skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the HR or PR examples, it would totally make sense that they see their job as fundamentally unneeded, and would prefer if people stopped doing stupid/harmful things or made their homework and came to the right institutions by themselves, or the org didn't rely on promoting itself.

But the thing is, that won't happen. Not today, not tomorrow, not in 10 years. There will still be HR and PR departments to deal with humans and the stupid ways things need to work.

That's like a teacher saying that fundamentally if the kids just opened their book, read the lesson and did their exercise they wouldn't be needed in the first place. But we all know why that's only one ideal scenario and in practice you still need a teacher.
It's not particularly sensible that the owners should profit in that case?
The Technical Pie (Yet-Another-Tech-Debt-Analogy)
How do you know/measure what's efficient then?
Is that the IDEO office near Central Square in Cambridge?
The cool things about startups is you have room to learn as you grow. You just have to remember to be intentional about learning as you grow.

I co-founded a company a few years back as the CTO with qualifications closer to you than some Big Tech rockstar. I read a lot of books (audiobooks) and learned as I went. The best thing about being at ground zero is that’s it’s likely just you, your co-founders, and maybe some contractors. You don’t have to worry about leadership, management, or any of the things that come with leading large teams.

If I could only give two pieces of advice:

* As CTO your job is both product and engineering. In fact, product is massively more important until you get to roughly Series A. While you will likely need to write code, your primary job is to find and talk with customers. Amazing code without a customer is worst than shit code with a customer. Customer. Customer, customer.

* Your job is to optimize for the success of the company, not you or your team. That means you need to be aware when something is better done by someone else (aka hire or contract out)

Books:

* the lean startup

* anything by Marty vegan

* a bunch of others, but read those two first.
US Companies generally outsource ”illegal” research to other countries. there is a reason “biomedical research” occurs in Ukraine and not the US. there is a reason a certain lab in China was funded by the US to do virus research. How would this be different? It makes no sense to regulate in just one country.

Why would the US want to push this work out into other countries? i’m a little unclear about what is going on here? What are the underlying motives? Is it about votes or profits?
> Provisional Definition: a bullshit job is a form of employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence.

The qualification is that even the person doing the job thinks it's bullshit. That doesn't mean the definition relies solely on them thinking it's bullshit.

Frankly, reading through the article, it feels like the definition keeps shifting and much of it is his struggle to even define what it means. He then goes on to start giving his definitions of the what he thinks are types of bullshit jobs.

The article I don't think is all that consistent and shouldn't be taken too seriously.
The "we have no moat" essay predicts your behavior very well. The community is now hungry, ready, and primed for a napster/pirate Bay of LLMs. I suspect it will be these sketchy versions that will push the hardware even further (Do you think most people filled their ipods with hundreds of gigabytes of music they purchased)
… I live here
"Congress will never understand AI. Powerful tech companies are eager to exploit that"

FTFY
Aren't non mobile devices catering to power users at this point, though? We're not in 2005 anymore, the vast majority of people using laptops or desktops are either professional computer users or gamers, which are generally power users.

Casual users have moved to phones and tablets, like, 80% of them.
Tell that to Google and all the top results for switching to a commit which everyone usually phrases as "git howto checkout commit"
Thanks. :) Gosh, no. (Too much additional work for the benefit, for us.) We've used Unity, but we expect to transition to Unreal in the future as Unity's direction in recent years unfortunately has been ominous.
Yeah. But can ChatGPT recite the key tenet of the Orange Catholic Bible in the aftermath of the Butlerian Jihad?
>> I don't know why exactly but everyone seems to have accepted the evaluation of other LLM outputs using GPT4. GPT-4 at this point is being regarded as "ground-truth" with each passing day.

Why? Because machine learning is not a scientific field. That means anyone can say and do whatever they like and there's no way to tell them that what they're doing is wrong. At this point, machine learning research is like the social sciences: a house of cards, unfalsifiable and unreproducible research built on top of other unfalsifiable and unreproducible research. People simply choose whatever approach they like, cite whatever result they like, because they like the result, not because there's any reason to trust it.

