skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moneyball has a little bit of this. Not sure how I feel about it cohesively but it has some excellent “people talking in conference rooms” scenes
No, sadly there is no good way to stave it off.

The thing is, the incompetents who are not experts in org politics get sidelined/moved out, and the ones who remain relevant are experts who keep rising with the singular goal of building their fiefdoms. They would sell the company for pennies if they could get 2 more promotions.

By now there are enough incompetent people at VP and director levels in most companies. There is no way to identify performers from the CEO level, and at VP and director levels the incentives are to find the people best for yourself, not for the company.
most people spent the majority of their time viewing the content not typing so that's why our screens get bigger and bigger.
If you strike against the US government as a public servant, yes you can be fired for breaking the law.[1]

Strictly within the context of the private world however, I don't know.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Contr...
I think it depends on application. For a video game, that’s what you should do. However, that’s not really advisable for a database where broken invariants might lead to corruption.
Surely that's a good thing though, if we're preaching meritocracy?

Practically speaking it's not so different than how it is currently though (except maybe lower CoL areas in the same country), it's very difficult to have FTE's in foreign countries, I am in a position to feel this very much right now- either you have to do very complex accounting, become a multi-national or they have to be hired as contractors.

There's still many barriers to it being off-shored, and the kinds of companies that would do that aggressively are looking to replace you anyway.
In open source software where you can throw it over the fence and say "no warranty", perhaps.

In commercial software where your users will say "Y" even when they have 16MB of RAM, have an awful time, waste your money calling your support in that unsupported configuration (and forget to mention it), and leave negative reviews - no, hard blocks make a lot of sense.
Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to? I think you're on to something there.
This article is partially about RTO, so, is it?
Not if you’re getting laid off
How does it matter if they stopped releasing these notes a year ago? Do the notes that they released earlier disappear from pockets of public?

On March 31, 2023 the total value of these banknotes in circulation was Rs 3.62 lakh crore constituting 10.8% of all the currency notes in circulation. [1]

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/rs-...
On Oppenheimer, Odours, and an Opiate Oeuvre
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So do medical doctors; and they've preserved that status by unionizing to protect it.
Perhaps if the fee was more expensive for a single person, but economical for >2 people then the math works out.
SimCity 2000 is definitely my favorite. I'm surprised someone hasn't made a version of it with a larger map (or infinite map).
There is a reasonable argument for that (heard the idea go around between multiple AI engineers, that once you go past a certain scale, it does not matter for its evals)

One of the biggest issue for testing all of this, is it takes a crap ton of GPUs to prove all the alternatives to transformers beyond 1B param.

For example I’m waiting for someone to do a 1B-14B text based diffusion network

Finally, if this is truely the case (and all that really matter is size+dataset)

We really should use an architecture that is cheaper to train and run. And that’s what RWKV represents here

You can even run the 7B quantized model reasonably on most laptops (try the rwkv-cpp / rwkv-cpp-node project)
It was common at my university (US).
> Most of big tech, and Amazon specially, massively lowered their hiring floor to hire more over the years, and are full of extremely incompetent people

If that's true, it'd add insult to injury, for the people who were interested in the better FAANGs... but got turned off by the stack of months' worth of prep materials that FAANG in-house recruiters would send to candidates, for their kabuki theatre of interview processes.

One of my recent theories about the interview processes promoted by FAANGs is that they (by accident or design) tend to neuter students against becoming upstart competitors. Think of all those students in school who could have time for side projects, considering startups, developing skills that woudl be useful in startups... and instead FAANGs have trained students to conceive of the very skills as passing the FAANG interview rituals, and to spend their spare time practicing for those rituals. Not only are those students less likely to start a startup, but startups that happen still have to find the workers who are amenable to thinking like creative engineers, and working as a team focused on a shared goal, despite all the FAANG-like messaging to young developers that has infected CS departments and broader industry.
Cities Skylines just turns into "transportation mode simulator" for me. Still fun, but it is not the same thing.
There needs to be an international human rights treaty that enshrines the right to end-to-end encryption. Law enforcement all over the world already has more than enough power to do their jobs. If they cared about protecting people, they should be embracing the wide availability of strong encryption with open arms.

It's time politicians spent time increasing accountability and preventing abuse before they even think about granting more power to law enforcement.
Shameless plug, I just finished 30+ hours of research into io_uring and posted a more high-level summary here:
https://unzip.dev/0x013-io_uring/

Including a tl;dr, pros, cons, tools & players, and a forecast.

