skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The very fact that it had a valid internal representation of the game state means it's extrapolated beyond token-level. Which is the point.

The paper said it was making incorrect moves thus it has an invalid representation of the game.

So an LLM when specifically trained on Othello, a game with very simple and completely mechanical rules, failed to abstract what those rules actually where. This means at a purely mechanical level it doesn’t understand the game when that was exclusively what it was trained to do.

It’s a clear illustration that these things are really really bad at abstraction. But that should be obvious because they are simply manipulating arbitrary tokens from their perspective. It doesn’t intuit that the game should have simple rules and therefore it doesn’t find them. People on the other hand have a real bias regarding simple rules.
Sure, and I'd agree with that. My point is that under GP's argument of "it wasn't because they were men, it's because they were from the other side" the same thing applies to other instances of persecution.

Flimsy excuses either matter or they don't, and the application is universal.
sorry this may be a dumb question but I am curious

is FANG still hiring? or are they generally in hiring freeze?
For neovim users, there's a work-in-progress clone, neogit: https://github.com/timUntersberger/neogit/

Some of my colleagues use emacs/magit, and after seeing how absolutely lovely the workflow is, I've put in a lot of work over the last few months expanding it. You can check out my fork here: https://github.com/ckolkey/neogit/

One thing I particularly like to tease my emacs' colleagues about is that my magit is faster than theirs thanks to neovim's async capabilities.
How would you compare candidates that have some code in GitHub and those that don't ?
Their main claim of “faster” unfortunately is false.

> Running on an Nvidia A100 GPU, Paella took 0.5 seconds to produce a 256x256-pixel image in eight steps, while Stable Diffusion took 3.2 seconds

Using the latest methods (torch 2.0 compile, improved schedulers) stable diffusion only takes about 1 second to generate a 512x512 image on an a100 gpu. A 256x256 image 1/4 the size presumably takes less than half that time.

So the corrected title is “Like diffusion but slightly slower and lower quality.”
> We can argue about if Apple/Google deserve 30% but pretending people actually want crypto for any reason other than avoid rules/regulations is silly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36405348

> I have a PornHub subscription that uses bitcoin. There's nothing speculative about it and it's completely legitimate. I've also used to to purchase indie games instead of giving Steam/Google/Apple/Epic a cut. I'm looking for a Spotify alternative and this seems to fit the bill and I'd give OP some bitcoin to check it out.

> Just because viable usecases don't exist today isn't proof that they'll never exist and isn't a reason to stop development. If we gave up on hard problems because we didn't solve them in 15 years we wouldn't have the AI we have today.

Can you please explain to me how my use of crypto is avoiding rules/regulations? I don't wish to be silly or have pretend intentions.

Is there a rule that says all developers have to put their games on Steam or Epic and accept local currency that I'm trying to avoid? Is there a rule that says developers can't sell their games for apples? What rules/regulations would a developer avoid by accepting apples as payment for their work?

Now extend this to people who are creating videos and want to create their an iOS app that will allow them to accept apples as payment. What makes crypto special?

Apple's 30% cut is not a real rule, I'm sorry. It doesn't bring any good in the world and it doesn't help anybody except Apple. Apple and Apple's supporters care about the rule but that doesn't make it a valid rule or something the rest of us have to sit back and accept. Using crypto to avoid Apple's fees isn't hurting anybody except the poor old multi-trillion dollar company named Apple. If you want to talk about people pretending let's talk about how many people pretend like Apple is a good guy or how people pretend like Apple cares about them on an individual level. It's as delusional as walking into a strip club and walking out thinking the stripper you paid $300 for a lap dance for loves you and wants to see you again because they care about you on an individual level.

It's also fully within someone's rights to put their foot down and fight Apple on this. There's nothing wrong with that and the US legal system allows for it. You can be a bully and tell people to pick up their ball and go somewhere else when they're in "your park" but one day someone is gonna punch you in the mouth and tell you to sod off when they see you let everyone else play there with different rules. Apple is going to lose their 30% cut in the very near future, they know it, and they're terrified.
You are the one who sees (or 'hears') the thoughts and feels the feelings. The reason this distinction makes sense is that, arguably, most if not all of 'your' thoughts and feelings are actually preconditioned from the outside. This lets you disidentify from an outside programming.
I don’t want to weather damage. I want to glide through life wrapped in privilege, then die in a warm bed.
People and companies knowingly contaminating food products with poisons like lead, should be put in jail. Companies knowingly selling such products, should be at least heavily fined, possibly prosecuted as well. Bottom line, this is clearly poisoning (and killing people) to make a few extra bucks. There should be no leniency whatsoever for this clear evil.
NY’s Hochul Scraps Plan to Build New Office Spaces from Penn Station Rehab Plan
I'm aware. Will just see how it goes
in our area there has been a massive increase in jaywalking. Not jaywalking-per-se like just crossing out of the crosswalk.

