skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, sort of? The median woman who wants the gorgeous diamond ring from her husband is NOT thinking “This will be great insurance in case we become destitute”. Because everyone knows the resell value is terrible! Worst return on an insurance policy ever.

They want them because they are pretty and because – like it or not – it’s what society has taught them to expect.
I think time is a terrible proxy for effort or substance or scope.

Take the example from the article:

> Please look into this for me. Do not, DO NOT, spend more than 20 minutes on this. Please come back with whatever you have after 20 minutes.

Each person looking at this is going to achieve a slightly different amount in 20 mins. Even if we ignore that, there's no guarantee that the manager making the request is going to get what they need from 20 minutes of your effort.

In 'agile' working environments, I regularly see discovery/research tasks labelled as a 'spike' and given a 'time-box'. I often question: "What happens if we don't discover what we want to in that amount of time?", and there's generally no good answer. What actually tends to happen is the 'time-box' is expanded until we found out what we needed to. So time is a terrible proxy for effort, substance, or scope. The same is true here, the manager has some idea of what they want to find out, and you better hope you can do that amount of research in their sized time-box.

I think the later examples on this article are better:

> Are you expecting something super thorough, [...] or a quick write up?

This is much more valuable because we're talking in terms of the scope of work, not how long it will take. When anyone measures in time, there's no guarantee that you'll get what you want in that amount of time, and then what? Well, we add more time!
What self checkouts give you is single queue multiple servers. That hasn't been implemented on cash registers in my experience. We tend to buy just a few items at a time so self checkouts work well since I am pathalogicly impatient.
Also combined with the fact that many people in the west genuinely do look down on India. Not necessarily in an overtly racist way, but thinking it's still the India of the 1950s, rather than a country which can build supersonic jet fighters and land probes on the moon.

Further combined with the fact that in some rural parts of the country, life actually has not changed that much from the 1950s.
I could be misremembering since I watched the video on its initial release day. I believe the sprite asset was still there and he was able to restore the original button.
This was so fun to watch. It’s great to see people find their calling and do great work and change the world for the better along the way.
I make it a point to always press the modifier key with my other hand to reduce finger contortions. For pressing multiple modifiers, I take my hand off of home row to avoid using my pinky. (I also use a ortho-linear mechanical keyboard with thumb clusters and a Colemak-DH layout.)
In my experience, it's more helpful in some areas than others.

This year I used GPT-4 to write a significant amount of Terraform that was necessary to migrate an application onto AWS.

Writing Terraform, in my opinion, is problem that's broad but shallow. GPT-4 needed to do little beyond summarize documentation, but it was able to do so competently, and that was hugely valuable to me.

Conversely: In my free time, I've attempted to use it for a game-development side-project, and very little of its output has been useful at all.
My observations also support Reaction II. Customer waiting time is free for the store, they will increase it right up to the point people start giving up and leaving.

Enshittification is not just for software.
In that case I think the root of the disagreement is our understanding of the role of a diamond as a gem on an engagement ring versus the role of a Rolex as an elegant and good quality wristwatch.

If the diamond's function is to be long-lasting, beautiful, and satisfy the expectations in certain cultures of a gemstone to symbolise one has committed to marry a certain person, then moissanite is a cheaper alternative to an actual diamond which is just as good (or arguably better, in terms of beauty). The same goes for a Rolex. If its function is to look good and be a dependable timekeeping instrument, then many other watchmakers can be a perfectly valid and less expensive option.

However, if a diamond's only function in an engagement ring is to prove that one's partner has spent a large amount of money to commit to marriage, then of course moissanite would indeed be analogous to a "fake Rolex". But then the whole idea of finding an alternative to diamond engagement rings due to the disproportionate price of diamonds would be to beg the question — there cannot be an alternative, for the very purpose of an engagement ring would be to spend a stupid amount of money.
Says MacOS 13 when I followed your link. Too bad I'm still on MacOS 12. (Is there a reason to require MacOS 13?)
Seems like the advantage it is bringing is in bundling, shipping Python and PyTorch into something an end user can double click and run is currently a complete mess.

