also need watchdogs to make sure that regular polluters don't increase output during prescribed burns in order to hide their actual emissions.
The word is mentioned in 1 song lyric: "Karma Police". That's all I got from where it could possibly make any connection.
It's possibly because his hairdo made them feel ill? https://genius.com/Radiohead-karma-police-lyrics

Even though they seem to have similar hair partings?
They could fire Charlie without cause. Sounds like management just doesn't want to pay out UI or severance. So they'll let you suffer to document a cause.

So Charlie is such a big problem they need to get rid of them, but not enough of a problem where the solution is money.
the market is still hot enough here to cover my 2021 price. but all the other hassles noted would make a move to anywhere but my dream regions for greater pay a no go.
The First Year of AI College Ends in Ruin
A similar thread on Mangoes from two years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28166646
One word: "Layoffs"

And the "performance management" thing it's only at certain positions and certain industries. For most people, that is not a thing ( which can be a plus too ).
> Note that reddit in general, those whose posts rise in particular and posts that rise to the top of that subreddit even more in particular, is extremely unrepresentative of actually common sentiment.

Why?
I always know about google product too soon or too late. When the new product is not available yet and when they announce they kill it.
Coastal redwoods do not depend on fire. You are confusing them with the giant sequoia.
Google Analytics 4 was frustrating, so we built our own analytics service
It’s not really something you need to understand unless you’re an ML researcher.

I guess the ELI5 (with a BUNCH of details left out) is “Transformers: what if you didn’t have to process sentences as a sequence of words, but rather as a picture of words.”
"We won't charge you for providing us with training data"

Also, I'm sure they have ways around it, but I'd imagine colabs are a poor source of "good" code to use for further model training, both because of the kind of code you write in notebooks and the demographic that would make up colab users. It sort of fits with the idea that autocomplete might be good at writing short functions that do some specific thing, but not much help actually writing a full program.
Yes, for the proof of concept. It is an arbitrary limit, as I am not completely sure how people would use the extension: it may fill the users' storage too quickly. In the future, I may consider adding a counter instead (removing websites which have not been visited/searched for X days).
I'd argue the file picker thing is just a standard-bearer for a whole bunch of different problems. Just look around this comment section, GNOME has more problems than thumbnails. KDE might not solve them all, but I'd argue its proverbial toilet works much better.
I used wc -l at first, but I've just imported into SQLite and the count(*) is 15,263,246 - updated my previous comment (which had said 15,263,251).

I downloaded the CSV and ran:

sqlite-utils insert companies.db company companies-dataset-2023-02-ckgENv.csv --csv
sqlite-utils enable-fts companies.db company name specialties
sqlite-utils analyze-tables --save companies.db

This lets me run searches against the name and specialties columns, and gives me those aggregate stats too.
I think it's important to realize that (at least in the US) houses are considered not only an investment - but basically one of the keys to retirement. Getting into a house, waiting for the market to gradually go up over your lifetime and then selling it to retire on that profit is how a lot of people get by.

It's not a good system, but it's how it's worked for awhile now.

So price and growth is everything, because people don't want to be working when they're 80 yrs+.

It's not like the past where great retirement benefits were commonplace.
Oh, I'm disappointed now, I wanted to learn more about groff and mom!

I've been through many typesetting systems lately, namely latex, sile, pollen, patoline, scribble, typst, even affinity publisher. I ended up back to latex with tectonic as engine/distribution.

My problem with the rest is that they don't output pdf. And my problem with typst is that it is still pretty immature (doesn't support foonotes, for example).
> If society doesn't find a way to work through these issues before they turn into a crisis

True, but the solution shouldn't be to return to the way things were before.
The Illustrated Transfomer ( https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/ ) and Visualizing attention ( https://towardsdatascience.com/deconstructing-bert-part-2-vi... ), are both really good resources. For a more ELI5 approach this non-technical explainer ( https://www.parand.com/a-non-technical-explanation-of-chatgp... ) covers it at a high level.
This really needs to be illegal and we unfortunately need to prosecute not just the owners, but the employees performing the scams.
No I don't think you're open to any sort of arguments or changes to your position at all, and my comment wasn't really intended for you.
> The thing is, vaccines that haven't been through phase 2 trials can potentially make a pandemic worse. That's why you have to wait for them to resolve.

