skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I grow as an engineer when I learn new stuff or become better at building things. Becoming a manager is changing jobs, not growth in any meaningful way.

That's a very linear outlook. One can also grow be expanding the base of skills one has, and that often comes by shifted to adjacent jobs where you can capitalize on your first skill. There's some benefit in engineers who want to grow by transitioning to manager: nobody wants a non-engineer as your manager/leader - how would they understand your work or attract fantastic talent?

Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not saying for an engineer to grow one has to become a manager, but it is a legitimate strategy.
When you revert to pure agriculturalism, where does that happen exactly, it is in the environment. Fighting industry, is a return to nature, which happens to be, the environment. To imply that Kaczynski wasn't concerned with the environment is pretty large stretch, especially considering all the people that consider him an eco-fascist fighting for the environment.

To all the other replies about "this or that solution" is not really helping the environment. So what. Do something. Calling out how some things have failed as a seeming argument to give up and just pollute is a failure mind set. "Oh well, recycling didn't work as well as we thought, guess I'll just dump my hamburger wrapper in the ditch", is BS. Do people really not remember how polluted the highways used to be with trash, or rivers catching on fire from chemical dumping. We have made progress, and we should try to make more progress. Not be like "well EV's still create a lot of waste, guess I'll just go de-tune my Mustang and do some dragging this weekend". I can't believe how many people split hairs on some technology-X and use it as excuse to do nothing.
Last time I flew eu cheap, you had to pay in cash if you were over. A lot of pissed people at the atm.
The £20 it cost me, I would have preferred to donate, or just throw away, rather than donate to some airline.
A future equivalent to the Kosovo war (that time NATO intervened, but they didn't have to). Or what about wars on the EU's South-Eastern border? Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran. The US has complicated feelings about the region that don't always align with the EU. Also protecting European interests in a future war between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the water in the Nile River (Egypt is right next door to Greece and Cyprus after all). Not to mention future actions in Lybia, Algeria or Morocco to deal with illegal immigration.

If we are to convince France to merge their army with the common EU force the EU might be forced to also protect French interests in West Africa (they are quite involved in that region still)
Absolutely, the word is integration and it's not discussed enough. It can happen with LSD and other psychedelics too, but you have to be open to that and not consider them just party drugs, as many people do.

Very rewarding too if you can find a therapist that knows about these processes and can help you along.
The APA is the American Psychological Association. These are not guidelines generally aimed at people writing papers about LLMs.
I wouldnt say so. I think it's the same HN. Although when it gets political, I've noticed that the discourse does degrade a bit faster than it used to be for such topics, for there's a bigger pool of users who'll get provoked by the opinion
Ghost writers are not always credited in books. Is it because they receive money in exchange?
Found my mistake. I wrongly assumed the algorithms shown in the paper were the original sorting algorithm and the one improved by Alphadev.

Apparently it just shows some algorithm that was modified and resulted in a different one, neither being a sorting algorithm, but the original still being better.

The text praises Alphadev by saying it makes "moves" that look like a mistake, but are actually brilliant. After that passage the code is shown that does not corroborate that statement, and just illustrates that Alphadev can make changes to code.
It sounds like you're assuming diagonalizability, which is stronger than "eigen values defined over the field".

Even over the complex numbers there are matrices that aren't diagonalizable, like [[2,1],[0,2]].
> I personally don't believe, since I haven't seen evidence of it, that the CIA ran those studies to create sleeper agents that they could command to do things for nefarious purposes.

Well then you haven't looked.

"The primary goal of Project Artichoke was to determine whether a person could be involuntarily made to perform an act of attempted assassination. ... Project Artichoke was succeeded by Project MKUltra, which began in 1953. ... the scope of the project was outlined in a memo dated January 1952 that asked, "Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self-preservation?"" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Artichoke

The primary source documents for these programs are declassified and available on the CIA's official website.
Doubly so with cutesy “aw shucks” error messages.
I'm reminded of Sachin Tendulkar being able to recall every single dismissal in his 20+ yrs of cricket career: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRofNOkZg0M

No relation with this particular condition though.
Frankly I think people having a little bit of fight in the comments isn't even something moderators should bother with, HN/reddit like format of conversation makes it easy enough to avoid (it was worse for forums when that derailed whole thread) and it mostly gets downvoted to the bottom anyway.

But there needs to be some push for a certain direction for the social space. Just maybe not "dictator for life" as is on pretty much every subreddit. I wonder if some kind of elected "democracy", with people voting having their vote weight tweaked by "contribution level" to the community. Still probably prone to some biases but at the very least not in the "lowest common denominator" direction.
>The only possible thing is becomming true eco terrorists and genociding 99% of the world population somehow.

