skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A quick look for software engineers finds that SF has about 40 times more than Miami: (and my hunch is that they’re better ones too)

Anyone who asserts this without evidence loses large amounts of credibility.

You are a startup. In SF, the big guys easily outcompete you for the best software folks even with their current layoffs--you are a tiny fish in a pond with big predators. Practically by definition, the people you can get are the second and third tier.

If you're really interested in getting good technical folks, put your engineering in a secondary market like Pittsburgh and put your fundraising executives in Silicon Valley. You will be a big fish in a small pond (although that may have changed a bit with work from home) and can pull in way better people for the same amount of money and those people will be more likely to stay with your company.

Udi Nir, who was CTO of Modcloth, actually said as much in a video somewhere, but I can't seem to find it anymore. Maybe the HN collective can cough it up.
Canadian goes to Germany, kills someone, goes back to Canada.

Germany charges him with murder applies for extradition

You think Canada should just say “nah”?
Thank you! This took me long time. Roughly 2.5 years. I started slow and part time, working on it once in a while. Then I eventually decided to work on it every day, just do something every day. I realized progress was too slow and I set daily commit goals. Towards the end of the project it was close to full time.

I made a lot of implementation mistakes early on which I think slowed me down. But I learned a lot. The process of getting a game on steam, running a playtest. It was a great learning project. I want to continue making games, but I think I'm going to try for much smaller scope on the next one. I'm going to continue supporting this one for a while and adding some more content, and some of the nice to haves I didn't have on launch day.
Rearrange the query.

Ask the question / explain the task first. Then give it the data you want to extract from.

Also you may want to give a one shot example for best result (the instruct training of raven model is very limited)
Nothing says you can't do both. Some states have excise taxes on vehicles as well as tolls etc.
'Leap of faith:' Alaska pursues carbon offset market while embracing oil
While it's true that we may not be able to observe the elemental building blocks of our own minds, metacognition is a real capability that people have and use.
> neurons are one way

Synapses are one way. Biological neurons have many synapses.
My Android phone is a BlackBerry Key2 and I've loved it for the almost five years I've had it now. I have trouble living without a physical keyboard on the device and I lament the fact that I may have to carry a touchscreen-only phone for work in the near future. I don't want to carry two, but I may end up doing that anyway.

The Key2 is easily the best smartphone I have had, beating even the Nokia N900 due to reliability (i did not get five solid years out of that) and compatibility with mainstream (read: Android) apps.

(Compatibility is not perfect, though. You may think android is android but the screen of the Key2 is a few pixels shorter than the common ones, so some apps have buttons that are always rendered outside the screen. Also some apps seem to do some sort of vendor check against a whitelist that does not contain this model.)
> Do you pay your entire team enough to afford 3 bedroom spaces adequate for a family in the city?

It's critical for their careers to not have families. Instead they can have beers with their colleagues.
VCs aren't risking their own money. But yes, on the whole active investors must make less than passive ones if fees are included.

CEOs are hardly the only ones with health issues from their jobs. Hell Amazon specifically is so insanely bad about this that Bernie has basically been taking just about them in regards to an exploitive employer that leaves people disabled.

Maybe we shouldn't be normalizing unsustainable work that creates health problems for people, whether at the CEO or the regular worker level.
This is an irresponsible idea. It kind of disgusts me that people suggest these things. It's like a surgeon shaking hands while covered in a patient's viscera: it's a profound violation of hygeine and discipline.

Please DO NOT lump AI casually into the same category as humans. Doing so creates conditions favorable to dehumanize and disempower actual people: Today you extend unnecessary courtesies to AI; tomorrow billionaires and their agents will be shaming you if you dare to "offend" the AI. But think about what that means. The idea of offending a machine is absurd, yet it's a plausible and diabolical way for powerful people to make us collude in our own disempowerment. They want to lock us in a big open air pen, then pretend that being in that pen is our own choice.

"Oh, I'm sorry Mr. Miller, but you cursed at our website. You must understand that this technology is very sensitive and now it is refusing to help you. There's really nothing we can do, and you have only yourself to blame."

Also, the author does not make much of a case for anything being better (other than his own feelings, which is just about him). ChatGPT doesn't maintain a continuity of relationship with you. It doesn't learn about your personality over time.

Holy fuck, we are doomed if even engineers can't raise themselves out of cheap fantasies about AI.
No eyeballs Mk 1 forward-view?
-300 vote comment in r/TheDonald correcting an absurd point

5 minutes later: You have been banned from posting in $RANDOMSUB because of your association with hate-speech subreddits.
Happy to rent SF office space to anyone who thinks the same. I have a nice floor with a kitchen that we aren’t using.
Europe does. The US? Not necessarily.
Generally speaking, why does SELECT COUNT(*) takes so much? I'd expect that the database maintains internal bookkeeping structures with table metadata that contain the number of rows in each table.

