skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, and the base salaries from their actual job listings were mostly 200-270K per year. Definitely not a bad salary, but not worth it given the cost of SF living.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230624165908/https://fortune.c...
You better perform with that pay
I was still using a mouse when natural scrolling came out and it was a huge improvement. My brain immediately connected the scroll wheel to the content and it made a lot more sense. The unnatural scroll always seemed backwards and focuses too much on the particular mechanics of moving a scroll bar button instead of directly manipulating the content.

When I use someone else’s computer that uses the old scroll direction it just seems clunky and artificial.
Guessing they're looking at degrees and/or experience.
Not really, that description, and the one provided by the user you responded to is a bit disingenuous. Judges have the option of going against prior rulings all the time, and they do it all the time. But it does usually require some context from the judge for why a different ruling was carried out in this instance, because if they’re basically saying the previous judge’s decision was wrong, that calls into question if that prior case actually found real justice. Additionally, only higher courts (not just small local ones) set precedents for their rulings.
you grinding leetcode is how they built this in the first place
It’s really hard to believe any model is “better than Openai” when I can’t try it out, right now.

Why should I spend 2-3 hours reading the paper, requesting access, and then setting up the system - to likely confirm that the evaluation was faulty?
3d printers are the shitty version of replicators. Build a 3d printer that operates at the atomic level, and you have a replicator.

This is not a trivial problem to solve. Figuring out how to fabricate chips at a slightly smaller scale is the work of huge research divisions that build giant machines to do it. But. Once you have this, and can put it into an appliance-sized box that can make another copy of itself out of a trivial investment of resources, things get really weird and capitalism probably breaks a lot of people and/or itself.

Until then, though, it'll be business as usual. Patents and copyright will be there to protect the immense investment the corporations made into making stuff a few nanometers smaller, and politicians and pundits sucking on those corporate cashflow teats will be there to help.
Except medicine never stays with the ultra wealthy. It only usually makes sense as a mass market product. Unless by ultra wealthy you may mean entire populations of developed countries? Then yes maybe
I'm sympathetic to this argument, because I know both low-quality and high-quality engineers at most FAANGs, but in principle isn't offering a lot of money a good way to attract talent?

In the case of OpenAI you also have interesting tech and a brand that will massively accelerate your career if you want to stay in that field. So while yeah, you have to hire the best people; and OpenAI like everyone else will be paying $LOTS to a few useless engineers in the mix, I think "$900K and everyone knows it" is a pretty good substitute for talent-spotting, which anyway can't be bought.
There are theories which say that nuclear war, due to firestorms in cities transporting soot into the upper atmosphere, would lead to nuclear winter, which would lead to a global famine:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pMsnCieusmYqGW26W/...

However, the papers which predict such scenarios have been criticized as being too pessimistic:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jnDibtfvWNHLucf4D/actually-a...
> Japans government has for example given blanket permission for non-commercial AI training, while keeping a strict eye on anyone trying to use it for paid services

This is incorrect; it doesn't matter whether it's commercial or non-commercial, and you can use anything as training data regardless of copyright. See the amendment of the copyright law from 2018.
Humans are ready to try anything (ANYTHING) to lose weight without doing exercises, and stop eating garbage.

Can't eat garbage? I'll rather not eat anything! That will show 'em

On a different note, I can only offer you my uneducated opinion, from my armchair: fasting has been part of many cultures and religions since long time, and no one really considers them controversial, and doctors are not begging for example Muslims to stop fasting during Ramadan. But if you do it for weight loss, there are more efficient ways.
Engineers don't control the strategy. If Altman decides to reinvest all free cash flow into growth and safety instead of profits (which is not unusual in tech) the employees can't/won't stop him.
If by Leetcode, you mean publish highly-cited ML papers, then yes.
I hope my responses don't come across as damage control. Talking through this stuff is super valuable, we tweak our hiring process almost continuously based on feedback. Sometimes when people have a bad experience, we've just fucked up. Other times, we set the wrong expectations and there are simple improvements we can make.

I doubt anyone will read frustrated comments and my responses and think "oh boy, I didn't want to apply there but that one guy responded and made me change my mind".
I know more than half a dozen extremely top of their field for sure engineers who work there. Even having them would be an insane concentration of talent imo.
The majority can only afford healthcare while they are healthy. Being insured doesn’t protect you from bankruptcy when you get sick.
FAANG employees sure are full of themselves considering they've worked at companies that have failed to innovate for two decades. What was the last successful product that Google launched with all their highly paid engineers?
What are the common operations you can perform on that union?
Do you guys know some good companies that offer interesting remote ML jobs? The package is competitive for sure. I don't care that much about the pay, more about interesting stuff.
You're treating each list as unique, all the lists have a distribution of digits in common... I'm at a loss to even understand what you're saying here really -- this is why you need to actually state, formally, what you think the "LLMs are just stats" hypothesis amounts to.

