skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RT does stink but their diagnosis as to why is hilariously wrong. It stinks because they DO try to put verified "critics" above the general public.

I had to laugh at this - "Every review carries the same weight whether it runs in a major newspaper or a Substack with a dozen subscribers." Yeah, and that's a good thing. Why should subscriber base give your review more weight? I can read that individual's review if I want to know what they think, I don't need to get a higher weight for the total review from everyone.

Then this was just as laughable - "Misogynist trolls had hijacked the platform, coordinating to tank women-led movies like Captain Marvel before they opened." No, it was an objectively BAD movie with an actress that acts like a stiff unenthused robot delivering her lines.

In conclusion, this author thinks RT needs be fixed because it's not reflecting his bias that the movie industry needs to be more "inclusive" and no movie that includes that "inclusivity" ought to ever receive a poor rating because obviously all of those ratings are racist, misogynist, -ist this, -ist that etc.

Here's my prescription: Just watch the movies and make your own mind up. If you have to go to a site like RT, ignore the critic reviews completely because almost all live in a bubble and can't relate with common movie goers.
>To my eye they don't seem to be engaged in the majority of the awful practices around marketing

You literally arent their target demographic. Children too young to understand marketing are.

Unless you are a kid, you wouldn't be targeted.
You may not have ownership of the company but you can have ownership within the scope of your work. For instance, as a developer there are so many areas which involve decision making from code design, testability, reliability, observability, choice of tooling, non-functional roadmap, documentation and onboarding etc. Of course, working within an organizational framework, you may not have infinite degrees of freedom across these, but if you don't have at least a handful of degrees of freedom in what you do, then you depend on somebody to tell you exactly what needs to be done all the time and your work will not be very interesting.
RT reviewers brigade against Dave Chappelle every single time. Because of this, I don't trust RT scores at all.
> To clarify, by “project,” I’m talking about something that’s large and customer-facing. Not a back-end Unicode migration or new integration test system or a plumbing job to redirect data flows or some incremental new feature on an existing product.

Well, sure, if you restrict the definition of "project" to large high-risk software development, it may be true that most may fail. But in addition to the large projects under my belt, I've built literally hundreds of small, safe apps that offered incremental improvements to existing business processes, and they almost universally succeed.

So I'd have the opposite conclusion of the article. No, don't learn from VCs. Don't aim high and expect to fail. Don't look for large projects and expect them to transform your business. Do look for the small steps that take you towards your goals, and work the ones that have the highest impact for the lowest risk.

And in all honesty, most of the software work in the corporate world fits that mold. It just doesn't get any press because it is boring. Stable, but boring.
ERCOT pays even home users to use LESS electricity even during non-emergency situations.

It's way cheaper to give incentive pricing to consumers to use less energy, than it is to build an entirely new power plant.
I would consider things like home movies and photo albums to be one of the main use-cases for a personal website (photo albums are pretty much what everyone in my social network uses Facebook for today). If you restrict to text websites, we could all get by with < 1Mb/s internet connections.

Backups are something else sure, but for personal hosting, the world is easier if you can just plop photos into a directory with maybe a simple html (or in my case xml) file and not deal with things like generating thumbnails or different quality settings.
Congrats on the launch! Definitely felt the pain of building a custom ETL into a vector db for a recent LLM project. Is there a way to use this independently of the Retool UI builder?
Or more directly:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...

they have interior cameras too, above the rearview mirror.
I've received a lot of flak for this answer in other communities, but, if a statistical model is producing purely derivative works using a mathematical model that's basically a next best token predictor, is it really "stealing"?

Is it "stealing" to have a working understanding of the next best token, or even simply the token that shows up the most often (e.g. on GitHub)?

I'm sure that the argument could be made that all AI should be illegal as all ideas worth having have already been had, and all text worth writing has already been written, but, where would that leave us?

(e.g. your function for converting a string from uppercase to lowercase will probably look like a function that someone else on Earth has written, and the same goes for your error handling code, your state of the art technique for centering a div, etc.)
Box office totals tell you how widely appealing a movie is, how well marketed it is, and how well distributed it is, which is not necessarily the ideal proxy for quality.

And it's increasingly less useful given the way streaming services have changed movie releases.
>> Even if it gets 1 million subscribers, it would represent 0.1% of Microsoft's overall revenue.

Microsoft is going all in. They want to have hundreds of millions of subscribers. They want everyone who is using Visual Studio Code for a business to use Copilot. With enough uptake, it could be a billion dollar business.

>> Software lawsuits can become multi-billion dollar expenses

Microsoft has teams of top lawyers and they are rolling the dice that there will not be enough lawsuits to justify the risk.

