skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you're right but it's think that despite the definition Marx coined, or the government he imagined, Communism has evolved and so has the definition.

The countries that tried Communism did so differently but with many similarities and all still had/have social classes.

A classless society only works theoretically - those that have tried to implement such societal changes have been unable to realize that goal practically.

Practical application matters most.

It may not be so much that modern Communists have failed to implement Marxist government but rather that Marx failed by focusing so solely on social class.

Inequality is the problem - it eats away at a society and its people. True equality is impossible and honestly not even desirable. Absolute equality doesn't mesh well with individuality.

I don't need to own the same things that everyone else does, live in the same size house or drive comparable cars - it's OK that people have nicer things than I do. It's not OK that everyone I know works hard their entire lives and others don't have too.

It's not OK that I know several people that have died bc they were avoiding medical care they knew they needed due to the expense.

It's not OK that everyone I talk to under 25 all seem to want to skip college and go work wherever - they are not lazy, they are certain that our future is uncertain. Why have goals that can't be reached?

I'm fine with classes as long as all classes have the same MINIMUM quality of life. Society should never limit the individual but should rather empower them to live well, as such, the only limits on maximum wealth I would impose would come after several billions have been added to an account - it does the society that generated that wealth no good if it simply sits an account and gets bigger.

Gates, Zuck, Mush, Bezos and other super rich are examples of our societal failure to regulate OUR economy well enough to prevent the greediest of us all from taking all of OUR collective wealth.

This is what Marx missed. This is why his definition/ideology didn't work out - also why so many have failed.

There will always be owners and workers, rich and poor, good and bad people - this is why government exists. How can a government eliminate the reason it exists?

To be frank, it was kinda stupid to think that paying everyone the same, trying to treat everyone the same, taking away ownership and attempting to equalize access to possessions would transform society into a paradise.

tl;dr: The definition of Communism has changed since Marx because everyone that tried Marx failed miserably and had to make due - today Communism is what they are doing now and isn't at all like Marx proposed.
Seems like they did something unreasonable.

They could have just told previous day that hey we are going to strike tomorrow from the morning or at this time. Sort things out so you maybe don't do stuff when we are out.
Their app and website also hog battery life like crazy in my experience on iOS and iPadOS.
Coding a fizz-buzz may be super boring, but pre-ChatGPT, it was an efficient way to rule out incompetents.

This way you could focus on a quality interview with people with actual programming experience.

And for somebody who is a senior dev, it's a 2 minutes job anyway.
Why shouldn’t mods be able to run their communities the way they want? It’s not like you can’t open a competing /r/newsButNotModeratedVeryMuch.
Learning the difficulties of self-hosting is a rite of passage for tech minded people.

It seems nearly everyone goes through a “How hard can it be?” phase where self-hosting seems like it will be a trivial way to save a lot of money. Then you get to learn about all of the things that can, and will, go wrong over time. Great learning experience.

And then there are the rose-colored glasses people who seem to forget all of the troubles they go through with self-hosting. A few companies back we had a guy who insisted on self-hosting some things on premises to save on SaaS costs. The amount of time we spent waiting for him to figure out why the server was misbehaving each week easily cost several times more than any hypothetical savings. Yet when you ask him, he’d claim it was virtually hassle-free. Management liked it because it “saved a lot of money”… as long as you ignore the cost of the time we lost to dealing with it.
Using Fossil
Uber Eats to add up to 2000 sidewalk delivery robots
The third-party apps predate the first-party even. Reddit had been a website only for years then bought the most popular iOS third-party client as a starting point so like you said it's very much a rug-pull.
The answer to almost every technical question are "it depends" and "let me look that up for you."

> Interviewers need a way to compare candidates so they can pick the best ones, right?

For the "best" candidates they need a way of deciding which interviewers are worth their time to speak to, and overhead of the hiring process is a fantastic filter.
Reminds me of business card CDs which also were given away as promotional disks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_card
Controversial Pirate IPTV Supplier Investigated After Bell Complaint
The beagleboard SBC was amazing for how setup it was. I think the stock image had serial. It also presented a network adapter & host a small network. If you connected, it would advertise a webserver, which was a web IDE for programming the device. Incredible out of box experience.
The case wasn't about whether property damage was allowed as part of labour negotiations. It was about whether the courts or the NLRB should handle the case.

