skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, obviously the computer can’t find answers that have been lost to the mists of time; pointing to a specific discussion is a best-case scenario, and relies on a good commit history.

But even just providing a brief explanation of the current code would be a great help (even if it gets confused and gives bad answers occasionally; so do I sometimes!); and even when the history is vague you can usually pull useful information like “this was last changed eight years ago, here’s a ticket number” or “it’s worked like this since the feature was added, I have no idea what they were thinking at the time” or “the change that caused this to start happening claims to be a refactor, but seems to have accidentally inverted a condition in the process”.

And in a magical world where the AI is handling this entire conversation automatically, it would naturally write a good commit message for itself, quoting the discussion with the relevant user, so it has something to point to when the topic comes up again. (And it’d be in all the Slack channels, so when someone mentions in #sales-na-east that Acme has asked about quarking services, it can drop into the conversation and point out that the Wibble Manager might need changing before that turns into an urgent change request because we’ve accidentally sent them a batch of unquarked wibbles. Well, one can dream, anyway.)
> They are now the true open source AI providers

Except neither this model nor several of their recently-lauded “open” releases are open source; they are CC-BY-NC 4.0, aka, you are free to tinker and share, but not to use the work or derivatives for commercial purposes. Any community effort the Meta’s hobbyist-source license attracts is work that isn’t enabling commercial competition, unlike actual open source systems like Suno’s Bark (MIT) or even use-restricted-but-not-non-commercial shared source licenses like Stable Diffusion’s CreativeML Open RAIL-M.
Yes, I was trying to clarify.
If that was the case then GDP wouldn't be able to grow faster than the population. The fact that GDP per capita growth is a thing disproves that idea. And no, the GDP per capita growth of the past 50 years wasn't by simply using more natural resources either. Efficiency gains and new technologies and ideas can lead to growth as well.
My lawyers charged me $7k for a trial contract after I gave them the verbiage.

This is a badly needed solution.
I entertained a position at Amazon (that I ultimately didn’t take) that would have been remote. I’m sure that would have changed as I live about half an hour by bike from the nearest office.
If Meta stands to benefit from open source AI taking off, why are its models CC-BY-NC 4.0 instead of open source?

EDIT: On reflection, you can probably extend the content creation argument to say that noncommercial tools enabling that without enabling commercial competition, to the extent that some of the models will be integrated into Meta products, is the best of all worlds for Meta, so the basic argument works even without open source in the strict sense.
An orbit that start on the surface ends on the surface, in a single turn.

That can be a while if you near the escape velocity, still a slim chance to hit anything.

There's a huge gap in hit probability between "dangerous enough to consider safety" and "good enough to be a weapon".
All of the companies not Fortune 50 are experiencing a senior talent hiring frenzy. They have record profits and see gold in the failure of giant dinosaurs.
Proposal: Renaming JavaScript “Hyper”
Other browsers will follow the suit soon.
Furthermore, if fewer people are commuting then employees whose work requires physical presence will have shorter commute times, and better parking spots.
>Think of a human with below average intelligence. Then think of a human genius.

LLMs are not AGI. A human with below average intelligence is still a league above a chimpanzee. A chimpanzee will never be able to read, not because "it's too dumb", but because a chimp's brain lacks the actual hardware for reading. The LLM is the chimpanzee. The gap between an LLM and a "human with below average intelligence" is far more than 10x.
Hopefully this will solve the very common issue where people naively listen to mouseup on the background to dismiss the popup, with the result that selecting text with the mouse dismisses the popup if the pointer happens to stray slightly outside the popup before you release the mouse button.
Or with the pleothora of AI announcements at BUILD, they will get CoPilot to do it for us. /s
> Code is a static serialization artifact. It's unfortunate we still work with it directly, but that's another conversation

Could you hint at what it is we should be working with instead?
Ok, I'll bite... What did RedHat do to CentOS?
I don’t think I follow this argument. AI has been dropping in costs and complexity the more engineering time is spent on it. It seems like the bottleneck is humans creating new AI techniques right? If an AI is capable of developing new AI techniques unsupervised, isn’t that by definition the singularity? Heck doesn’t even need to be unsupervised. If it can even do most of the heavy lifting for a human I feel like that would put us into runaway territory.

Granted we’re a long way away from that and likely we’d need an AI that could come up with its own hypotheses for new AI models to make this truly minimal cost and that feels even farther away. But I don’t think I follow the claim that each improvement step change requires to much massive extra scaling as it seems not match what we’ve seen over the past few years (granted I could be misinformed - I’m applying a 10k view spectator and maybe my own mental model here is flawed).
Mark Zuckerberg talks about this in their Q1 earnings call.