The creator of io_uring Jens was super nice and also reviewed it (I'm still a bit in shock).
Cue the analogies of how forcing coders back into the office (in one of the first places where you could bring your dog to work) is worse than working in a salmon cannery in 1926. I weep for those that must endure these atrocious working conditions, I heard they're running low on sparkling water in the kitchenettes.
The vast majority of people in the US and Canada are not buying minivans. They're buying comically large cars that endanger road users, and often even themselves because SUVs and trucks are not subject to the same road safety standards as sedans and minivans (in the US, at least. Not sure about Canada on this second point).
How does the hard block prevent wasted support time and negative reviews?
After they force people back to office then what? It’s not like they won’t leave if they manage to get remote job elsewhere.

Frankly, I don’t get this drive to RTO. The only gain is face to face meetings might improve productivity (in some people). The downside is increased pollution due to commuting - even with EVs you are wearing out tires increase the amount of micro plastics in the environment, wearing out their batteries, and wasting electricity.
The Social Network is a brilliant film, but it is in no way realistic. For example, he started dating Priscilla Chan in 2003, before Facebook even started, and married her in 2012. The way the movie presents him is some nerd who made Facebook to get laid, to some degree, even if that wasn't his prime motivation at all.

The soundtrack, though, is a banger.

It just goes to show that these kinds of movies should be taken with a heavy, heavy grain of salt, as nothing in them requires that they be truthful.
Communication across cultures is a huge problem even when the language is the same, let alone when it’s not. Also being in the same time zone is a big advantage for remote collaboration.
But you also gain access to more employers
Unless a minivan costs more than 6x as much to park as a smaller car, it's not going to discourage carpooling. Realistically the vast majority of oversized cars are used for single drivers (and often don't even have any extra passenger or cargo space compared to a more regular sized car).
It can also remove clumps that can form in wetter climates, or from flour of lower quality. During the pandemic I got a big ol bag of flour that was loaded with clumps, and I had to gradually sift all 50lb of it. So, I guess it can still be totally useful in modern times if you have bad purchasing and storage options.
I'm no insider but I haven't found Hossenfelder's stuff that impressive. Her reasoning tends to take the form "X is true, therefore Y", where "if X then Y" is a valid deduction, and X hasn't been proven false, so we can't say she's wrong on specific physics. But the presumption that X is true is unjustified even if X hasn't been proven false. Example: she likes superdeterminism instead of quantum mechanics with its various weird consequences. Ok, her version of superdeterminism hasn't been proven wrong, but that's a long way off from saying that it is right. It comes down to her saying "I believe X and I haven't been proven wrong, even though most other physicists believe not-X, but I like my theory better, so there". Perfectly fine and legit, but I'll take X seriously when I see more recognition for it from the rest of physics.

The same goes for this stuff about tests of string theory. As far as I can tell, string theory is perfectly good physics whether or not it is experimentally testable. That is, there is a viewpoint called "naive Popperianism" that if something isn't experimentally testable then it it isn't science, but from what I can tell, that viewpoint is not truly decisive (thus "naive"), and its proponents don't have the authority that they wish they did. As a comparable situation, there is not much dispute that general relativity (GR) is perfectly good physics except at the center of a black hole, where it predicts a singularity which people consider non-physical. Particularly, GR makes predictions about the interior of black holes (points inside the event horizon) that are considered perfectly good except at the center. But, since there is no way to observe the inside of a black hole, those predictions of GR are also not verifiable. So I'm not bothered by unverifiability. Theory is good if it has explanatory or interpretive power, not just testable predictive power.
I'll save you the click "Rosenblatt went to court, and eventually, in 2016, the city dropped its case against her."
Won’t work. Basic healthcare, sure but there are end of life Hail Mary procedures that are super expensive (and not that effective) where do we draw the line?
ChatGPT doesn't know anything past September 2021.

Local LLMs can be as recent as yesterday.

Plus they can access a daily updated offline version of Wikipedia as well as news RSS feeds via LLamaIndex and/or Langchain.
People believe all kinds of nonsense with no basis in reality was exactly my point.
const randomPermutation = arr => intSequence(0, arr.length - 1).map(i => arr[i])
console.log(randomPermutation(['a', 'b', 'c'])
https://old.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/13mhuzq/api_has_...
Points for them mentioning the LAMP stack though. And the college house facebook hacking scene is one for the ages.
Because NYC isn't completed run into the ground like San Francisco. You don't see open drug scenes in Manhattan like you do all over SF.
The interview process, despite all it's shortcomings, was a good filter. It has been massively neutered in the recent years and is gamed every which way now by the hiring team's leadership, which is the one of the main reasons responsible for massive dilution in median talent.