You can do challenge trials. Especially if you're going to let the virus spread through the population anyway.
Love the idea but a Zero W is pretty underwhelming. I have couple and it’s barely useful because of the single core limitations. I’m guessing it’s a supply chain issue?

Also, does this have to work with beeper? What if I have my own synapse running?
Can’t shake the feeling that this is clever use of available tools but hack.
you are not wrong, I could. But it is there I read further in the comments. I've seen this in Gnome in the past though too, or settings disappear.
>and probably stealing stuff

This is needless and makes me value the rest of the insight less.
It's not using some fancy AI. As another user pointed out here, it's just pulling the results from Wikipedia. A troll from Mexico replaced Philip Selway with Hitler.
Ask HN: Ever hired a commission-only salesperson for your SaaS app?
Did the sales person work out and add revenue to the company?

What was their commission? What do you wish you had done differently with the arrangement?
From the comments it sounds like their "threats" were threats of legal action-- that isn't likely to count as intimidation... and if he's gone far enough in court to end up in front of a jury he would probably already be financially ruined. Now, if he asked them to leave and they didn't that would be something else.

Unfortunately when you're not very wealthy the question if you'd ultimately win or not isn't very important. That's why it's important to get bright line clarity such that if they brought any claims your odds of getting a summary dismissal would be very good.

Your point about the threat being limited by the specter of damage to their brand is a good one except if that were the motivation they wouldn't have opened with an in personal physical confrontation against a party with a highly visible public platform.

> he could probably afford a really good lawyer from crowdfunded donations

I doubt it. Sometimes that happens, but often people just blame the victim because there is always a never ending list of nitpicks ("Why didn't he tell the pinkertons they were tresspassing, ask them to leave and send a letter", "why didn't he insist on a release from the company", "he had to know this would happen when he put the video up in the first place!"). And even when the lawyers paid for, nothing can compensate you for the time, disruption in your life, and stress of being targeted.
The claim that Stable Diffusion XL will be open sourced, has to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Stability AI already claim Stable Diffusion (non-XL) is an “Open Source Model”[1]. It's not. The code is open source but the model is proprietary.

[1] https://stability.ai/
ChatGPT Scams Infiltrating Apple App Store and Google Play
Train the AI by using AI, things are getting pretty META
Jurisdiction matters a lot. Where?

If we are talking about a place with very few labour protection laws (HK/SG/US), forget it: You can layoff after a 10 min discussion. No biggie. Maybe throw a few months of severance pay. If we are talking about Japan, France, or Germany, it is a negotiation with the labour union. (Denmark is a very interesting exception due to "Flex-Security".)

I cannot help but bring up the infamous "Amazon PIP" (performance improvement plan): What is the point? Just sack me with a package on Day One. Much easier and less emotionally damaging!
They're already hiring again
I moved to Greenville, South Carolina when COVID hit and absolutely loved it. Perfect weather, good balance of space, cost, and still enough active cities if one wants to eat at nice restaurants.
> What do they really have beyond their brand? People can play other games.

Certainly Dungeons and Dragons has tons of competition from other systems and I won't be playing it anymore, but it does have the network effect and weekly hosted games and name recognition.

MTG, I think, doesn't have serious competition. It is a unique juggernaut. Playing a 5e D&D game today has no relation to old 2e adventures, but many forms of Magic make use of ancient cards with serious monetary value.

Magic is also such an intricate and surprisingly balanced game and has something that other games somehow always struggle with: exactness. There is, technically, no room for interpretation on any Magic card (please correct me if I'm wrong here, I haven't played in 5+ years). Every possible interaction has a precise outcome that can be derived from the rules, or at worst from card-specific errata which are available freely and easily online.

The combination of amazing art, historic value, well-known lore, a massive library, and exact gameplay makes MTG difficult to buck. I'm certainly not buying any more cards, but I don't know where I would start looking if I got the itch for a card game again.
I think most rules-lawyers tend to lose their confidence in the power of those rules when you flip the table and leave… or when you threaten to hit them with a wrench.
Ask HN: What is up with Auth0's terrible account deletion procedure?
You have to create a forum account, delete your tenants, then request that they delete your account via a direct message on the forums (???), then you have to delete the forum account.

https://community.auth0.com/t/how-can-i-delete-my-auth0-auth0-community-forum-account/34689

This account deletion procedure is so wacky. Makes me never want to use Okta or Auth0 again. Is Okta's account deletion procedure any better? AFAICT they have you open a support ticket, which is almost as bad.

https://support.okta.com/help/s/question/0D50Z00008G7UohSAF/how-to-delete-my-okta-account?language=en_US
https://archive.ph/g2LpV
How many agents and how heavily armed? People are saying he was raided by a militia, but the available details don't seem to support that conclusion.
You can't ringfence pension payments if by ringfence you mean just store them in a savings account. Inflation would destroy the saved money completely, so the funds have to be invested. In turn those investments have to yield enough to cover both inflation and expected investment losses, whilst still yielding enough to pay out reliably over the average expected lifespan post retirement.

