skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the process of scientific advancement. If science advances one funeral at a time, as the quote goes, the end of funerals is perilous for human advancement.

Also, wealth redistribution will need to be addressed if Rockefellers, Musks, and Bezos's are going to live in perpetuity.

I suppose we should add politics to the list. We're already plagued by political dynasties, e.g. the Clintons, the Bush's, the Kennedies. And it's common for senators and congresspeople to have de-facto lifetime tenure. Can you imagine still having Confederate veterans in the Senate today?
hey i'd want tips if you want to share. i'm remote since before covid. i've moved company months ago, but i don't have great ideas on how to "satisfy interaction" professionally.
There’s been a couple times in my career where my income needs were low enough that for one more raise I could afford to hire an assistant. For that kind of money I could hire several. And an apprentice.
Submissions are supposed to predict and handle issues that you guys have had in production? That doesn't seem very reasonable for a 2 hour task.

I wonder if your hiring process is skewed by the perfectionists who spend tens of hours of their submissions. Arguably that's the type of thing you guys would want to select for but it's not at all fair for those who timebox themselves to 2 hours or whatever.
So, a 100 pounds in the 80s is almost 500 pounds today, according to the UK inflation calculator. So his build total cost is below that... Arguably 100£ was the retail price, not costs, but still
Someone will pay in the end. Unfortunately it won’t be the people who should.
Embeddings are the linchpin of semantic search. The embeddings are designed to encode semantic similarity, so the response is formed by retrieving the nearest neighbors of the query, and there are data structures that allow this to be done efficiently.
This is just not true. If you use sound E2EE, Qualcomm and Google are not in your conversations. (FWIW: Regular text messages are not E2EE. Use something better.)
Politically-charged or at least on the wrong side of the line. HN does tend to discourage a lot of low effort flamebait which is generally for the good. But even politely-made minority arguments can easily be downvoted as well.
Are you pretending to understand how human creativity works? Your last 1-3 sentences is literally what a human does, in some situations, or in many situations early in the development process of a style. If this was not the case, art school would not be the study of previous artists and styles, it would purely be the study of the physical world.
And I’m still trading labor for compensation that I’m exchanging for goods and services.

What type of goods and services can I exchange for illiquid equity or profit sharing that may or may not come years later?
Hardly. There are plenty of trades who don’t have BAs and they do fine. Army provides good opportunities to upskill as well.

But if all you have demonstrated is 5th percentile skill (high school diploma threshold), unsurprisingly only McDonalds will hire you.
Looks like Prigozhin has got what he wanted?

- current military leaders are being removed

- new contract cancelled

Makes Putin look rather weak.
This whole wasmer v bytecode alliance is such a weird thing.

I am ultimately skeptical of wasmer as a company. the ceo shows up in almost every front page wasmer post on reddit/HN and engages at times very defensively. Given their past actions and the odd falling out between BA that everyone apparently refuses to talk about publicly, something is just _definitely up_ -- though I can't quite put my finger on it.

On the other end, the Bytecode Alliance and folks at Fastly really seem to think quite highly of themselves for a specification that has advanced at a sub glacial pace. wrt to the wasix runtime: they can't have it both ways. they have explicitly ostracized Wasmer from participating in WASM/WASI advancement. To turn around and then complain about wasix not complying with their spec is a bit more than a little disingenuous.

What did they expect?
> I completely agree that expanding copyright only hurts us all.

As do I, but this is not expanding copyright. This is saying that as long as copyright exists, AI model training has to respect it too, and can't be a laundering operation for license violations. Otherwise, you're giving companies building AI extra permission to ignore Open Source licenses and small copyright holders (e.g. independent artists, authors of stories/comments/text on the Internet), which is an asymmetry in favor of companies with the resources to train huge models.

I'm all for abolishing copyright, and I think it is absurd. What I'm against here is the asymmetry of keeping all the harms of copyright around while letting AI training violate it.
Sort of, you will probably attract the best talent by having the hardest problems, fostering a culture of bottom-up innovation, and giving your engineers a lot of freedom rather than micro-managing them. The pay is closely related, but you also get a lot of people trying to game the system and optimize for max pay, without necessarily the skill or creativity you're looking for. Said another way: top pay attracts people looking for top pay, for better or worse. There's probably a strong correlation between "best" people and high pay, but it's also hard to quantify "best".

How do you quantify best? Number of degrees? Publications? Association with prestigious institutions? Past work experience at top companies? Speed of problem solving? All of this is gameable once it starts being _measured_ and enough incentives exist for people to devote their life to winning the "game".

However, if you happen to hire a math olympiad winning PhD with numerous publications from a tier-1 research institution with a known track record in industry, it would be hard to argue they aren't the best. But success breeds success, and top people will keep being poached to other top places. Kinda how money makes more money.
> I find the "precedence" approach taken by English / Common Law incredibly silly — and actively harmful, [...] Judges' interpretative rulings should not have (almost) the same effect as the legislative passing a law.

