skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's drawing a lot of conclusions from a very vague one-line architectural description. The way those multiple models work together probably is innovative. Who knows.

I think a more interesting article would be about sketching out technically some potential ways it could work in detail for an open source effort to try to imitate it. That could be a broad range of things because we don't even know at what level are the multiple things working together implemented.
Exactly. A lot of the difficulty here is how they skip is the hugely important issue:

An entirely reasonable, if not fully tested, statement is the following:

Every single one of these AI weight things itself is a result of unencumbered, massive, law-breaking, right-violating copyright infringement -- accordingly, it's extremely difficult to say anything morally justifiable or authoritative about anyone elses "rights" downstream, and to try to inject the word "ethical" makes the whole thing even more ridiculous.
In Common Lisp the identifiers in package Common Lisp are not allowed to be redefined.
I have the opposite perspective: studios will stop looking for ways to give audiences what they don’t want (and stop calling them toxic for not wanting it).

People are voting with their wallets. Hollywood in the 90s was much better at entertaining people and therefore much better at getting their money.

Studios will start making shows with good writing again. Apple TV often already is, with some glaringly bad exceptions like Foundation and parts of Ted Lasso season 3. Severance, for example, is good enough on its own for me to pay for the whole subscription.

Making entertaining and thought-provoking original content, without calling their audience sexists or racists when the writing or casting misses the mark, will be profitable and that profit will fund the next wave of prestige tv.
If we're trying to help our kids, it would be nice to know which interventions actually affect adult intelligence.

The word gap research isn't a randomized trial. It mostly shows that children from poorer families in the US hear fewer words.

It's difficult to study because interventions often produce positive effects in the short term that disappear by the time the child reaches adulthood.
If you have a cool idea which is novel in your field, a PhD might allow you to work on it without selling out to VCs. There are still people to convince, but the time horizon for results is longer than with an average seed funding.
I think similarly, note my usual comments about guest languages.

Typescript gets the pass, because it basically a JavaScript linter, with an easier way to get modern JavaScript features, without wrestling with babel and friends.

Projects dictate language toolchains, not the other way around, and so far I haven't seen any project or product SDK placing Deno on the tooling requirements.
Agreed 100%. I spent ten years at Google, got promoted three times, never did any distributed systems stuff. When I decided to leave about 18 months ago, trying to cram for these interviews and memorize how WhatsApp works was the worst part of interviewing. But I jumped through the hoop and got a couple offers, neither of which involve doing distributed systems work. Those were definitely my weakest interviews, and in the case of my current employer, I literally said to my HM, "I've never done this kind of work, and I'm not going to shine in these interviews. Here's the kind of work I have done and I'd love to talk to you about it instead." I still had to do the sys design interview, but I think maybe that helped get it down weighted?
I feel like this is an intentional error designed to illicit exactly the sentiment expressed by many people commenting here. That is to say, this is manufactured outrage. And look at the results: Astro made it to the front page of HN!
Wow, this is really on the line, I can't quite tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

For the sake of it not being sarcasm; obviously it's my belief that not everything (especially entertainment of all things) should be seen through the lens of purely making money. I am quite sure there are dozens and dozens of people who will disagree with me -- but it's always been my belief that Art that covers it's own costs and leaves its mark on humanity and history is a much greater success than making money hand-over-fist.

The game industry is really straddling the line with this and has been for quite a substantial amount of time, it's a war between MBAs and creatives, though even Sony recognises the need for creative freedom and does not expect a substantial profit on their games. (though I suppose their incentives are different, great games boost sales of the consoles which gives them greater market share)
Less into theory and more into "wait wtf": Some of the older projects I've worked on were written by people who loved database-driven stuff, to the point they did things like put perl code into one table column (with sentinel values you had to find/replace before `eval`ing the code) and sql into another table that retrieved values for those find/replaces, both retrieved and executed by some really generic code.

Code or data: Well... both.
> that's no different than just being in multiple calls but just swapping between them

Its very different.

Lets log into Discord. We see Alice, Bob, and Charlie are in Room A. Domingo and Ed are in Room B. Francine, Greg, and Hoarice are in Room C. To swap between these three conversations, we just double click on one room or the next. We're instantly swapped between these calls.

Lets say your group of friends has three different calls going on in Skype. How do you quickly see who is talking to who? How do you quickly hop from one conversation to the other? Like in Teams, if a few people are in a call together, how do I know? Sure, I can see Alice and Bob are in a call, but how do I know they're in the same call? How do I know that Charlie is also in there? How do I join their call in progress if not a scheduled meeting? If I'm in the call wtih Alice, Bob, and Charlie, how do I know that Domingo and Ed are talking about the topic of Room B?

