skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software devs may always move somewhere with lower living costs. Good for lots of people who have been forced to move into places like Silicon Valley with crazy expensive housing, even though they would rather live elsewhere.
Damn, it's like Joel is talking to me. Thanks for sharing this.
So the streetsblog article[1] says "with cheaper prices for electric, hydrogen and plug-in hybrid cars vs. all other engines" but the citation from globalnews.ca [2] says the opposite, "Whether electric, hybrid or internal combustion" ?

Strange. Given the rationale seems to be to improve parking rather than save us from a climate disaster the globalnews.ca seems to be more "rational" but it seems odd that the two reports so directly contradict each other.

[1] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/05/16/heres-a-big-idea-the-...
[2] https://globalnews.ca/news/9668217/montreal-rosemont-la-peti...
Can't wait for the world where board certified PHP developers are disbarred for using GOTO
No, the Bloom paper is wild: 2.5 pages of author names written with no spacing, I counted 472 authors after deduplication. PaLM 2 has only 181 authors. ;)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.05100.pdf
I don't understand your comment. Sam Altman has equity in OpenAI. It is in no way comparable to Mike Rowe's foundation which is a non-profit. He has no financial stake in it's success. He can't sell it for a profit.

Mike Rowe has accountants and attorneys to handle his tax filings. Complications are not a problem.
You should give modern Gnome a good honest try.

I felt like you before, but ended up using it at work since it was what IT supported. After using it for a month, I switched all my personal machines over. For me, modern Gnome is the most usable, consistent, and smooth desktop experience I've used. And this is from someone who has used KDE, Windows, MacOS, and custom desktop environments with i3 and bspwm.
> Myth: Windows 3.1 was just a shell on top of DOS

He just made statements without any backing. Pathetic.
It has improved over time, however it is clearly Java written by C++ developers, like we were doing back in 1996.
So the same arc Twitter is on. Claim “free speech*” and heavily take action when you realize your viable business model is advertising and that means some level of brand safety.
One of my funniest moments as an intern was helping one of my mentors accidentally delete her entire inbox. I can't even remember what we were trying to do with her inbox, but deleting the entire contents was not it. There was a moment of panic, then calm. She just told me: if it's important, they'll email me again. And we moved on and never spoke of it again.
Didn’t Google get rid of it as well?
Is this just a difference of perspective? Seems like GP's point was that software has latent value, and differentiation, and the act of selling is commodifiable.

Your point, correct me if I'm wrong, is that software is more the commodity and sales is differentiable?

I wonder how this stacks up against other software that yielded massive public utility, like UNIX, or the internet.
It's even more amazing because EA didn't do the port, Aspyr did, and they're still around to do an Apple Silicon port.

I wonder how it affects mods, I might have to dive back in ...

I also note it's on the Mac App Store so that's probably why they're upgrading it.

Still, worth the buy at Steam for $2.
as a software engineer (and lately manager) my most toxic workplace was my first and only non-remote job - from 2010 to 2014/2015. and to my surprise my best job (in terms of org patterns, good tech and people management) was as a contractor.

also, just to make sure it's clear to anybody reading about remote vs non-remote. remote doesn't mean no meatspace meeting ever allowed. remote team members are not under chess king rules. we did meet IRL. for some jobs it was just 1 week in 10 months. (thanks COVID) but otherwise it can be a lot more. (1 week every quarter kind of makes sense, but so does anything that members are up to - especially if they live close to each other.)
Some interesting links and tools in this thread, e.g. datasette.io
“Am I arguing with someone I do not know?”

Asking myself that question when I reply to someone who replied to me helps cut that off.

I also picture that meme-ably smug fellow sitting behind a card table with some provoking statement, and the sentence “Prove me wrong.” No, I don’t owe you my time and energy to try changing a mind not interested in changing, but in attracting attention.
Not true in any field I have been associated with. Many, if not most conference review processes use blind reviews. Conferences are not full of "invited" speakers. Maybe one or two plenary sessions at the beginning, but the rest submitted their own papers and went through the blind review process. Certainly true in the best EE, CS, and ML conferences. I've served on program committees for international conferences. Around 100 papers selected typically, only two invited papers.
This reminded me of work I did for Proton/Wine a few years back: finding a buffer overflow in the Rockstar Games Launcher installer NSIS script, having to implement an ancient deprecated Windows named pipe mode that RGL uses, reverse-engineering the VRAM display/detection in GTA IV…

If anyone wants to do this kind of reverse-engineering for a living, we’re hiring at CodeWeavers: https://www.codeweavers.com/about/jobs
> demand a larger share of the billions in wealth we’ve generated for the VCs and CEOs

Yeah, well, thoughts like that only come from a context in which there is zero understanding of the realities of business and what it takes to profitably run one. I always find this interesting. Not sure if people just say this kind of thing to just be one of the bro's or because they really believe it. I hope it isn't the latter.

