skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all their job postings are not actually hiring, then they won’t get any applicants for the jobs that actually are, and then they can use that as evidence that they can’t find in-country candidates.

So basically the only way to find any real job posting is to spam-apply to everything. Is there a service for that?
> Male echidnas have a four-headed penis. During mating, the heads on one side "shut down" and do not grow in size; the other two are used to release semen into the female's two-branched reproductive tract. Each time it copulates, it alternates heads in sets of two. When not in use, the penis is retracted inside a preputial sac in the cloaca. The male echidna's penis is 7 centimetres (2.8 in) long when erect, and its shaft is covered with penile spines. These may be used to induce ovulation in the female.
Rather than charging for reservations, there could be a deposit that is applied toward your restaurant bill. The deposit could be refundable up to some cancellation period before the reservation, like 48h or whatever.
Legislators love the status quo. Having a rotating roster of complaint foreign workers whose employers control their visa, you get to keep all their FICA taxes, AND you get to kick them out after 6 years.

It's basically Dubai++
There’s absolutely an optimal number. It’s whatever number the citizen’s as a whole decide that number to be. That’s the de facto optimal number.

The auction system to maximize the fees collected would apply regardless of the number of visas.
You can go look at the old Predictit market if you like - it's still around[1]. You can also check election betting odds[2]. Clinton hovered around 60-80 in the week or two before the election.

Even if it were 90%, I'm not sure that's an indictment of prediction markets. A probability of 90% means that 10% of the time, the other thing happens. It's a bit like saying "wow, it's cold today; I guess global warming isn't real." You'd want to to an analysis across many many prediction markets in order to see if they're generally accurate. That already exists, it's here if you'd like to look at it[3].

[1]: https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/1234/Who-will-win-t...

[2]: https://electionbettingodds.com/WIN_chart_maxim_lott_john_st...

[3]: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/track-record/
I love that the article states it "would have required a giant antenna covering two-fifths of the state of Wisconsin... was never implemented because of protests and potential environmental impact"

Yeah, i'm sure it was those damned hippies not the wild impracticality of covering half of wisconsin.
There's vision / creativity and then there's raw compute & storage power and the ability to cross-reference. Einstein seems first rate in category #1 but 2nd rate in #2. VNeumann is maybe a decent candidate for smartest human ever, in terms of category #2.. he was a prodigy staggering adults with math/linguistic feats of strength at a point in development when Einstein was probably still stuttering. But being intuitive has it's own advantages and it takes all kinds of people to build our vast wealth of knowledge.
how is this any different from job hopping of yore?

people play a negotiation game around salary, and increase the frequency in an effort to increase the rate of… increase.

a pattern is recognized by an individual that values optimization highest, the pattern is exploited, and ultimately corrupted. people wonder why we can’t have nice things, and blame employers. also known as other people.

then it gets meta. someone writes an article about it, and someone else ensures there’s an ad or a subscription paired with the article. now the pattern can be exploited in a different dimension. the result is the same.

wheeeeeeee.
Okay so invert the number
The syntax-tree driven approach is considerably simpler than Sethi-Ullman, and faster. If you read the blog post, you can see it's based on a 1990 paper that references the 1970 paper that introduced the Sethi-Ullman algorithm. So neither the blog author (hi Max) nor the authors of the 1990 paper were unaware of it.
If prediction markets could tell the future one would imagine the first person to harness them would now be the most wealthy and powerful person to have ever lived.

So, you know, DOUBT.
Of course we are.

To be the equivalent of a 'traditional millionaire' these days, we'd need to be a lot 'richer' and have at least 50 million dollars.

Inflation has evaporated the buying power of the present-day dollar to about a miserable 2 cents of a 1960 dollar.