The ergonomics of the "call/meeting" versus "room/channel" is vastly different. They both very much have their place, but they're not interchangeable. Forks are good for eating, but it turns out spoons are useful too.
No, I’m personally against all forms of intellectual property but that’s far outside the mainstream.

The position I describe above is consistent, though. And widely held.
I'm saying the increase in pay due to medallions restricting the supply of drivers is less than the decrease in pay due to having to make payments to keep the medallion, so they'd be able to earn even more of a living without that system.
I’m worried about when they start dropping monthly plans in an attempt to stop people from rotating between different streaming platforms.
>At worst, it seems like anti-autism (e.g. “overly logical”).

I think fundamentally it's a combination of 1) arrogance in thinking they understand how the world works socially (and are very capable of solving problems that are fundamentally social), and 2) a complete lack of understanding of how the world works socially.

People hate them because at best they're idiots who achieve nothing and at worst their hardworking idiocy makes the world materially worse.

In particular, techbros tend to have a belief that social problems can be solved with technological solutions (e.g. the solution to the housing crisis is to design a construction technique with lower material/labor costs). The problem in this instance is that if they asked themselves "what is the root cause of the problem", instead of jumping straight into the technology (they commonly "disrupt" old technology by ignoring some particular prevailing wisdom, and frame ignoring said wisdom as "not being closed-minded" instead of as "being stupid and ignoring the lessons of the past" - which, to be fair, is occasionally true).

There's also a more explicitly political component, but saying "they have X politics which is stupid" is a great way to start a political flame-war so I think I'll skip that.

So tl;dr: technosolutionism, plus overconfidence on trying to solve social problems that they don't even understand, let alone have the ability to solve.
Deno was created by the guy who created NodeJS, so it might be good for JS projects.
As someone who has privately tutored many rich kids vs poor kids for nearly a decade, I don't think I need to see a study to see how much more advantages they have. It's pretty apparent the advantages.

Yes a really "dumb" kid will still be "dumb" academically, but people here are severely underestimating what money can buy in education. I've seen really "dumb" kids be brought up to the level of "passably smart" simply because of resource access.

When you have teachers who are not overworked and are paid lovely salaries (ie 6 figure salaries), imagine every teacher you have actually cares and invested in your education? Imagine every class has recordings of every lecture as well as a curriculum that has a lot of forethought and time put into it? And imagine if the school has a lacking teacher, than the parents hire some ex-olympian, or ex-superstar coach or teacher to make up for that? I've seen parents hire ex-olympic athletes to get some untalented rich kid to close to olympic level.

Honestly, I think it's really understated how much educational spending can affect a kid. Most people will not see what I've seen, and even from someone who came from a middle class background who used to believe wealth does not matter when it came to education, even I was shocked by what money can buy in "academic success" and my opinion changed. I at this point, don't need to see a study because it was that drastic.
You can't fix bugs in Slack so that seems hardly comparable.

Screen sharing and video calls can be handled by other apps like Zoom, Google Meet etc.
Furthermore, offshore wind farms are great for birds. They provide more surface area for algae and other stuff to grow underwater, which then feeds to the rest of the ecosystem.
No, a document's contents aren't inherently copyrightable. They have to be a creative work or a method of production, and part of that basically means it has to be human generated content (as opposed to computer or animal generated).

AI weights might be considered a method of production, but that isn't clear yet.
Or maybe they are so good that there is simply no evidence of their hacking.
It seems that everyone thinks information is dangerous these days. People just choose what information to be concerned about depending on their priors.
So, Open Data. Got it. This is the same category as config files that are kept up to date by a program as it runs.

- Is it "a program"? Very clearly not.

- Is it source code? You can argue either way. The program won't work without it, but "this specific one" is not required for the program to do something, and that ambiguity means you probably don't want to call it "source code" because it's too vague.

- Is it data used by a program in order to perform its task? Absolutely. It even uniquely defines the program behaviour, and so is a thing onto itself within the context of the program it's used by.
> MacOS layout with the menubar and dock

It doesn't have a menu bar. If GNOME used the top panel for menus, and I could control them with the keyboard and turn off hamburger menus everywhere, I'd dislike it a lot less.

Do you mean the top panel? No menus there. Not even status icons, if the GNOME devs get their way.

It's not Mac-like. Unity was Mac-like. GNOME is more like iOS on your desktop.
this is amazon culture since beginning. decision making federated to director level or VP organization and s-team only step in on bigger goal.

rto not even top 3 company problem though. main issue is fast pace culture that had its own problem with retention now turned into lazy, cancerous zombie.