"I think that there's an important distinction between the products we offer and a lot of the technical infrastructure, especially the software that we -- that we write to support that. And historically, whether it's the Open Compute project that we've done or just open sourcing a lot of the infrastructure that we've built, we've historically open sourced a lot of that infrastructure, even though the products themselves are obviously were not -- we haven’t open sourced the code for our core products or anything like that.

And the reason why I think why we do this is that unlike some of the other companies in the space, we're not selling a cloud computing service where we try to keep the different software infrastructure that we're building proprietary. For us, it's way better if the industry standardizes on the basic tools that we're using and therefore we can benefit from the improvements that others make and others’ use of those tools can, in some cases like Open Compute, drive down the costs of those things which make our business more efficient too.

So I think to some degree we're just playing a different game on the infrastructure than companies like Google or Microsoft or Amazon, and that creates different incentives for us. So overall, I think that that's going to lead us to do more work in terms of open sourcing, some of the lower level models and tools.

But of course, a lot of the product work itself is going to be specific and integrated with the things that we do. So it's not that everything we do is going to be open. Obviously, a bunch of this needs to be developed in a way that creates unique value for our products, but I think in terms of the basic models, I would expect us to be pushing and helping to build out an open ecosystem here, which I think is something that's going to be important."
How about - "current finance systems are broken for a lot of people across the world". And they manifest in terms of crazy inflation (Venezuela, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Pakistan), currency controls (China and many other places), despotic regimes (Russia, Iran, Taliban) etc. I see Bitcoin doing a lot more[1] for those people than traditional financial systems, either local or western.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32406095
The article claims JVMs were invented around the same time, and that they happened to include garbage collectors.
I mean, many lootboxes contain things that can be resold for profit... It's just that game devs don't have to "pay out" the winnings, more consumers do. CS skins are the most obvious.

Gacha is definitely gambling even if profit isn't the primary motive. You could argue that profit isn't even the primary motivation of many poker players, but rather being seen as smarter than the next guy or more able to call bullshit.
Gravitational-Wave Search Resumes After Three Years and Lots of Headaches
Musk presenting wfh as a moral argument frustrates me, and comparing office workers with manual workers strikes me a false dichotomy.

Everyone is different, and flexibility should be a recognition of that.

If anything the arbitrary denial of flexibility is much more of a moral argument.
> [Germany] sends vastly more military aid to Ukraine than Finland

The statistics disagree if you remember to compare per capita or per GDP. (Finland looks bad only if you include the refugee costs in a per GDP calculation - not many Ukrainians wanted to travel to Finland so far.) https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-s...

Also, one should take into account that the amount of unnecessary military hardware lying around is not the same in a country that is surrounded by Nato members vs a country that shares over thousand kilometers of border with the unhinged neighbour. Further, you might not be strategically able to reveal in public how much of your stock that acts as a deterrent you have given away while the war is going on.
Glad to see this is the top comment here. If anything, I think jobs where productivity can be easily measured (think customer service agents that handle a particular volume of calls, radiologists that already have a very well defined "Relative Value Unit" system for calculating productivity, etc.) are the ones that make the most sense working from home, and these are also the types of tasks most likely to be compared in these remote work studies.

But the thing that tech companies are the most worried about is a long term slide in innovation and competitiveness, and the effect of WFH on that has definitely not been proven one way or the other.
Fast-fashion giant Shein plans Mexico factory
Seems like you’ve been indoctrinated by Elon as well
So it's a Scientology magic apparatus for geometric water.
Microsoft made a massive investment in OpenAI and get 75% of OpenAI profit at least until that earns them the $10B invested back. Microsoft, for now, from a financials perspective are OpenAI rather than any old third party integrator. They are the paymasters.
No, but it's fair for a company to mandate some minimum level of behavior that reflects a baseline of values. A cable company I worked for had fewer holidays than most other companies, even for their corporate employees. The rationale was that if the line cable installer or phone rep was schlepping in to work, then so should the marketing guy.
Bitcoin's market cap is $519B as of right now. That seems like an incredible accomplishment. Market is literally voting with their money.
Trying to get GPT to generate comments at a particular level really highlights its limitations in my experience. For instance, I couldn't get it to focus on commenting on programming language aspects of the code (or only in a crude way). There's some depth it's lacking, it might be from RHLF, I don't know, but its commenting is like its writing.
Acela in the NE Corridor exists as does Virgin Trains (post COVID it's operated under the name Brightline) from Miami to Orlando.

Only 2 of the 4 you listed haven't come to fruition.
I'm talking about today. I'm well aware that in 1965, in 1972, and even in 1992 there were plenty of tasks at which average humans were obliterating computers.
Foundations of Data Science by A. Blum, J. Hopcroft, and R. Kannan (2020) [pdf]
Until liability finally becomes a thing in computing like in other industries, then lets see how much everyone cares.