Precedents are visible. They're the outcome of prior cases. If the people or the legislature doesn't like the rulings they can look at the judges' reasoning and fix the law, invalidating the old precedents at the same time.

> Anyway the original argument was that you could apply some license-like terms onto spam mails, and for that — no, you very much can't.

By the act of giving you the email they're implicitly giving you permission to do email things with it - read it, forward it, store it, etc. But you don't own the copyright and can't create and publish derivative works, etc.

We never questioned the anti-spam use because it's obvious. You aren't storing data for the purpose of recreating the spam, you're storing details about what spam looks like for the purposes of recognizing more of it.

> The situation for AI is, to my knowledge, still very muddy at this point.

The question is if the NN weights in an AGI are materially different than the NN weights in a spam filter.
What did they do to control the gangs? Send out the Fist of the North Star?
>My main issue with a marginal property tax is that the areas with high property values already have enough taxes generally for the things property tax covers.

The big issue in my opinion is defining property/wealth (not just land and cars, but also intellectual property, art, etc), and then the feasibility of appraising all of that, and then litigating those appraisals (for the populace as a whole).

Seems like it could get into quite a bit of the country’s resources going to refereeing the game, which at some point takes away from productivity.
Check out Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style. The eponymous Dreyer is chief copyeditor at Random House, so he knows his way around a dependent clause (and isn't afraid to show it), but his writing style is engaging and not at all dry. At times, if you can believe it, he's even pretty funny.
>> Where do I say that?

In your comment above:

(...) is expressed a little bit more clearly as _the LLM is learning an n-gram_ that produces correct sorts (...)

(My underlining)

You also use it in a similarly unusual way throughout your linked substack post, for example, you write:

the way GPT works is, in a certain sense, functionally equivalent to an n-gram, but that doesn’t mean GPT is an n-gram.

Where does this use of "n-gram" come from? I mean, did you see it somewhere? I'm curious, where?

>> The tokenizer would throw an exception, because it doesn't have any tokens to represent alphabetical characters. But you tell me - if I had tokenized alphabetical characters and defined an ordering, would you expect the results to be any different?

I'm sorry, I don't understand. "Defined an ordering", where?

You can change your tokenizer but that will not change the trained model, obviously. So if you take your model that's trained on two-digit lists of integers and you run it on lists of any other type of elements it will not be able to sort them correctly. But isn't that what you claim? That:

"the LLM's training molds it into representing an actual sorting algorithm that would correctly generalize to any input list"

"Any input list"? How so?
I am very confused by your comment. Are you claiming that $900k median compensation is only a bit higher than minimum wage?

Or are you claiming that some of the smartest AI researchers in the world are only slightly more qualified than the average high-schooler?

Either claim is roughly equally absurd.
I think it would be hard to argue that Ireland at that time was a "great, industrialized society" of any sort.
Not all sound is created that way, e.g. rain falling from the sky is not, do you intent to mean all physics, including rain, originate from consciousness in some way (such as in theories that everything is an illusion, ...), or rather, that consciousness can affect physics in some way, e.g. because you can choose to speak and produce sound waves
The language here has changed quite a bit in recent times. There used to be a clear distinction between people who flee immediate danger and people who leave their home country for a better life elsewhere. The terms refugee, migrant, economic migrant and everything else get means the same thing now, basically. I think that's 100% intentional.
Authoritarian states almost never prosper, even if they have all the tools to do so. Everything built on lies and games of power will crumble under its own villainy.
Nice pics, having the Night Markets really adds to the festivities. Here is some info + pics on the dragon boat events here in Southern California:

https://www.scdbc.org/
I think he wants to make ooh.directory better known in different areas than cs / tech. So he's looking for a site like hn, but for other areas.
> Things are getting better there now

Do you have a source for this? Last I read about the situation (maybe a couple of months ago) Venezuela had the biggest inflation in the world.
https://archive.is/I7hLV
They do hire remote in some cases, but normally only for up to a year and only if it's someone they really want. They hope that the person will be willing to move after working there for a year, I guess.
No offense but the live tweeting from people thirsty for “entertainment” looking for and cracking jokes about news updates on the advance made me a little queasy.
The problems that paper points out are certainly real, but:

- They're not specific to modules (the codegen dependency issue is there even right now)

- They're not specific to C++ (Java faces a similar problem)

- They all have solutions: either you have to tell the build system what the dependencies are directly, or your compiler has to be able to build the dependencies too. Bazel and gradle already handle these, just in a different context than C++20 modules.