Unfortunately if you do the numbers it doesn't work, financially. The number of years you have to pay out to people is so large that you need a very high ROI to keep the fund stable, but ROI sometimes wasn't high enough and the funds fall behind.

This isn't a Tory or UK or even a government problem. It affects pension funds around the world and private funds too.
True, but you can open macOS Logic Pro files in GarageBand on iOS. [1]

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/logicpro/lgcpa81aa804/...
Exactly, this isn’t about the economy, it’s about lobbying and PR for particular private interests (though there are effects on the broader economy)
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Good luck!

Maybe you can sell "how to leave tech and become a carpenter" videos once chatgpt takes all the jobs.
You can probably just use chatgpt to generate the videos, but probably not cut the wood.
Thanks for doing this. Please do provide an update if you find anything.
Updating my website from my iPad
No, it's all about the company being averse to getting sued. Even though I'm in a state that allows that in theory, it's not uncommon for people to sue for a six figure sum and get a settlement if you don't do everything perfectly.
I think the moral is about the boy, not the villagers and what they believe - it's that reputation is an important thing, because once you damage yours, you won't be able to use it even when you really need it.
Standardized to crowd the titlebar and eliminate menus—not what I asked for!
That's the free UX. Paid users get a seamless Copilot-style autocomplete experience.

Clever use of intentional UX friction IMO. It does cost money to run these models.
I very much endorse that book. I only have two small shelves of technical books, but that one makes the cut to be on it.
We can start by evaluating and updating regulations, improving training and safety protocols, engaging with local communities, and increasing public awareness about the benefits and risks associated with controlled burns.

The goal is to enable the use of controlled burns as a valuable tool for land management and wildfire prevention while adequately addressing concerns related to potential negative externalities.
It's been a weird year.
Windows 7 is still good. The last of the 'original' Windows before major changes were made with Windows 8.
Ya, some employers simply don't understand this. The last two times I've moved, the total costs were upwards of $50k, and that doesn't include the $50k I lost on the first house (due to the 2008 financial crisis).

My last boss offered me a $30k/yr raise to move to a different country for a small promotion with no real path forward beyond that. I said, "no way... it would take 6 years (after income taxes) for me to pay for that move with the increase in salary, and the new country's higher income taxes."
People have built essentially the same idea before but used the far more powerful Pi CM4 boards, which aren't really that much bigger at all than the Zero:

https://www.clockworkpi.com/uconsole

That said, I ordered a uConsole when it was announced and have heard nothing, I should really chase this...

My guess is the decision here to use a Zero wasn't one of availability, they sell it without a Zero too so you can roll your own. There is probably less complexity in using the Zero's GPIO support to attach to the host device vs the CM4's much more complex pin out which may have been a bigger factor.
What you're calling "MBA-ification" sounds more like private equity infiltration.
I prefer Langton's Phage
Thats if you want to get rid of an individual. It's easy if you can just put the problem person on the layoff list because the company is doing a 10% WFR as part of a stock market right-sizing initiative
> , this is not a normal thought, and there is no normal amount of suicidal ideation

being depressed doesn't mean you have suicidal ideation, though.
Unfortunately, OpenAI and Google have moats
From the Yegge post:

> LoRA makes LLMs composable, piecewise, mathematically, so that if there are 10,000 LLMs in the wild, they will all eventually converge on having the same knowledge. This is what Geoffrey Hinton was referring to on his SkyNet tour.

I don't think that's right at all, LoRA freeze lots of the large model part and wouldn't let you just simply combine large models. Instead. I'm pretty sure Hinton is referring to data parallel training with batching:

> DataParallel (DP) - the same setup is replicated multiple times, and each being fed a slice of the data. The processing is done in parallel and all setups are synchronized at the end of each training step.