It is slowly happening, lawsuits against failed consulting projects, returns in digital stores, fixes free of charges due to warranties and security regulations changes,....
Fucking diabolical. I'm here to advocate on behalf of the underserved tetradecagonal lobby.
That’s what contract agencies are for
Large companies also often have a lot of room to negotiate.
I'm not sure if or how I should answer this, given you don't seem to want to believe me after having answered this twice already. So, how about you do some research and report back to the group? If I've misread, great, I get to learn. If not, you get to learn. Fair enough?
When one goes free, it gets the quality they deserve.

I guess anything goes helping Google to spread Chrome all over the place, it gives them a warm feeling.
Goddamn object-oriented water. Can't we just have functional water?
Check out Envoy. The config has a bit of a learning curve but it's quite powerful
Reminds me of 3D a decade ago. Everything was 3D.
Use a map filter with an arrow and a monad. It's the only way to purity.
What are they currently doing?
On iOS devices I’ve seen streaming services ask for location (Peacock or Paramount+, cannot remember which)
By what criteria? In several professional capacities, including coding, LLM's are far superior to an average human already.
I went Python → Rust. Rust is high-level enough for me to remain competitively productive with Python, and the type-system just helps so much. I can't tell you how nice it has been to not have to see "Object of type NoneType has no attribute 'foo'" anymore. Also,

def foo(obj):
# ...

And me wondering "what is 'obj'?" and then pulling that root … and pulling … and pulling …. Also "data", another just fabulous name for a variable, really narrows the possibilities. Even once you know the "type" of the variable, oftentimes I'd find that the type definition would subtle shift and morph in different parts of the program: they'd all want a Duck, but have varying opinions on what a Duck actually is. You cannot commit such BS with an actual type-checker.

There is more up-front work with the compiler, but it pays off: the code that passes the compiler is of much better quality.

Also, Option<T> is very nice to have when you need an actual Option<T> (i.e., generically), which Python lacks. (No, `None` is not it: You run into problems when T == Option<U>, and you have None and Some(None) — Python's cannot differentiate between the two.) Also sum types in general.
If US tech workers could be replaced for a tenth of the compensation they would’ve been. Maybe that will change in the future but until then the fact that there is some scarcity means unionization is possible.
>doing what you can to exit that precarity is not a bad thing to do, even if the thing you end up doing ends up being something that leads to an overall trend of society into more misery for more people

So your logic is: it's not bad, because even if you didn't do it, there'd still be an opportunity to do it? Not very convincing..
Also a symptom of that management style is measuring input not outcomes.

A star worker for them is someone who works 16 hours a day, adds 10K lines of code and sleeps under their desk. Not someone who goes for a long walk in the park while thinking deeply about the problem, and then spends half an hour at the keyboard refactoring to remove 1000 lines of code and clear a major performance bottleneck.

Elon may be performing for his shareholders, but if he was actually smart he'd be informing them. It's notable how many of the actually-smart rockstar CEO's didn't seem to care what their shareholders thought.
Definitely feels like there should be a "law of headlines" coined to effect of - something must always either be surging catastrophically or plummeting disatrously.
All they have to do is drop the notch on the 16” MacBook Pro
Had to google this. Water vitalizers are a scam product from he same vein of pseudo science as homeopathy. As is usual they make absolute nonsense claims (adding structure to the water, "tuning it to healing frequencies").

YeGoblynQueenne also had to do this, but I figured a basic description rather than marketing BS was more useful.

Presumably they just have a very cheap and poorly isolated signal generator - they should be illegal as in addition to being inherently fraudulent (something apparently allowed for all homeopathic nonsense) the manufactured products are clearly uncontrolled transmitters.
It's not even close. You're comparing a time sensitive attack with tons of security to 4 pipes sitting in the ocean. A lone attacker on a short time scale, versus a potential entire state backed demolitions team with tons of operational lead time. Stop with the bad faith arguments.

It is highly unlikely that A) the US with such lead time would fail to blow up all 4 pipes, and B) the US would bother when it had already handled the situation diplomatically.
JSON to struct. I use this about 100 times a day, no joke.

https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/
> Any community effort the Meta’s hobbyist-source license attracts is work that isn’t enabling commercial competition

So what?

Sure, maybe the Googles of the world aren't building on top of meta's products, but I can tell you that a lot of startups are.

Does it make these startups vulnerable, to long term future legal action? Sure, but nobody is thinking that far ahead. What people are thinking about is how to get users and show off flashy demos to investors.

Instead, people are just pushing out products, breaking meta's licenses, and not telling people about it, while they attempt to get traction.

Strict licensing, without enforcement, is not worth the paper that the contract is written on.

