skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn’t aware of how true this is until I got to see larger companies up close.

People are incredibly siloed and very incentivized to make the issue someone else’s problem - if you have a vendor you can shift the problem onto, even better.
Presumably 1 in 10 dentists.

I wonder what the parent poster would think about the consensus on evolution, or gravity.
I feel like saying that you don’t want to judge someone and then generalizing about people like them is pretty much putting that judgment out there.
100%. I don't use any payment/money apps and my life hasn't skipped a beat. If friends complain, I tell them to write me a check or give me cash. Works just fine.
Nobody trusts encryption built into tape drives for the same reason nobody trusts encryption built into hard drives.

Even things like Windows Bitlocker and LUKS/dmcrypt on Linux totally ignore the drives ability to do any encryption, and do all encryption using the CPU before the drive sees the data.

Bitlocker/LUKS could easily just calculate the encryption keys and send them to the drive and trust it to encrypt/decrypt data for them... but they don't.
"There are many more Israeli civilian casualties as a result of terrorist action. "

I really do not claim to be an expert of the conflict, but I try to be neutral and the first google result shows:

https://www.statista.com/chart/16516/israeli-palestinian-cas...

"The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has been tracking deaths in the conflict since 2008 and its data shows that 5,600 Palestinians died up to 2020 while 115,000 were injured. 250 Israelis died during the same period while 5,600 were injured."

5600 vs 250

But sure, that text alone does not cite exactly who was killed, but even if you also count teenagers who throw rocks at walls as terrorists - then I still doubt you get a higher israeli death toll.

"The 2nd link was blown wildly out of proportion, a group of Israelis rioted and burnt down… a junk yard. "

And killed someone and wounded 4.

"In an active battle during a war non-combatants will die. Calling that terrorism is simply dishonest."

"Some of the Palestinian Arabs were killed in the course of the battle, others while trying to flee or surrender. A number of prisoners were executed, some after being paraded in West Jerusalem, where they were jeered, spat at, stoned, and eventually executed.[1][5][6] In addition to the killing and widespread looting, there may have been cases of mutilation and rape"

And this really does not sound like just ordinary combat casualties to me. Also are you aware of the context? The villagers were trying to defend their homes. They lived there. Why did they had to go away to make room for Israeli settlers? This is the core of the Palestine grief as far as I understand. They lived there and then they had to go away and live now in a prison without rights. I don't think the conflict can ever be resolved by just stating they are all terrorists. Now quite some of them are, sure, but maybe there are reasons, why they became that way?
I don't think your suggestion is a bad one, but I'm not convinced it would have a meaningful impact on one's ability to accept the criticism in the first place. Just because it is occurring at a different phase in the process wouldn't (for me) change my reaction to receiving criticism. But fair point that in your experience this is a useful strategy to make criticism easier to receive.
Author of the post here - this has been a trend that seems to be taking hold as platform organizations are evolving. I've seen a trend where edicts come down on high, but the engineering leader never tried the flow.
Yah. In reading more, it appears centered a lot around emergency alerting infrastructure.
The next step would be digitizing the books and manuscripts so scholars can collectively research the finding.

https://www.medievalists.net/?s=digitizing&submit=Search

I wonder what the cost of this digitization process would be and what research labs can render this service.
Try using InstructXL for embeddings. It’s got a more complex prompt structure for generating embeddings which might be more useful
Apparent risks of tachycardia syndrome diagnoses after Covid vacc. and Infection
People forget that just because a payment services is so entrenched and powerful that many people think of it more like a public utility doesn't mean it isn't just as amoral as any other company. Visa has shattered entire industries on a whim by deciding it was simply more profitable not to service certain classes of people or professions. Somehow they're allowed to do that. We need common-carrier rules for payment processors.
Many problems with language that seemed intractable appear to be solved by LLMs but that may be a bit of an illusion.

Note a "chatbot" is fundamentally a manual system that is animated and supervised by a user, when you start building something that works without supervision (say a webcrawler) you start to see these are not ready for prime time. Chatbots already have superhuman performance at seduction (your personal viewpoint, narcissism, "soul", are all impediments to this) and are very good at getting you to think a 70% full glass is almost 100% full. I think the "generate high probability text" bypasses the mechanisms in your mind that perceive incongruities. It will be scary when these are applied to romance scams, "pig butchering" and the like.

There are some NLP tasks (relation extraction) where LLM zero-shot performance is better than the status quo, but in these cases the status quo is preparadigmatic (fancy way to say "it sucks".)

There are two hype trains as to superintelligent A.I: (1) "A.I. Safety" teams in big tech that first made A.I. look important because it was dangerous, and then confirmed their own legitimacy by being sacked ("it is so dangerous they had to fire us to cover up the danger") and (2) an apocalyptic cult that has been preparing for this moment for almost twenty years.