A while back one of my kids had a college-level business class in high school. Their final project was to put together a full presentation, financials and a pitch to get a loan for a mid size bakery ($5MM/year gross revenue).

He was absolutely astounded to learn just how difficult it was to make money in that business. When his team started on the project they pretty much assumed that with $5MM/yr the owner was just raking it in. It was nothing less than hilarious when he came into my office one day to tell me he could not believe what it took to be in business and make money. He had a revelation few people have. He had it at 15 years of age. Most adults don't have a clue about this their entire lives.

VC's? They risk millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions. And, guess what? Most of their bets might lose money or barely make any. People only see success, they never stop to consider and internalize what it took to get there.

CEO's? Try running a non-trivial company and see how it goes. Heck, even a medium company can put you in the hospital! My prior startup did that to me twice in ten years.

Our country would derive great benefit from delivering real financial education before we launch young adults into the world. Ignorance has consequences. Generational consequences.
On the other hand, that "increased global competition" brought you much of the software you use every day, especially if you work in a Linux shop.
Maybe GPTCache can reduce the count of llm request for lower cost.
detail: https://github.com/zilliztech/GPTCache
While I agree with the sentiment I think weight is the better lever here. Size for the most part will also affect weight, but weight is the thing that causes the bigger cost in energy use, road maintenance, road noise, consequences of collisions etc.

A car that is too big to use in regular lanes or parking lots should be banned from street use or come with it's own hefty share of fees, bureaucracy and paperwork.
You can try skypilot: https://skypilot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

It handles storage, setup, etc for machine learning work loads across several providers - which helps a lot if you need one of the instances that rarely have capacity like 8x A100 pods.
This is exactly the “drinking more coffee will save the planet” article I have been waiting for
Other options for accelerated regexes:

https://github.com/VectorCamp/vectorscan
https://www.hyperscan.io/
There used to be lots of issues with rotating the screen, many apps would lose UI state almost as if everything was torn down and rebuilt. Never looked at the code but guessed it was never designed to be an iPhone.
To me, it sounds like you are substituting activity for leadership.
Why won't you cite that research then, instead of these baby numbers--quoting a top estimated savings of under $11M over an entire state system (i.e. with budgets on the order of billions)?

The one I originally cited, which was arguing against private prisons, conceded that private prisons were nominally $5,000/yr cheaper than public prisons, but taking the 90-extra-days (on average) spent at private facilities into account incurs a "value of freedom" cost, which they have estimated at $1,000 per sentence. The paper they were paraphrasing[0] from claims, "delayed release erodes half of the cost savings offered by private contracting". In other words, the other half of the cost savings are still intact.

Or there's this Brookings paper[1], which is a little more in your favor:

> Private prisons cost the state an average of $46.50 per prisoner per day in 2012, while the state’s comparable public facilities ranged from $35.11 to $40.47.

Taking the smallest state figure, the private prison is 32% higher; the largest state figure, and the private prison is 15% higher, neither of which are 2-3x more.

[0] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2523238

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/es_2016...
I have not seen many setups that wouldn’t pay itself back (including energy in my case) within a year (sometimes even 6 months) with buying vs renting. For something that pays itself back that fast, and that is without renting it out myself, just training with it, I cannot see how I would want to rent one.

Edit; on Lambda labs, the only exception seems to be the H100; it would be 1.5 years or so, but even 2 years would still fast enough. I have an A100 which paid itself back; thinking of getting another one.
Those two insults aren't even consistent with each other.
You can apply that argument to any kind of moderation. The core problem is not that hate speech is censored, the problem is about who is responsible for applying the rules and how these people are selected.

Hacker News is also censored and moderated, but it is my impression that the mods are quite carefully selected. On Reddit, the mods are anonymous and external, and are elected in an opaque process which I don't have a good understanding of. I fear that you end up with the catch 22 also seen in homeowner's associations: The people who have the time and dedication to rise to the top in these kinds of organizations are exactly the people you don't want to be in charge.
The teacup is too small to be seen by any Earth's telescope.

Is the burden of proof still on me? Why?
I think houses are for the duel FAANG income, no kids crowd. Even on a senior FAANG salary, there's no knob I can turn on the calculator that ends up making sense for me to buy at these interest rates (in a part of town that doesn't leave me with a >1hr commute).

I remain a renter. Dump it all into stocks and hope for the best!
You're still running Zoom's or Google's code, which could do whatever it wants behind your back.
Despite all the ignorant ant-union talk on HN, this comment is easily taking the crown. It simultaniously fails to grasp what unions did for worker and employee rights and manages to insult all union memebers and, basically, most blue collar folks. Well done, now tell that opinion to your FAANG dirwctor and wait for the promotions to come your way.
Yes, they are so far more open than open<for business>ai.
Great, thanks for the replies.