>> My confusion is more over the balance of revenue and expenses than just "derp, me no understand why do companies do things to make money, derp"

If you want more precise answers, ask more precise questions.
Possibly, but they also got to fill all of their openings from those layoffs. When there are 2% fewer candidates than openings, it feels like a candidates' market; when there are 2% more (legitimate) candidates than openings, it feels the opposite. The good part of that is that it can go back the other way quickly. Just make sure you don't beat yourself down so much in the meantime that you don't look like a viable candidate when the opportunity comes. If you appear desperate in a job interview, it makes people suspicious that there's a problem they're not seeing. Work on being as calm and patient as you can, and just keep plugging away.
Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI – Lex Fridman Podcast #381 [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36173382 - June 2023 (1 comment)

While it didn't get traction, it's a good interview which talks a lot about the language.
It'd be useful if someone at State could inform CISA of the meaning of the term "nation-state", unless CISA is very subtly trying to signal which particular countries these attacks are coming from, since nation-states are a small subset of all countries.
IVF is exactly how one would implant these embryo "models," and that's why I brought it up in my first comment.

Here's an example of how IVF embryos are graded at day 6, prior to implantation:

https://flo.health/getting-pregnant/trouble-conceiving/ferti...

I think you missed the fact that these models start at the equivalent of day 7, so we're right in the same time window of implantation. Unless you are claiming that exactly at 6 days after fertilization is when every single embryo implants, and at 7 days it is simply too late. But your whole point seems to be that the window is hard to observe, so I doubt that's what you mean.

At any rate, I still see nothing to indicate that these "models" are not simply embryos. I think they are intentionally calling them models so that they can skirt the legal requirements about embryo research.

Unless of course you can point me to something that is actually different about one of these models vs an embryo. The whole article is about how they are the same.
> ... it's not intuitive how deep I am within nested scopes

The ONLY piece of information that is available to you regardless of how deep you are into a function is INDENTATION. Your curly braces won't help you.

Besides that, you should seriously reconsider your coding style if this is an actual problem for you.
Which became more and more obvious with the plethora of examples today of disconnected Audience and Critic scores.

While they definitely measure on different metrics, the goal of a critic is supposed to be to measure films worth watching (even if only for a subset of the total audience). When 95% of critics tell you to see a movie that only 10% of people enjoy, something's broken.
US clean energy drive fuels shortage of engineers in Australia
The Welsh suggests the Ancient Greek "hudor".
Also smartest, most brave, and the best dancers etc.
But me big man. Me move mars.
> If language models can not help with the AI development loop then the technology is not going to be useful for consumer use cases.

it quite literally is useful for consumer usecases though.

For example, one consumer usecase that is being used by a lot of students right now is cheating on their homework.

It is right now being used for all sorts of consumer things like that.

Also, if you have an opinion you can just say what your opinion is. You don't have to hide it behind questions and alt accounts.

You can just have an opinion and say it.
>Could the 120 hours-and-counting in TOTK have been spent more productively?

Its not a productivity thing, it's a manipulation thing. Zelda games have been getting worse since Wind Waker, yet we continue to play them. They arent fun, we are just under the control of Nintendo.

Chatgpt said we do this because of FOMO and Nostalgia.
Ah, we've found the account that Cory Doctorow gets his ideas from.
I'm not even implying the opposite, I'm merely saying it is a cost.
yeah once I realized everyone at my company shows up on different days of the week I stopped coming

I’m in the office once or twice a month now, usually for some team lunch or something.
Same. I have had it get me in trouble before because I was described as "developing like a gopher" where I disappear into a hole for _x_ time and then pop out with a bunch of questions or the entire ask completed without any input and both of those things tended to be negative as well.

I'm not sure how to handle it sometimes. It seems like asking too many questions can get me judged and potentially make people see me as stupid. But trying to figure it out myself rubs people the wrong way too..

It feels like the solution is some magic that makes everyone stop trying to make assumptions instead of just clarifying things but obviously that's a pipe dream.
Oh I agree that Haskell is complicated to learn, I just happen to think that that book kinda makes it even worse.
Huh. You can't rewind/fast-forward/seek these "shorts" videos. (Well, I can't, with my particular browser/os/county/screen-dimensions/etc combo.)
I'm vegetarian, sometimes I try to be vegan, for basically every reason combined.

This doesn't mean I am unaware of the counter-arguments; disregarding the ones which are essentially just an appeal to tradition, there is still one more I know. To play devil's advocate:

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We have no idea at all what sentience is, and it's entirely conceivable that we're the only ones who really truly have the experience of suffering, rather than just a non-conscious stimulus-response mechanism.

By way of comparison, larger current generation AI are of similar complexity to the brains of many of these animals — are those AI sentient?