Ideological capture.

You have been convinced to act against your own self interest.
Wouldn't call that security, no.
Geeze, taking a heavy karma hit for this one, let me explain that the CIA are a bunch of men who are employees.

Thought control must be developed over years, or decades. One cannot be “hired” into this role and expect to be anything more than an instrument of another for at least ten years.

The CIA unwittingly destroyed the lives of those among themselves with substantial experience. Now, minds hobbled, themselves thought controlled, they are men plied by this power with little means themselves for “getting out of their own heads.” For our minds are traps that most humans never escape.

The government is not thought control. The government is thought controlled.
Not yet, no.

Theoretically this can change at any time with the agreement of the members.

That said: even now the UK has left, there are many in the EU who don't want total integration — as you can see from other aspects like the Euro, Schengen, and the Blue Card not applying to all member states — combined with with the language barriers between almost every pair of states[0], I think this would be a long time coming even if everyone was on board.

Although, NATO is a thing and arguably does all that without any of those problems, so perhaps it's easier than I'm assuming…

[0] Austria and Germany being an obvious exception, except they're banned by treaty from ever being combined again
It's still not the same, because of the way js async works
Microsoft was already into drawn characters a few years earlier.

Microsoft Comic Chat[1] was their take on how IRC should look like. It was quite popular for a short time and a bit annoying for users with other IRC clients. MS Comic Chat user sessions would send public messages upon joining channels: "# Appears as ANNA".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
The point still stands.

It shouldn't have to take an entire fleet of data centers to train a AI model after all the investment in finding efficient methods and all it has resulted in was little to no progress but more CO2 wastage. Here's another example which a Google data center recently caught fire and overheated. [0]

By now the field of Deep Learning should already had viable and efficient methods of training, inference, fine-tuning without lots of data centers wasting water and overheating and catching fire. Instead we have more of this AI hype and wastage burning the entire planet.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/19/23270581/google-cloud-ora...
Until you find them in production. Then you git blame and go take a long look in the mirror thinking about what you've done.

In the early aughts the terseness of python seemed great. Now as I age I find i have less time for it.
Hate to be that guy... But from the guidelines:

Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

Just flag spam/low-effort posts and move on with your day.
Money that one can afford to spend can still be saved, so it's of interest to anybody who feels the savings are worth the added effort.
This is an exciting innovation! Making ChatGPT output a first-class and citeable source will massively increase the rate at which academic psychology generates research output, without significantly changing the quality of data or the soundness of conclusions drawn.
Lego Island Decompilation
> When they DON'T move at glacial pace you get the 737 MAX.

I’d argue the existence of the 737 MAX was a response to the FAA moving at a glacial pace, if you want to look at root causes.

The 737 MAX exists because Boeing was getting their butts handed to them in the market by the Airbus A320 Neo due to its superior fuel efficiency.

Boeing engineers wanted to create a new clean sheet single aisle aircraft to replace the 50 year old 737 (+737 NG) design. However, Boeing management decided that it would take too long to design + get it past the FAA , so they pivoted to another 737 upgrade. Another factor in this decision was that upgrading the 737 would allow the airlines to transfer their pilots over with minimal training.

However, to keep the same "type" as a 737, Boeing had to keep the planes dynamics exactly the same as the previous model.

Simultaneously, Boeing went on a full on lobbying blitz to get the FAA to allow them to “self certify” aspects of the design. Boeing had a legitimate argument here, the ESEA had streamlined the type variant process years ago allowing Airbus to quickly iterate on their existing designs.

So congress/FAA finally relents and allows Boeing to bring stuff in house. However, in retrospect, this was done without the collaboration and checks that the ESEA and Airbus have implemented, ensuring that the process generates the correct results.

If the FAA I’ve been quicker to read the tea leaves and implement a collaborative model, I’d like to think that flies in the 737 MAX would’ve been caught.
I would be happier with fewer chores and admin tasks. I never get those done in one shot. They take a lot of time, cost too much to delegate.

Some tasks I don’t even know how I can delegate but I’m sure some people do.

And just to avoid the rich vs poor, I’ll caveat - some people’s first instinct is to successfully delegate or get help. And or they spend more. Caveat’s caveat: it can be learned and practiced, like anything.
This is ridiculous. You need to steal the hardware, analyse the specific model, build a machine for it and manipulate it and then bring it back to the original user and then steal it again after he has entered his credentials and then you have to use a dedicated machine to perform the actual attack and you only have one attempt.
CERN celebrates 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web
> I think this is an unkind assessment to Kaczynski.

Only if you have a stigmatizing view of mental illness.

> but I think people forget he really was a very good mathematician

Famously, so was John Nash, who was schizophrenic. To say nothing about the large number of very accomplished people in many fields. Mentally ill people can be very smart and talented.