Regarding the settings, you're right that many users would only go there once; however, it's likely they would go looking for settings once they're already in a comment thread (or at least I was!).

I agree that mis-tapping could lead to confusion if stacks could be opened that way, but closing requires a swipe. But since you can tap to go into an article, it seems natural to tap to go into a stack also.

Regardless, I'm really enjoying the app's interface. I also sent you a message via your website's Google form, with other ideas. Congrats on the concept and execution!
What if I use my own proprietary encryption algorithm? If I don't specify a file extension, then how could they tell what algorithm is used -- it's just a scramble of bytes.

In fact, what if encryption one day gets so good we cannot distinguish it from plain English? Kinda like trying to spot LLM generated content.
I tried the english TTS example and the result is quite underwhelming (compared to bark or polly/azure-tts ). It sounds like TTS systems one or two decades ago. Would those language-specific TTS models need to be finetuned?
Similar experience on the internal shows at Nokia, when several of us tried to suggest Maemo should have a radio antenna instead of just wlan.
IIRC there was a soviet sity simulator that had some of that; but the games usually just wash it away with "cost to bulldoze".

It would be fun to have a game where you have about as much control as a "real" city and mainly what you do is pull levers behind the scenes to get people to do what you want.

SimCity meets Dwarf Fortress, perhaps.
> I mean, Ghislaine Maxwell was the head moderator of /r/news.

Based on what? Beside some greentexts.
If this seems unremarkable on its own, take a look at the entire cache it was discovered in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrhynchus_Papyri

Highlights:

Only an estimated 10% are literary in nature. Most of the papyri found seem to consist mainly of public and private documents: codes, edicts, registers, official correspondence, census-returns, tax-assessments, petitions, court-records, sales, leases, wills, bills, accounts, inventories, horoscopes, and private letters.

Since 1898, academics have collated and transcribed over 5,000 documents from what were originally hundreds of boxes of papyrus fragments the size of large cornflakes. This is thought to represent only 1 to 2% of what is estimated to be at least half a million papyri still remaining to be conserved, transcribed, deciphered and catalogued. The most recent published volume was Vol. LXXXVI, released on 30 November 2021.
An employer may prefer to have people in the office, but if they can only hire remote then they may prefer to do it at the offshore rates.

I have been in exactly this situation many times in recent years. My go-to would have been a team of co-located contractors in London. As soon as WFH became the norm, paying 40-60% of the rates in Eastern Europe or cheaper areas of the UK was a no brainer.
As an ex-amazonian myself I agree with the first part about data driven and writing culture and that much of the way this is presented is very non-amazonian, but I'm not getting how rto is a "cookie cutter" example of day 2 behavior. Given that many startups are pushing for in person recently (at least publically, I'm not weighing in either way), how is going in person clearly something that means amazon is past the day 1/early culture?
You aren't wrong
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There's a gesture now, but the consistent OS response is the important bit.
I would posit the woo woo just changes flavor outside core hours
Isn't it all the way up though? The VP's don't want to lose head count either, thats how they measure their empire.
Unsure if this comment is satire or not?
I didn't know about Vanilla OS. So it's a distro that wants to provide a stable and coherent set of packages, with as few modifications as possible from upstream? And they opted for deb for the compatibility?

I see the appeal of being Ubuntu-based. They do the bulk of the work of releasing stabilized snapshots of Debian Sid. But indeed you need to revert a lot of stuff if you do this, and increasingly so.

> Ubuntu provides a modified version of the GNOME desktop, which does not match how GNOME envisions its desktop

As a KDE user on openSUSE that spend a lot of time on Ubuntu (before Gnome 3), I think this is the one thing that seems nice about Ubuntu customizations. This Unity-like version of Gnome seems appealing.

Basing on Debian seems like a good idea. Debian is great. Releasing stable snapshots of Debian Sid while handling security seems painful.

Good luck to them, I hope it works out well for them!
For a company so metrics data driven - their RTO writeups sure do lack hard data from what’s been shared publicly.
I am amazed how one can teach a subject with such enthusiasm for 60 years and never get bored of it. Hats off to Prof Strang for kindling in me the love for mathematics.
I didn't even knew they existed, so whatever makes them happy.
I've always suspected that the primary education system purposefully avoids financial education because of fears that too many people attempting to join the ownership class would cause civil unrest.
The precision used should match the requirements of the dataset, the training process, and the available compute. There are practical uses to 16-Bit FP training.