Let me not bitch again about the complete lack of anything like objective measures of success in language modelling, in particular. There have been no good metrics, no meaningful benchmarks, for many decades now, in NLP as a whole, but in language generation even more so. This is taught at students in NLP courses (our tutors discussed it in my MSc course) there is scholarship on it, there is a constant chorus of "we have no idea what we're doing" but nothing changes. It's too much hard work to try and find good metrics, build good benchmarks. It's much easier to put a paper on arxiv that shows SOTA results (0.01 more than the best system compared to!). And so the house of cards rises ever towards the sky.

Here's a recent paper that points out the sorry state of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) benchmarking:

What Will it Take to Fix Benchmarking in Natural Language Understanding?

https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.385/

There are many more, going back years. There are studies of how top-notch performance on NLU benchmarks is reduced to dust when the statistical regularities that models learn to overfit to in test datasets are removed. Nobody. fucking. cares. You can take your science and go home, we're making billion$$$ here!
The point is that rust does it automatically
The post you responded to originally literally talks about congestion pricing ‘around the world’.

Regardless, it’s not like everyone in the US has to drive for work, for the exact same reasons they don’t here.

It’s still an interesting perspective for me because I know that in some places it must seem like everyone has to drive, but it’s not something that I would normally consider.
I was in a similar situation right after I transitioned out of the military and was in really good shape. I got a physical including an accurate body fat analysis and the problem went away. Ended up costing me a couple hundred bucks, but well worth it overall policy cost.
Could you send me a car so I can rob the driver or steal his/her car - I need a free ride.
I am sure many crooked people have a credit card they can burn?
Error vs. Exception
I just audibly gasped after clicking.
I quoted the link. Yes I read it. I read it 1.5 times and again when it came out so long ago. Instead of assuming bad faith just let me know where I’m off or you disagree?
Sounds like a docker issue, not an ARM issue. My full desktop NixOS config builds for x86_64-linux and aarch64-linux. It even about 90% cross compiles, possibly just one "external" package that isn't setup right for it. And actually that might even be fixed, I just saw a cross-compilation fix go in today.
I'm sorry this isn't a complete answer but I came here to mention named anchors - I love those things but they're not used as much as they could be.

While looking up a reference for that I came across this https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments which, as far as I can tell from a quick reading, is the feature you're describing Chrome as having but it seems is a little more widely implemented than that https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments#... .
Sinister hypothetical scenario:

Congress: Tell us about AI. If and how we should regulate it.

Big Tech, public hearing: AI will eat the world if not regulated. Crime will be abundant. Jobs will be lost.

Big Tech, private dinner: Our unilateral control over AI will boost our stock prices.

Congress: Only companies with regulatory checks and balances can run AI.

Also congress: Buys MSFT, GOOG, META.
Ideally the point is to ask this question before you have them stop doing the job.

"What will happen if this person stopped doing their job?"

"Oh the important monthly reports will stop going out."

"Oh, okay, we better not have them stop doing that then."
Binary Analysis Next Generation (Bang)
That's kinda the point I think. _You_ don't need it, but other people, your society needs it.

In the grand scheme of things, keeping everyone busy is also a societal construct that many will argue is needed. You might disagree, but the discussion would be on the societal model you want to push, and not the type of jobs people do.
https://archive.is/Amkhb
Not even close. CRISPR is a niche science nerd topic. Whereas AI is a household conversation topic these days.
In coffee shops the conversation has approximately 0 to do with you (ok, maybe you overhear about a new local restaurant). In the office you overhear conversations that are much more relevant and, therefore, harder to tune out.
I wish I had something more productive to add, but I want to say is that I love this article. It is absolutely the state of things... but I'm unsure what the solution (or solutions) are.
I found the first Pillars of Eternity game incredibly boring, and actually liked the 2nd one more... though I also grew bored of it before too long. BG2 was ok, but I don't think any of these games can hold a candle to PS:T in terms of writing.