Did you know that back around the mid-1960s a blue-collar working man on the Ford assembly line reached a wage of $100 a week? In today's money, he'd need to be earning five grand a week to be on the same wage level as his grandfather.
Huawei plans to rival Nvidia in the AI chip business
I dunno man I’ve been rejected by a lot of companies over the last ~8 years, seems like they can find talent just fine.
Competitors to a trademarked brand should absolutely be able to purchase ads against that brand.
I'll leave your first question to the other comment here from frogblast, as I really battled with how to answer it well, given my limited knowledge and being an elbow deep into an analogy, after all. I got a writer's block, and frogblast actually answered something :D

> how akin GPUs "stream multiprocessors"/cores are to CPUs ones at the microarchitectural level?

I'd say, if you want to get a feel for it in a manner directly relevant to recent designs, then reading through [1], [2], subsequent conversation between the two, and documents they reference should scratch that curiosity itch well enough, from the looks of it.

If you want a much more rigorous conversation, I could recommend the GPU portion of one of the lectures from CMU: [3], it's quite great IMO. It may lack a little bit in focus on contemporary design decisions that get actually shipped by tens of millions+ in products today and stray to alternatives a bit. It's the trade-off.

> Are they out-of-order?

Short answer: no.

GPUs may strive to achieve "out of order" by picking out a different warp entirely and making progress there, completely circumventing any register data dependencies and thus any need to track them, achieving a similar end objective in a drastically more area and power efficient manner than a Tomasulo's algorithm would.

> Do they do register renaming?

Short answer: no.

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/3d-rendering-on-apple-s...

[2] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/3d-rendering-on-apple-s...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8K13P6loyk ("Lecture 15. GPUs, VLIW, Execution Models - Carnegie Mellon - Computer Architecture 2015 - Onur Mutlu")
Token count. But tokens per batch is a bad metric. I learned this the hard way through experience.

It turns out that what matters is step count. Increasing batch size makes the model train faster, but increasing seq length from 1024 to 2048 doesn’t make it train twice as fast. So saying 104M tokens rather than batch size 50k x 6 is misleading to yourself. (One of the most surprising aspects of learning ML was how easy it is for me to trick myself in various silly ways like that.)

The mental model to make this easy to remember: progress happens in discrete quantities called steps. Training on 104M tokens per step means it’s embedding 104M tokens of knowledge every step. This isn’t the same thing as requiring an special case optimizer due to large batch sizes — sequence length adds "knowledge bandwidth", but otherwise doesn’t mess with the training dynamics.

As far as large batch optimizers, there’s LARS, which google used for their MLPerf results. I imagine they stuck with that. It creates a per-layer confidence metric, so that when the massive batch size makes a massive change, it dampens the change to smooth out the effect across the network. And since it’s a multiply, the shape of the gradient (by "shape" I mean in 3D space, where the Z axis is the intensity of the gradient) remains the same, so it doesn’t harm any knowledge transfer. It’s purely a stabilization aid.

Kind of weird I remember that after three years.
> To my surprise, he came clean and asked me not to report it to CL

Sounds like a stoner or kid? (There definitely seemed to be a lot of stoners on CL, at least responding to forsale posts.)
> They of course aren't precisely the classical SciFi intelligence that Stross and his colleagues had in mind in the past decades

I've recently had the thought that there is an incredibly popular "AI" that is

1) Treated within universe as non-intelligent

2) Incredibly talented at understanding language and translating it directly into commands

3) Often compared unfavourably to actually intelligent AI

LLMs are the star-trek shipboard computer.
https://archive.is/0Amrm
The problem with predictions markets is that they incentivize participants to distort the market in order to make their prediction come true (and thus receive a payout). It quickly stops being a place to gauge the likelihood of an event, and turns into a roundabout contract bidding mechanism, the most famous example being "the likelihood that so-and-so famous politician will be dead by next year" is just an anonymized assassination contract. There's a reason that insider trading is illegal; prediction markets are inordinately susceptible to Goodhart's Law.
There's polar bears on Svalbard, don't they eat reindeer?
Yeah, ideally you’d have some kind of static typing to restrict the code to only use Number, and then a comment that says what the function does in case of NaN.
Feels like insurance fraud.
Please, downplay the impact of serious diseases some more. I'm sure your "it's not gambling even though it's basically a rigged lottery" argument will convince everyone here. Even plain old video game addiction is already a recognized medical diagnosis by the WHO, to say nothing of literal gambling.