So this sets the precedent that a company can skip the NLRB and take their striking employees straight to court over hypothetical property damage (since in this case the trucks weren't damaged).
Several municipalities and insurance companies have sued Kia for their catastrophic failure. It's not just Baltimore.
For anyone unaware, this article seems like a good point to mention Harrison Ruffin Tyler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler

He's a _grandson_ of John Tyler, who was President from 1841-1845 (born in 1790). Kind of remarkable when you combine longevity with having children in old age.
If you want to skip the paper and watch the video: https://youtu.be/ANDJ0TKjyWw

Disclaimer: I am the person in the video.
You might be interested in Lithium iron phosphate batteries which are MUCH safer than the traditional lithium ion batteries you're talking about here.
Pretty sure he said a few months ago that scaling further than GPT 4 isn't going to help enough, and that other breakthroughs are needed or something about building on top of GPT 4. Since then the only foundational breakthrough was much bigger context windows.

Obviously to even run and train GPT 4 now is too compute intensive, though yeah.
In Defense of Flies
Amazon’s main UK division pays no corporation tax for second year in a row
The same reason every make your Twitter fails, the people are already there.
Who moderates the moderators?

Afraid that can't ever work.
Keeping it at a fixed ratio indefinitely has a plausible legitimate reason, preventing the inevitable backroom political battles and bribery schemes by various groups seeking to tilt the immigration ratio in their favour.
When will they sue themselves for failing to the teach children who want to learn?
Taking existing methods and scaling them up leads to better LLMs. That's a major part of what OpenAI is doing.

Now the scaling hypothesis is basically just that sophisticated behavior emerges by itself as neural networks get bigger and get trained on more data with more complex problems. LLMs certainly show that so far, but to jump to an AGI I think we need to fix various shortcomings. It's certainly possible that a future version of an LLM will be an AGI, but imho that will also be thanks to current and future improvements like adding an internal dialogue or medium-term memory. Or maybe LLMs just can't scale that far, because experiencing the world through text is insufficient.
I don't understand it either, but I do think it reflects what academia really feels like

and I imagine the closer the academic research is to real world industry uses, the more obstacles there will be (due to 'trade secrecy', and the like)
they should use corn syrup instead of diesel fuel, it would be safer if it got into their water supply and it could get political support by doing corn subsidies
How to Represent Multi-Dimensional Rotations, Including Boosts
Supercomputer simulations provide a better picture of the Sun’s magnetic field
AWS Snowball (export) is $30/day (10 day minimum) + $30/TiB
This is slightly off-topic, but I'd love to know what AI companies – or emerging tech companies in general – have founders that say what they mean, and aren't talking out of both sides of their mouth.
> That's just completely false.

Lol, no, it's not "completely false".

There are academic papers and there are realities of life under the Soviet rule. Life was substantially shittier than on the West and you didn't need a slide ruler and statistical analysis to see that.

It doesn't mean that it wasn't improving, but the focus of the state was, as others already said, on the industrial development rather than on consumer goods and services, leading to various curious facts such as the lack of mass-produced toilet paper until late 1960s. PQL that.
Looks like that. Lets see how long this last.
> “They are burning larger areas, they're burning more severely, they're burning over a longer fire season in mountainous regions, they’re burning at higher elevations where it's typically cooler as well.”

This doesn't seem to be supported by the Government's own data however: https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/ha/nfdb

The number of fires is clearly in decline and the area burned is stable with lots of statistical noise and clearly in decline on average for the past 10 years.

> Dahl offered one solution for preventing wildfires moving forward — “radically” reducing the amount of human development in wildfire-prone areas.
“That should reduce the human ignitions of wildfire and the fact that people spark most wildfires,” she explained.

This is also not based in reality: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/forest-fir...

> Of Canada’s approximately 6,000 annual fires, just over half are started by people (most by accident), and just under half by lightning. Being generally less accessible, the average fire started by lightning is several times as large as a human-caused fire.
It sounds extremely limiting for a company to never release another product. That is setting your company up for failure.
If only we had separate output streams for logs and actual program output…
Gotcha, so bias like this is good as long as you agree with it. I don't think we are going to have a real discussion about the issue I actually brought up, so better to end it here. I wish you a good weekend.

Edit: removed the word agree because that doesn't matter
Odin Language – The Data-Oriented Language for Sane Software Development
Normal people isn't the same as normal behaviors.
There is difference of losing money because employer can't sell something for duration or some sort of expected stoppage happens. And pure waste of material and possibly equipment.

Imagine if software developers took a service down for maintenance and then just decided to strike at that moment. Or maybe unloaded some servers from truck and then left them outside in rain.
Setting aside the legalities for a moment, a nontrivial part of OpenAI's advantage in the LLM space has been its ability to incentivize feedback mechanisms - to own the interface in which generated text is presented, own the widget where someone gives it a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, and re-integrate that feedback at scale into its fine-tuning.

Of course they'd want to leave the door open to building their own products, in order to continue to be able to present those widgets and have exclusive access to the resulting data.