Like, passed out lying in the road, sitting in the road, stumbling around on-and-off the sideway or shoulder dazed and oblivious, staring at the sky mumbling, wading into traffic against the lights without any care. bicycling in the traffic lanes going across or the wrong way or across flipping off and daring people to hit them. They are either completely oblivious or don't give a f@ck.

There's also been a massive increase in people driving like utter maniacs. Those would be the meth-heads that have a car.
Correct. I launched a product in Indonesia and our operations team there referred to the language as Bahasa.
Good ideas, will do. I'll add bidi, locale, etc. Thank you!
> Yet another unambiguous data point that modern life is measurably worse for your body

I’m not sure this is the takeaway.

I feel there are many unambiguous data points that modern life is measurably better for your body.

Infant mortality rate. Average life expectancy. The mortality rate for mothers during pregnancy. The mortality rate for random injuries (cuts, breaks, etc.). Death by food poisoning. Quality of life, and mortality rates, for mental and physical disabilities.

It seems like, in nearly any circumstance, the modern human body is at considerably less risk than our ancestors.

But there are trade-offs and missteps. It seems we’ve tossed the baby with the bath water in some cases. And getting the baby back further improves modern life.
you might net 200K a year if you're lucky, and assuming you live like a miser and save/invest 150K a year, that's really not enough to retire on
Interesting. So if I asked you to open up coderpad.io and write a python function to reverse a string, you'd just absolutely refuse? What would you do otherwise to show me that you're a programmer?
> is the 10 year trajectory clearly downward?

I think so, yes. It's been that way for a good while.
The logic is twisted and strange, the justification sums up to this: talking past projects like talking to a PhD student about his research paper, it is all they does and doesn't put them in enough "foreign situation" to see their novel problem-solving abilities.

OTOH, when you are hiring for leaders (directors and above), past experiences and behavior questions are all you talking about.
I'm outside of the edit window on this comment otherwise I would make this more prominent, but way below in the "Other" section they do actually have a "monetary gift" rule that aligns with what the dev says:

> (vii) Apps may enable individual users to give a monetary gift to another individual without using in-app purchase, provided that (a) the gift is a completely optional choice by the giver, and (b) 100% of the funds go to the receiver of the gift. However, a gift that is connected to or associated at any point in time with receiving digital content or services must use in-app purchase.
This is absolutely wrong, at least for the FAANG where I work (Amazon).

Not only are data analysis jobs given to business grads and are non-tech roles, they also do not work with software engineers at all and I guarantee you you will hate every second of your job in those positions because of how uninteresting it is.

After that, if you do want to switch roles, you will either have to go through a full interview loop and held to the same standard as an external candidate, or you will have to go through an even more grueling job title change process which will take months, with no guarantee of being approved (and to be fair, if you're a data analyst doing a data analyst's job, has no chance of being approved).
> Nothing they did showed that they ever chose the more expensive option.

It's so absurd. Deep sea tourism is going to be something only for the .1% for a while.

They can afford a vessel that's 1000x more expensive. Your market is about 50 people. They've got unlimited money, basically.

Why cheap out and die? I just don't get it.
The point is that if the market is inefficient, profits rise to encourage new entrants into the market to bring it back closer to efficiency. Get rid of the profit rising mechanism and you're stuck with a broken market that nobody wants to enter and fix.
Yes, he’s been whining about this since late last year.
> Didn't they voluntarily ban The Daily Stormer?

They defended them for a long time, and then banned them shortly after one of the Stormer admins started bragging that they had Cloudflare in their pocket.
I'm not seeing how your example includes an "obvious improvement" that "only the best engineers would do". I would use arrays over lists but I have a ton of low-level experience so I tend to care about performance, but I wouldn't necessarily expect the "best" engineers to do so unless the prompt says "Please take special care to turn in the fastest solution".

There's a couple obvious tests (written unit tests) that I would expect the candidates to think of for their roman number sorting function, and I usually graded the take homes better when there was 1) evidence of testing 2) evidence of smart, appropriate edge case testing, but not having time to write polished tests in 1h isn't necessarily a red flag.

I'm really struggling to find how simple examples like this can demonstrate anything like GP mentioned.
People in China whose name includes a character that isn't recognized
> It's almost like private builders are incentivised to squeeze the market rather than bring prices down.

Yes - incentivised by government regulations to do so, and moreover too disincentivised to build. If you can't make money by building, it's better to wait. No builder wants to stop building - money now is much better than money in the future - but enough government and local intervention will cause this.

The housing thing you've gone on a while, but basically if you remember the context, two comments up, I was replying to something that you're not arguing for, as far as I can tell, which is that if the government hadn't sold some houses it would have enough houses. This is not the case, and I don't think you've said it is.