So while C++20 modules are harder to use, and they very well might not get adopted, it's not really a design problem, nor an unsolved one - it's just a fundamental impedance mismatch that occurs in any language where the dependencies are specified in the same file that's being compiled.

i.e. It's a problem for the build system to solve, and ones do exist that have solved other forms of it in the past.
Information & propaganda wars are so asymmetrical I sometimes wish there was less reporting until it was actually clear what is going on. It's all just one fog of uncertainty and whoever thinks what is being reported now is correct is probably mistaken. Somehow this buildup of troops was completely unreported, even though any intelligence agency worth its salt should have seen concentration and movement of troops for days if not weeks. Completely unreported in the media AFAIK, and all of a sudden all media is reporting Wagner is going full steam ahead towards Moscow.
My understanding is software disabling of telemetry doesn't actually stop it. You have to physically disable the hardware: https://old.reddit.com/r/COROLLA/comments/12149sd/video_tuto...
It couldn’t, no: the object being frozen might contain more attributes than its type describes. Typescript can’t know these extra attributes.
It’s a golden age for the upper class, not your average American lol
You can absolutely sell the PPUs in OpenAI, you will not struggle to find a buyer.
As far as I can see, much unwanted weight gain is mandated by hormones. So I told my besty, who is 50, that she might blamelessly allow her waist to thicken, her hair to lose its redness and become grey. It's ok.

I sometimes wonder why so many people have so much trouble with their bodies and diet. It's obviously a really big problem for a lot of people and it very much upsets me, actually, that I have no such problems. I wonder why it's so hard for you. I wonder what it would be like for me if you were my brother or sister, and you had this kind of trouble.

I want to point out that in New Zealand, where I grew up among quite unremarkable children in a small city, only perhaps 1 child in 1000 was obviously obese. We had heard of neither obesity nor anorexia. I'm in my mid 60's.

Nowadays I organise my life for minimal stress and get fresh air and eat fresh food from a tropical market. Maybe that helps
Vehicle registration fees, like many others, are 100% a blunt money collection mechanism imposed by the government. This has nothing to do with a poor or wealthy person buying a new Playstation 5.
China seems to be doing okay. So much so that every western government seems to be becoming more authoritarian.
I'm not an agronomist, but even back then, couldn't grain be stored for a year or two to buffer a disaster?
Only at a deep “we buy ugly houses” type of discount and only if the company allows it and if there is a market for it. Like I said earlier, I know the value of my “equity” in a publicly held company:

=GOOGLEFINANCE("AMZN", "price")* (number of shares).

I can log into Fidelity and sell my shares during hours when the market is open and not at a discount.
This mirrors my own experience running tumbleweed.
Zephyr is a real-time operating system (RTOS). It's got a lot of compile-time configuration capability, and a (IMO) very nice module system that makes organizing embedded code easier. Being able to use Device Tree to organize hardware peripherals is particularly nice. It's also got a lot of peripheral drivers included, many useful libraries, a unit testing framework, and a nice set of built-in samples.

Zephyr does have some obvious downsides: it uses a custom build tool (West) to in turn use KConfig to select various options for CMake which then uses Ninja or Make to build the actual source. That means the build process is complex, hard to understand fully, and difficult to troubleshoot. The included libraries and drivers are usually good, but as with any code it's always harder to understand code you didn't write (or wrote a long time ago), and tend to be a higher level of abstraction than you might need (and thus a bit less efficient in some cases than you'd want).

Arduino's base APIs with the Arduino "IDE" are similarly opaque. Zephyr will make quite a few things easier, since it'll come with device tree files for the various Arduino boards.

If you're doing particularly simple projects, Zephyr is overkill. If you've got multiple interacting components, an RTOS becomes extremely helpful.
We have so much surplus food that we burn it in our gas tanks. We'll be OK.

And good luck with that blockade. Countries that don't waste decades enforcing known-defective economic systems are hard to defeat with tactics like that. They tend to have the necessary productive capacity to support a strong military.
It said they did during COVID, and that you can see prices stabilized
as trade resumes.
There's an old issue open in TypeScript for _exact_ types, which might help in some cases here: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/12936

But there are some problems with that approach, mainly that exact types would be somewhat infectious: A regular type is no longer assignable to its exact type, ie `User` is not assignable to `exact User`, so if you want to use an exact type in a function, you must accept the exact type as a parameter, which spreads to the whole call stack where that parameter is passed. Then union types don't quite work as expected anymore either.

I'm pretty happy with the status quo: Object.keys() is unsafe, so either cast your way around it and let the cast be the signal that you're doing something unsafe, or handle unexpected keys explicitly.
They've transitioned the consumer client from Electron to Edge WebView, Angular to React, and the same for the enterprise application appears to be in public preview and slated for general availability later this year. Still web tech but it's supposed to address some of the memory and performance problems.

So I think they've known how unpleasant Teams is!

