skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps you are asking me why I individually value Pascal as a language...

Yes, that's what I was asking. Or rather:

> Some people love NixOS and can't do without it

... and then they'll usually have specific reasons why they can't do without it.

I didn't mean it as "why should I use Pascal now when there are so many better languages out there," on the contrary. If you're gonna dabble in a niche language, it might as well be a historically significant one.

I'm not quite convinced AI will supplant programming languages, though. Search engines, perhaps. And it'll become part of image processing and artsy tools.
“Tesla owns the gas stations:” Ford and GM trigger domino effect on EV charging
Benchmarking the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility [pdf]
Economic activity does not equate to political worth.

Although cities may be the economic hubs it doesn't equate to the political worth or value of an individuals vote. Everyone regardless of where they live or their economic contribution should be entitled to an equal vote in a fair and democratic society.

One of the original concerns about direct democracy is the potential it has to allow a majority of voters to trample the rights of minorities. This is why we have minority protections.
i would not go as far as saying complete and utter garbage, but it 95% of cases it brings with it a can of worms that you don't need and don't want. All in the name of "frontend developer velocity"!
As a team lead, I’ve found it really difficult to keep curious, smart, young engineers on track. Everyone wants to go off and build shiny things instead of solving real problems. I have to find enough shiny problems that actually need solving to balance out the daily grind. Interestingly, I also find it difficult to instill a sense of meticulousness, and how important it is to write code in a way that reduces bugs. Clever engineers come up with clever, complicated solutions that are written quickly and rely on coincidence to function. Life experience is the best teacher for this, but I often need to step in. I’m still not sure what the balance is there.
It's interesting but it probably was more expensive than taking carbon out of the ground, processing it, and then rapidly oxidizing it in the air. I'm just wondering when Mobil's scientists knew climate change was real. ExxonMobil knew in 1977.
Yes, however, the moment you choose a message size, there is always only a finite set of ways to arrange the symbols in those positions
I went through the SOC 2 (Type 1 and 2) process in the last few years and I nearly quit with the amount of useless, ill-informed nonsense I had to submit to.

The regulatory controls themselves are mostly reasonable, but seeing the competency and rigor (lack thereof) of the auditors was completely demotivating.
Is there a market for quality technical content? Enough to generate some type of revenue?

The lack of it makes me think there isn’t. Or maybe it’s all locked up in YT videos that are painful to watch.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/channels-sms-origi...
Ooh, that makes more sense!
that's scary. thanks for the data point (not joking) because here north of Phoenix it's hot as hell too, yet less hot than at lower elevation like the valley Phoenix is in, so it would be nuts to not respect the climate.
This will probably work as long as the material being annotated is similar to the material the LLM was trained on. When it encounters novel data (value) it will likely perform poorly.
As a general principle the larger models are better quality.

However, fine tuned small models can outperform general purpose large models on specific tasks.

There are also many lightweight tasks like basic sentiment analysis where the correctness of small models can be good enough to point of being indistinguishable from large models.
The only way it could be more satisfying is if there was one more update gleefully telling everyone about how the auditor got clapped by PCI or Visa or whoever.
FWIW something similar happened to me as well, dropped out of school to go full-time as a co-founder. We put in writing several times that we held similar numbers of shares, yet nine months in discovered my business partner awarded himself nearly all of the equity. When I left due to this, the company completely lost velocity for over a year, which I suspect might happen due to your departure too.

The betrayal weighed on me for years, especially since I eventually had to involve lawyers. I think the most important thing you can do is find new opportunities to occupy your mind so you can learn from it but not dwell on it.
Related:

From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33579209 - Nov 2022 (344 comments)

Better than Netflix: Jellyfin on my NAS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33433880 - Nov 2022 (1 comment)

Why I use Jellyfin for my home media library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33362416 - Oct 2022 (228 comments)

Jellyfin Release – v10.8.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31720125 - June 2022 (14 comments)

Jellyfin: Free Software Media System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28664802 - Sept 2021 (199 comments)

Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and Infuse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27462767 - June 2021 (171 comments)

Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21986282 - Jan 2020 (173 comments)

Jellyfin is an open source alternative for Plex - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20797851 - Aug 2019 (1 comment)
LED lights are not a maintenance item.
(Article courtesy of WSJ owned by
Rupert Murdoch who has a very large interest in keeping regulators out of the medias money printing machinery, out of ISPs rent-seeking grift, out of conglomerates which own both media companies and ISPs collusion against consumers)

Be doubly sure to read up on how the media AKA vested interest was weaponized against her nomination too.