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Back to my own voice: I often find myself using the {animal brain complexity} ≈ {AI complexity} for the exact opposite purpose, to demonstrate why current AI might well be sentient.
I’m curious about GM and their decision to stop supporting CarPlay. I probably was never going to buy a GM anyway, but CarPlay support is a must-have for me.
Your concept is mathematically sound, but if there exists an opportunity to double dip to boost profits, what would make a corporation turn it down? As you noted in case #1, companies are paying much more for the materials. Consumers are still ultimately paying for it.

The entire point of amortizing the upfront costs is to keep the consumers hooked by charging a smaller recurring amount that stings less but certainly adds up to a bigger amount than the original upfront costs.

Besides, why would a company go through the added hassle of creating and managing a subscription model and risk pissing off customers through this nickeling-and-diming if not for more profits?

I am sure that there is still some silver lining to this scenario (e.g. I live in hot climate and don't need heated seats), but I fail to see any that apply to a broad number of consumers.
A CLI forces you to deal with commands, flags and whatnot.

A TUI can be quite good UX instead if done right, I'd surmise.
You should do your own research before disrupting others. It's basic politeness.
> For example you can't do `foo = (yield a).b` you have to do `x = yield a; foo = x.b`.

The first snippet actually works fine. Yield expressions were introduced with PEP 342 in Python 2.5.
Kagi appearently had a project "expertGPT" (contrast to FastGPT). Does anybody know what happened to that one?

On a side note, there is now a - to my best knowledge - completely unrelated product "ExpertGPT" from some totally different company. I am not talking about that one.
Running a bot against your repository doesn’t make the bot a contributor. Does running an autoformatter against your code make the formatter a contributor? Does github making the merge commit on a PR make github a contributor?

This is just a repo with two bots turned on. Really confused why people are upvoting it.
> Why would you presume you know what I want?

I'm in the same boat as k__ above. Some have been indoctrinated into an "asking is wrong" culture.

On my job, if you ask:

* You're given a rude response.
* You're treated like an idiot.
* You're told you're wasting the other person's time.

and many other less than ideal responses.

Given these reactions enough, one can get tired of it (or angry, or ashamed depending on your personality), and just begin to avoid the situation entirely by guessing.

Then of course when you guess wrong, see the above points.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
> You have to make an affirmative case that growth and energy are decoupled in China

No I haven't. Actually I said the opposite, and I will reassert it here: growth and energy usage doesn't need to be decoupled in any way, for China to actually export energy. Export is appearing on both sides of the equation: on the GPD side, and on the energy consumption side.
Nevertheless, there are standard opinions that get upvoted and get downvoted.

There is definitely a prevailing ethos here and it's valid to point out potential inconsistencies.
I’m not a security researcher but I would definitely do it if they seemed like a decent person who I had totalling to for a while and were running an open source project
How? If his email is something like johnWsmith@gmail.com and he's accidentally entering johnsmith@gmail.com (you), how is he ever able to register? If he's sending password reset requests to the wrong address (yours) - wouldn't every site in existence realize that's not the registered account and the email would never end up in your inbox?
My personal experience has been that I most certainly do ship code faster when I use ChatGPT. It is so good at building out boilerplate, explaining and scaffolding new libraries/APIs I'm not familiar with, or telling me what I'm doing wrong.

I use GPT4 on the CLI via ShellGPT. Piping in `tail /var/log/nginx/error.log` and asking "What is going wrong here?" is amazing. I'll never use `man` to figure out how to use a CLI tool again either.

It is painful to watch people slowly do things at work (ChatGPT isn't allowed) that ChatGPT would do so much faster. We had to write up an incident report the other day. If we had just outlined everything that had happened in some rough bullet points, it would have written 95% of the final document. If we had gotten that done quicker, we'd have been back to shipping code to production quicker.
"The cells of developing embryo of the tortoiseshell cat randomly shut off one of the X chromosomes. And there's no general consensus among the cells about which one to switch off, so each cell simply picks one. This random shut-off is why tortoiseshells have an unpatterned mix of black and red hair over their bodies."
I have no strong attachment to LotR. The Rings of Power was just bad: the characters were shallow stereotypes, the acting was poor, the plot wasn't interesting.

I was surprised when watching the first episode, after seeing 83% from critics on RT. It did not match my expectations from prior RT scores. I remember one movie that had a 90-something rating from critics and 30-something rating from viewers, whose name I unfortunately can't remember. It was strange, like a C movie from an alternate universe with different tropes. I can imagine being a reviewer, bored to death of the endless rehashes I have to watch, enjoying it because at least it's different. Rings of Power, not so much.
Goodluck getting approval to disconnect. Your local municipality can simply force you to be connected.
There is zero chance Hawaii will be allowed to secede ever. It’s one of the US’s most important military outposts, especially as tensions with China rise.
Right? I hate when I ask someone something and their response is to go way overboard in answering. "Do you have time for a 30min video call to talk about it?" kinds of things. I mean, obviously it's appreciated but if you don't know (just say so) or if it's that massive just point me at an article or a nice reference pull request or something.
> somebody asking for valid attribution could be a way attackers try to: 1) Derail the conversation 2) Find out ways to further cloak their footprint

Really? What does it take to sprinkle North Korea over my code? Is having the North Korean equivalent of JIS in strings enough? I mean, how could there possibly there be any footprint of anything. Does gcc leak info into the binary that my Debian system does not have in the first place? You need to get these guys when they are bragging to their friends. You can't look on the trails they leave behind ...