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/03/2...
Crossing a street when the light is red is dangerous, because it means other traffic will have a green light. You want to teach children to stop for red lights, or you're going to end up with dead kids sooner rather than later.

Countries like Vietnam are the exception, not the rule. In most countries traffic won't swerve around you, they'll just end up hitting you because they are not expecting it!
Try: run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system
Directly related:

Microsoft Freezes Salaries for 2023 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35889709
So, assuming this is true, and there isn’t still a, possibly secret and/or smaller, force secretly heading for Moscow, how would this pan out for Wagner and its leader?

To me this looked like an “all in”, but apparently, they think it wasn’t. What could have convinced him and his troops that any promises made would be held?

Are there historical precedents for this kind of action where the revolter stopped their advance, and lived happily ever after?
Could you clarify what you mean? I don't think I'm dismissive nor arrogant. I've watched a Lex Friedman podcast with John Vervaeke but can't say I particularly remember it very well.
The editing can be checked. Basically the verifier is given the input hash, the editing function (e.g. remove noise) and the output. By using zk-snark the verifier can be convinced that yes indeed the output is the result of editing the input, and the input hash is the result of hashing the input.
There isn't. Prigozhin's official Telegram account is "concordgroup_official".

The problem is that many OSINT guys and journalists are informationally illiterate and blindly spread fakes from random Telegram and Twitter accounts.
I get what you're saying, but the median income for SFO is way below what tech people get paid. "barely livable" is perhaps a bridge too far for the $300k+ crowd. :)
But the ambulance DOES break the rule. Clearly and unambiguously.

But breaking rules like this in cases of emergency is the correct thing to do.

This is where the moderation difficulty comes in.
You know you can just look up income stats for SF right?
> Yet, we will move mountains to rescue the thrill seeker and casually look the other way for the migrant.

Because one happens all the time and the other doesn't. If rich people get on a submarine after 100 submarines have vanished trying the exact same thing, no one would care. Do you know how many people die on Mt. Everest each year? No one cares and that's pretty much also reserved for rich people due to the high price.
You don't need avx512 to implement a bitonic sort. I worked on several implementations with plain avx.
Yeah. Almost all innovation and economic improvement has only helped the upper classes and in many cases actually hurt the lower classes.

What is going to happen in America is a 40 year life expectancy gap between the rich and the poor. Rich kids will grow to 6'5" with 180 IQs and end any economic opportunity for poor families.
> Non-college-educated men have seen their pay shrink by more than 30% since 1980 compared to the average earnings of all other prime-age workers. Their weekly earnings have declined 17%, while those of college-educated men rose by 20%, adjusting for inflation. That earnings loss has caused a decline in their social status, prompting them to walk away from work entirely, Pinghui Wu, the author of the study, wrote.

I wonder how much of this we could explain simply by the fact that the percentage of men who have graduated college has doubled since 1980. Compared to 1980, the non-college-educated group represents a smaller proportion of men. If you somehow took that same, smaller proportion of 1980s men by doing something like removing 1980s jobs that would now require a degree, then perhaps the salary comparison to the average salary would look similar to today.
I’m pretty sure intelligence in programming does not transfer to other domains. This is someone who wasted years of their life to become a really great programmer. An accomplishment in the world of startups for sure, but with no actual consequence.
Is that the case? I've seen maps of a largely solar powered America and the amount of land used seemed much higher.
What is shallow about the comment your answered or flamebait. You might not see any interest in it, but I do see it. He really has a point. Russia does have problems fighting ukraine WITH the help of wagner, how will it fare against both?

I feel it's kinda insulting the tone here. I see this trend in hacker news that we use the guidelines as a way to insult or belittle other people's comments. It's agressive but in a cunny way.
I would definitely ride my bike in that park and were I a mod I wouldn't give a shit. But as the to directions of the game, the answers were different. But that too is part of the point of the game.
The American Dream ain't what it used to be...

Post-WWII a guy without a high school education was able to get a job at the steel plant, buy a house, raise a family, buy a rental in Florida, and retire with a pension.

The post-WWII U.S. economy was an anomaly - having half the worlds GDP. So many other industrialized countries were bombed and needed to rebuild. The U.S. was the factory of the world for a couple/few decades. We had security, capital, demographics, and productivity gains all in our favor during that time.

We no longer live in that economy. Members of today's millennial generation struggle to save for housing while paying down student loans. Many are still living with their parents. For those who want to have kinds it is common that both parents need to work. Wages have been stagnant for several decades. The government has subsidized 30 year fixed rate low interest mortgages, and the accumulated asset wealth this realized has benefited older generations, making housing much harder to afford for everyone else, a greater multiple of their incomes. Younger generations don't expect to do better than their parents. Maybe this explains the rise in populism. Is this sustainable? Can housing keep increasing in value? Or do we need to make changes?