skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kylian Mbappe was recently offered $776 MILLION in salary for a 1-year deal as the highest paid soccer (football) player [1].

Jaylen Brown will be making $304 MILLION over 5 years for the Boston Celtics as the highest paid NBA player.

Wealth inequality from predominantly ads-based (tv-deals) business models is a cancer to our society.

[1]: https://frontofficesports.com/saudi-arabia-reportedly-offers...
Indeed amusing! :) One could argue that they are back - but now as desktop webapps each with their own bundled browser. And making sure to drain the same proportion of available resources on the system.

Edit: fixed typo
You hire Tom Hanks because he’s a genuinely warm and considerate person, and that allows him to embody people like Mr. Rogers with sincerity.

I’m not sure you will be able to do the same with just computers: there have been many efforts to create digital characters, but always with a talented actor to voice and incarnate them: Smaug by Benedict Cumberbatch and too many to list by Andy Serkis. I can’t think that it’s an accident people pick talented actors to do so—and I doubt AI will be able to reproduce that talent well soon.

Crowd simulation (what a lot of the actual debate with SAG is about)? Definitely.
Unsurprising and as expected. Just like the subreddits that were taken away by Reddit, Twitter/X can swap and take away usernames and does not owe money to anyone in exchange for ownership of any username.

Given Twitter has done this before with brands even before Elon took over, why expect anything different now?
But it can't, which is why star actors will continue to be star actors. It will take far more money and effort effort to get an AI actor right than just shooting multiple takes of an actual human being to begin with.

These strikes are not for the stars.

They're for the rank and file actors who make up the vast majority of the union. The ones who might appear in straight-to-video shows or maybe be a short-term character who doesn't even have a name. I know a guy who is an actor out in LA. He works at a Universal Studios theme park for his day job, but he's also appeared in the opening scene in 1923.... a character who was shot by one of the leads but who didn't even have a name. He was also a character in the Pam and Tommy Lee show, played a part in a short-lived live action Scooby Doo show (along with his wife), etc.

People like that aren't rolling in the dough. They're not getting a ton of residual checks. And the power of unions say that people like that get a voice too. Besides, automation of this sort rarely makes lives better for anyone than at the top.

Adding AI to this equation does not make the media cheaper for me. It just means fewer paychecks get cut for actors, and the money ends up getting deposited into the accounts of the executives who "saved the company money." Sorry, but I'd rather just not use AI if that's the case.
This hearing really isn't about theory or based on your notions of what is likely. Instead, it stemmed from a whistleblower complaint regarding bureaucratic security layers to obfuscate projects from Congressional oversight. These projects are compartmentalized behind SAPs and misappropriation of government funds.
They're operating in legal space, for sure. Buying fish from others and freezing it for later use is not illegal.

The rules of the game need to change. However, imposing limits isn't the solution (we have them now, and they're ineffective and practically unenforceable).
Its a lot easier to use a phone one handed discretely than a gameboy
The term for this is "cat and mouse"
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36877774
Do they usually extinguish fires by pumping ocean water?
Alternatively I see people publishing their "creativity" as virtue signalling nothingness.

I did a freelance job for someone and they asked to see a portfolio.

I said I can't even divulge the nature of the projects I did for various banks let alone send you screenshots of it because me having screenshots would indicate a breach of contract.

Ask me anything about the tech you want to implement.

I got the gig.

I've also seen "vibes" hiring of people with a good rep in various communities and it doesn't work. Those people are generally awful to work with and lack any desire to compromise
Probably the same amount of evidence the whistleblower has to support theirs.
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlbC8q4VkL4

Tears of joy ...
This is good advice, people looking for AI people in SF take that first morning stroll through Hayes Valley.
I never experienced the level of immersiveness of the author, but I did daydream quite a lot all the way into my early 20s. I would completely ignore my professors during my classes, I would talk with myself when I walked home, I would dissociate myself from reality imagining all kinds of different scenarios.

How I solved this? Well, not by myself. One of the topics of my daydreams was this girl that I was infatuated with. Long story short, we somehow get together, I realize that our relationship wasn't exactly going on the way I imagined it, we break up, I go through quite a depressive, suicidal period, I lose most of my friends. Completely unrelated, two years after I had to do a surgery which kinda grounded me more into reality. Since then, I rarely daydream, it is like my imaginary world was shattered by this moment. It is like I finally 'grew'.
The law will probably disagree in some cases :)
That's not EE, that's basic math/physics. The largest Telsa Model S battery is 100kWh, which is 360MJ. Boiling 1L of water from room temperature takes 330kJ. 55 US gallons is about 200L water. 200 * 330kJ = 66MJ to boil the whole drum.