https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/add...
Volume 2 ("The Desolate One") of the 2015 Portuguese film trilogy "Arabian Nights" has a 40-min story about bird trainers, as well. They love their birds, they love their songs, and they love to compete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Nights_(2015_film)
Where are people foaming at the mouth for this?

Time-of-use rates (peak vs off peak hours) have been around forever. Power users (huh, pun…) like ev owners do it, or new construction sometimes isn’t given an option, but that’s hardly foaming at the mouth.

I heard it tossed around in places like Texas, but most people realize it’s risky AF cause one high-demand day, eg from a polar vortex gone unusually far south, could easily wipe you right out.

Is it like a group of off-grid enthusiasts who can go a day or two off generators or batteries that make all this foam?
I just gave up on learning Python because of this mess. It's really too bad, because I'd like to write utilities with Python that would run on almost any machine.

Oh well.

When I was still trying to wrangle this, I had followed this guide on setting up Python "the right way." I wonder what y'all think: https://opensource.com/article/19/5/python-3-default-mac
It'd be just fine. Western medicine is so puritan. Why not let neuro-plastic oozing express as chromatic oozing?
Hershey's kinda tastes like vomit to me
no need to apologize, your comment simply made it sound like it was commonplace to see tipping in some contexts. and there are people that believe that tipping does make sense in some contexts.

sometimes the silhouette lines up just right to look the same forwards and backwards. if only more peoples’ views were skewed by a lack of tip jars and a presence of living wages.

if you are seeing tipping more than you have historically, that’s problematic for plenty of reasons.
40% of the sun's heat? Damn, those MIT engineers are good.
In theory the same thing is true with horse race betting; you can just assassinate the horse. Or the jockey. Or if you want to be more subtle about it, just slip something into the horse feed. But this doesn't really happen in practice.
Have you seen what pharma companies that aren’t Genentech pay their tech staff? Also they love hiring postdocs to keep the wages down.
Holy crap. Tell me again why the heck are we so interested in trying to find aliens when we have plenty bizarre stuff walking the earth with us?
Yes, I am very aware of that. However, realistically, Party1 with WorlView1 will be in charge of maintaining WorldView1 in their ontology document, and it is better to leave Party2 to maintain their WorldView2 in their own separate ontology document.

Of course sometimes there is a need to reconcile both world views, and there have been swaths of literature being written about ontology alignment. Optimally the parties would also share the things that they agree on and co-maintain them in separate ontology documents, though in practice this doesn't happen nowadays due to lack in ontology engineering tooling.
Lovecraft and Me – How cosmic horror gave me hope (2020)
> Who calls the area West Papua?

The natives of West Papua who are being genocided out of existence by their colonial overlords in Indonesia.
Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022
That's just the area formed by the grid of underground cables.
What people do now is far worse - turn the phone to max volume and hold it in front of themselves as they walk around.
No? They’re literally more hippocritical?

That’s like saying the catholic priest is more aligned with their sermons, even if they’re having random hookups too?
To be honest I think cellphones have made the world an overall worse place. Already some places are pushing hard to make them mandatory for certain services, like two-factor authentication -- several banks already do this.

This makes it harder for people who want the freedom of not using a mobile phone.

Mobile phones also have caused people to be less present in social situations and they provide too much information. There's less time just to think and be a person.

I know we have many conveniences with smartphones and cellphones but I do not believe they are worth it and humanity would be better off without them.
> No such thing as wage depression or abuse at this point because they are for all legal purposes, an equal to any American

Wage depression is a function of being willing and able to work in the field, not of residency type.