My take is that the efficiency of these things is going to improve dramatically (you'll be using a specialized model that beats GPT-4 at your task that uses 1/1000 or less the resources) that autonomous operation will still require collecting 1000s of examples for training and evaluation. On another level though I think the performance will reach an asymptote and adding more data will lead to diminishing returns.

One of the most frightening situations an engineer can get into, and that people have the hardest time perceiving, is when a project is approaching an asymptote (say 97% done) where you keep working harder and harder to get to 94%, 95%, 95.5% and never quite get there because of a structural inadequacy of your plan. Livingston's book "Friends in High Places" has the best account of this I've seen

https://www.abebooks.com/9780937063064/Friends-High-Places-L...
Yeah that section isn't very clear. Also, the article doesn't seem to explain what NF4/NormalFloat is at all? I would guess it has something to do with the position of the value on a gaussian, but that's just a guess
That quote sounds like it could be explained by Dan Kahneman as a symptom of 'ego depletion'
German speaking. My personal summary of Germany’s technical problems in all different areas boils down to “arrogance”.

- Whenever I had the chance to talk to „leadership“ people about the lack of progress in transforming energy production towards renewables they were essentially telling me “all is good, we have a great deal with Gasprom, they will always deliver because we’re too important for them”

- Whenever I asked about things digital and a lack of local Cloud providers and expertise in Software Engineering: “we have excellent education (we don’t) and look, when there’s the time we will be excellent in shipping great software with our products. The market just doesn’t require it yet (about 10y ago)”

- “China needs us as much as we need them. Look at the import/export fraction to China in recent years”

- “Look we are world class with out ICE tech. Why would we give that up for stupid electro?”

And so on.. German politicians were stupid enough to follow the lobbying and public opinions. Meanwhile even German conservatives that used to be halfway reliable start campaigning using fake news and drive cultural wars. Chancellor Scholz publicly stated that Germany has a new Wirtschaftswunder in nearsight “because of all the work that needs to be done” (lol)
> paying-user table index-free

Presumably, that means they created a new table intended to be straight-joined back to the user table. No need to search a column.
Unless production loads are non-uniform in time, think Black Friday or similar.
Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights
I just went for a walk in the redwoods here in Northern California, and was amazed at how many redwoods snails there were.
The problem is if you knew enough about your business logic to plan out an ERP system beforehand, you wouldn't need an ERP system to begin with. The main benefit of either buying or building an ERP system is that it forces you to actually find out (or decide) what the flow of information in your organization is. It's a management consulting process that happens to play out in software.
And arxiv paper, which has a surprisingly readable Introduction section: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02665
This isn't my wheelhouse but couldn't one put the money in a money market account and keep the interest?
>...electricity could be continuously harvested from the air using a specialized material made of protein nanowires grown from the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens
This seems to work.

table:has(> tbody > tr > td > div > span > a[href="user?id=USERNAME"])
Not to mention that experts[0][1] that understood the regions political situation and history were calling out that there would be issues between Russia and the Ukraine that may ultimately lead to war as we see now, especially after the initial annexations of parts of the Ukraine by Russia in the 2010s

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4

[1]: https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-t...
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W transparency
That’s just you. I find the apple thing obvious on first sight and cements an intuition that talk of vectors does not or differently. Why choose?
For Americans, that would probably increase your exposure. They can legally spy on their own people via foreign governments.

This is well documented, see for example the first result I found:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/19/...

Ditto for Europeans.
Building internal replacements for the subset of functionality you use would be less than half the battle.

Convincing your auditors that those systems were representing your financial position correctly would be hell on earth. Like them or not, auditors know SAP, Oracle and the like - and have well-defined processes & experts to certify them.

There's large amounts of risk and cost on both sides of the equation.
This has matched my experience too. Most experienced developers can probably identify an inappropriately hot table and add an index to it. Where a DB with dozens of individually modest indexes that add up to be huge is much trickier and more labor intensive to confidently improve.
I understand the confusion, given the existing terms but it seems the intent behind the name 'VanJS' is to highlight the simplicity and 'bare-bones' nature of this new framework, aligning it with the 'vanilla' aspect.

While it might lead to some confusion initially, with clear and transparent communication about what 'VanJS' offers, it could still work as a brand that distinguishes itself by simplicity - or pivot to Van rentals
Is there any way to prove that he even took, or did, most of the courses / coursework?