I haven't tried Pathfinder: Kingmaker, because it has an enormous number of very negative reviews, so I'm surprised you'd put it in the same league as PS:T.
named anchors (at least) are so good when you're telling someone else to go and look at part of a document. It's the difference between "read this section http://example.com/foo.html#bar" and "go to http://example.com/foo.html and then scroll down to the heading which reads 'All about Bar'"
Finally someone has mentioned this in the entire Reddit saga. Reddit has basically been PE-owned for more than a decade now (technically a family office but Advance Publications operates like a PE).
I think it's because he seems like that God,-like man who is going to lead you to the promised land! He's like a TV preacher, he's got that charisma and you went to follow him! And give him a billion dollars.
This shows an inherent lack of understanding. Some men, starved of affection, feel nice when treated similarwly to women. I'd they have their ass grabbed, or they get car called, of whatever - it feels like a nice confidence boost.

However, it entirely overlooks the fact that for many women, this behavior is non-stop, and comes with the very important difference that men are inherently much stronger than women, which means that they constantly feel a lot more threatened and unsafe than men do in the same situations.
We'd still have a situation where the elevator operator does a valuable job, but without acknowledging it. Should we call that a bullshit job ?
I'm sure auto-mod will be tuned to take down all pictures of John Oliver
I got a new doctor recently and he agrees. He also told me to take by BP multiple times a day several days a week, for several weeks. To base high blood pressure on one reading at the doctors office every few months is won’t get you the statistical significance you need. And also to record if you drink coffee that day, if you exercised before a reading, slept well the night before, etc. BP can vary greatly from all those daily factors.
> ...but cannot afford to pay them a living wage then that business should close.

There is actually a solution for that not involving burdensome regulation: capitalism. Crap business models get outcompeted.

> They're just exploiting workers...

Slavery is illegal, so these poor coffee slaves have bigger fish to fry.

> There was a time, not very long ago...

Before the US offshored all its heavy industry and proudly declared itself a "service based economy".

> ...even someone in an entry level position, still absolutely deserves a living wage for their time.

lol. There do exist people so useless that their labor doesn't even rate minimum wage. Now the bottom rungs of the ladder are gone for them, and they can't even get on the job training. The military figured this out a long time ago, which is what brought about the creation of IQ tests. Anyone below 80ish couldn't be trusted to do anything without constant direction.
To put an even finer point on this: no matter how good your office is, if your office is in the middle of a huge metropolis then you are now asking people to either do long commutes or make some honestly hefty sacrifices in living arrangements to be close.

No amount of office niceness can compensate for the surrounding area to be not a place you want to live in.

I think it’s a huge missed opportunity for smaller startups to not place their offices in areas a bit off the beaten path. SF is uniquely weird about this from what I understand, but like NYC or Tokyo is filled with startups putting their office in places where workers either have an hour commute or have to increase rent by a lot to live closely. All for, frankly, the status of the address. Then companies whine about high salaries and nobody wanting to come or Mori tower.

Meanwhile there are many neighborhoods that are cheaper, have near equivalent services, and could offer a nice environment where people want to live closely. Commercial real estate is not always available, but the rent savings alone could easily pay for a lot of renovations to another building
The Unabomber manifesto is the work of someone who wants to "cleanse the world" of the impure so only the "right" people can live.
But unlike other areas of computing, this stuff really doesn’t scale intuitively. The toy model you run on your computer will barely work better than a naive Markov chain and you’ll have a hard time seeing the impact your choices because everything will feel like trash. Add a few orders of magnitude of data and suddenly the exact same thing works like magic.
There's a different video in which James Duane addresses the traffic stop situation - https://youtu.be/-FENubmZGj8?t=503
I notice this is WebSocket based, which I am a fan of, but considering WebSocket is TCP, do you have any plans for a UDP transport?
How do you know?