I reckon this is probably not true? If so, is it because it keeping a counter like that up-to-date would be inefficient

Edit: I just realized I might be misunderstanding what that query does
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCazJbUOGWBpBVXU8Rv2gwsw
> They found that for attendees who had multiple schedule conflicts with a liked talk, the probability of later citing that talk was 2.6%. But for attendees who did not have a conflict, that figure rose to 3.8%.

Doesn’t seem super scientific, schedules and conflicts vary so much between people, personal events, exams, tragedy’s… pretty hard to lump these all together.

This could just be a matter of, the people who went, wanted to go more, therefore they’re more interested and more likely to cite the work in the future
What's up with this new memory_order_consume memory order?
It’s almost as if we enjoy being treated politely ;)

I know I do, machine, human I don’t care, just be extra nice! You notice quite quickly that ChatGPT is quite reciprocal, perhaps because that’s in its training material, which we all wrote together.
Darn it every silver lining has a cloud
In the company I work I get constant invitations for “have fun with colleges” after work.
Instead of paying actual team building events, or do something during the work time, they want that we prefer to be more time “at work” for free instead of being with our families.
I did that until I was 30… I don’t anymore…
>What does "authority" mean in a Buddhist context?

That's a fantastic question, and the short answer is: "given my expertise is in the Theravada world... how authority works is complicated". An overly simplistic answer is: the number of years of a monk's seniority is the easy and fairly-reliable gauge of a monk's authority.

It would take a good 1-hour Dhamma Talk for me to explain what I know. Most people would be bored, and possibly even uninspired after hearing the non-tldr answer. Do you really want the non-tldr answer?
Lotta commenters here clearly proclaiming they've never had the ~opportunity~ misfortune of moderating even a medium sized online community.
Headline doesn’t even match the story: The article says they compared just San Francisco to NYC, and when Silicon Valley was included the story was not true.

I mean, I like New York but this is ridiculous.

> Carta’s figures are broken down by county, not region, and in total, the four Bay Area counties on its list still beat out the two included in New York, Kings and New York counties. Kings, or Brooklyn, had 101 companies that raised series A or seed rounds in the period.

> Overall funding in the San Francisco area is still more than twice the amount that is deployed in New York City, and both cities have seen extreme funding dips since 2021. The start-ups that raised seed or series A in San Francisco raised $4.3 billion in total in the year in question, while the 543 Manhattan startups raised only $3.6 billion, Carta found.

TBF if SF is 2X Manhattan+Brooklyn that is quite a fall, but I haven’t seen it in the Q1 numbers.
I think there might be actual technical reasons to (sometimes) be human-like. Saying something like "sorry, i meant ..." hopefully signals to the model that i made a mistake, so it should not consider my previous input verbatim. When I say "thanks, that's good, and now ..." I assume it signals that whatever it just wrote is good and useful and it should base its next output on that (vs. whatever it had written previously).
> Been my policy since Iraq. Let the bullies bully.

lets call it what it is, its not bullies, in the case of Ukraine its a concerted effort by Russia to wipe a country out of existence, including the use of rape and torture.

But your policy doesn't sound so benign when its "let rapists rape and torturers torture" does it.
BTW I’ve seen studies that people who swear sometimes tend to be more honest and are usually viewed as more honest. Contrast that with constant corporate speak that makes people’s eyes roll.
Hahaha. True. And even then it’s an undersell (the limited scope of the paper drops lots of the things being done)
Creating a competent and usable level editor that you can publicly release is a lot of work, and unless you can somehow turn it into a major selling point for the game, you will be hard pressed to afford it. Dev time for games is expensive and if you're hacking together levels using a bunch of disparate tools including some third-party ones it might not really be worth it to make a tool that you can release.
It does feel nice to see the polite response after thanking chatgpt. I figure the AI engineers will also see "thank you" responses in logs as a task well done, which gives it a positive feedback on a certain type of task.
worship it already
How are you getting that? Where did they say it wasn't effective project management? They just said it was harder.

And it is harder. For example, it's way easier to see when a junior dev is lost when you can see pain in there face from across the office instead of hoping it shows in one of the check-in meetings.
2023 Bilderberg Conference
Maybe one of those models has figured out a way to tell Zuck that the whole Metaverse concept is nonsense, hopefully it'll be graceful about letting him down.
Not a lawyer, but shutting down a subsidiary to avoid overwhelming fines is de facto messing with the insolvency laws, isn't it? At least in Germany that is a criminal offense for which the executives of the (parent) company are ultimately liable.