Edit: here’s an article to get started https://www.theverge.com/23437518/biden-fcc-gigi-sohn-fox-ne... Note that it explicitly mentions Fox News (also Murdoch) so again I don’t have much faith that WSJ is unbiased about this issue. The Verge has some other in-depth articles about Gigi Sohn as well. Pretty ironic that the first response defending the GOP actions is from a source overseen by someone directly responsible for the media campaign against her. It obviously worked.
Yeah. Fundamental libraries at the right level of abstraction, most of which you're probably already familiar with. Those are the obvious things you shouldn't write yourself.
Any source on the blue light filtering not working? I didn't get the filter on my latest glasses and feel like my eyes fatigue more quickly, but I'm aware that could just be aging or a change in monitors, lighting, etc. which have occurred since my last subscription update.
I've been using https://getyourshittogether.org/ in the latest version is pretty darn good for at least taking things into consideration.
You’re right, but it’s annoying for sure. Instead of telling me they don’t have a title, they complete its full name (as if to say „I know what you want, but I’m not gonna give it to ya“), yet show me some arbitrary stuff named similar.

It’s just a poor solution.
This is a good point. The part of the WFH/RTO debate that seems to get overlooked is that people who were hired to WFH are the ones who are now being cajoled into working from offices. It's the changing of the conditions with the "take it or leave it" stance toward the workers that's landing like a lead balloon.

If an office has only ever hired people to work in the office, a the people who worked for them remotely during the pandemic would be people who chose a job where they would be in an office. It's reasonable to expect they would prefer that environment and not mind returning (even if a few were converted to WFH preference by the experience). But any new hires chose WFH roles on purpose, and the conditions are being changed on them.

I worked for a company in 2017-8 where my whole team was remote, but then they decided to open offices and hire people to do the same work on-location. They flew me out to train them, and it was a disaster. My manager said, "I don't know what your problem is. All these other people work fine in an office."

I told her, "All these other people applied for an office job. They self-selected based on this requirement. I never, EVER would have. I do not work well in an office. I know this about myself, thus did not apply for an office job. Your temporary demand that I visit an office for two weeks is going exactly as I expected it would. I hate it, and it hates me."
I am assigned one public IPv4 and a /64 in IPv6 space. My customer-owned router provides IPv4 NAT for all devices behind it; no translation is necessary for devices using IPv6.
I tried to respond earlier, I was rate limited.

No, I don't mean "different strata of society". I mean dickheads. A different strata of society is, say, Matt Hancock MP vs. an immigrant single mum, both of which travel on the Tube. I enjoy living in a diverse neighbourhood. My neighbours are from all walks of life.

A dickhead is someone smoking weed on a bus, shouting homophobic slurs at people who look a bit different, playing loud music on speakerphone. I am indeed intolerant of in-your-face antisocial behaviour and I'm proud of that fact.
> we have too many people working at most companies.

I half-disagree with this. My take is significantly more top-down: senior management has a deficient concept of how product development works. They believe Manpower is to be spent to achieve revenue, either by directly selling the result as a product (e.g. airplanes selling wifi to passengers) or by it being a differentiating feature for the sales department. This causes every allocation decision (like hiring) to fundamentally be biased around getting a tangible return: by creating new projects, new features, and new buggy microservices.

Further, since management only has two knobs (manpower and timeline) to play with, they like to move them to feel like they're optimizing the project. It's always the same fallacies, too: "we hired more people so we can create explosive growth", "we created ambitious timelines, now we're striving to fill them" etc.

I don't have a solution for this, except to note that it can be mitigated by managing up. Construct your own narrative, and take advantage of the fact that the non-technical people above you govern almost entirely by gut feeling.
5. Embrace vaporware; sell a promise to the living, ship your product only to the dead.
A finishdown, if you will.
From the linked paper:

> As a result, our attacks can be easily extended to IPv6 net-
works to manipulate a victim originator’s network traffic.
my self-documenting code is evolving!
How was ground truth obtained if not via human annotation?
As long as you have significant stock it probably doesn't matter much. Like for that engineer with 10% of Yahoo, or chief cook at Google. If you are ambitious, then you need an assistant to do what you are doing now. Better a small team under your leadership ;) The difficult part is to make them believe it.
> visit plaintext sites over insecure wifi but no eves on the line etc.

Not a rhetorical question: When is the last time you’ve visited a non-HTTPs website?

> you wont be part of a traffic redirection network

These are also only a concern for HTTP.

Other common use cases for VPNs include geo-unblocking, and hosting IP ranges are commonly blocked by streaming sites.

I can’t think of a good reason to use a VPS for a VPN anymore these days, to be honest – the privacy/security landscape has changed dramatically over the last few years.