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/v4.15.0/parallelism

You can have many instances of the model training on different bits of data, and then just average the modified weights back together at the end. This combining of weights is what Hinton means when he says parallel copies of brains can learn things independently and then recombine them later a huge bandwidth speeds, whereas humans are far more limited to sharing separate experiences verbally or with like a multimedia presentation or something.
Amazing team!
John McCarthy was the guy! Invented Lisp around this time!
A Staff Engineer doesn't really have to care about for example people that have a rough patch, or about notorious assholes ruining the team's morale. That's mostly a people's manager problem.

On the other hand people's sense of who they should really listen to always skews to their manager (the person that can fire and/or promote them, or at least has the most say in the process).
Citation needed that corporate profits are up by an order of magnitude.
> That is why my standing policy is to never answer the door unless

Sure. "Standing policy" implies that you've spent a bunch of time thinking it out, presumably thinking about the corner cases (police are there and they aren't leaving), and also concluding that you're willing to forgo answering the door in times it would have been beneficial. That's all work and preparation that you're taking for granted, that frankly most people don't have time for.

It would be akin to me railing against people for using GMail, as I run my own mail server. The world is too big to micromanage everything. If physical security is one of your hobbies that is fantastic. But it's wrong to assert that it's universal.

> Examples of laws where this happens would be great.

The point is that we're sorely lacking those laws, or at least enforcement of them. This particular situation should result in charges of armed robbery, but I doubt it will. But even my saying that is wrong, as it buys into this high stakes paradigm. Rather, how about a simple misdemeanor law that prohibits the bringing firearms onto someone else's residential real estate, unless a sign is posted that explicitly allowed it?

> Examples please

I feel bad for coming back to this example so often, but I don't stay up on the latest unjustified murder of the week and its details are beyond reproach - Breonna Taylor. That was perpetrated by "police" rather than corporate thugs, but it's exactly the dynamic of someone acting exactly as the legal system implies they should to preserve their rights, ending up with their girlfriend being murdered, and still no justice being served.
Google Finally. They're the ones who release everything at google:
"Google Finally releases GoogleGargle"
I’m sorry I didn’t convince you.
Young Americans Are Dying at Alarming Rates, Reversing Years of Progress
This article is a bit of a nothing burger. It seems like the author is trying to support their conclusion with a personal experience, but they haven't really succeeded.

> The end result? The negative thought becomes even more intense. “Why can’t I even enjoy a simple pleasure of a vacation?”. “I am supposed to feel better, why is that not happening?“.

I think a better conclusion would be, we need more intentional options for breaks to improve our mental health. Stuff like 2-week CBT courses and mental health retreats.
>You give it a set of requirements for an api, with edge conditions written in plain English. Test cases are provided. And the vanilla api is generated.

Sometimes I wonder where some of the posters here work or if I'm working in a dystopia.

>You give it a set of requirements for an api with edge conditions written in plain English

This part is the job! If my job was 100% writing logic, it would be infinitely easier. Defining the requirements, evaluating the tradeoffs, discovering the edge conditions is where the bulk of my time goes. The only time someone did this for me was when I was a junior developer. Maybe I'm overestimating things, but I find it hard to believe that most engineers pulling huge salaries are just shuffling around fields on JSON API. Do you really need AI to expose a CRUD interface to Postgres?

Edit:

This idea that LLMs will replace engineers (or lawyers, or any traditionally "skilled" field) is hype. It's the same mistake that the customer makes when he's shocked that he gets a bill for $10,000 for replacing a screw in his car engine. You are conflating the actual physical labour requirements of the job (sitting down and coding) with the actual knowledge value that is being used when you do the job.

For example, take a look at Redis. Redis is a great codebase, especially for those that want to learn C. It's simple - there are exceedingly few mind-bending, hardcore, engineering algorithms in Redis. Antirez is an amazing software engineer, but Redis is not the fastest database, nor is it most durable. But what you see is the meticulous application of understanding engineering tradeoffs; there are things Redis does incredibly well and things that it doesn't that is made easier by the overall architecture of the code. How would you even begin to prompt this to an LLM? Again the code isn't complex, but the engineering is, and the act of turning those ideas and communicating them either to an LLM or to a C compiler, is engineering.

No one comes home from a long day and says "Honey, I'm tired I spent all day typing JSON schemas and function signatures".