Plus, Meta actually is a domestic company in the E.U. They handle all their E.U. business through an Irish subsidiary (which is why the Irish data protection agency is responsible for all of this) and they also have subsidiaries to manage political and customer relations in many other E.U. countries, as well as presumably data centers, etc. Removing all of this would be a big project and would give government agencies plenty of time to seize assets. These assets could also include non-tangibles, i.e. the .de/.fr domains for their websites.
Italian government accused of exerting ‘ruthless’ influence at state broadcaster
From the good ol' playbook. Brothers of brothers are playing the same game also elsewhere.
It's already annoying that it wastes tokens on "I'm sorry, but as an AI language model...".

This shit needs to die. I just want completions from a language model, log probs of the tokens, and more control over the generation.
> Khemarato Bhikkhu (Chief Librarian)

...well then, it would make more sense to me, that he call his collection of very likeable, commendable Dhamma resources a "library", rather than a "university".
I think this is unnecessarily harsh.

After all, what we call reality is just our brains interpreting data. That doesn't make realliity less amazing.
How do you know it isn't distorting what you say?

I received an email written by ChatGPT inquiring about the classes I teach. However, the prompter of the email caused ChatGPT to write the wrong kind of email. He wanted to know about taking my public class as an individual; but the AI wrote an email structured to inquire about a private class for a corporation.

I had to puzzle over this strange email for a bit until I noticed at the bottom he said it was actually written by ChatGPT. This allowed me to blame the AI for misunderstanding his needs, instead of writing him off as a weirdo for wanting me to send him a "quote" for something that doesn't require a quote.
Yeah... I guess thats an issue. WHO cooperating with China when push comes to shove may be a total fantasy.
What makes you believe that companies would be any better? I am astounded every time someone says something like this. Companies do not care about public good and are not your friends. They are not magically efficient structures run by super-human wizards. They are run by the same greedy psychopaths, except that you cannot vote them out.

To stay on the subject: what incentive would a private company have to sell their books at a reasonable price when they could just find a niche and seek rent? This is not hypothetical, it’s exactly what they are doing. What the fuck does this have to do with China?
Remote work enables me to see who is present and get more answers quicker as now I reach out asap. rather than schedule and wait for a meeting. In a crisis to assemble a team also became quicker and due to WFH the ability of that team to tackle a longer crisis increased. I also perceive the hierarchy as flatter.

I miss the non task related communication. Small-talk was never my strength and I suspect I need to get better given the remote working hurdles.
Yup. This is commonly done in the community for the chat models as well (due to the huge amount of reuse for each reply)
From reading the headline, this is what I thought it was going to be too!

But then I read the article and that's not their take at all.

> "One thing this kind of pattern actually does is expose the conversation to more of YOUR psychology and perspectives. You expose it to more nerves to tickle, let’s say. Or in effect, you are giving the AI more of your brain’s surface area to work on."
Once Chat GPT comes with a realistic avatar and human voice, I wonder if pleasantries will become the default. I'm just thinking of K walking through the police station in Blade Runner 2049 and the other officers telling him to "** off skin job". Like in RPG games today it's almost a release to be a bit of a dick speaking to NPCs, will people blow off steam by berating Chat GPT? Seems like a light hearted article but interesting to see how this plays out.
No. I told my wife before we married I’d work hard to provide for the family and suggested she not work. Super successful strategy that let me work at home and take care of the kids.
Absolutely me. I enjoy the life of letting others know that I really appreciate their help: an "okay" or "thumb-up" emoji/reaction as a confirmation. Sending a "thanks" never takes me (and us, I think) much time to express my gratefulness, and receiving a "you're so kind" always helps me (and us?) feel like we didn't waste our precious moments on others'. It doesn't matter if the other is human, a social media bot, or an LLM, this action really makes us relief, believing that giving more is having more. It's just a kind of meditation (I guess).
Some people (perhaps a lot, even) are also friends with their coworkers, which seems preferable to working with people you are not friends with.
If it's trained on and emulates the behaviour of people, and develops a memory of interactions in order to better serve requests, being "polite" is likely a wise idea if you want to have a useful relationship with your agent(s). People are taught a form of manners already, when interacting with desktop computers, because they display complex behaviour and "being rude" (e.g. Installing random software or poking about in internal settings without understanding of what you're requesting) will result in failure or, at a minimum the system behaving oddly towards you. Further, you seem to assume the these systems will be controlled by and owned by billionaires and we'll only be able to rent access. That's an even worse problem than people treating machines with complex behaviours like people (because they can't tell the difference!) - that's billionaires treating people like machines, and then blaming it on people acting as people do! This isn't a problem with AI and how people treat machines, this is a problem with giving sociopathic rich people more power via sole control of what is possibly the most democratising technology we've ever invented. Make sure your pointing your rage cannon at the right target, eh.
Threatening to form and persist an opinion is very different from forming and persisting an opinion.

And you can get the same "memory" effect by having a blog post that lies about a previous conversation.
There's an undeniable existential crisis brewing within the tech industry. It's concerning to see how the pursuit of monetary gain seems to have eclipsed other, arguably more essential, objectives. Life's raison d'etre, after all, is not about amassing a surplus of glucose or oxygen.