The interview process is flawed, but it did prevent totally incompetent candidates. Now instead of being replaced with an alternative which measures something else, it has just been watered down.
There are lots of really low hanging fruits

- integrating this with AI platform X/Y/Z

- setting up evals

- improving the code quality

- making a how to guide (it’s stuck on my todo list)

- helping with dataset

- doing silly experiments on how the architecture work (and if the changes give good result)

- etc etc

One of the community goals is to make this a model for EVERYONE on earth that means we need quality dataset for all the non English languages

So even on that level there are things to do

( find something that interest you on the community )
What are the software sales people going to sell if there are no software developers to build their product?

In a way you're both right - software developers (usually) don't create/design/sell the entire product end-to-end, but they no doubt are a critical piece of the process. That gives them leverage.
Maybe. But language, culture, practices, and time zones can really throw cold water on that.
Recipes are terrible when it comes to time. I have this one open in a tab so I can try it soon:

https://www.seriouseats.com/lamb-biryani

The first step is the prep step, which it says takes 5 minutes. In that step, I have to:

- trim the fat from, and cube (1in) 2 pounds of lamb

- peel and chop 6 cloves of garlic

- peel and grate 2 inches of ginger

- mix with yogurt and salt in a zip lock bag

That looks like at least 20 minutes of work to me. Include cleanup (raw meat and garlic are both a pain), and it is easily a half hour of work.

Maybe 5 minutes is for an expert chef in a professional kitchen?
In Europe (or some countries in Europe) it's common to receive applause at the end of the semester but never in the US.
As a teen I was surprised that I could run multiple pascal programs (one reading COM and the other reading LPT) at the same time while within the win16 environment.

It was very slow compared to running on native DOS, so obviously some time partitioning shenanigans were afoot.
Lots of companies have learned the hard way that cheaper engineers aren’t always better, or watched others learn it. And great engineers aren’t necessarily willing to work for last decade’s local wages.
Walking out to protest multiple rounds of layoffs may not be the power move you imagine.
Jan and Feb 2023 are also available from the same site. And the final March dump before Pushshift went dark is available from https://archive.org/details/pushshift-reddit-2023-03
I presume they're referring, not to blog comments by visitors, but to Chen's own comments (or commentary, if you prefer) in the footnote at the end.
"The program won't start" is straightforward and a short script will quickly identify the real problem.

"On Tuesdays when I alt-tab to Backgammon, my save file is corrupted" is much tougher to immediately identify as out of memory.

Telling users no at the beginning yields far fewer negative feelings than letting them get invested and then experience a major problem, blocker, or just constant random irritations
> was Rs 3.62 lakh crore constituting 10.8% of all the currency notes in circulation

Is the point. Demonetization made ~80% of the currency in circulation no longer legal tender overnight. This phasing out is in no way comparable. Which makes the idea that people will have to queue up at banks unbelievable.
As someone pointed out in this thread, this would discourage carpooling with eg minivans. Coming from a large-ish family of modest means, that would have cut down on the number of “field trips” my mom took us on which would have been a shame.

Instead, how about (car volume * size of blind spot in front of car) / (number of seats)?
> why does it have to be a baseline? how about "send a more ink when the current one is low".

Because that is how much a single, high capacity ink cartridge costs on average. Can't be lower that the price of the cartridge, if you're buying whole cartridges. Also, will probably be more than this, because you might need several cartridges for more volume, or several types of color cartridges.
5 years at senior level means 8 plus years in industry and you actually have to be promoted to seniority and it has to be at a company that actually pays well. It is far beyond reasonable considering the value that developers provide.

So yeah, I think you're completely wrong.
The problem is that the traffic issue is nonstop and affects things, so you have to fix it. In reality at least the traffic will resolve itself overnight.
The company can also pay to delete your reviews, if you didn't know this already. Glassdoor will say they won't, but, cui bono, they make their money from companies.

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1660192047674925056
First: “Orbiting the center” implies movement in circles and ellipses, and thus implies angular momentum. Angular momentum is a conserved quantity. If the collapsing star didn’t have it, the black hole’s contents won’t spontaneously develop it. Some black holes do have it, but not all.

Second: under general relativity spacetime is biased so the three direction “future” is pointed to the center of the black hole. This is true of any mass, but in the black hole it is so intensely pointed that even traveling through the space part of spacetime at the maximum possible speed (the speed of light) isn’t fast enough to escape that, not in any direction. Perhaps the fastest moving objects at the very edge of the region of space we call the “event horizon” could fall in slowly enough that the black hole evaporates around them? I dunno, I don’t have math for it. But even then I wouldn’t count on it for the general case.