> I didn't claim you were arguing for no regulation, arguing that regulations should be made more lax in the face of those events is what's disheartening. Those disasters occurred because existing regulations were not sufficiently strict/enforced.

Companies not obeying regulations in specific instances doesn't mean all regulations are good. Regulations are not a tower, with fire retardation regulations being piled on the stupid ones, and so removing the stupid ones would cause the ones you want to fall.

My fundamental bewilderment with this and some other comments is you're complaining about government-caused things, and you blame the private sector for it, and want the government to be in charge of more things, despite the evidence of your own eyes of how well the government does with what it already has.
There was a great story on HN a few days about the concept of "It wasn't for me"[1] - the distinction between something being "bad" vs "just not for me." Your comment made me think of that.

If you really perceive algorithmic live coding as torture, then it makes all the sense in the world to avoid it. "It's not for you."

But it's important to recognize two things: first that this is subjective. A different person may enjoy something you hate (I don't mind live coding for example) or at least won't consider is bad enough to be called "torture." So just because it's not "for you" doesn't mean it's bad.

The second thing is to recognize that there's a cost to being however we are. In this case, the cost of avoiding opportunities that require such interviews is that you may have fewer opportunities and they may be less lucrative on average. It's possible that (a) you are still able to find good-enough opportunities and (b) the downside is worth avoiding the torture. But you can also decide that this cost isn't worth it, and you have some room to shape what is and isn't for you, over time. For example, if the thing that makes this "torture" for you something like anxiety when being watched? If so, probably something like that shows up in other places in your life and maybe valuable to tackle anyway.

By no means am I suggesting that you need to do something different than what you're doing, just pointing out that these reactions are subjective, can have downsides, and are under our control to some extent.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36452067
Most people do not tip gas station attendants in NJ either.
It not nearly as universal as you think.
Similar boat here, and know of many other companies in the same situation (although we chose Alma).

We thought we were on a good proven path of paying for support where we need it, and using the downstream alternatives when we didn't. Turns out we should have more seriously considered a move to Debian...

I'm not really shocked Red Hat are trying to squeeze more money out of their existing audience, everything they offer is eye-wateringly expensive nowadays. I almost choked when I got a quote back for the Ansible automation platform, before installing AWX for free.
In my experience it's pretty rare that a frontend comes along and fundamentally changes my workflow around the underlying tool, but Magit falls into that category for me. Truly a great piece of software.
> Elections are largely monopolized by older people who mostly tend to be homeowners...the entire system is rigged

Homeowners, irrespective of age, vote more. This is in part enabled by material comforts. But there may be other layers of causation.

The first two are problematic per se (though I'm uncertain of the effect size). But the last is fundamental--if someone can vote but can't care to, they're not going to have their interests represented.
It's not so much that Gibbon is out of fashion, it's that he is more often wrong than right. Good storyteller, if you want to read a story, but on his own, not a sufficient foundation if you want to learn something.

Learning about roman history from him is like learning from Aristotle or Freud. It's not all wrong, but there are better sources, and if that's all you read, you'll be way more confused than enlightened.
Perhaps, but perhaps the simplistic thinking is that the bailout changes anything. Are businesses which are trying to meet payroll now running a buffer in multiple banks? Are they securing the future of their employees by making sure they can meet payroll in an emergency? Probably not and as a result they didn't learn anything from the experience.

The truth is, this is the tip of the iceberg. Don't be sailing on the Titanic since you have been warned.
> Horse crap, a huge amount of parents genuinely believe violence is a necessity for child rearing (including frequent repetitions of "spare the rod, spoil the child") to the point that they've even pushed to bring it back into public schools!

The effects of corporal punishment are small compared to the effects of molestation and physical abuse. If corporal punishment were our only "issue", we'd be much better off. I wouldn't even classify this under "the very basics".
I think one of the most important and interesting questions regarding using pgvector is performance, and in particular, how it compares to Qdrant, Weaviate, etc. This post hints at that where it says "I presented a lightning talk called Vectors are the new JSON where I shared use-cases and some upcoming challenges with improving PostgreSQL and pgvector performance for querying vector data. Some problems to tackle (many of which are in progress!) involve adding more parallelism to pgvector, adding support for indexing for vectors with more than 2,000 dimensions, and leverage hardware acceleration where possible to speed up calculations.". But the post doesn't give any numbers. I tried to read the linked lightning talk, but it's on https://www.slideshare.net/, which is a really weird website now -- every few slides it tried to force me to watch a 30 second commercial!?
What you wrote is so far away from a good faith argument that it’s pretty hard to see it as anything other than low effort trolling.
The boy who cried wolf had a better rate 1/3.
It felt quite empowering, actually. I ended up having to point it out to some recruiters who kept pestering me even though I already knew what their employer’s interview process is like. It also helped me avoid wasting time to hop on the first intro call with HR to get details about the next steps. Also, I got a few people reaching out specifically because they resonated with it, which was great!
No sales tax is awful! Instead of only getting taxed on purchases (WA), you pay 10% of your entire income to the state. It is tragic! And it also means any unreported wages are never taxed. It's pretty much the worst system possible.
Ooh do provide more detail! In general I've found PM interviews at hardware companies much more useful (?) than software.
GitHub is not the best metric, though.