So yes, it is still beneficial that the code is released, even with a bad license.
yep. i will forever get a sick feeling at any mention of broadcom. they could cure a disease or something and i’d still be like “grumblegrumblegrumblebroadcomsucksgrumblegrumble”.

i sometimes wonder if my great grandchildren will have inherited some dna trait to hate broadcom lol.

i just can’t ever forgive them for the way them and their products treated linux.
I don't really understand what this implies?
Shipping companies were giving 8-10 month salary bonuses last year because of the price boom they were enjoying. The supply and demand disruptions created a unique situation for them and now I think price are going back to normal.
Ok. Platitudes aside, what actionable steps are you proposing?
Uncredited picture but I 'd know that art style anywhere. It's by Zach Weinersmith of SMBC.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wolf
Agree - definitely is still an issue - mostly noticing that introducing outsourcing and badge levels/colors seems to make it less press-worthy.
> 1. Mature leaders do not work under bosses

True Scotsman, Mature Leaders. LOL

Even the most powerful CEOs answer to the Board (which are essentially their boss), with few exceptions. And for those exceptions (Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk etc.) probably aren't what most people call "mature".
It was the first article I found that specifically referred to profit numbers during peak pandemic. The shipping industry being quite fungible, there was really no need to continue digging given the point I was refuting.

If you were interested in the answer to your question about the top 4 companies and my “narrative”. You could have quite easily found that information yourself.
Global team simulates message from extraterrestrial intelligence to Earth
1. Cool, thanks! And great suggestion with the loading indicator. Makes sense, especially since it does take awhile for all the ChatGPT/GoDaddy processing to happen.

2. Thanks, that's good feedback to hear. I hadn't thought about trying the different models. Currently it's using gpt-3.5-turbo with the temperature set to 1.3. While testing, when I bumped the temperature up higher I started getting a lot more non-sensical words / letter combinations. I do have a lot of extra guidance added to the user's prompt before it gets submitted to the API (including to be creative), but it sounds like it's still not quite there. I'll do some more experimenting with prompt pre-processing, and try out some of the other models too!
I wonder why they went with cargo vet instead of the more cross-language crev:

https://github.com/crev-dev/
To result for me on that search query is “An update on kids and data protection on YouTube”. I guess no more kids and data protection? :P
Rare to see an actually cool startup these days - congrats!
The entire sentence could be interpreted a dozen different ways. I'd like to know precisely what you mean without having to assume.
Nightmare fuel ensues. The only saving grace is tarantulas are somewhat docile and aren't aggressive or dangerous. They can attack lungs and skin with their defense mechanism if they feel threatened.

Black widow's are pretty chill, but they're difficult to spot and hide in things.

Brown recluses OTOH are demons.

In the world, the horrific are the huntsman spiders of Australia. Just search Youtube for these monsters. I'd find some other place to live with normal arachnids.
Ruhlman's 20 was that book for me. From that one book I feel like I can dissect and understand so many core concepts that I very rarely follow recipes any longer, I just skim for the key aspects and wing it, substituting with what I have available, and a reasonable intuition for when I can't do so. Am grateful I made that investment (reading it, making most of the recipes).
Here's an easy way to cut through the complexity: pay everyone the same commute subsidy, equal to what it would cost to commute to the nearest area where housing costs the same or less as the national average. So if the office is in a neighborhood that already costs the same or less as the national average housing cost, $0 commute subsidy for everyone. If the office is in say, manhattan, then I guess everyone gets a 2.5 hour commute subsidy, since the nearest area with reasonable housing prices is Allentown, PA. Workers can choose what to do, whether to bank the subsidy and apply it to expensive nearby rent and live near by or spend it on commuting to somewhere more reasonably priced, or any combination thereof.

Really, the issue is that housing costs have gotten so extreme that there are places where a certain advertised or minimum wage is much less once you account for how far you'd have to live.

But it would be nice of the minimum wage was adjusted for location, and advertised and negotiated wages had to automatically include location differentials, as it would make comparing and negotiating wages a lot easier.

Another unrelated and actually much larger issue this would help a lot with is the phenomenon of low wage service hours being forced to work many small shifts, 2 hours here, 3 hours there. Office workers are used to commuting once per day, 5 days a week, for a full day's pay each time, but a Starbucks worker might be forced to have a much higher ratio of commute to paid work, and the company is getting a free ride there-- this would disincentivize that significantly, regardless of whether the worker chooses to live nearby or far.
I use lisp, but not emacs. Keep your editor out of my religion.
No "soothsaying" required. Look at every single "free speech" platform. They're horrible places that push away most people other than those on the extreme fringes.
Pretty large when things are measured in kilobytes now.
wow! you're right

The image at the top of the mail is also a bit creepy
How Did the Covid Pandemic Response Harm Society?
With the added benefit of being also available for other languages, java/kotlin, python, node, etc.

Great for integration testing.