-performance bar lowered at all levels.

-management layers overrun by hires from failing companies.

i left after 10 years. tech stopped hiring innovators. it simply h1b wagon..people who do exactly as told because they afraid of PIP and having to move back to india. the other class of worker is a politician from some company like ibm. from ibm, they bring EXTREME culture of politics and empire building.

my theory that amazon leadership know this biggest business risk. any rto policy to get these people to quit without severance. amazon leadership know problem so bad they will risk strong talent.
> For example if "Google" wanted to make a difference it would actually ban hiring from Ivy League or top-20/30 universities (wiggle room on details here) and instead focus on universities that have higher admission rates (50% or so), large public universities, big time diverse populations relatively speaking.

I would love to see a company do this experiment. It would really put their self-proclaimed focus on diversity to the test! Too many companies helplessly say "Oh, we really want to hire a diverse workforce, but by golly it's so hard and we just can't find diverse candidates from our candidate pipeline of only Ivy-league and top-tier schools!" Focus on hiring from mid-tier state schools and see if that's still true.
https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/05/language-models-perform-re...

You can google for more results / papers.
Not Ivy =/= No Name School

CMC has no reputation out East, but has a massive west coast PE/IB alumni network.

Danaher's GM Development Program (leadership track program) targets Carnegie Mellon

You need to attend an elite university to succeed, but an elite university doesn't have to be an Ivy. Selective public schools like Cal, Mich, UVA, UT Austin, UCLA, etc are feeders as well as Selective Privates like Tufts, UChicago, BYU, CMU, CMC, NYU, USC, etc.
Online recruiting isn't the same as in-person recruiting though. Note that Google (just using them as a stand-in) recruits in-person at MIT but doesn't at other places where they "recruit online" from.
>>> And Ariane 6 isn't competitive against SpaceX either. They've really screwed up.

>> Only in the sense that everyone isn’t competitive against SpaceX. They absolutely could have done better, but the role isn’t to produce the most price competitive launch, the role was securing Europe’s launch capability. If both could be done at the same time then that’s a win but it’s not the primary goal.

> You're just explaining the process by which they screwed up.

No, the problem is that you're acting like you define their success criteria, when you don't. You're a rando on the internet, quarterbacking from your armchair.
That's an interesting comment; can you put a burner email in your profile?
So if I follow you here, Wikipedia is relatively accurate, correct?

Then in your opinion, why are these medications so widely spread?

Lack of alternative?
I followed this strategy + parallelized developing preliminary ideas and wrapped up in 3 years, 11 months with 100/100 Hope. If it only it was that easy! Haha
They don't ?

Plenty do, or live a short bus journey away.
A lot of us have seen the rage machine polarize someone into partisan insanity. I like to think I'm resistant to this, but I've seen it happen to people who are probably smarter than me. I'd say it's more common with the elderly, but I'm not really sure that's true—there are plenty of Tankies and retvrn crazies in their twenties.

News in its current form is clearly an infohazard. It may be useful to have an awareness of what's going on in the world, but if you find yourself thinking "the other side" are all evil or stupid, you're headed down the same path as so many others who have let the culture war detach them from reality. Take a break. Reassess.

Arguing on the Internet is addicting. Anger is addicting. Turn it off and go have fun with your friends, or build something. If you want to stay aware of what's going on, reading a summary on Wikipedia will give you better information than watching an endless cycle of "look at this bad/stupid person!" videos on Twitter or Facebook.

Honestly, if you just read Wikipedia summaries (or other "calm" summaries) you'll end up better informed than the people who criticize you for burying your head in the sand. Don't let them bully you into joining their anger dopamine frenzy.
Ideally frameworks will be simple enough that chart isn't necessary and people can tell with their logical engineer mind how fast it will be by understanding how it works (or better, can implement a POC yourself in an hour). If I can't do that for a framework I won't use it because I'll probably mess up (React is an exception because I will still mess up even if I know 100% how it works).
> Unlike software licensing, AI isn’t as simple as applying current proprietary/open source software licenses. AI has multiple components—the source code, weights, data, etc.—that are licensed differently.

Software also has multiple components, often the same as the ones listed by the author. But what do I know, to me AI is just another example of software.
The anime Food Wars is basically this, satirizing Iron Chef style shows and anime.
I think that's the kind of news you cannot ignore, except if you avoid human contact and don't use any social media.
Interesting that you point out the symmetry between pursuing education and entrepreneurship.

One of the tough things about the education route is that winning at entrepreneurship can result in huge tangible life changes, but it seems like the effects of winning at education is harder to visualize.