Oh, let me guess... because OpenAI told you so. OpenAI, the one istitution with the most strong incentives to tell people the model is not getting worse.
Here we have an article of bipartisan, uninformed, cherry picked opinions.
Maybe I’ve just watched too much of him :P

I generally think he does a good job of keeping things moving, with little filler. It just seems that he always ends up around that 25 minute mark.
Reductive or oxidizing?
Show HN: Conquer CSS, a free introductory book for CSS [pdf]
I have moved onto other side projects since writing a short book for those looking to cover the fundamentals of CSS, so I made it free and stopped marketing it. Enjoy.
https://hastie.su.domains/ElemStatLearn/printings/ESLII_prin...
> The number of monthly active users has increased over 25 times, from 1.000 to 27.000.

That’s incredibly lower than I expected…
Is there a way to make Cmd+Tab work with fullscreen windows? If I can't remember if I've made an app fullscreen, I have to three-finger swipe up to see the list of maximized applications and if it's not there, start Cmd-Tabbing to find it. Because I don't use macOS exclusively, what often happens is I try to Cmd+Tab, can't find the window, assume I'm not actually running the software I think I am and then eventually discover it's fullscreen somewhere. I'd really love to find a way to be able to Cmd+Tab through all windows, fullscreen or otherwise.
Oh, that's a great idea. What editor/ui do you use? Since I've got divorced from Jetbrains I miss Datagrip ...
So-called white flowers are in a bit of their own category, as perfume goes. A _white floral_ is conventionally the flowers you named (I'd add tuberose and orange blossom as commercially important) and have startlingly similar scent profiles. Importantly, they all contain a lot of indoles, which is also in feces so they're sometimes described as fecal or dirty, and has something to do with why they are such conspicuous odors. As a perfume for wearing, they go through pronounced trend cycles.

There are many others of interest. Roses of course but also violet, lavender, lilac, lily, hyacinth, osmanthus, mimosa, marigold, chrysanthemum, chamomile, geranium, carnation. You might count iris, but moreso the tuber than the flower.
The early days (1996-2000) of the web Scientific American articles were fantastic for how they linked to source articles and explainers.

Unfortunately, these days it is close to rubbish.
Look up the field sobriety test Steve Martin does in LA Story - hilarious
Software engineers are valuable, but square feet in the Bay Area are more valuable. Consider that a median home costs around $144k/yr to carry. That’s about half of Google L4 TC. Offices are smaller than homes but office space is also more expensive per square foot. The cost of a 200-300sqft private office is similar.

Sometime around 2017-18 I was told that our (extremely high density) open office cost $25k/head per year. At that time I was only making $110k so that was mind blowing.
The LDS church uses water but if you don’t have water you can use whatever you have available. It’s just a symbol of the blood.
I found this estimate of 2.4% of the working population[1], 4 Million full time equivalent workers.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/07/31/1114375163/long-covid-longhau...
One thing that seems to be overlooked with very long prompts is that the compute still scales at best linearly with the input size.

So a context size of 100k requires 100x more compute than a prompt size of 1k.

For which applications is that worth it?

Note you could reduce the cost to less than linear by using a retrieval method, but I don’t think that is what is being proposed.
Even considering people distributed to several different platforms, those numbers are just aren’t that damning to Reddit. 27k is nothing.
> Is that an issue with the individual or society at large?

i think it’s likely a problem with both. no matter how many repeatedly delude themselves otherwise, both society and the individual are inextricable.
AI-enabled Teddies could tell Children bedtime stories, says Toymaker
https://archive.is/AJRvR
Yes, because the OSI doesn’t recognize it as such.
I'd be interested to know if you have specific prompts that demonstrate this. I have a list of tasks that I use to test out models and the only time I've seen a model do better than GPT-4 is Bard performing better at my research task with internet search enabled.