> and that he very likely was a subject in the MK-Ultra experiments without realizing it.

The onset of schizophrenia tends to happen in late adolescence. This lines up with his time at Harvard. I think it's wrong to blame the psychological experiment thing for this. It's like people who blame drugs for making people schizophrenic, without understanding that they may have had the condition before.

I would recommend the Netflix doc.
One thing I don't understand is how in 2023 people use GCP with the bad level of IPv6 support they have. Other Google services usually support IPv6 quite well. Only GCP, to some degree Chromecast, probably Nest and the DHCPv6 problem of Android are some well known exceptions.

Google also tend to put algorithms first and people and their business second so that is why I would be very particular about using GCP for anything serious. We do use Google Workspace and for what we do with it, it is mostly ok, however rather expensive.
It’s a great language to show how smart its creators are, that’s the only goal truly achieved by the language.

Don’t use it in real world applications please, while having some nice syntax improvements over java, it is a nightmare on many other levels
That the definition changes only affects arguments about the type of gun. Low-count definitions correlate assault-style rifles that California has tried to ban. High-count definitions correlate with handguns.

You started with school shootings, singling out California. Texas is by far more prone to mass shootings and I wager statistically equal to California per-capita.

Hawaii has nearly-as-strict gun laws as California but incomparably lower violence by any measure. It’s a better example of your argument. The linked mental health web site ranks it at 7.

On the other hand, the death toll in undisputed mass shootings has skyrocketed since the defeat of the assault weapons ban.
I wonder. In a sense, it would be a replication of the current follower system, but with money following it more directly ( the bigger the forum, the more admin would be paid; and each member would have some skin in the game and a cost associated with each post likely reducing unnecessary behavior ). Like you said, the economic details need to be hammered out, but maybe it does not sound as ridiculous as it did not that long ago.
We just nominate a central person for contact during emergency and they have to deal with the communication, then rest just updates the status of the outage to that person.
I have a small pile of old manuals like Windows OS manuals, Corel, some MS Office manuals, a three volume IBM set (I think for 5150?); Disk Operating System, Operations, BASIC. I hate to throw them out.
Measured as?
FYI the whole "lets type out some text" style is really, REALLY annoying. please just give the plain, non animated text on the screen. use whatever fonts or colors you want, BUT DON'T make the text type itself or jump around the screen.
Beatings will continue until morale improves
What are you talking about? It's the engineering definition of "works" because engineers live in the real world and incorporate economic factors into their decision making to make something that works better under real-world conditions. If a solution merely mitigates the frequency or severity of a problem, the solution is obviously not better than doing nothing at all, since you just admitted it mitigates the severity or frequency of a problem. Would you rather have 100 0-days or one? Would you rather have a high-impact 0-day or a low-impact one?
Back when I was in search of a PhD placement, I wondered this as well. I've sadly never found a place where I could research programming languages.
>The hard problem of consciousness (Chalmers 1995) is the problem of explaining the relationship between physical phenomena, such as brain processes, and experience (i.e., phenomenal consciousness, or mental states/events with phenomenal qualities or qualia). Why are physical processes ever accompanied by experience? And why does a given physical process generate the specific experience it does—why an experience of red rather than green, for example?
You are arguing about something completely different. I am talking about people who say LLM can't reason in the near future and AI is a hype.

A good example of falsifiable test is Turing test, which is no longer relevant. What I would like is for people to suggest better tests than Turing test which would prove that a version of AI is reasoning according to their definition.
Too many things get dismissed as conspiracy theories, that’s true.

But the CT mindset of absolute certainty doesn’t do its adherents any favors. Skepticism should extend to one’s own beliefs, and claims of actual conspiracies need evidence.

The stupid chemtrail thing is a perfect example. Any thinking person can see the insanity required to get everything wrong about airplanes, weight, parts per million, and airport logistics.

Yet to this day there are people who don’t just belief the conspiracy theory, but hold an unshakable belief in it.

Some of those people were probably right about WMDs and other things. But so why? Stopped clocks and all that.

A conspiracy theory mindset is toxic to actual reason.
What does banking mean here? Managing bank accounts online in your browser
Proper Documentation
I read Taipei years ago. Similar to the reviewer, I experienced an initial revulsion towards the writing. But by the end I quite liked it.

Tao Lin is an interesting guy. Among other eccentricies, he claims to have cured his autism (which was caused by vaccines).
As an ex-Californian, I observed the state transition from high trust, high social cohesion to low trust low social cohesion. Myriad factors involved, over a long time frame.
I'll gladly take research that helps protect tens of millions of players over generic defeatist hand waving that "source games are broken".
Totally agree with that. I wasn’t responding to bike lanes but to (should have pointed it in first post):

> we cut the population in 75%+ and go back to some kind of agrarian lifestyle?