You probably get better privacy these days on public (free/unauthenticated) Wi-Fi than you would on many "free" or paid VPN services.
Sounds like something that should have involved lawyers right from the "put in writing" stage.
Ding ding ding. Another way the power dynamic has been shattered. I could very well be applying for other jobs from my personal computer while I'm in a meeting on my work computer. They don't want to give you a carrot to stay. They want to bring you a into the office so they can reach you more easily with a stick.
The mullvad app does multihop in a more secure way than what their help page says for manual wireguard, but it's not documented anywhere else so you have to read the source code of the app. I wish they would make that more clear or add documentation for the more secure way.
I think they are referring to this part:

> It was the same chip, just that some came out the oven better than others.

Not the part about selling.
Even humans disagree about labels. Especially humans willing to do this work.

And with the topical depth say ChatGPT4 has, I would think these labels have more value, although just as with humans some validation and verification steps are required.
He's talking about the distinction - anybody concerned with privacy should probably be capable of producing or otherwise finding a random username and password.
Just so you know, I Don't Care About Cookies was bought by Avast recently: https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/21/avast_buys_i_dont_car...
There's a lot that can go wrong when unqualified and untrained people are given a powerful pesticide for residential use.
// However, you have to admit that your ”hard working career builder” statement was designed to somehow liken this character to someone who actually labors for their money. I have to ask…why not work hard building a different career?

The thing you are assuming / missing is that for many of us working in finance is well connected to meaningful impact on the world.

To give you a very simple example - one of my typical clients a few jobs back were state teachers and police retirement funds. The folks who run those funds directly impact the quality of life in retirement of these civic employees - and the entire financial industry (brokers, vendors, etc) exist to cater to them.

So, the fund manager works to deliver best returns for the retirees. The broker works to provide the manager with superior execution. The trading platform vendor works to provide the broker with reliability and efficiency this requires, etc.

The "deeper" into finance you are, the more you recognize the connection between things like farming, energy generations, business formation, etc being enabled through our work.

So yeah plenty of guys chose finance because it's a good way to take care of their family AND they see meaning in their work.
Input Metrics vs. Output Metrics
It is a period of time that’s expected.

We expect to purchase X hours of your time in exchange for Y dollars.

If you can get more done in that time, you’re worth more.

If you can get less done, you’re worth less.

If you try to do the minimum “force of work” required, you’re worth less, and likely to be replaced by someone who will maximize the value produced in the amount of time that has been paid for.
> the kind of work we do requires creativity, thinking holistically

But those are also good with WFH? I get the one task point done, then I can go for a walk in the park where I can keep thinking about the problem, then go grab a coffee or a beer and write down a bit of thoughts on the topic.

People are perfectly capable of phoning it in from the office, and taking a second job that's at night.

Working from home or from office are orthogonal to how much attention somebody is paying, except that WFH has a major advantage: you and your coworkers don't arrive irritated and fatigued after 2 hour commutes through traffic, and then not getting as much time to maintain their life because it's another irritating and fatiguing commute back after work
Spanglish is not necessarily using English words in Spanish or vice/versa.

It's using "troca" ("trucka"?) instead of "camioneta" when referring to "truck".

Another example is "parkear" instead of "estacionar" when referring to "parking".

This is in the case of the Mexican dialect of Spanglish.
Well, yeah. I wouldn't do it behind people's backs, but I'm pretty sure people would protest, and new people would miss the message no matter how big you make it in the introduction channel.
All depends on what the I is in the YAGNI. I have seen development be parallised where the same work is being done again and again by different developers in different ways because YAGN { maybe 2-3 days of upfront architecture and design for a 6 month project }. This results in bugs and maintenance nightmares. This was before unit tests were common though, so maybe unit tests may have saved it. But surely it was slower to develop that way.

But tautologically you can't take YAGNI too far, if the "YAGN" part is actually true :-). But that is always under debate.
ChatGPT helps NYU researchers develop a working CPU
Except when it’s not performant, and then suddenly you need those backend guys again!
Biodata – Easy Access or Hacking
> One of the pros of monoliths is that each individual functionality it provides is so simple that it doesn't need to be rewritten

I... I don't really understand this sentence.
I’ve been at the flip side where a few google searches would have contradicted much of the fun complexity proposed by the developers of the system. Or the PMs “talked to the users”, didn’t write anything down, and then demanded features that weren’t used at all.

Just enough research should be the theme for any decisions of great consequence.
I only have one heiney, but I'm curious about your second one!
So, you work hourly?
There's still space for snark - one might observe that the model is just, wisely, excluding Python.
Speaking of linguistics, I'd argue that "Linguists have declared a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida"
Ford Chairman Says US Can’t yet Compete Against China with EVs
hey, it's honestly nice thinking this out with you.

the point is that headlines are one thing, but they don't evaluate impact of a technology very well, though they do evaluate hype.

i question, is AI getting so much enthusiasm because the ideas are more widely accessible, have been prominent in sci-fi for 50 years (at least), whereas hardcore genetics tools, and recent discover of how to effect surgery on DNA as code, is appreciated by a smaller audience?