Anecdotally I do find myself using Claude for summarization. It does seem to require less prompt crafting to get good results so when I just need an article or YouTube video summarized it's nice to be able to just drop it in and be like, "summarize this"
The main predictions and suggestions mentioned in the article is a good starting point. I’m not sure what endeavor is the best for human labor but digging and filling the same ditch is not it. You would be hard pressed to convince me that anyone making such suggestions should be taken seriously. Much of our “money isn’t real” monetary policy is thanks to this thinking.

There are alternatives that don’t require you to believe in silly things like the example above. Check out Thomas Sowell: Basic Economics.
I feel like this solution was designed for someone who is going to snap two windows just one time and work with them for several hours at a time, if not the rest of the day. Whereas I am constantly needing to snap different windows together, making this process feel tedious and cumbersome compared to Windows
I used to live in PDX, which is generally regarded as having very good public transit for the US. My experience was pretty close to what the poster describes.
Actually, the article ends with "The ampersand isn’t the only former member of the alphabet. Learn what led to the extinction of the thorn and the wynn." (which links to https://www.dictionary.com/e/letters-alphabet/)
Hey, Really love how simple and intuitive the UI is. Does is pick the context automatically?
Certainly if you have transit running every five minutes it is entirely different then if it isn’t. (In that case unreliability isn’t the killer that it is when a bus runs every hour)

I had no problem with the reliability of the bus before the pandemic (got an electric bus instead of a minibus) but the bus company in Tompkins has never really recovered. For a while we had people advocating the Utopian idea of letting everybody ride the bus for free, it seems to have become a reality by accident because the fare collecting machines have broken and haven’t been fixed.
If you're not too familiar, then it will be difficult to explain it on a comment.

At a high level, DEI functions as a trojan horse. Under the unobjectionable guise of universal values : "diversity, equal-ness, inclusivity', it peddles specific political values.

It replaces the 'dont-ask-dont-tell' corporate era with a politicized atmosphere where silence is considered opposition. Diversity in color, but not in opinions. Diversity for census tracked metrics, and none for the rest. Marketed as equality of opportunity, but enforced as equity in outcomes. Inclusivity of every archetype found on a private-American-university-campus and judgement towards everything else.

Just as Tobacco companies have the highest ranked sustainability scores, the DEI-iest companies are often the most oppressive in demanding a certain kind of conformity. The most insidious part of DEI initiatives, is that their concerns are forever biased towards optics rather than real world impact.

I don't blame their inability to create both diverse and inclusive spaces. D & I cannot co-exist. Just as a dish with every ingredient is an allergy death device; A workplace where diverse opinions on personal matters are entertained will feel potently offensive. Such a space cannot feel inclusive. Similarly, E & E cannot co-exist. Equality and equity are diametrically opposed to each other.

America is a divided country and global MNC employees are folks from an even more divided world. People in such a workplace will inevitably disagree on fundamental aspects of society.

In the midst of this confusion the university hires self-proclaimed DEI experts with political aspirations, who ask you to read XKendi and Robin DiAngelo. If you want to properly understand the specific political school of thought DEI advocates for, you should read their books. I have read both and have strong opinions of a flavor that I bet you can guess. But, I'll let you make the judgement for yourself.
"The fact that you’re “shocked” by something as banal as “lack of window snapping” is kind of funny actually."

No, his point is a very specific one - how do the employees of apple themselves manage their own work ?

One answer is that they have alternative tooling or special features enabled or some other inside track to making (for instance) triple and quad monitor setups work in any sane way whatsoever.

I hope this is the answer.

Because the other answer is:

They are not power users by any definition. The reason they aren't decrying multi monitor support is because they don't use multiple monitors. The reason they don't fix window management is because they really are infantile GUI mousey-mouse for everything users.

The reason 'X' doesn't work is because they never need X.

I hope that's not the answer.