1. Many (most) engineers are not in positions to be able to meaningfully contribute to OSS (e.g. all the code I write for work is proprietary).

2. It can easily be faked.

3. Personal projects can sometimes be interesting, but often don't showcase usefulness (unless front-end).

4. Many high quality engineers don't like to spend their free time doing more of their job.

Some repos, of course, are more impactful though. And I would probably say that if you are someone who loves to write code 16 hours a day, more power to you, you deserve to be hired! But many quality engineers would get missed if that is the desired bar (which is fine - other companies will just scoop them up).

(edit: OSS engineers extra upset by what I'm saying, but there is a lot more to this world than just what shows up in your GitHub feed)
I second this recommendation. I found it surprising easy to read - the sardonic humor kept me going even when I struggled to keep track of all the details/people/names/places. Although I didn't attempt the full set - just the thousand or so page "abridged" version.
> Where do you expect stock photography to be used? Only in mock-ups and design pitches?

As if something's existence alone justifies its (mis)use...

I'm reminded of the Invader Zim Hamstergeddon episode when the tanks arrive and one of the soldiers shouts "We've gotta use this stuff on something!"
I can picture it: a German soldier feeling defeated just set the keys to something random and typed his message, sending a message without expecting anyone to hear...

"In the old days, if someone had a secret they didn’t want to share, they went up a mountain, found a tree, carved a hole in it, and whispered the secret into the hole. Then they covered it with mud and leave the secret there forever." - Wong Kar Wai/In The Mood for Love
They buried the important info in the middle of the first page: "Moreover, this guide is written for experienced, back-end leaning engineers – interview processes are usually different for juniors, but we won’t be getting into those differences." There are multiple jobs out there are very technical positions pay 6 figures with no coding required. It's not interviewed for. It's not required at work. In fact, I can't give code to customers even if I wanted to.

Companies operate on more than just code monkeys.
Use the Costco app to compare real time gas prices all over the country. Tue are Costco’s on both sides of the Columbia River. Note that WA started a carbon tax on oil producers or sellers Jan 1 however that should have increased gas prices.

> 1. Washington has sales tax. Oregon does not. Washington will return that tax if the Oregonian keeps their receipt and files for a refund with the Washington Department of Revenue

How does this work in the case of gas, because one of the stipulations is:

> Purchases are for eligible items that will only be used outside of Washington state.

>Purchases are for tangible property/goods, digital products, or digital codes. Common examples include home appliances and electronics,
household goods, and clothes.

https://dor.wa.gov/file-pay-taxes/apply-tax-refund/state-sal...

Seems like it would hard to show that you used a certain amount of gas outside of WA.
You can assess the ones that don't have code on GitHub in a different way, but there is no reason to ignore a possibly valuable datapoint.
> implying that the 1940's weren't modern times or that the concept of citizenship has radically changed since then.

nope
Property owners have no control over prices. It's all dictated by supply/demand.

Yes, government printing money inflates overall prices. More recently, this happened because governments needed to pay for covid. During inflationary cycles, money flocks to assets like real estate. Simply because they are good protection against inflation.

Property owners don't become richer because of that, since everything else became expensive as well.

There are economic systems where price-setting is controlled and/or centralized. To my knowledge, all of them failed in producing better outcomes than a free market for anyone in society.
do you have a link, love to learn how it worked out in other places
A GPLv4 forbidding that wouldn't be matching the Open source definition.
What is the condition going to be called? You have to make your source open for everyone, even if they don't use your products?

Also, RHELs main point is giving a much longer support life cycle than the original dev, so they are contributing for sure.
Heck Python 2 is still supported on RHEL 8, even though It's now EOL.
As mentioned elsewhere, a signature of enigma ciphertext is that a letter can never encode as itself.

This gives you some crude form of error checking.

The rest of it as you mentioned makes it difficult to determine, data mining the possible results for common abbreviations from other plaintext could narrow.It down.
At those pressures, it's not particularly unreasonable for their to be flex and shift in materials. That would be baked into design, maintenance, and monitoring. However, the lack of safety culture, testing, or modeling is more red flags than a communist rally.

More succinctly: It's probably "normal", but OceanGate didn't know if it was "normal".