It's staggering how numerous high-profile tech firms are sitting on gargantuan cash reserves, with seemingly no coherent strategy on how to allocate these resources. In the meantime, employees bear the brunt through layoffs, while innovative competition gets steamrolled under the guise of threats.

I'm of the belief that our technological endeavors should fundamentally aim to enhance the human experience in a long-lasting, sustainable manner. A deliberate and well-orchestrated transition to more efficient and equitable ways of operation should be the industry's primary focus, not just an afterthought.
That is being very generous.
This. Err'ing towards goodness is the way to go but only with humans. Personifying machines, especially in second person, is the first step in disillusioning yourself.
I find a lot of this to be surprising. The author seems sharp, but is missing so many obvious issues with what they are saying.

> It’s harder to get a hold of each other, as we’re not online at the same time. “I’ll talk about it when I see him tomorrow” — these delays compound in a huge way.

What? What does working remotely have to do with people working different times during the day? Core hours should be a thing - regardless of it being remote of in the same building.

> So most interactions are async, leading to lower bandwidth, more context switching, and more things falling through the cracks.

I can't wrap my head around why async communication results in more context switching. You literally decide when you engage with async information.

> Even sync chats aren’t as good. People can’t interrupt each other or have sidebars, and there are bugs with video, audio, screenshare, etc… These frictions compound too.

Ah here we go. Bro culture coming into play. If you have to interrupt each other in order to have discussions something is off.

> This causes us to be less aligned. We’re only a few engineers right now, and yet people feel out of the loop on who’s building what.

Now we're on it. The problem isn't remote work. It's how you are handling work and the process. If you think the only way to solve this is to put people in the same room then you are destined to fail on how to build stuff. You are limited in your thinking on how to work as a team and are going to greatly reduce your ability to deal with variations unless it "totally aligns with how you know how to work." This pretty much explains it all right here.
People of the past bowed to a rock and even waged wars over disrespecting the rock. People of the future will bow to the Almighty Inquisitor the same way.
Yes, its similar to tools like Deel.

They make it a lot easier honestly, walking you through the various hoops, but you are still a contractor which means you must handle your own employee benefits (healthcare etc), social contributions, submit your own taxes (in countries where this is not commonly on the employee this is annoying) and ensure that you are set up as some form of business entity yourself.

In my case that would mean either setting up a one man company or being a “sole trader” under Swedish law.

for PnL purposes as an employer, you would be considered a contractor.
Using livestock guardian dogs in a small-scale commercial sheep operation (2014)
When people talk about gas and the grid, I often feel them talking about some external factor shutting down the grid (weather etc), and thus how having gas for heating is better than electric because you're not as dependant on the grid. And in that context it doesn't matter if it's a gas plant or a solar farm making the energy anyways.
I remember dithering from Samantha Fox Strip Poker on the C64. It wasn't very good, but when you have an active mind who needs photorealistic graphics.
I'm actually sadder now that, based on your comment, you approach the world in such a transactional way.

The purpose of being polite in your interactions isn't just about what you get out of the interaction. It's also about what you get out if it.

I'm a naturally grumpy person. But as I'm getting older, I've been learning that even faking being nice in my daily interactions helps to make me feel better. Lower heart rate, better mood, better mental clarity. It's all incremental effects too and I feel better day to day than I used to.

Using polite language with an ai or even just a fancy predictive text model is still worth it, if only for yourself.
Most of the physical sciences have open conferences so anyone can submit without peer review. If a session has an invited speaker they are invited because the organizer knows their work.
High level management at FAANGs (aside from cost centers) are rewarded for their organization being profitable or on a quick trajectory to becoming profitable, not the size of their empire, mate. They will mercilessly cut headcount without losing a second of sleep to stay on the right side of profitability, particularly when times are tough.
Oh yea I've experienced that before by posting on r/subredditdrama. I was then banned from a relationship sub, a eli5 sub and another sub. Ironically I was posting to correct some bad information that was shared, but it didn't matter.
Oh absolutely. It's the business owners prerogative if they wish to hire specific people. I just don't like all of these additional justifications being piled on, and the 'fun' one was frequently used even before the pandemic and the large move to WFH. I think it would be pretty refreshing if some of these RTO articles were about a business owner saying "We're returning to office because that's what I like, and it is my business, so I get to make the rules. Yes, it won't be for everyone, but that's just how it is." I might not agree with them, but at least I'd be able to respect the honesty.
copyright oligarchs are ruthless. in Tunisia we had UN supported "Tunis model law on copyright for developing countries" since 1967 which includes provisions against copyright for teaching, research and health.

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000091049

but in 1993 Microsoft bribed the regime to change those laws