At $4k he could spend roughly the same to farm out most of it to Eastern Europe and still be cheaper than out of state tuition at VA- or GA-Tech.
At the time I recall a lot of drama around Fincher taking it on ("mtv music video director takes on alien project"). Also there is the case of how did the egg get on the sulaco, which isn't clear.
Temporary mild damage to heart muscle cells after Covid-19 booster vaccination
Saying "I don't want to judge" doesn't mean that I can avoid doing it (unless I avoid writing the thing down completely).

There are things that can't be written down without hidden (or obvious) judgement. This is one of those.
I feel the same, it would be a much nicer and less agitating goal and much more inline with all the "promises" which have been made for the last 10-20 years about why we should be excited and invest in AI development.

The talking computers goals are "weird", the getting help with solving problems part seems more sane.
Some people are subscribing to Netflix in Argentina because it's cheaper. Or in Ireland for a wider catalog.
Nice, an explanation of the abbreviations would help.
That too.

German car makers got lazy with research and development. In addition, they were hesitant to give up their investment in ICE production, risk staff reductions, and corresponding political and strike problems. This lead to most of the knowledge around EVs being developed and patented elsewhere, especially battery knowledge is firmly in Chinese hands.

At the same time the grandparent is also right, China wisely required knowledge transfers (in the form of forced joint ventures) in exchange for production and sales licenses. German car makers stupidly and greedily agreed, providing the Chinese with valuable knowledge about all the other parts of a car.

Both those mistakes now mean that Chinese companies have all the necessary patents and knowledge, as well as experience, for building EVs. Whereas German car makers will need to buy, license and beg for parts in China.

Not to mention that production in China will of course always be cheaper, and bureaucracy easier in the relevant circumstances.
This is essentially do-it-yourself etcd.

https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd
several valid viewpoints in this thread, describing portions of a difficult-to-describe situation. The word "qualified" jumps out for me here.. It could mean things like "sufficient technical background" and "of sound mind and problem solving skills" .. but in the govt context, "qualified" means exactly "you have legal permission" .. this is one of the several places that these projects break down, exactly. Those in business and those delivering permits, over time, learn that permits can be used to make money, and control future money, not work. The permit process for qualification also works at the bidding stage, where new entries are required to have their high school gradepoint checked, and hundred page report(s) to show "context" for the bid, yet existing payment contracts continue on in zombie mode for huge values, on a regular basis. This is like the force of gravity for these deals.. both sides, govt and big business, want lots of cash flow and no end in sight.
My biggest fear is how angry I'm becoming at Republicans and how they are even engineers, people who based their career on data and yet they are here on this site.

I'm so scared I'll do something stupid one day.
The majority of the comments here seem to be focusing on the generality of the identity <-> work relationship so I'll touch on another aspect with a question; How do folks deal with this differently for in person (or at least "people you know") vs. online comments from people you've never met? I think most people find the first one pretty easy to work out, but the latter one has a very different dynamic.
Windmill is very cool! Reminds me a bit of pipedream.com too, but it's cool that you guys are open-source and self-hostable.

Yeah we have a timeout, but will likely need to continue to add restrictions as we scale and get more abuse. We are mostly relying on deno's workers to isolate user code, but will probably add additional process isolation soon, and dedicated private resources for serious customers one day.

Would love to chat & share tips! Email me? steve@val.town
Fair enough. I may be too sceptical. But I note the OP has ignored prior comments instead of taking the opportunity to clarify. It doesn't reassure.
> I personally feel all this NPM-compatiblity is a big waste of time.

You feel like being compatible with one of (if not the) biggest package management ecosystems for any programming language is a big waste of time?
We had lots of indexes on the user table; there was a separate table with details of paying users.
I don't know. Eliezer and his kind are proposing a one world totalitarian government, basically anything to stop AI that will almost certainly wipe humans off the earth. Seems like a wild religious claim. How else could you describe that level of certainty other than religious?
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That's fair; I am also only using supposition.
I don't understand your comment; I have several real-life friends who have accounts here (and normally I discover it by accident, and we don't exchange our nicknames as everybody would try to pretend we enjoy some semi-anonimity here).
Maybe it was easier to culture the original bug?
Data centers are over half of the revenue. Rest is mostly gaming.

https://s201.q4cdn.com/141608511/files/doc_financials/2024/Q...
There might be a print shop in your area which offers similar services. Or services which explicitly offer to print thesis, but they typically require a minimum number of prints.
I was just thinking about that. In my opinion, this find is sorta useless if these aren't digitalized and shared publicly.