It seems you think it amounts to saying LLMs sample from a combinatorial space, naively construed -- but that isnt the claim?

The claim is rather, they sample from a statistical distribution of tokens.

Take each position in the input vector, 1...127. It needs to "learn":

P(x0 position | y, x1...x127 positions), P(1|y, 2...127), P(2|y, 3...127), etc.

Which is a family of 127 conditional distributions that seem trivial to learn.

I really don't know why you think the size of a combinatorial space is relevant here?

All the sorted lists share basically the same tiny family of conditional distributions { P(x_i | x_(i-1)...x_127) }
Try using a mobile browser, like Opera, that supports text rewrap on zoom. It is a revelation.
If we ask a lawyer they will probably cite precedence such as Authors Guild vs Google (https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-important-supreme-co...) and thus this entire hypothetical interpretation of the legal framework is already not how the legal institutions see it.

If the courts are to set new precedent I think it's important to consider all the downstream ramifications, and I think it's a lot more complex and challenging than a lot of people here seem to think. There is a lot more to AI than just generative neural networks. A lot of "boring" technology we all take for granted can be caught up in it.
> Is IF considered a healthy practice for humans?

I haven't seen anything that suggested it was _unhealthy_. As with all diet and fitness strategies, if it helps you limit caloric intake to your desired amount, it'll help you lose weight. It seems well documented as safe.

> Does it effectively facilitate weight loss?

The only way to facilitate weight loss is by restricting caloric intake. There's no magic to weight loss. No diet can outrun calories in vs. calories out.

> Are there any associated disadvantages that need to be considered?

Personally I think the line between IF and legitimate eating disorder is pretty thin, but I would also say the same about many fad diets. My 2c is to feel comfortable _not_ fasting for a day, if there's some kind of life event that doesn't fall within your window, and just pickup the next day.
According to another poster, be a famous ML engineer…
I don’t understand why compilers can’t automatically do some of this
From the linked “how to enable flakes” article:

> As you can see, it uses our ./configuration.nix as a module. What are modules again? Per NixOS wiki:

> > Modules are files combined by NixOS to produce the full system configuration. A module contains a Nix expression. It declares options for other modules to define (give a value). It processes them and defines options declared in other modules.

> Simple as.

If only.

Also, the article is very much a How not a Why.
> Quite literally a bank is not required to make you a business account.

Banks actually want deposits, so unless you are involved in a shady enterprise, are penniless or insolvent, or are the type of business that presents an outsize risk of demanding your deposits all at once, you are highly likely to be granted the privilege of lending the bank your money. Not to mention being paid relatively little for the risk you are taking.
I worked at an electric utility in the tech side and we had a steady brain drain of guys going to Google, Meta in order to 2x or 3x their TC. Money talks.
Reading articles like this is frustrating, when we can’t even get generic cancer treatments https://www.phillyvoice.com/cancer-drug-shortage-generics-ra...

Pharmaceuticals and insurance should be ripe for disruption, yet it’s too big for anyone to take on because we can’t manufacture locally at scale.

Meanwhile different actors will blame “government” or “big pharma” and nothing gets done.
> obviously police and ambulances (and fire trucks) doing their jobs don't have to follow the sign.

Not so obvious. I identified them as having violated the rules. If an exemption was intended for emergency vehicles it should have been included in the sign. Many signs regarding rules for vehicles include "except for emergency vehicles". Without such an exemption I would apply the rules to them.
> They did it to Tucker Carlson.

"They" did what? Are you referring to the texts with other hosts that were exposed in the dominion lawsuit?
Which still sucks for PPUs because growth is capped 10x.
I would call $8 cheap even if it means 1/3rd of the total cost.
Ah, yes, it's not Real Socialism.
The argument goes as follows:

1. People are talking about consciousness.

2. This talking happens in the physical world (soundwaves are being produced, etc.)

3. We assume that other people have consciousness since they talk about it. As you say, there is no absolute proof of this, but Occam's razor makes it silly to assume otherwise.

4. So, the soundwaves (physics) are happening because of consciousness. There is a causal link from consciousness to physics.

This means that consciousness is not simply the observation of physics. It actually loops back into it, or physics is an emergent property of consciousness.
I completely agree that expanding copyright only hurts us all. The big companies will be able to work around it.