This seems to assume a population control will directly lead to an agrarian life. That may happen as a secondary effect. Some people (me included) think that won’t. It is a controversial subject but we’re definitely moving forward through the Overton window. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
So you didn't try at all.
in a lot of places they refuse to let engineers become managers. Technical experts, distinguished engineers, CTOs, etc, but management is distinctly different then writing code. Human beings are not computer programs. Being good at one doesn't mean you'd be good at the other whatsoever.
So that’s a “no” on sources, then?
If you have an Apple News/One subscription you can read it as this link. Much more readable, and the publisher still gets ad revenue:

https://apple.news/AlNrxUYEHQPGfrBna1YfVqQ
They may cover up something completely orthogonal to Covid. For example, they may cover up a corruption scheme, to steal money granted for research, or they acted as proxy for Russians, to spy at USA, or they mismanaged facility and leaked virus from the lab in Wuhan second time, AFTER the initial outbreak (1.5-2.5 month of delay between projected start of epidemic in mid-September-mid-October and start of epidemic in Wuhan in December must be explained somehow), etc.
Yep, there are assumptions all around. On the developer side, I also suspect there is a huge group casual "low-code" type programmers out there that could be assisted by copilot type tools. My main point was that the argument that the code produced by LLM type systems is low-quality is not really a barrier to adoption, and _might_ actually _raise_ the average quality of systems built in the wild. I'm less concerned with the actually distributions and more noting the point that the different relative value-point exists.
A Tradecraft Primer (2009)
Shows some helpful ways to reason about open problems with incomplete information.
No it doesn't. Even in the book, voting rights were granted for life after service/citizenship was completed.
> An engineer who is good at leading through influence.

That's rare. In most companies managers aren't engineers, don't understand the craft and are picked by their buddies. They also have completely different incentives which allows them to throw engineers who spent ages to master the craft under the bus without any regards/regrets.
Fungi may offer ‘jaw-dropping’ solution to climate change
Same goes for paying for a specific seat rather than expecting someone who has done just that to move so your family can sit together.
I heard from someone in my network that this is becoming a trend.

His theory is that this may have something to do with higher interest rates. Customers delay large bills for as long as they can.
It’s true but for most people in practice they won’t make it to L8 either as IC or manager so it’s really more a question or do you want to finish your career as an L6 IC or manager.
Kinda what No Man's Sky is, but with more of an emphasis on creature discovery than evolution.

I guess it's not exactly the same thing, but I always look forward to the shitty RNG-based plants and animals it cooks up. It feels right out of a Will Wright game.
Funny story. I worked at a firm that was commissioned to do some market research on Spore before its launch. We were given some videos of game play elements to show gamers and get their response to the game ahead of launch. We hosted the videos on our company server and scripted an online survey with the videos embedded in them. Participants could watch the videos and then answer questions.

We launched the survey on a Friday to pick up responses over the weekend. When I got to work on Monday I logged on to my computer and noticed that everything was running really slowly. Wasn't just me, my coworkers were experiencing the same network issue.

We got out IT team to investigate...turns out our server (on-prem) was busily handling a lot of network traffic, serving up video links to folks. Someone answering the survey had copied the links to the videos from the survey and posted them on to Kotaku. Since the game was so hyped the post got a lot of interest and our server got a lot of traffic.

As you can imagine, the next 24 hours was spent eating *@#t and apologizing to the client....
A big part of why Airbus can get away with it because of their control model. It's total fly by wire, so a given input will result in the exact same roll/pitch rate, vs on a Boeing where the inputs map to control deflections. So Airbus gets "flies the same" for free.
Suffering the indignity of having goods and services coming to them (like roman patrons?), rather than they having to go to forage for goods and services (like roman clientele?)...
That would not fly in USA. Quite a few passengers wight twice as much as other passengers with fishing vest or not :-)
I created a site similar to this few weeks ago https://h1binfo.org/
It has 5M+ records containing H1B salary data from 2014 - 2023 and uses Meilisearch.
It hurts to be called exceptionally small XD

But also... everyone interacts with hardware whenever they use a a computer.

I think our difference of opinion has to do with abstraction layers here. Just so you know where I'm coming from, I work on web apps in java, python, and js, C++ desktop applications, and I operate a mars rover using various domain specific languages. Before switching to engineering I was a scientist and had to deal with data collection in the lab and field from all sorts of instrumentation which often required understanding low-level protocols and the movement of bits and bytes.

It's hard for me to imagine the world you're describing... sounds like it's full of script kiddies.