A lot of cyber security smells like bullet forensics.
> It's likely that generative AI in general will be deemed fair use, due to its (generally) transformative nature.

Have you read the recent SCOTUS decision in Warhol v Goldsmith? Because that's a pretty major redefinition of transformative for the purposes of fair use, and not in a good way for arguing that generative AI is fair use, especially because it ties transformative to the market impact. That generative AI is generally creating outputs that are directly competing with inputs (particularly in the case of generating images, where it's clearly competing with stock images) would make it dramatically less likely that a court would find that it is in fact transformative.
Seems like a lot of complexity that can be solved by simple spot pricing for electricity. With spot pricing you can decouple solar and battery storage, as battery owners can make a profit by storing electricity when it's cheap and selling it when it's expensive. Solar power owners can just sell to the grid at market rate.
> ffmpeg windows binaries [1] are hosted from some random person’s site

The same thing happens with mpv: https://mpv.io/installation/

The Windows download is provided by "shinchiro" on SourceForge.

The MacOS download is provided by "stolendata", on stolendata.net
True, though you can't claim that's an analogous situation - C++ wasn't in alpha when the JVM was implemented.

Decoupling is of course possible, but the difference here is that the lang powering the runtime is not guaranteed to remain the same language it currently is, since it's in active initial development. That introduces a unique axis of risk to runtime stability, it's dishonest to pretend otherwise.
Imdb is still pretty reliable in my experience.
It depends on the details of your project. Unless a proprietary package meets your needs spot on, I think you’ll find that customization is needed at some hourly rate. You would have to talk with their sales reps to determine cost and availability.

Same for open source. It’s just that developers may or may not be available who can meet your special need. Example: I was hired in the past to upgrade sendmail which had been customized to do auditing. And it worked well.

As for availability, you could ask a consulting outfit.
> It's likely that generative AI in general will be deemed fair use, due to its (generally) transformative nature

Purely mechanical modifications may not be considered transformative, and there's an argument to be made that LLMs are purely mechanical (in fact a US district court recently ruled that AIs cannot be authors of copyrighted works).
Does it not remind you of a certain computer science concept that maps strings to (possibly identical) numbers?
I also finally got AT&T's 5Gbit fiber service. (Interestingly, wiring up the house for 10 is easier than 5.) I've found it to be a really help for super large downloads, like bundles of container images, if you can get bits at gigabit speed from the server.

I'm definitely going to upgrade to 10Gbit if AT&T makes it available.
>"Before OpenAI, what was the last really great scientific breakthrough that came out of a Silicon Valley company?" he said on a Wednesday podcast.

It's as if you're throwing money worth about half of the cost [0] of the entire Manhattan project at a company [1], and then make a big deal over getting results. Nevermind that the transformer wasn't even OpenAI's invention.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/28/openai-funding-valuation-c...
They did a really good job of shitting on their fan base before it came out. Every criticism with met with you're a bigot, or a racist, or a misogynist.

They decided to slap the name on a show that only represented LOTR in name. So, I think they fairly get to receive the backlash of an obvious money grab.
I love Windmill. I've built some handy internal tools for populating a smoke forecasting app's daily data, some dumb UIs for crud interfaces, and various workers and schedules. I could do it all without windmill, but I actually really like the scaffolding it provides.
Is grid solar always cheaper? I could see that, I could also see that not being the case in the short term if the power lines need to be replaced (or buried in California because of wildfires). It seems harder to do coordinated actions politically rather than let consumers buy products.
Don't think so. Quick check on the wayback machine shows it has been showing a 404 since June 2019. May 2019 snapshot had a live page [0]

[0]. https://web.archive.org/web/20190503205052/http://atariage.c...
Honestly, keep avoiding it please.
See some moderator comments here:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> Local universities now only produce about 7,500 four-year graduates annually, many of whom get snapped up by banks or management consultancies.

I am not sure on the relative salaries in Australia, but in the UK and Canada, you take a significant pay cut to actually practice real engineering compared to software, banking, or consulting.
Don't forget that the CA energy market is highly regulated and isn't a free market, so there will always be haggling over anything that reduces the revenue of the utilities (as they don't really get to set prices).