skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the budget available to managers to make counteroffers is often very different to the budget available for ad hoc or periodic raises based on performance

This seems like a structural flaw if you want to retain good people.
Using feature flags as kill switches
It could be - but that's not what the author was invoking! They were talking about how having a subset of the population that doesn't follow the trends is essential for keeping up the health of the hive. It's wrong to say that "any bee could ignore the directions" - part of the system that only a small subset does. So if you want to transpose this into advice that you suggest to individuals (as the author did) - you should also suggest some notion of how an individual might detect when too many people are "following directions." Otherwise you're just advocating for following your personal inclinations - which may also be a fine thing to do - but was not what the author was saying bees do.
All water is recycled. And has been for billions of years.
So if a country disagrees with the political situation of a neighbour an acceptable response is to annex territory and then launch a full scale invasion and attempt to decapitate their leadership?
A struct can't own something - it isn't a class with a destructor or anything. So it isn't quite so obvious. There are only two lines of code here, but the implication is a function is running that code and then returning `return_struct`, which might get passed around to more functions, and even returned further up the call stack. Somewhere there needs to be code that knows "hey - nobody else is using return_struct, and by the way you need to free return_struct->inner_struct before freeing return_struct.
I can’t help but remember the ad for IBM’s UBA.

https://youtu.be/AIOqOxI0K_I

There is no magical adapter, but in general platforms that connect a lot of things do well. Love the project.
While of course no government comes close to that level of radical transparency, Finland comes closer than most. I believe Finland requires all official government documents be made public by default, unless they are specifically exempted. Many other governments, like the US through FOIA, let citizens request documents with varying degrees of success, but proactive disclosure is much more rare. And of course, this is just about official documents and doesn't cover the contents of private meetings.

(I'm just an interested observer, so I'd love to hear from actual Finns on how they feel about their government's level of openness!)
To be honest, this more highlights how far out of step tech salaries are with...well everyone else.
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Definitely a trade-off. Until you're out of debt and somewhat financially secure, going for money may be a good strategy.

Alternately you can go for pay-as-you-earn, possibly excepting a lifelong indenture.
I mean where is the return on investment here? Classifying gorillas isn’t a must have for users, and if you don’t have perfect precision you’re racist. Why would anyone bother?
Is it this or is it that people decide to see the talks they have larger odds of citing?

Getting to speak on a conference is easier than publishing in a periodic.
The CEO who successfully managed hundreds of people at a fairly visible non-profit got about 300k in severance. Meanwhile:

"Google gave top executive $90m payoff but kept sexual misconduct claim quiet – report"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/25/google-an...
If it performs as well as the paper implies, then I certainly hope someone will pick it up and give it the same treatment.
> let's start with the fact that it never stopped pursuing it since 2003

That's not a fact. The Yanukovych government obviously didn't pursue NATO membership, and even the post-Maidan government expressly declared it a non-goal prior to the invasion that occurred shortly after that government came to power, reversing course only after the invasion.

> when it had taken part in the invasion of Iraq

2003 was before 2008, when Putin succeeded in getting NATO to reject the Georgia and Ukraine MAPs, and it was this caving to Putin by NATO which is why even when a pro-Western government came to power in 2014 after Yanukovych, it didn’t see pursuing NATO as a fruitful course. It took the war to change their mind. The war created the intent, it didn’t react to it.
>It is very obviously not. I'm just pointing out that your 'bird' analogy doesn't work because the government makes laws and policy that affect how existing property owners can use their land all the time.

Yes it does, but there is obviously a legal line which can be crossed and be considered a government seizure of property.

The California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) of 2014 [1] is the example for groundwater usage, currently being litigated all over the state.

It doesn't change groundwater rights, but sets up agencies with the power to allocate usage in penalties which ignore the groundwater rights or seniority of rights. A farmers who have been somewhere for a 100 years can and are being prevented from using water, while recently developed communities or other stakeholders get a pass.

>Water rights aren't god given like the Central Valley farmers would like you to believe. They fall under the jurisdiction of the State of California and the United States of America.

What does that mean in this context? All of your property and even your life fall under legal jurisdiction. That doesn't mean the state can ignore the laws it has established and take them away without due process.

Where established groundwater rights exist, this is clearly the case of the house being demolished to make way for the freeway, not making rules for the color of your paint. It is taking something that is recognized property of one person who is using it, and then using it for another purpose.