Better to imagine everything crushed as it is dragged to the center - perhaps first into neutronium, and then quarkium, and then something hard to say except that it’s all a giant high-energy mess.
Yea they know that. Even in the face of that they are walking out. Must mean they’re seriously pissed off. I would be more worried if I were the employer depending on this office and I would be trying to make these people happy so all my projects wouldn’t go into the shit bin for several months while I tried to rebuild my team.
I have no idea why this non-story is getting so much attention.
That is amazing and so simple, thanks for sharing.
Kind of reminds me of the fast square root story.
Definitely the exception to the rule
> It became a dumpster fire well over a decade ago

Relevant: “Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity” (2014), Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf

…a.k.a Reddit's "Most-Addicted City" of 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...
Just because it's legal, doesn't mean it's a good thing. It's up for debate.

I think the right to own and carry concealed guns is a great thing, and totally legal in (most of) the USA, but many disagree with me. Legal != good.
> elementary particles have no defined size in QM

That's only kinda-sorta true, and only in a very restricted sense.

All particles have a wavelength, but that can change depending on their velocity.

In QM models, it is a simplification to treat particle as point-like to make the mathematics tractable. It isn't necessarily an accurate picture of the underlying reality.

> QM spin is not a rotation speed of any kind; QM particles are not little balls rotating around their center; quantum spin has no known relation to the speed of light

That's not exactly the case. From my best understanding, Spin is just the Dirac Belt Trick, an indication that particles are part of the spacetime fabric and attached to it. When they rotate, the fabric rotates with them locally. This requires two full rotations (720 degrees) to go back to the original state, which is why you have "spin 1/2" and the complicated maths.

Two good visualisations are here: https://youtu.be/LLw3BaliDUQ
and: https://youtu.be/jdVoFr5d4Rw
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13029136
These things are very different from the human mind. With your mind, you read the words one by one, building up intuition as you go. As part of that, there's a kind of continuous synthesis of information. The synthesis is highly temporal, because as you go you are training, and the hardware is changing (your emotions, dictated by your stomach or the sound you can hear or...) underneath you.

These things are very different. The mental model I have is that they put the entire book into a big hypercube and then *flash*, instantly, out comes the next token. And likewise, when they encounter text that is 8001 tokens long, token #1 is completely erased, gone, like it never existed.
Just make vehicles taxes directly proportional to gross vehicle weight.

You drive a 200kg motorcyle, pay $X, you have a 2ton car, pay the 10x
You need very little to make it work with onions.

I regularly use it in cooking, both for caramelizing onions and meat, can’t taste any weird flavours with it.
Imagine if someone said this about dictionaries.
…if you’re willing to work for foreign wages…
Ahh, but that’s because you’re a business owner whose solution is “go work somewhere else if you don’t like the terms.” Workers have few options, so they must lean into those legally available to them. That’s democracy working.
No, we shouldn’t even have to work for nice scraps, they’re still scraps.
> The papers were linked in another comment.

For anyone following along, they are in my sibling comment. Linked papers here[0]. The exact same conversation is happening there, but sourced.

> 3 of them don't even have anything to do with a existing dataset testing

Specifically I address this claim and bring strong evidence to why you should doubt this claim. Especially this specific wording. The short end is when you scrape the entire internet for your training data that you have a lot of overlap and that you can't confidently call these evaluations "zero shot." All experiments performed in the linked works use datasets that are not significantly different from data found in the training set. For those that are "hand written" see my complaints (linked) about HumanEval.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36037440
Virtually all mainstream secular scholars of early Christianity agree that Jesus existed. He was mentioned by Josephus and Tacitus, and the Talmud - a religious commentary, albeit not a Christian one, with genuine historical narrative interspersed - mentions him repeatedly. Essentially, based on the sources we have access to today, it’s far more likely that Jesus was a real wandering preacher in the first-century Land of Israel (there were many of those!) than that every mention of him in the sources was fabricated.

My understanding is that scholars also believe that Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, was indeed historical, but the contemporary sources are weaker.
A Man Who Spends $2M a Year to Look 18 Is Swapping Blood with Father and Son
>Why couldn’t this happen before?

That's exactly what happened before.

During the Nixon recession, leading up to the wage & price freeze.

And after the freeze was lifted, the financial power imbalance was no different so inflation went even wilder due to pent-up un-fulfilled greed among the financial leaders whom had to do without growth for a little while there.

Even though the value of the dollar was declining due to destabilization, there were less available for the majority of workers/taxpayers, but financialists still needed more of them or the math would have made them look like their greed had failed like never before. They are rewarded on greed numerically in ways that everyone else can not compare.

The freeze worked to cement the imbalance leading to the exaggerated wealth inequality we have now.

The more apparent income inequality today is minor by comparison, but they were both locked in like never before mainly by pure unchecked greed.

Freezing prices didn't help much, but freezing wages even for a little bit was completely counterproductive by setting the workers/taxpayers back many more years by comparison to capital.

Those years have grown to generations now.