Residency type can only depress individual wages for the person with the odd residency.
Anything beyond one off asks is pretty hit or miss at least for me on if what ChatGPT is telling me is correct or not. Write me a complex SQL query that does this, write a python script that will do that, show me the regex that will find these patterns in a string, all of those work really nicely and do save time.

When anything gets more complex than that, I feel like the main value it provides is to see what direction it was trying to approach the problem from, seeing if that makes sense to you, and then asking it more about why it decided to do something.

This is definitely useful, but only if you know enough to keep it in check while you work on something, or worse if you think you know something more than you actually do, you can tell ChatGPT it's wrong and it will happily agree with you (even though it was correct in that case). I've tested both cases: correcting it when it was really wrong, and correcting it confidently when it was actually right. Both times it agreed that it was wrong and regenerated the answer it gave me.
"Best" has to be subjective here?

My personal favorite, combo of 2 listed, would he "I need X to happen"
The data was “accidentally” deleted.
The latency is still too slow to build LLM products other than chatbots where people expects a delay. The rate limit is also a non starter. And most app ideas involving LLM only differ in how well the UI is done. That’s the differentiator right now in AI apps
or like this http://amigaprj.blogspot.com/2013/05/amiga-fast-ram-expander... 12 off the shelf TTL chips.
> If we require that every historical person adhere to present sensibilities to be considered "great" then no-one will be considered "great"

So what? You say that like it is some huge loss! I think the correct choice is to abscond from this culture of hero worship you're advocating for and see people for their good and bad qualities, and be ready to criticize them without hesitation. Is it so important to you to put someone on a pedestal? I find that activity morally nauseating.

> we cannot and should not hold an individual responsible for the mores of their time

That's the weakest argument. "Of their time"? Last week? Last month? 1,000 years ago? You can pick whatever date you want to justify your hero worship. Personally I don't see accepting the Neuremberg defense as an ethical (or sophisticated) position, but you do you.
> Have I fallen into a trap?

No. It's a difficult task, but not a trap. You just seem in over your head.

You've got a dozen wild dogs. You cannot break all of them at once. No trainer on the planet could, even if you started shooting each them to try and intimidate the survivors. That's psychopathy, not leadership. They won't respect it, and will react to it aggressively.

I mean this in the kindest way but you seem too reasonable to have the spine to rule through fear (it's a good thing), so unless you're prepared to replace the entire team at once, firing any of them is just going to turn everyone against you.

Mass execution of inconvenient subjects isn't an option for dog trainers. So do what a dog trainer would do:

Focus on isolating the one of them you think would become compliant with the least amount of trouble. Groom, coach, and bribe them to do things your way. Give them special privileges, discreetly. Do whatever it takes to turn them into an ally.

You know how new restaurants hire people to stand in line so it looks busy? That's what you need to do. Nobody wants to go to an empty restaurant, nor do they want to adopt a tool or workflow nobody else is using. Since nobody's doing it, nobody wants to do it. You need a trailblazer.

Getting the first one to line up is the hardest part, sets an example that "this is what we're doing now," and makes breaking the next one easier. Eventually you'll achieve critical mass, where the ones you've broken will police the rest to fall in line because the noncompliance of the holdouts inconveniences them. Once that happens, you're done-- they're doing things your way and it's too late for them to go back, so slowly dial back on the privileges and coercion or they'll take advantage of that too.
Apple got sued for hiring diversity lol
Eh how do you think this hash database would work?

More likely it would be... without you or your lawyer present.."device X owned by person Y had a hash hit register to child pornography, we would like a search warrant for this device"

Judge "granted"
> This is kind of hard to discuss since it seems like SBF didn't engage in EA "in good faith" and we can't really know if other billionaires are either.