Just because ChatGPT+Plugins isn't going to be the center of people's lives (did anyone truly think it would?) doesn't mean that when they have another product idea that they have unique insight into, they won't want to bring it to the world directly.
> then bought the most popular iOS third-party client as a starting point

If you're ever in a situation where this happens, consider it you're big flashing warning sign about trying to run a competing offering!

(Mac users of a certain age will remember Apple buying SoundJam MP.)
Mainstream has everything.
I've heard the connection between the dotcom crash and terrorism once before, but never got it. The crash definitely happened before 9/11. What terrorists are connected with the dotcom crash?
no sliding symmetry - you can combine translation and rotation, and you won't find a match.
So, where is the "fun"? is it about going to other countries to make "regime" changes? I bet, Yasha, that also your grandparents wanted to build a just and equal society. Do you think that their dream was less noble than the "american dream"?
Speaking as a dev building products on the OpenAI APIs, I thought it was a super helpful article when I first read it, so I was sad to see that it was removed.
A more effective way to train machines for uncertain, real-world situations
Serious question - what companies are actually able to afford these egregious prices?
Where I always go with this is to ask why our software is so damn horrible that it requires this much babysitting. Self hosting could be trivial if our software wasn’t slop.

I wonder how much we spend babysitting slop (either directly or indirectly through SaaS) vs how much it would cost to invest in engineering around automated and reliable deployment and resilient software?

Highly polished distributed file systems, databases, and orchestration tools that incorporated automatic replication and fail over would be a great start.

Don’t just say “it’s hard.” Of course it is. But is it cheaper to do this or to babysit rickety piles of junk?

Another possible way out is AI sysadmins. I wonder how far we are from AIs that can admin a cluster including upgrades and disaster recovery?
I just wish they would give access to whatever text model is backing gpt4 like text-davinci-004.

It's really nice to have a model that isn't weirdly trying to be conversational all the time when you want to do things over than have conversations.
> long as this method is inefficient,

Quoting the press release: "<...> could potentially yield 90% efficiency in a magnetohydrodynamic drive, which is worth pursuing". That's close to the efficiency of electric motor, which means the new drive will need roughly the same amount of power, as the existing ones.
Beyond text: AI model digests 80 hours of video to learn sign language
But the very act of striking is hurting the business, that's the whole point. It's the only leverage workers have. Ofcourse actual vandalism is different, and there are laws against it. But allowing for suing damages caused by strikes is just a way to crush workers rights and return most of the power imbalance to favour the owners.
For this following at home:

Virtual DOM (React, Vue) is a technique that produces a complete version of the DOM which is then reconciled.

Incremental DOM (Angular, Svelte) is a technique that computes the DOM diff/update directly.
The security issue discussed in TFA is fraudulent blue checkmarks.
Leaving a widow behind and not being able to give a live example of being a man in his prime
Hey but that hearsay seems like it is a solid foundation to build a case on!

“Your honor, the defendant said some things in an interview that they don’t agree with anymore and I want to sue!”

“Sue for what?”

“Sue to make them believe the thing they said!!!”

Lol.
A rare case of cutting edge math research, but understandable to the general public, at least in its results.
These seem to be around $70 used for 16Gb at the moment. Are there any alternative options?
>In some industries and workplaces, there will always be damages due to work stoppages.

Please read my previous comment again. My claim isn't that there won't be damages due to work stoppages, just that there's a difference between damages caused as a side effect of work stoppages (eg. lost production), and work stoppages deliberately timed/engineered to cause max damage. A sibling comment[1] listed out other examples. Surely you see the difference between the scenarios listed and simply not showing up to work one day?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36178614
Teen in mice would be quite old
For a lot of people, “the source code being available” is what “open source” means.

Licences, to many people, are the domain of really fucking boring crusty nerds.
Perhaps it shouldn’t stand the test of time — it should be a reflection if its time, and change with them.

Here’s the one, let’s see if it renders:
Thanks for sharing, I'm still learning how retirement works in the US and was unaware of that detail.

I also wasn't sure how to value benefits (at least health/dental + disability if that's included) and PTO (including sick days and mat/pat leave which are unpaid for this subset of physicians), do you have a ballpark on what that is worth for accounting purposes?

Overall I think the biggest hidden line item in any physician's income is still opportunity cost of 10 years +/- loans but my main point is there are hidden costs behind that 500k which are fairly significant.
The human brain is digital. The human genome is also digital for the same reason.
They are referring to the Euler-method and a Runge-Kutta-method (of which the simplest is called RK4) if you are curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runge%E2%80%93Kutta_methods
At 5 Mbps, YouTube only works up to 720p. I assume streaming is the same but haven't seen one that reports the current resolution.

We do have cell service. We're in an older 1950s development that was never rewired, but not far from newer developments.