I personally think that citizens of California should show some responsibility and buy water from those with rights, instead of acting like petty thieves. If the state is free to systemically ignore its own laws, then individuals should be free do the same. However, that lawless society is not one I would want to live in.

https://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2018/09/04/groundwater-...

https://mavensnotebook.com/2021/01/13/sgma-in-action-challen...

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3368r414#main
> Would you prefer to schedule haircuts via a call or an anonymous online form?

I 100% prefer to schedule appointments over the phone. That's never gone wrong for me, where scheduling online has gone very wrong quite a lot.
> We know that because he sold them at a profit. That means buyers valued the output more than the cost of the inputs. That is good.

This is a very naive interpretation. Perhaps (maybe even more likely) the value of the land skyrocketed according to rising demand, regardless of the capital invested in building flats. They could have built single-family homes, or a parking lot, or even nothing at all and still profited handsomely.

Please read up on Georgism, land value tax (LVT) and ground-rents: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/1/16/the-power-of-t...
It works well for non-programming tasks, writing the bullshit career development I'm forced to write and crap like this. It's absolutely useless for software development though.

I just use Amazon CodeWhisperer as a nice autocomplete but that's it.
Now entirely possibly to replace social media functionality.

If only I knew JavaScript......
I've seen lots of pearl-clutching over this about the "dangers of deepfakes" etc., but frankly, it sounds like Wall Street's problem. Nobody asked them to build automated market making bots that scrape Twitter for their signals.
This thread stinks of cabbage to high heaven. Can you actually fool even yourselves anymore? Russians have lost the war a long time ago, it's barely a nasty procession that's left.
> why do so many people take offense with this very democratic process?

The words written for a law aren't how the law is actually implemented. Law isn't code. The group in power, in this case people who want to limit how LGBTQ people live, will write a perfectly reasonable law, and then only apply that law to cases that they personally believe in. In other cases, such as if you were to complain about the bible being lewd, they would state some exception for it and ignore your request. This "perfectly democratic" law is, in fact, used in a non-democratic way!
Easily the most ironic thing I've seen all day. Ponder this: form follows function.

And stay the STAY away from my little ones, so that we can keep everything low key, amabo te.
I’ll do one better.

The existential risk of an AI running amok and enslaving or exterminating all of humanity is based on series of low probability events that we can’t even put error bars on, let alone understand what would be needed to even achieve such a feat.

HOWEVER, the existential risk posed by the sun running out of hydrogen and destroying all life on planet Earth has known a probability (1.0), with known error bars around the best estimation of when that will happen. Furthermore, the problems involved with moving masses through space are understood quite well. As such, this is merely an engineering problem, rather than a problem of inadequate theories and philosophies. Therefore, it is undeniably logical that we must immediately redirect all industrial and scientific output to building a giant engine to move the Earth to another star with a longer lifespan, and any argument otherwise is an intentional ploy to make humanity go extinct. Any sacrifices made by the current and near future generations is a worthy price to pay for untold sextillions of humanity and its evolution all descendants that would be condemned to certain death by starvation if we did not immediately start building the Earth Engine.

This is the only logical, mathematical provable, and morally correct answer.
I've actually used printer like that (Epson). Everything was fine when I was printing frequently, but it still dried up after not using for months. No amount of "cleaning" or "deep cleaning" restored it to 100%.

They verify ink bottles by requiring you to enter CD-key like number which is printed on a bottle. However, ink is cheap and you don't have to buy 3rd party one.
Thanks to whoever posts this person's updates here, I really enjoy reading them. Getting these reports from someone who's POV is discovering it as if we would makes it really interesting.
I got all my SO points from answering a single question on JavaFX, which I only used for about 6 months. It is not even the accepted answer (which was, and still is, incorrect).
I can certainly see how one might think that. However in practice the kinds of things happening in peoples lives are out beyond the ken of “quantifying your value add”.

Our clients regularly cite immeasurably positive ROI — like finding their soul mate, having a child, gaining clarity on how to spend the next decade, healing old traumas, etc.

Also interesting but perhaps not surprising is that people who are at the top of a domain, are often challenged in other areas — super powers often come with challenges.
Sure - but the part I quoted is urging people to consider that they themselves might choose not to "follow the swarm" as it were. I think you could use this example to argue that a lot of the diversity in how human brains work (autism, adhd, oppositional defiant disorder like you said) should be viewed as a strength and a source of alternative and interesting viewpoints that are grounded in biological difference we should honor and recognize. But - people in those situations don't chose how their brains work.
It's interesting that issue 11 is written as a warning. It's exactly the solution I chose. My cable modem always switches to higher frequencies after enough time, which never have enough SNR to work properly. I can't really force the ISP to improve their infrastructure. But this only happens after around 36 hours. I have a script that power cycles the modem each morning when I'm asleep.