I wonder if EA could ever be implemented in a way that proves or disproves it as a viable strategy? It seems to me that the inherent problem is that people will always behave in subtle and not-subtle self-interested ways that make "true" altruistic behavior devilishly difficult to carry out in the real world (especially under the conditions that arise granting you the billions to carry the philosophy out). And therefore almost impossible to falsify.

Sort of reminds me of the old adage, "Communism cannot fail, it can only be failed." With some people today exclaiming that true Marxism has never been tried. But I can't imagine what perfect conditions could exist that would allow either communism or EA to be carried out, without having to account for human nature in the end.
I noticed this, someone in the group had a rifle, and also brought along a
"sacrificial" husky (basically they told me they'd shoot at the bear, sic the dog, and everybody had to run away screaming).

No idea how much of this is true, and how much was story for a tourist.
I really don't think Big Tech is using H1-B and greencards to buy fake loyalty or cheaper labor. If your current employer applied for a visa for you, your future employer will too. (To some extent, startups get screwed here, since nobody on an H1-B is going to ditch Apple to work at your startup.) H1-B salaries are public information; and they are exactly the same as what everyone else puts on levels.fyi. I worked at Google; I saw the mandatory H1-B job postings and there was no difference in comp or requirements between my role and the ones being advertised. Filling out paperwork so that every qualified candidate in the world can work there is the cost of doing business; if there were more qualified applicants, they'd hire more people. To the visaholders, this is just another perk for working at a big tech company.

When I clicked the link, I thought this article was going to be something like "non-US citizens get an extra $10k in perks because these companies do all their visa work for them, and US citizens don't need a visa". But it's something much more obscure that doesn't matter.
I recall that it’s depicted as a kind of bloodless coup / occupation.
The building has major Panopticon[0] vibes, minus the central inspection tower, although I guess in modern times that would be better done electronically anyway.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
What do you mean by "other" humans?
I don't really understand your hostile response nor foaming-at-the-mouth hatred of blockchain technology (I'm guessing it came from a bad interaction with a crypto bro on Twitter or something), however I think OP is just saying that both were popular technological trends that people tries to exploit to solve problems that society didn't really have.

One technology is obviously more helpful than the other, but that doesn't mean either are the right choice for the business you're building.
Match fixing happens regularly, so regularly that we have the term "match fixing" with a Wikipedia article dedicated to it. The presumption that match fixing doesn't happen in practice is unfounded.

Here, from two months ago: "Over 180 professional tennis players participated in a global match-fixing ring" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1198675541/over-180-professio...
> This is regardless of quality, bots are rarely as good as speaking with a real human being.

I actually have enjoyed my limited experience with Amazon's customer service bots. And that's only because I have an account with them since forever.

And I can see why they are now the target of refund scammers.

In many cases, the conversation is as simple as "I recently bought [x] and I would like to return it" resulting in "You can keep it, we will send you another one".

That, to me, is a wildly better outcome than anything I could get on a phone. Nothing to do with the fact they told me just to keep what they sent me, but how quickly it can be resolved.

"Another satisified customer"

This is obviously based off my past purchase history, my rate of returns is, etc.

That's fine. It works.
Microsoft Windows Turns 40
Here's a summary of background/activity, leading up to this, by GeologyHub, who has been taking about this for the past couple weeks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsju6J1_ETw
Yeah, indeed. I know LCMs are way faster than diffusion models, but surely this demo is running on a beastly GPU...
Neuroticising over how to word your commands (polite requests) is slave mindset, and such a person who does this is not a 'leader'. What makes a leader is not how you word things. But almost nobody walking around in corporate america has an inspiringly authoritative personality, and you can't make yourself into one very easily, so retarded articles like this are the best they can do.

If you are a leader, then when you simply say 'go do this', the follower actually wants to do it and does not care about how carefully you handle their feelings.
At this rate is there any data on Americans that hasn't leaked? I don't feel like it's far fetched request to allow a one time change of SSNs given how poorly companies and the government have handled our data.