The biggest problem for me is that downloads keep getting bigger and bigger. The latest AAA games are almost 100 GB and take days to download.
Student Finds Hidden Devices in the College Library – Are They Nefarious?
Bananas have a symbol status, given how mundane they are in countries that are open to international trade and how infamously difficult they were to get back then (among many other similarly mundane products). In mid-1950s, USSR imported 2000 tons, and by mid-1980s, peaked at around 80 000 tons. Present-day Russia has half the population, but imports 1 500 000 tons.

It's beyond imagination to westerners I've spoken to that people used to queue for hours on the rare occasions when bananas were available, and that most people lived to their 30s and 40s without ever tasting a banana (despite wanting to).

Statistics glance over this "human experience" side of things when making comparisons.
> hit the test groups sooner and one can iterate on it faster.

No, as far as the star dev goes, he's done with the project and has moved onto the next one. He's far to valuable to the company to be fixing bugs. The buggy code is already in production because he promised it was done.
The fact that others have to fix the problems implies that the star dev is done.

I wrote about a specific problem, not a generalization that all fast phased development is bad. Also, nothing in my story implies that I'm justifying overanalysing.

I've seen cases that if code is not ready by Monday then the company goes bust. The code is shipped riddled with bugs. Totally justified in that case.
You can see relative political party donations. A lot of companies mentioned in the article like bank of America give roughly 50/50 to R/D. Surely they give money to groups that are pro abortion. But make no mistake, most corporations would prefer you don't take mat leave, so they would gladly support the decision and even willing to pay for it and help you cross state lines if you have to.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/bank-of-america/summary?id=...
Send me:
Lawyers,
Guns,
&
Money.

I bet open ai could twist my arm too.
You can either have it show you the statement to confirm before executing it, or if you only want to do queries you can use a read-only database connection.
Isn't this a slippery slope argument? The claim by the company isn't that they lost money due to the strike and therefore the union has to pay, it's due to the workers deliberately going on strike at a specific time to cause damage and therefore the union has to pay.
Maybe removed because of this "...said that OpenAI was considering open-sourcing GPT-3. Part of the reason they hadn’t open-sourced yet was that he was skeptical of how many individuals and companies would have the capability to host and serve large LLMs..."

Probably got a phone call with Area Code 206 after that...
You maybe conflating limited circumstances of enforcement and other countries such as those in Europe with ideals. If it's a US company, then there is little meaningful regulation. "Laissez-faire" and "the invisible hand" are the prime directives.
> For the urban middle/upper class it didn't mean much except if you were involved in politics.

This was not the case in the Soviet Union, certainly not under Stalin. The secret police was not only a means of subjugation but a means of extraction - if you had a house, a job, an apartment, or even a wife, that someone in the system wanted, you would be accused, tried, and repressed.
Governments and organizations with close relations to power - for surveillance and influence operations.

Some default subs and moderator accounts probably constitute a billion dollar industry.
Navigating the rapidly evolving work environment is indeed challenging, but not insurmountable. The goal isn’t to achieve managerial perfection, but to adapt our strategies in line with the changing norms. Digital nomads, as self-driven individuals, value freedom and independence, an ethos we can harness for mutual growth. Technical proficiency in managers is valuable, but empathy and understanding can bridge the gap even better. Ultimately, whether as techies or managers, we thrive where our skills are best utilized. This evolution of work isn’t a burden but an opportunity for growth, requiring us to adapt and innovate.
The skeletons will slowly coming out of the closet now. People's motivations should never be taken at face value and neither should any response to why it was redacted. Everyone should be given the benefit of the doubt but you also don't hand over 50% or more of a company to a large corporate after decades in startups and literally running an incubator unless you have alterior motives to the altruistic one put forth. Elon Musk is a tyrranical actor in the system but he was also flagging something pretty clearly with the profit model shift. Everyone has a number and it always comes down to power, control and influence. Having "impact" is about being the one influencing the decisions and direction of not just technology but politics and policy too. So much more could be said on the topic and again we have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt but people who have alterior motives are always very obvious because they say and do exactly what you think they should to be the most positive influence aka SBF.
When Reddit closed it's source code, that was the first warning. The second was the execution of its warrant canary, followed closely by a drunken Spez re-writing peoples comments.

Later Spez gave an interview where he proudly extorted how he had all his users darkest secrets, with a maniacal laugh for effect (now deleted). The blatant hazing and censoring of certain groups was the final act that killed Reddit.
Opera GX: Gaming Browser
Honest question: why would a happy Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 on Debian user switch to the Framework laptop? What are its selling points that make it attractive to such a target group?
That makes me wonder why regular laptop cooling can't also be specced with stronger fans to allow for dust filters...