360MJ per battery / 66MJ per drum = 5.46 drums of water.
Red Sox 2004 postseason comeback, Kick 6 Auburn vs Alabama college football.
Alpha is extra-weak. As in, even with dozens of grizzled systems programmers at the table you will still not be able to reason about the observable result of any sequence of loads and stores. This is at least a developer productivity issue, and becomes a performance issue if you are inserting fences all over the place whether they are required or you just aren’t sure.
I went and checked for you. The ones who stopped drinking saved a lot of money and were healthier and Franklin actually made money off of the ones who kept drinking by lending them money when they ran out.
Why are there no sea snakes in the Atlantic?
We'll see just how little abundance there is if global supply chains break down, and we aren't able to grow enough food.
But what's interesting here is how likely they are to catch fire while not running. I'm guessing those statistics look quite different.
Do you think the TLD matters? I see you have a .com, but I can never find any plausible .coms available for my name. Do you think people care about this? Does stuff like .me and .io seem unprofessional somehow for this "cool, they have a custom email domain, let's go see what's on it" workflow?
Just installed it. Seems like it requires you to browse using Safari (because of extensions)?
Except if I wrote it by hand, it would be -

SELECT *
FROM employees
LEFT JOIN positions ON employees.id = positions.employee_id

which isn't really that different.
Lol. I loved Calvin and Hobbes for many reasons, but one of them was definitely because I could relate. I need to read them again...
The luddites lost, sure—but industrialization did make an absolute shit-ton of people miserable until the labor movement clawed back some of those productivity gains for the workers and curbed the worst abuses committed by capital.

If we don't see another wave of reforms soon—which is sure to require labor action!—a whole bunch of folks are in for another rough time (stretching to entire lives, as it did last time) which will not automatically get better through capitalism pixie dust or whatever.

The last time we saw a huge shift in human participation in the economy, it sucked absolute ass until a bunch of workers screamed and bled and died to make it somewhat better. That's what'll happen again if we don't catch it early. "It'll get better on its own, because markets" is magical thinking.
It's the same for music. Why would you bother developing something around AI-generated music when there's an unending supply of kids passionate about music who will generate content for free in the hopes of being discovered?
Presuming there was actually some aliens/UFOs to know about in the first place (I'm pretty confident there aren't any actual alien UFOs, but that doesn't mean there aren't secret programs dedicated to UFOs), it is likely that most of congress wouldn't know about it and only a few congressmen on the right committees would know. Not every member of congress is informed of all the secrets the American government has. Particularly, those 17 on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence know a lot more than the rest. And even they may be kept in the dark about some things.
And pics of his wiener!
He will not realistically get his window broken unless he parks in a few bad areas AND has a lot of clear valuables in the car and gets really unlucky. It’s just not as common as people make it sound.

You’ll be fine street parking at golden gate. You’ll be fine street parking at Buena Vista. You’ll be fine street parking near Dolo. It’s fine, I do it all the time.

Don’t park in (or go to) the tenderloin, and be cautious around the fisherman wharf (but plenty of tourists park here daily with no issue).

I would suggest visiting the Presidio, it has a nice parking lot if you’ll drive. Alternatively , Sutro Baths and the parks around it make for great views of the water and the bridge. It’s a bit hilly but it’s a great urban hike.

If you don’t want to drive our public transit is great. Golden Gate Park is serviced by the Muni N line which is very easy to take. The N will take you pretty close to Haight Ashbury neighborhood (very fun, unique for a few hours) and Buena Vista park too. Mission Dolores park is nice and serviced by the J line. Then it’s just a short walk to the mission for great Mexican food. Get a burrito.

I’ll just add that the worst parts of the city are the parts with offices (downtown, SOMA). Go away from where tech people go for the best experiences.
I don’t understand what you mean; could you elaborate?
> For the vast majority of software dev jobs (like 98% of them), you just want someone who shows up and does the work without making much of a fuss.

For the vast majority of people who post stuff like that on their blog, they show up and do the work without making much of a fuss.

I know because I've worked with several of them.
This problem is not unique to free speech. Whoever is in power doesn't see why they should follow a principle their opponents violated when they were in power, except that then no one follows the principle and everyone is worse off for it. It's no different for privacy or due process or free association.

This is why we try to put these things in constitutions for governments, and build decentralized systems with no bureaucratic chokepoints for communications networks.
Is more likely that XMPP was killed by Google instead, and Meta is trying to do the same over ActivityPub https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo...
As they say: "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". Wanting to fix the world by taking complete control of it is one of the most trivial examples of a plan that should be immediately labeled "evil", as, if nothing else, "absolute power corrupts absolutely".
> Another benefit of software that doesn't change every week is you can charge one time for it rather than these awful subscription pricing that most software are switching to.