I think if anything, this helps to demonstrate the absurdity of ancient copyright law in our modern world. I would rather move in the direction of abolishing copyright rather than in the direction of strengthening it.
Which also doesn't make sense: you can't replicate the drug, but it hardly implies you also can't replicate the factory which makes it, for example. Just how far up the "can't do that" chain do you go?

The thing is, the mechanism of the Replicator is less important then what it represents: productivity with zero human labor input. We don't live in that world - we have trouble conceiving of that world. But that's essentially the whole promise of AI: robots which can build more robots, which can then build products for us.

At some point, your whole civilizations pipeline becomes "energy + robot labor". And once you get the first part of the Dyson swarm up and running, energy is infinite - at least in human terms.
> If you happen to have a necessity for such a thing, you're better off using Home Manager, else you would end up implementing parts of Home Manager by yourself.

So if I need to do X then I should use Y, but why do I need to do X?

Maybe I'm missing it and it's really obvious.
Why would that be at all beneficial?

"We have this very successful, fairly technically advanced as-real-time-as-is-practicable messaging system that most of our users use for real-time communication. We spent large amounts of engineering resources, time, and money to make it not real-time."
> about the philosophy or Karl Marx

I don't think laymen really ever are referring to this. And if they do, they will usually clarify (or it will be obvious because it's in the context on something like the book Kapital).

Same with the term communist. Unless you're in a philosophy discussion, people mean the real-world factions that called themselves this and controlled (or still control) countries. Those are the only communists to have enough power to be relevant to most laymen.
All the styles I've been able to find are geared towards technical writers creating software documentation. Is there a particular academic style guide you have in mind, perhaps it would be possible to create a vale style for it.
What a sad state of affairs that this is a successful counter argument.

There no technical reason that pocket computers should be incapable of applying user styles. Alas, we allowed the advent of a new technology ratchet tighter the grasp of commercial interests over society.
If we can solve the ice formation problem and scale it, we could open all sorts of doors.

Not only is this useful for transplants, but it's conceivable that we could preserve brains and memories for a future where they might be recovered wholesale.
I reimplemented part of this, from the Python version, in Swift a couple years ago.

https://github.com/melling/SimpleStatistics
I respectfully disagree.

While the dead boy was a tragedy it only got coverage because a handful of powerful photos made it marketable.

Perhaps there is a similar macabre marketability to watching people slowly dying in a cave or in a mine or a sub and that is one thing.

For me the disproportionate response of authorities to save rich people in jeopardy compared to poor is the thing I find most disturbing.

It could be argued that both chose to accept the danger but one for entertainment the other to escape a life of poverty or persecution. Yet, we will move mountains to rescue the thrill seeker and casually look the other way for the migrant.

Knowing now that everyone knew those on the sub were dead from the instant they died yet persisted with the efforts/theater to save them makes me sick.

Honestly, I blame myself as well. When the US Coast Guard released a statement that they would not send a ship until after the sub was located, I thought to myself that does not seem right. Of course they already knew the sub was lost.
We can have all of this without a for profit health system though. The middle class are the ones being squeezed here.
> I don't know what "Freightliner" is,

Freightliner is the manufacturer of the truck (a subsidiary of Daimler). They can read out lots of counters, etc, yes.

> should be able to do some back-of-the-envelope math and estimate

Even 200,000 miles of frequent stops in delivery usage is a heck of a lot. If typical EOL is 350,000 miles, you expect that there will be some trucks with a bit lower mileage. To think you're buying one of the lower mileage ones but get a 400,000+ mile truck is unfortunate.
It sounds like we're in agreement, you're arguing about things I didn't even say.

I just had a look, and Firefox already has the toggle. The only thing left is for them to provide a per-site toggle and it's sorted.

There are extensions which provide it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/dark-mode-web...

Might be a matter of time before it becomes the norm.
You talk as if XMPP failing on its own, and Google trying to kill it, are mutually-exclusive.
Or...?

I mean, Netflix-style hunger-games management might be their thing, and if I got in there at $900K (I did apply!) -- then sure, I'd be working nights and weekends just to shine.

But even at infinite comp, above a certain size there will be dead weight.
Looks like a big gaping hole of ambiguity to me. A vague attempt at license compatibility. You don't get to impose terms on code under another license, and WTF does "the requirements of this license are fulfilled" without saying the result must be covered by this license? It's nonsense. There is no room here for "you know what I mean" because at best I think I know what they wish could be, but even if I'm right the details are absent.
I would say I make way more than the vast majority of Americans, and I still worry about medical expenses. Many insurance companies tend to either fight you on payments or force you to pay upfront and then reimburse, meaning a lack of significant cash on hand is a serious concern…
I actually find the term so refreshing. It’s so poignant and perfectly sums up the experience, but adds a twist of cynical humour.