I mean, look at the sophistication required to appreciate

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

and pretty clearly that's a hardcore hacker effort realized in biology, and it won 2 Nobel prizes as assessed not by headline count but by the world of scientists, and that in under 10 years, which basically is amazing.

disclaimer: i come from a foot in both worlds background, so I am mega enthused (like you) about the transformers results, as well as 'computing' in genomics.

i wonder if the two worlds will soon collaborate, by the way.
If you're going to start less secure than state of the art, why not fork state of the art, or start your own?

This appears to be the mindset, anyway.
>There's a youtube guy who goes around and landscapes people's yards for free. He does good work; it's a valuable service. But if he later returned to the house and demanded payment he wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

What you are describing doesn't sound free though. It sounds like in consideration for media and film rights - the compensation - the property owners get a service. It's like Extreme Home Makeover was done for 'free' for homeowners but was not remotely free in that was a broadcast cable show that people assigned certain rights to in consideration for 'free' work.

>That would be the same leg that the Reddit mods are missing.

There isn't exactly a bright line as to when someone should be considered a paid employee or not, but just with your own example, if that 'YouTube guy' was filming and profiting off the videos he made without releases from the homeowners he himself could be sued where it would be that he could owe the property owners, which is not a remotely applicable situation to Reddit moderators. If film, TV, commercials, etc are done on someone's property that's a whole different thing from employment law.
It is very expensive to train these base models so a smaller size is more practical if you aren’t a big company with hundreds of powerful GPUs at hand. Table 15 from LLaMA paper[1] has some insightful figures: it took 135,168 GPU hours to train the 13B version and a bit more than 1M GPU hours for the 65B version. And we are talking about A100 80GB GPUs here (expensive and scarce). Not everyone can afford these kinds of trainings (especially if it takes a few attempts; e.g. if you’ve got a bug in the tokenizer)

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.13971.pdf
No ten years later where are they now update post?
Try the ones that try to mimic the whiteboard experience, Apple Freeform, Microsoft Whiteboard, Explain Everything, Invision, Milanote, Miro, etc. It really is such a powerful format, as long as some ground rules are established (not creating a totally new board every single time, as there's plenty of space due to digital format, and to prioritize expanding space use rather than wiping each other's notes).

Couple this with a more instant communication form, ie voice chats, and there isn't much else to need when it comes to collaboration. With the added benefit of async communication, you can leave notes to each other on the board/build off things without having to actually be together at the same time.

I will note that if you have a tablet and compatible pen (with app support), it makes it all feel so intuitive. But some people get into the flow of clicking and dragging components with text it's not a big difference.
I feel like folders needs to be more advanced for business. For starters I just want to tag stuff with different fields.

It can get way more advanced, like I’d want to hook it up to the CRM, and create a rule for which files kinds is required per customer. Then, be able to see which files are missing for example.

Or just create a rule that if someone wants to upload a certain kind of file they must fill out some metadata.

Or just forward email the file straight into the right folder.

Or create a auto reminder to load a file and then by attaching it in the reply, it is loaded.

The more I brainstorm this the more it seems like zappier and folders needs very tight integration.
Have you ever tried booking flights with EasyJet? Their web servers would just literally stop sending you TCP packets once they see a session cookie that hasn't accepted the cookie consent within a minute or so. Took me a while to figure this out, and until I realised it's caused by me not seeing the cookie consent modal, my workflow was to clear cookies and then try to book the flight within 60 seconds. :-D
Hyperbole never ceases to amaze me. On one hand, I know how wasteful "CI" systems are. We offer a docker image from a custom docker registry. Since we started offering it 3 years ago, we've had 1 billion pulls. 990 million pulls were from CI systems. But to claim that the operator of those CI systems is "attacking" us would be pretty bizarre. Though bizarre seems to govern online discourse when it comes to most things
it's not about being paid for the time. it's the face that allegedly they have a job to do. Did you challenge the tickets yourself of with a lawyer? Which state?
I think you're thinking of career-ending fuckups (where you definitely should try all avenues, quickly, including asking trusted peers for help), rather than the article's more mundane examples of being blocked, having prioritization issues with another team, feeling overwhelmed, etc. If you can't talk to your manager about that kind of thing and expect some help (or at least some advice/sympathy), then agree with your point that it's time to look for another gig. That's no way to live...