How do you pay developers to continuously fix bugs, provide security updates and update their software when the underlying hardware and operating system changes?
'92 Olympic Dream Team (US) in basketball. Asking anybody to play against them was pushing the boundaries of ethics.
And is the same tactics Microsoft uses with Edge. Try and download Chrome on edge, and you'll have Microsoft begging you not to download it.
We wouldn't happen to be invading Iran today, would we?
The point is program management & constitutionality:

1. Do programs exist over which Congress has no knowledge and/or oversight. If so, this is likely unconstitutional.

2. Do programs exist because Congressionally appropriated funds have been covertly redirected to those programs without Congressional knowledge. If so, likely unconstitutional.

3. Have whistleblowers been threatened or harmed to prevent disclosure and/or testimony. If so, likely a violation of US criminal statutes, and likely unconstitutional - particularly if those whistleblowers intended to provide Congressional testimony in accordance with Congress's oversight role.

The point is not disclosure, confirming existence or declassification - despite what you may hear. It could be one or more of those things occur, but likely not via these hearings.

Oversight can be as simple as notice to the "Gang of Eight" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Eight_(intelligence), or possibly the Intel/Defense committee ranking members, and need NOT to be to the entire Congress or even full committee membership. The accusations in these hearings seem to allege this minimal notice did not take place. The testimony also claims extra-governmental (possibly private sector) program management with no political accountability.

In sum... this appears to be a (necessary) power struggle over programs & information. At the same time - and depending on what the real truth may be - one can make a convincing argument little of this information should be public & these programs should remain off the books. Depends on your confidence in the body politic and Congress.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess you think that because you don't know any professional actors. It's hard work but it used to be possible to make a living as a working actor without necessarily being famous. That looks increasingly difficult. There's a lot of skill required to do the job well and those skills aren't just transferable to other work contexts.
Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon have launched their open-source mapping project
Tuning and Testing Llama 2, Flan-T5, and GPT-J with LoRA, Sematic, and Gradio
Yeah. This is objectively terrible advice. Ideology is not an excuse for data loss.
AI Policy: Open ML Considerations in the EU AI Act
It could be related to the fact that if an instruction was not handled at all the CPU would lock up (search https://www.righto.com/2016/02/reverse-engineering-arm1-inst... for "kill"), so rather than add extra logic for illegal instructions the designers just decided to add undocumented ones.

The only problem with this theory is that there are in fact several opcodes which will make a 6502 lock up...
You might be suffering from right-wing media bias. Millions live in the Bay Area, and while crime is afoot in every city, most people here are doing fine if not better than your average American.
> Two theories are popular among the MD community. One attributes MD to a lack of emotional nurturing in childhood, leading to issues in emotional expressivity. It advocates emotional engagement with real life as a potential solution. The second theory suggests that daydream immersion is an innate trait and MD develops when people with this trait become addicted to daydreaming due to unfortunate real-life circumstances.

I'm surprised not to see consideration of this as a biochemical phenomenon (beyond the reductive "everything in the brain is biochemical") -- I wonder if an anatomical or signal/chemical oddity could put someone in a state where they're predisposed to switch on the dreaming/imagining circuits in the middle of tasks, almost like a very odd flavor of narcolepsy (which, among other causes, is commonly associated with the immune system destroying cells that produce a likely wakefulness-signalling protein).
The hearing is utterly bizarre and surreal. Like theater but everyone is keeping a straight face. (also, 'Mrs. Luna' is asking questions and her character name seems too on-the-nose.)

Former commander says he didn't believe in UFOs and defends himself with "I never watched history channel or anything like that" -- as though that's a source for UFOs rather than...history.
A 55-year history of Silicon Forest tech IPOs (2018)
Before doing this, Google was careful to make it as difficult as possible to build a replacement for Chrome. Apple struggles to make Safari capable. Mozilla struggles to make Chrome-first websites work in Firefox. Building a new browser is a Herculean task.

Pragmatically, I'm hoping that a Chromium spinoff like Brave (or Edge!? Could MS be the hero we need?) will turn the privacy switches on, WEI off, and get enough market share to make WEI infeasible.
Tell me you've just read a philosophy Wikipedia article for 5 minutes without telling me you've just read a philosophy Wikipedia article for 5 minutes. This is not what platonism and nominalism means lol
80% of adults have caffeine intake in a given day. So what's more plausible, that 80% of adults have cognitive decline, or the author in question is full of crap?
Because the comment was about the people who owned slaves (the juxtaposition of drinking a lot with founding a country at the same time, and perhaps their lives/"productivity" compared to the GP's families). Replying to that perfectly reasonable comment with "yeah but SLAVES" is lazy and boring.
You didn't, no, but we're in a reply chain stemming from a post saying "there are legitimate reasons to believe that the United States Defense Department has in its possession one or more craft built by non-human intelligences"
I mean, I lived there for 10 years. I'm all about that aesthetic, but if you come to Northern California and restrict yourself to public transportation, or the city, you are seeing maybe 5% of what the region has to offer. For a weekend trip I would stay in SF but if I was there for a week or longer, I would get out of the city.
A studio creating pure AI personalities to star in their movies seems perfectly fine. There is no requirement that these AI generated performers are based on real people. Arguing against generalized AI in film and television is arguing against electric cars because it will put the ICE engine manufacturers out of business.