I get to put PhD after my name, but what else?
Heat (well, energy) moves from place to place in three ways- first is hot material moving. for example hot air getting into your house or cold air "escaping" your fridge. When referring to houses this means air tightening the building.

The second is heat moving inside the material, think of pot's handles becoming hot- the heat "creeps" through the material. This rate this happens depends on characteristics of the material, metal will conduct heat better than air for example. When referring to containers you are in the worst place- the metal walls conduct heat very efficiently. How can you solve it? by adding an external layer not connected (as much as possible) to the metal- think of double glazed windows.

And then comes the third way- radiation. Think of the heat you feel from fire, even if nothing is physically connecting the fire and your hand.
Heat travels from the sun as infra red radiation, it's simply a shorter electromagnetic weave length, which becomes heat when it hits an absorbing surface. I don't know the exact numbers, but putting something in the shade, hence less radiation, will make it as hot as the environment- not comfortable but not terrible. Exposing it to radiation can drastically increase the temperature, cars for example can reach 50C or more in the sun even when it's only 30C outside.

Painting white, or using this special paint, can reflect the radiation and reduce the heat. Shading by trees or something else has basically the same affect.

Reality is a little more complex though, hot countries have traditions of airing the house at night when it's colder and shading, for example using shades, during the day. Other tricks are having a bit thermal mass to hold the "cold" during the day and dampen sharp temperature changes, for example by building in stone.

Highly insulated houses tend to not function well in hot places. Heat, for example through windows, gets trapped inside and then it is hard to release it back.
I'm not sure I understand.

As someone in the UK, I can buy a subscription to Amazon Prime Video, or not, I can buy a subscription to Netflix, or not. I can pay for a BBC licence so I can watch iPlayer, or not.

I can watch free TV on ITVx or Channel 4 switching a subscription for adverts.

What do I not have?
Weights are an information asset that require millions in capital and burned-out GPUs to mine and refine.
I am self taught. I was involuntarily reassigned from a design to a developer position and just had to learn to program.
They are taking advantage of the "innocent until proven guilty" that is really only applicable to criminal charges but many people seem willing to extend it more generally.

The followup question to those kind of statements should always be "do you have any evidence that your accounts are not compromised?"

I.e. absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I miss the old Google News that would let you customize which topics float to the top and deemphasize most other noise with the exception of major headlines.

Then an update a few years ago made the algorithm much more recommendation and ads and controversy/engagement driven, and my beloved collection of science, nature, local, and tech news turned into nothing more than a constant stream of culture wars, international sports, and celebrity gossip. I stopped paying attention after that.

I would gladly pay for a service that curates news about the topics I care about, and nothing more. I especially don't want to know what of of braindead vitriol the talking heads are shouting at each other this week. Just give me the boring wire service stuff and leave out the sensationalist blogspam headlines, please...
s-expressions can provide a hierarchical structure, but they are not representing AST. It's just another form of source code.

> And, of course, an interpreter that works by walking S-Expressions is really, really slow.

Common Lisp interpreters work by walking S-expressions. Typically you'll see the s-expressions directly in a debugger -> modifying the s-expression will modify the running program.
Not yet, but it's fairly simple, I now have 1 week of NixOS experience ;) I installed with the graphical installer, choose Gnome, added some specific things like darkmode and many packages to the configuration.nix. Then I read about Home Manager and put packages under there.

OOTB the Gnome install was as good as can be. It's a nice way to play with Nix, batteries included.

Right now I need to deploy a server used for bioinformatics, and I need Conda... And that is a pain [0], so again I'm on the fence: Deploy Ubuntu or NixOS and persevere... I'm thinking Ubuntu, then perhaps later in the learning curve I go for Nix or perhaps just make a container to use on Nix.

[0] http://www.jaakkoluttinen.fi/blog/conda-on-nixos/
How Did We End Up Here? (2015) [video]
I nodded a lot during this talk from Todd Montgomery and Martin Thompson about building Software Systems.
If this ever did become become a genuine concern companies training LLMs would just use preexisting datasets

So they will be cutoff from the internet and never consume new data from it?

Is this what they're doing now? I don't think so. Musk is threatening to sue for Twitter posts being used without permission for training purposes.
Gay marriage became legal in all states in 2015.

You’re presenting emotion as fact which is precisely what a lot of the news does too.
>No, it's a cultural thing.

IIT's, Peking/Tsinghua, SNU(Korea), University of Tokyo, Oxbridge, etc. etc. Cultural thing that happens across the entire world?
Pogo oscillations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_oscillation) are actually quite dangerous and can lead to damage or destruction of the rocket, so yeah.