Of course the actual high powered code is C++ in both cases but shipping 2+GB and 10s of thousands of files just to send some instructions to that C++ could benefit from being one 2MB executable instead.
Most CEOs at large organisations are aware of what their ask causes: A lot of them went through their own "schooling" spending weekends on these tasks that are then largely ignored. If they don't want a lot of time spend they will typically be very explicit.
They are talking about putting something like ticketmaster in the middle of this. That is scalper city. Oh then a band aid to make it work right. Then another then another. Most restaurants run on a thin margin. All of those band aids will cost money. Something the 'ticketmaster' system is not going to eat.
No, that's impossible. Too much water makes it rot.
Why are you adding that to your system?
Nah, this person just doesn't know what their own email address is and types yours instead (yours with googlemail). This happens all the time and it really isn't something Google can do anything about.
The article is complete gibberish to someone outside tech, so if the role of the title is to describe the article to its intended audience yours is a lot better.

Of course if you intend to communicate to non-tech people that you write relevant cutting-edge articles, then choosing a title like "Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge" does the job much better. Maybe even add the words sustainable and IoT somewhere.
It wasn't the chaining that was an issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_bump .

Perhaps "speed boost" would be a better alternative for your intended meaning.
It's a giant site that'll be easier to bring to courts, and the EU has made plenty of tech regulation specifically against FAANG+.

I don't think Youtube will lose this, but you'll have a lot more luck convincing a judge that Youtube is breaking the law than some blog spam news site.
Considering the role of social media today, it seems like you can explain past elite culture as a near-monopoly on novelty, until at least the advent of newspapers.

This surely was a source of influence and power, but must have also had the effect of putting pressure on elites to keep filling the role of novelty-producer, lest they lose attention and distinction.
What does that have to do with enforcing already-existing anti-trust regulation? Anti-trust regulation, mind you, that helped the US mobilize for WW2 and led directly to a golden age for American innovation, standard of living and defeated the Soviets?
I guess I was thinking more of multithreading as an umbrella term for parallelism but I see your point. If you squint, SIMD and multithreading are the same problem. What I mean is, if you have a computable function you want to evaluate on a finite amount of bits, the problem of how to physically layout and schedule the computation to minimize latency is very similar to maximizing throughput.

From a circuit complexity standpoint, you could evaluate a wide but shallow circuit to evaluate the function in a nanosecond, or a deep but narrow circuit that takes eons. Whether parts of that circuit are evaluated synchronously or asynchronously is immaterial, although synchronous computation does seem easier to reason about and the UX is more user-friendly from a programmability standpoint.

I agree with you the fundamental limitation is the speed of light if you are width-bounded (i.e., if physical space is the dominating constraint).
> I thought surely the delta of doing this is not even measurable.

This is unfortunately the case for most ecological movements. Your paper straw is doing absolutely nothing, but it's easier than doing the thing that would actually reduce your emissions...so people do it and feel good.
I've had similar experiences working with people and my big takeaway is that communication is fraught with such little challenges.

Best way I've found to avoid this is to leave as little to assumption as is reasonable to.

A part of me thinks that some of the pitfalls in communication comes from culture, where different groups of people have different expectations of how much to leave to assumption, etc. Hard to really put it clearly, but I would love to read some research around this.
I almost wrote above that, to my knowledge and IMVHO, no one has succeeded at writing a book on Thermodynamics yet. I self-censored because that would be too flippant, wouldn't it? Lmao
In the early 90s, I began my programming career by developing reporting solutions for a Construction Support System used in train and tram construction and assembly. This system ran on a VAX/VMS platform. My role involved creating custom reports which could be printed on the DEC laser printers. I programmed these solutions using FORTRAN and hand-written PostScript code, which I found enjoyable. To learn PostScript, I even invested in a set of PostScript books, including the well-known Red Book:

https://coding-and-computers.blogspot.com/2022/12/postscript...
Awareness.
For those who prefer to read the script, of course. For those who benefit from a much more multimedia presentation, the generated video and associated generated items, will be preferable.
Lilium?
I'd argue that signalling honed by eons of evolution is significantly different to signaling dictated by fashion, it has evolutionary purpose, and it may be costly.