> to describe a real and fairly obvious problem with VC backed firms striving for profitability

Not sure if intentional on your part but that really seemed written as it these firms are worthy of any kind of sympathy. They aren’t. They make a shiny new thing, running unsustainably to entice new users, with the explicit goal of making it worse later on to increase profits once it’s taken off. Enshittification is in the plan from day one, and they deserve every bit of scrutiny and criticism they get for it. Fuck em.
why is it stolen ? Assuming you are using data from the public internet. Why would someone consider that "stolen data" ?
The whole handling of Species 8472 was a let down. For once, the Borg had a credible challenge that had arrived at a higher technological capability through completely different means.

Then, in the span of an episode, the Voyager crew not only figures out a way to crush 8472, but somehow does it with technology that the Borg have much better mastery over. It's as if a cavemen taught a sharpshooter how to be a better marksman.
I was hoping medical tourism would make this happen. Alas.
> But I'm still not 100% percent sure what he meant because I don't speak german.

Nobody said anything in German though. A German man said something in English. From what I can tell, you've got speaking english in your skill set.
> Isn't it just showing your are in-group and well cultured?

Yes, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Learning that different groups of people may have their own languages and customs is the first step to being able to blend in with a diverse group; it's great when you're able to adopt a register appropriate to the people you are with at any given moment.

Of course it's also possible that the child learns to be a snob and treating with disdain those who are not in your group. But I would say that's a character trait of the person, and it's still worth having the opportunity to learn how to adapt, rather than being unable to modulate your behavior and only knowing how to have a single posture. Having a culture of acceptance starts with knowing the customs of many different groups.
Many neuroscientists think like you, see Attention Schema Theory [1], popularized by Michael Graziano at Princeton University. This is a form of Illusionism [2] - according to Graziano, consciousness is an illusion.

I've explored this idea by building a chatbot with an inner monologue, Molly [3], based on GPT-3. The result is spectacular: it gives the illusion of consciousness. And, according to Information Schema Theory, that means that this cognitive system IS conscious.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_schema_theory
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminative_materialism#Illusi...
[3]: https://marmelab.com/blog/2023/06/06/artificial-consciousnes...
How do you objectively measure the performance of an engineer?

Genuinely curious.
> I bet they even have an ongoing automated decryption queue always running and growing in size.

Maybe, but it's likely very specific in its targets because the decryption is so expensive.

If they have no reason to decrypt Bob's files today, they can shelve them for a later date when they have a reason and decryption is cheaper -- or a vulnerability has been discovered in the algorithm.
Same reasons devs put "full stack" on their CV
> Consciousness is everything a person experiences — what they taste, hear, feel and more. It is what gives meaning and value to our lives, Chalmers says.

> Despite a vast effort — and a 25-year bet — researchers still don’t understand how our brains produce it, however. “It started off as a very big philosophical mystery,” Chalmers adds. “But over the years, it’s gradually been transmuting into, if not a ‘scientific’ mystery, at least one that we can get a partial grip on scientifically.”

I'm sure these two scientists have interesting things to say that I never thought about.

But I stopped reading the article at this point, because that's where I expected a precise definition of consciousness. That first sentence isn't one as far as I am concerned.

Philosophy without strict definitions and a common language tends to be useless. And I love philosophy and consider it the root of all science.
> the way I drive

I too realized just how pointless signs and driving laws were on my travels.
The "real talent" is worth nx of the average salary when the work of the real talent makes the company better.

If one (“talent") is a stellar runner, but when the team goes on a run the "talent" has to wait for their teammates to get to the finish line, most of whom go running once every two months, and the "talent" gets dress shoes instead of spikes etc., the "real talent" is worth, to the team or company, as much as the average employee on that team.

An easy and naïve recommendation would be to remove the constraints that limit the work of talent, but it is much easier for talent to move to organizations that, for a variety of reasons, are more conducive to the expression of their abilities than to fight the inertia of organizations. Those very organizations which, for one reason or another, have existed for a long time and pay salaries to hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of people.
User level dot files, instead of system wide
That is called longevity escape velocity and often discussed in r/Longevity subreddit etc.
Nanohydroxypatite seems more effective than fluoride. But stannous fluoride looks like it has more overall benefits than sodium fluoride if you want to go to the fluoride route.

Some toothpaste have both, Dr jens for example which does have the 10% concentration shown most effective in clinical trials
Any idea why China and Russia keep North Korea in such a bad shape, it is not in their interest to not have this regime collapse and get "infected" with freedom and human rights?