I've even gone as far at this point to actively query the status of the modem and detect when it moves to one of these channels. If this happens during the day the modem is immediately reset.
SQL queries. I am poor at writing SQL queries with bunches of joins. I just show it the table definitions and tell it what I want. Sometimes it doesn't get it quite right (which is why you need some knowledge of what you are asking of it) and I point it out and it fixes it.

Regular Expressions. I hate doing regexps. It is excellent at them.

Wiki articles for an encyclopedia I'm developing. It is great at this, but occasionally I catch it hallucinating articles out of whole cloth because it has access to zero information about what I asked it about, so it just goes from the article title and imagines what it must be about.

I know where to use it right, and I've found my output has not only doubled since I started using it, I am enjoying coding even more than ever because it has got rid of the worst drudgery that would cause me to switch from my IDE to my browser and bring up HN to avoid working.
I bought a B&W half duplex Brother printer circa 2011 and have no problems with it. Besides the fact that it was half duplex. I've bought a generic brand toner cartridge twice since then; neither have had problems.

Earlier this month I upgraded to a full duplex color laser printer. (HL-3270CDW) Not because my existing printer is broken or has stopped working, but I was printing sections from a book and it annoyed me that I had to do all the flipping manually and gosh it would be nice if it were in color. Kind of an impulse buy.

It's the same. Everything is the same. It's got new tech in it; it's got newfangled stuff like wifi, bluetooth, and NFC. (my old one had nothing but a USB port; they had versions with ethernet and wifi but I got the cheapest one) But it looks the same, it feels the same, it sounds the same, the drivers are in one of my distro's package manager's overlays and just work. (Gentoo/brother-overlay)

I haven't owned it long enough to need to replace the toner. Amazon has generic versions of the toner for 30% of what Brother is charging. I don't know whether it will last forever with no issues, but my magic 8-ball says "all signs point to yes."

My old printer is the HL-2240. It's discontinued. It looks like the new model in that line is the HL-L2320D. Besides the fact that they've discontinued the half-duplex printers, (D is for full duplex, W is for wireless, C is for color) it looks like it's basically the same exact thing; they're putting precisely zero effort into "updating" the styling which I like. The toner cartridges for the 2240 and 2320 are not compatible, but Brother is still selling toner in the 2240 cartridges, despite the fact that they're not selling any printers that use them.

https://www.brother-usa.com/products/hl2240

https://www.brother-usa.com/products/HLL2320D

https://www.brother-usa.com/products/HLL3270CDW
OT systems generally require a single, centralised server to be a party in between any two changes. CRDTs make it really easy to do multi-server deployments or peer-to-peer data replication. That is (basically) not possible using OT based systems.
Maybe the GP was just being blithe/snarky about Twitter specifically, but I choose to interpret it a little more: don't just stop using Twitter, but stop using anything even similar. For now you might get some subjectively better signal to noise ratio out of Mastodon or Bluesky or some other thing, but ultimately the problem is not the medium so much as the underlying mentality. Users seeking "first to report" news in short, easily consumable bits leads almost inevitably to such things being supplied to meet that demand, reality be damned.

In other words, don't just eschew Twitter; reconsider the medium entirely.
I thought they finished it last year? https://time.com/6163452/human-genome-fully-sequenced/
A bus driver in San Francisco makes about 80k on average, ranging up to about 150k AFAIK. The higher end is more than a senior engineer makes at Wikimedia in California.

It maybe highlights that salaries in the US are higher than in much of the rest of the world, but I don't think that's Wikimedia's fault.
It has saved me some time writing queries in some obscure DSLs. Results were slightly off but close enough for me to run with it. Replaced my first pass of reading through the docs, but not really helpful beyond that.

I probably could have spent more time framing the query to get better results.
Those are crazy expectations! I constantly turn everything to focus mode or else I wouldn’t be able to do anything hard.
I'm not sure there's a better way to climb the ladder though.
Nobody said that on this thread, I hope you know that.

Critical thinking and scepticism are essential, both when you read things from traditionally reputable sources, like WaPo, NYT, state media, politicians, and alternative media, like Youtube opinion people, online forums, or your friends, family and colleagues.
I can not understand how carbon capture can be proposed as a solution for reducing the atmospheric CO2 levels. At best, it can be used at high-intensity production sites to reduce the amount of CO2 added to the atmosphere.