Fashion is fickle and can change quickly. Diamonds weren't really fashionable until De Beers started its Diamonds are Forever campaign decades ago; same with jeans, they didn't become a fashion statement until the 1950s when James Dean, Marlon Brando et al appeared in them in movies.

That type of signalling is only effective after marketing and often—but not always—has little beneficial outcome other than to benefit those who started the fashion or craze, and it's usually the gullible and or susceptible who pick up and run with such signals. In, say, the 1950s, unless you were a manual laborer or a gang member, it wasn't respectable to wear jeans. Back then, those who wished to become gang members—a la the 1950s Rebel Without a Cause — would follow the jeans/leather jacket dress code of the gangs, others would consider those who did as 'greasers' and or possible criminal elements.

In many instances signalling can be missed altogether especially so those who are not its intended recipients, and when it's recognized its effects aren't always positive. Whenever I see someone wearing a Rolex I think 'pretentious bastard, clearly you aren't sophisticated enough to wear another classy watch that would equally signal your intent but not show you up to be a dork'.
I upvoted the OP only because of your comment, so that more people can read it.

People outside the field do not realize that there is a sort of "cottage industry" of academics whose purpose in life appears to be to redefine "intelligence" as whatever they currently believe the machines cannot do. Their arguments tend to be wishy-washy.

Let me propose a simple test for detecting wishy-washy arguments:

1. Replace all references to AI with references to "a person."

2. Re-read the argument with fresh eyes.

3. If the argument no longer seems persuasive, it isn't.
One of the biggest time wasters is when the request doesn't come with the context. It's like they try to save time by keeping everything on a need to know basis but the "why" or the context is a really important aspect of providing a good solution because without that you don't know what they've thought of beforehand.

For example, "we need to block requests from X country". No problem, that's easy enough with most firewall services but why are we doing it? If it's to make contractual guarantees that no traffic will originate from that country then that's not going to work because anyone can easily bypass country code detection mechanisms in 2 minutes with a VPN.
Probably splitting hairs and I'm not arguing one way or another, just wondering - why isn't the prompt itself considered leaked data?
Oh believe me, it's more than considered illegal. It is literally illegal.
Again new != more common. Peoples diets can change significantly even if the foods they eat doesn’t.

That said meat was more common than generally portrayed. Fish has been a staple food in much of the world for a long time. Dramatically lower human population until recently means overfishing has largely been a more recent concern.
Florence-2: Advancing a Unified Representation for a Variety of Vision Tasks
Not complaining, just wanted to say that i see this mentioned every once in a while and it is still hilariously sad to see we had idiotic ad experiences before youtube.
The Invincible: a story-driven adventure in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem
What is Lotus NOtes?
Do these new CPUs contain mitigations against Zenbleed?

Unfortunately, there are still cloud providers who haven't rolled out mitigations either because their upstream vendors are slow or because they're afraid of the 15% performance hit.
No, I'm doing this as well. Most of the time is my answer to your second question.

Having niche interests and having a (vanishingly) small social circle does not help.
> On the one hand, asd people are everywhere including in positions of power.

Are they?

Forgive the suspicion, it's just aside from Zuckerberg and Musk the rest of the list you specifically named in the GP comment aren't on the autism spectrum, so I'm finding this line of reasoning a little dubious.
That article (on the thezvi blog) is hyperlinked in the first sentence. I guess this post is meant to be a summary with some extra thoughts.

The rationalist community has a really irritating offhand way of using hyperlinks where for aesthetic reasons they don't structure the sentence around the hyperlink, but they also give no indication whether following a link is required to understand the text or it's just an offhand joke.
And she may be looking for someone who can afford to purchase a single luxury good without going broke?