AI generated performers seems like a good idea. You can see the impact the passage of time has had on shows, e.g. Stranger Things. Why should a franchise be limited by the ability of a star actor to continue looking the same age decade after decade and eventually have to stop because the actor has aged out or just flat out died?
> You just got old. It happens to everyone, and every generation says the same thing

I hate how people decide something is an inevitable eternal cycle that started in the 20th century. Recorded music hasn't been around long enough to think that platitudes like this actually have any meaningful content.

I'm here whining about how you're using a Beatles example because your argument is literally a teenage Baby Boomer argument. I've got board games older than your eternal generational war over the consumption of recorded music.
The hair samples with "non-earth origin" DNA, the fact that the FBI investigation suddenly got shut down and two of the agents literally disappeared. The countless whistleblowers over the decades that linked Big Foot to the super solider program. Even David Grush says it's more likely than not linked.
”OK but not in the open"
If you're good enough to pass a senior dev interview, you're probably also capable enough to create some kind of SaaS tool/plugin for applicant tracking systems (or directly in Zoom?) to help employers identify fake/real candidates.

You have potential to make a lot more money catching these bad actors rather than enabling them.
I think most successful actors are, by nature, narcissists. They're thinking about how their likeness is going to be used without consent.

What they're not realizing is we'll soon be at the point where AI-generated actors are created out of whole cloth - they won't resemble any existing people.

Eventually (in 20 years let's say), people won't care.
Maintaining an employer-friendly public persona seems pretty miserable if you like sharing opinions more controversial than programming language preferences. Or if your hobbyist tech interests skew in the anti-corporate or copyright-infringement-y directions.
That's what I get for skimming the post, lol.
Memories are fading but circa 2000 (EV6) it was maybe the fastest single-CPU workstation you could buy for number crunching. Anything faster would be firmly in HPC territory budget and complexity.

Come to think of it, had the cryptomining and LLM crazes occured a bit earlier it would have helped such architectures survive the onslaught of x86 excel pushing brigades. But it may have never led to Linux adoption. Sigh. Figuring out alternate tech universes is so complicated.
> How do you filter for these companies in the job search process?

As sister comment said, look at Fortune 500 companies. In the top 10, only 3 are tech companies.
Given how much music is available via streaming services, for little money (or none if you can deal with adverts) i'd have thought the impact of a pirate music site would be very limited.

I wonder what the impact of this site is on Sony, or whether what is really going on is some sort of personal vendetta, as legal action is usually a sign that things have got personal.
> Find my email (or some other way to contact me) and I can buy you a beer

I don't know why, but I felt the need to search it, haha. I thought it would be hidden or something...
Supposed to know is not the same as know. If they learn from a whistleblower that a program exists and has been kept secret from them, the people that are supposed to know about it, what would you have them do? Publicly investigate the claims, right? That's what they're doing.
Nothing Netflix is or has ever done is urgent or important.
I don't think any military captains, and colonels will be testifying on oath to the existence of Bigfoot in front of Congress. So no, that's not next.

What's actually happening is pretty crazy and anyone who has a small amount of curiosity should give it some consideration. It seems foolish just to dismiss this with a scoff.
> Old, unchanged software is not obsolete. It's mature. Bugfixes only, please.

This assumes a waterfall approach to development which implies multiple 6 month to year long development cycles.

In reality, a mature stable project can receive monthly updates, and an immature half-working project can be in maintenance mode. Furthermore this may work for software that should be seen and not heard doing its job in the background without much user interaction, but for software that users interact with regularly, the design needs to be periodically refreshed to match current trends or users will leave for the newer sexier product with fewer features. We've seen this time and again. I have absolutely experienced a mature product that was "finished" (abandoned) like 4 OS version ago that just doesn't run/work on the current OS version because the platform has added new security controls, APIs, and/or UX expectations, etc. No amount of security updates would fix that.

So while I understand where you're coming from opining for a world where we ship mature software and security updates only, I don't think it's remotely realistic given the way humans operate.
IRC Chess (1999)
From what I can tell, 20230625 is the latest tagged release of of the linux-firmware repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...

Either way, as noted elsewhere in the comments, only the Rome CPU series has received updated microcode with fixes. All other Zen 2 users need the fix that was released as part of Linux 6.4.6: https://lwn.net/Articles/939102/

(which has been built and packaged for Arch)
Yes, but the role seems to primarily involve working on ML as part of Netflix's recommendation engine and pulling out insight from customer data, rather than anything to do with generative AI.

It's misleading at best, actively dishonest at worst.