To my knowledge, digitalization can be expensive, because they need hardware for high quality scans, and they have to be careful not to damage these books any further. I guess it all depends on the situation.
Istanbul is partly in Europe?
Human BioMolecular Atlas Program
Weird. It works for me (on google.com), including from an incognito window.
Scott Alexander on predictive processing (2020)
"I think the single most important thing I discovered this decade (due to a random comment in the SSC subreddit!) was the predictive coding theory of the brain. I started groping towards it (without knowing what I was looking for) in Mysticism And Pattern-Matching, reported the exact moment when I found it in It’s Bayes All The Way Up, and finally got a decent understanding of it after reading Surfing Uncertainty. At the same time, thanks to some other helpful tips from other rationalists, I discovered Behavior: The Control Of Perception, and with some help from Vaniver and a few other people was able to realize how these two overarching theories were basically the same. Discovering this area of research may be the best thing that happened to me the second half of this decade (sorry, everyone I dated, you were pretty good too)."
Looks great! Does it run Docker / Kubernetes under the hood? Its approach is very similar to Cloud 66: bring you own cloud and we turn it into a PaaS
Bad example - Porcelain is constantly being shit upon!

-

To the OP - "Dont give a F"

I make quirky and weird shit that pleases ME. (physical things, like weird bike products, stuff out of leather, etc...)

Some people find them odd, or "why are you doing that?" -- BECAUSE I ENJOY IT, I dont give AF how you feel about it.
To anyone who loves Alien, I highly recommend checking out "It! The Terror from Beyond Space" (1958). Despite a cheesy name, it's a surprisingly really well made movie with decent acting, writing, and directing. It also has the same basic premise as Alien, and came out more than two decades before!

I'm not saying Alien "ripped it off", but it is fun to watch sort of a proto-Alien.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%21_The_Terror_from_Beyond_S...
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Nice, today I learned of :upward CSS pseudo-class in uB, so I will change my old rules to that.

Still, it's better to add

html:not([op="item"])

before overall selector so it wouldn't filter even in specifically opened threads with those titles.
That sounds much better, outside of cost (and that it probably doesn't scale so amazingly).
We roll onto new stuff. So soon-ish the 11 will be replaced with a 14 or 15. And then later the 13 will roll up to whatever is good, stable and tested in our environment. And our roll-up plan has never seen an old PG lose client library access. PG has never ever, in 20+ years been the thing that holds us back. I also think risk-management has many more (important) factors than EOL.

Edit: quick check shows we also have PG9 and PG10 in some Live roles too.
A good number of French people somehow still remember (or talk with awe or anger about) the crazy early 80s, with the rampant inflation, the variable interest rates frenzy, combined with successive devaluations of the Franc Français and the moment the French government decided to follow the example of the Deutschmark and aim for what became the Euro...

Yeah when I asked (in France) about variable rates to a credit guy recently he looked at me like I was an alien. They probably still exist, but the loan-happy people won't even try to sell them, to me at least.
Similar to the Morris worm, it might be interesting to experiment with an AI-based self-morphing virus that doesn't just modify its body, but scans the latest public and private lists like OWASP and Shodan, and uses something like ChatGPT to write new code for new exploits to keep on spreading. For any and all platforms that help it survive and propagate, not just modifying its binary.

In fact, DARPA is probably already doing something like this for a while and might be interested in funding this via SBIR grant or something like this from the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3213707

That might be the quickest way to escalate AI into a hostile entity since malware is currently the field with the biggest motivation to fight humans to survive.

It might be crappy at first - worse than custom-built exploits, especially since ChatGPT and them are not great at programming yet - but seems like it directly stands to benefit from every improvement in those services.
There's a story that when Cameron pitched it, he wrote one word on the board and the studio was sold: $Alien$.
I think a large part of this is due to API suspensions. I got the infamous "This is a notice that your app - "your bot" - has been suspended from accessing the Twitter API. However, you can self-serve reactivate your app for free"
With a final: "Your application has been reviewed.
Thank you for your interest. Unfortunately, we're unable to approve your application."
This for a small bot that followed a couple of weather gurus to be notified on Telegram on a new tweet. They killed a huge ecosystem in the hope to stimulate direct site engagement.
I'm not deeply in this space, but from what I understand, the problems are thus:

1. Progress in LLMs has come much more rapidly than expected. This means that when [arbitrary threshold] is crossed, we probably won't have much, if any, advance warning.

2. Nobody on earth knows what the path to AGI (or even narrow-but-still-superhuman intelligence with enough agency to be dangerous) looks like. So, it's not currently possible to know if LLMs are a path to existential threat. (No, it is not correct to say that LLMs are too simple to ever be a threat, as far as I can tell.) (Recall also that we don't know at all where we get our own consciousness or how it works.)

So it seems like #2 is more where you're hung up, and frankly, it's just unknown. If we knew what the path to AGI looked like, we woul be in a very different world. When you combine with #1, it becomes very scary because we might be on the cusp of an irreversible change, so it's useful to assume we're there if doing so allows you to potentially alter or avert disaster.