"Our findings demonstrate that pure 16-bit floating-point neural networks can achieve similar or even better performance than their mixed-precision and 32-bit counterparts." This is a very deceptive statement. Take 100 initialization states and train a FP16 vs a FP32 network, and you'll find FP32 will have an accuracy advantage. It's certainly possible to conclude this if a small sample of networks are trained. This paper goes on to state, "Lowering the precision of real numbers used for the neural network’s weights to fixed-point, as shown in [11], leads to a significant decrease in accuracy.", while later concluding, "we have shown that pure 16-bit networks can perform on par with, if not better than, mixed-precision and 32-bit networks in various image classification tasks." The results certainly do, but that doesn't really give an accurate evaluation of what's really going on here. A FP64 network can fall into a local minima and be outperformed by a PF16 network, but is it correct to say the FP16 network is better. I'm getting a lot of mixed signals.

I feel like, "significant implications" is quite a stretch.

A few concerns: Besides figure 3, other results do not provide side-by-side test vs validation accuracy to attempt demonstrate the network is not overfit, and the only mention of normalization was the custom batch normalization operation.

This may more be a rant about the current state of ML, but in a perfect world, we wouldn't use GPUs/would enforce deterministic calculations, results would be replicable, we'd train hundreds if not thousands of networks to draw conclusions from, we'd better understand how to visualize network accuracies and overfitting, and all datasets would be free of bias and accurately generalize the problem attempting to be modelled. We can dream.
I have just done that :-), but then I've worked remote for years.
Red Alert 2. That was such a fun game. One thing that has been majorly lost in games now is the ability to create levels too. I loved the creation part
My good man, you are responding to an actual union organizer who actually spent the recent boom years doing "now is the right time" work at software companies, at the actual right time.
Here's my hot take that's not actually that hot, I'll start with an analogy every engineer should agree with:

There is a sweet spot for "amount of process" that makes individuals and teams the most productive. Note, I didn't necessarily say happiest, and the productivity may not be sustainable indefinitely but we all know there is a certain sweet spot. Too much process kills productivity. "Can I just please leave this fucking meeting and start writing code?". No process also sucks. "Oh shit, you built that API? I thought I was supposed to be building that"

But just the right amount unblocks everyone and lets teams build stuff efficiently.

The trouble is "the right amount" is different by person, by team, and by project. So the most important thing of any process is to have it be constantly re-evaluated and adjusted as the team and work evolves. But I think we've all been there on a team when things just glide and try to recreate that for the rest of our careers.

I think the same is true for remote work vs in-office work. Sure, on the right task working from home is positively ethereal compared to an office filled with interruptions. But on a long enough timeline, and especially if you are part of the creative process of engineering (ie not just "converting requirements into code" but helping define the requirements, and contributing to the full product, which good companies incentivize their engineers to do), then you do want to be in person with your teammates for at least part of the time. Juniors need access to Seniors to ask questions sitting next to each other or even pair programming. And there is nothing quite like iterating on a design with a peer at a whiteboard compared to a remote session.

Balanced effectively by good teams, a mixture of in-person and remote work is probably the most efficient answer for most teams.

The problem is:

1/ It doesn't happen automatically, much like refining a process, figuring out this balance is going to require much tuning and adaptation. And a top-down company-wide mandate for the same process is the opposite of empowering that for teams bottoms-up.

2/ It has meaningful consequences for people's lives - things like where they reside, and how they commute. Whatever improvements come with a hybrid work environment are probably lost by the candidates you lose who refuse to move, and the sacrifices people have to make in the rest of their lives.
I mean, on the whole we profit more by having a cheap source of competent labor adjacent to europe, but that doesn't stop the military-industrial-congressional complex from making sales.
Screen actors seem to like theirs, so do screen writers, producers, casting agents...
When I talk to people older than me they think some of the NES games were the best ever released. But I look at the graphics and I just can’t get over it.
> 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.

You're confusing your perception of how your mind works with how your mind actually works.

Simply put, we have no idea how the human mind works. For all we know, its underlying principles could be very similar to LLMs, or they could be something nobody has thought of yet. But under no circumstances is human intuition about the human mind a reliable indicator for what is actually going on.

This is like asking ChatGPT why it came up with a specific response. It will give you an answer, of course, but that answer is generated the same way all its answers are – ChatGPT doesn't suddenly turn on a magic "introspection mode" that allows it to examine its internals. And there's no reason to assume that humans have such an introspection mode either. In fact, many results from experimental psychology seem to indicate that humans don't understand their own mental operations at all.
This is the kind of book that I'd like to read on my Kindle while commuting to work. However, the author only offers the book as PDF. I'd would be nice if other formats are also available, at least EPUB.

Right now, I am reading Django for Beginners [1] which is available in EPUB. I could read it in PDF but the experience will not be the same.

[1] https://djangoforbeginners.com