We are currently pumping every day 35 billion tons of carbon into an atmosphere that already has umpteen billions of tons of carbon that needs to be removed. We are never going to have machinery or technology that can remove carbon at the necessary scale. And not only is the volume an impossibility, the energy requirements are, too: it will require more energy to remove the carbon than it provided in the first place.

Best I can figure is we need to use fast-growing solar-powered organics. Replace corn with hemp, or grow algae, something like that, and sequester the mature product at an active subduction zone. Return it back into the deep earth.
In this case, OP is actually part of the problem, by voting with his wallet for these "hostile profit opportunities." HP has his money, so in their eyes, his vote is for this dark pattern. By buying these products, people are ensuring they continue to act against the good of society and consumers.

EDIT: and for the down-voters, I'll clarify: I fully support OP here. OP was clearly deceived by HP's marketing. But unfortunately we live in a world created by lawyers where there is no right or wrong--there's just "what the letter of the law lets you get away with".
What I believe in is facts, and there is, in fact, a huge difference between an international agreement and an internal legislation setting general policy goals. You can’t cite a requirement to hold to past agreements and then cite as an example something that is not any kind of agreement.
Yes you can and yes it is as simple and nearly foolproof as buying land.

It takes a lot of stupidity and/or misfortune to lose money on real estate in a stable economy.
This happened to me today on a prompt that I could not discern fit my original post as to "unspeakable things":

* design a men's haircut by combining a 1/4" shaved undercut around the ears and neck with a longer 2" crown and intended to provide cover from the sun on top.

followed by the AI interrupting itself mid-stream yet again after it had already answered the previous prompt to completion by providing step by step instructions to execute such a haircut.

* I'm sorry, I can't respond to your prompt. Please try something else.

My general impression is that there is near zero quality control oversight going on in this team and to their credit, that's been unusual in my experience observing and using M$ software post-Nadella.
> This is true for almost everything politicians promote as a "solution"

:-) In their defense, this time they may not even be aware.

> So for most people, they actually see g which is something like g(f(H)))

It is interesting to consider the entailment structure of g(f(H)). f(H), or A, is entailed from H by f. g(f(H)), let us call it A', is entailed from f(H) by g. Using |- as the symbol for entailment, or "entails":

f |- f(H)
g |- g(f(H))

All included plugins, embeddings, other API endpoints in g will definitely affect the results, turning answer A, or f(H), into a modified answer A', or g(f(H)). However, what entails f? Nothing in the context of applying g.

To a first approximation, design D and training T are the ones that entail f. T includes all human feedback (training pairs, not direct edits on the entailment in f), and also previous chat histories H for subsequent releases f', however this inclusion is behind decision hierarchies, and the effects of the inclusion on f are largely outside of users' or researchers' precise or accurate control. Training pairs can be added to fine tune, e.g., to filter out violent content, but the results can only be checked downstream of the new f', and fine tuning will retain previous entailments hence acting similarly to a g().

(D,T) |- f

Let us consider programming, where software S entails output o. What [subject] entails software [direct object]? Programmers P, directly and reliably. Not only can programs be affected precisely and accurately. If we want to modify a program, we do not wrap it inside another program g, hoping that the functional composition will yield the desired result, which will invariably contain entailment from the one we are stuck with. Instead, we edit it.

S |- o
P |- S
S |- P

Programming is interactive, between programmers and software, whereas with LLMs users are downstream when it comes to wanting to affect directly the entailment patterns in f. The human-like chat UX of LLMs leads us to think that chatting with them, giving them human feedback, prompts, or guidelines, or adding plugins and context will naturally flow into us being able to affect f, and that since humans can be manipulated, then so can LLMs. The core of the matter is that f, which entails issues, cannot be affected easily, precisely, or accurately, despite any g that we may want to wrap around it.
I just presume that a biological brain is a network of neurons with connections between them, including feedback connections, at least this is what we see under the microscope. In terms of math, this structure corresponds to a cyclic directed computational graph - this only fact makes it Turing-complete.

Currently it is just a highly plausible conjecture, not a formal proof. However, I think I can prove it. But should I?
> how would you structure a global government?

We're not going to structure a global government, such a thing is never going to exist and we're never going to have to worry about it existing. Fortunately.
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Indeed. I would suspect that also the talk goes into more detail about some of the less-familiar contributions, which helps with understanding and retention. People won't cite papers if they don't understand them well, and that could happen if they're so dry that the point doesn't come across as easily.