Of course these days by the time you get to the jewelry phase, this kind of matchmaking is usually resolved anyway. I suspect the tradition started much longer ago when folks got married very quickly (compared to today’s standards).
I have a rule. If something has been sitting in the ticketing system for more than six months, I close it out. People will bug you about things that are important and you can make a new ticket. And if you are in a position where the highest value thing you can do for a company is to look back and fix the things that were never high priority, do yourself a favor and look for a new team or a new company… It’s not good to work on low priority work.
I know you joke, but this advert is surely completely untargeted?

It's definitely untargeted in the modern meaning (they don't pick which adverts to insert into the book when you buy it based on a profile of you). And even under any other meaning, I can't imagine German readers of Pratchet are much more bewitched by the charms of powdered soup than anyone else.
What happened to the Aral Sea again?
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It's the very beginning of "Book Two" of Mere Christianity. Not only were his direct quotes about atheism just generally terrible, his logical argument about atheism was equally terrible. I'm genuinely surprised he's hailed as this great theologian or philosopher when he can't piece together a simple argument about theism vs. atheism. Like truly, these arguments in Book Two sound like some teenager in a youth group wrote them.
My secret trick at the local grocery store was going to the non express checkout if it had even 1 less person than the express checkout because people took a lot more time to pay than it took the cashier to scan and bag their stuff.

The benefit of the express checkout is the number of tills, where 4 self checkouts usually end up replacing the space for 1 manned checkout, so even if 3/4 customers are really slow, odds are you will still find an open self checkout station on arrival.

That being said, manned checkouts are superior in every way (like I said, cashiers are usually much faster than the customers themselves) as long as the grocery store mitigates the number of stations problem by having a single checkout line so you don’t end up waiting an inordinate amount of time because you made the mistake of standing in line with a customer who chooses to pay their groceries in quarters.

Unfortunately the concept of a single checkout line seems alien to the grocery stores in my area.
Vermont May Be the Face of a Long-Term U.S. Labor Shortage
Your expertise would be great to hear :

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martinmusiol1_ai-generativeai...

Would you like to add your thoughts?
> Before ~1900 the activities were not only expensive (e.g. the Season, the hunt)

Hunting on horseback has always been elite, because horses have always been an expensive preserve of the elite. But great numbers of country-folk that are far from elite follow the hunt on foot; it's especially a Boxing Day custom. Well, at least that was the case 30-40 years ago - things may have changed. As far as fishing goes, coarse fishing in canals and so on has deep working-class roots. It's fly-fishing for salmon and trout that was (and remains) the preserve of landed gentry and their guests/customers.
> P.S. Perhaps because a JS framework based off the ideas of rails would be called jails! /s

https://sailsjs.com/
> A leader says “we need to be modern, no excuses!” Not wanting to seem dumb, nobody asks what that means

> disappointed when a critical project is not being shipped on time

So everybody is just fine with seeming dumb
This aligns with my motto of “10% beyond comfort” where you push yourself out of your comfort zone 10% (or more) and learn. You get the dread. You get the “I’m not qualified” vibe. You get the experience. Next time won’t be nearly as bad and a few times more and you’ll be comfortable. A dozen more and you might become an expert. You may actually find you love it.

To the articles point though is that you can be offended and feel anxiety and dread without having to completely shut down the entire discussion. This being in your 10% beyond comfort zone, this is where you - in your offended state - should actually be the most open to learning. Why did they say that? Why do they think that way? Is there reasoning or is it impulsive? How to I articulate an argument for my side when they behave this way?

This is how adults handle being offended during a discussion. You can even voice that you are offended by the remarks. What you don’t have is carte blanche to sling assaults and prevent freedom of speech.
There’s a funny comedy bit about the passive-aggressive phrasing “we need to <take out the trash, clean up the yard, etc>”. “Is that a _he_ need, or a _she_ need?” Who’s we in this scenario?
this was discussed yesterday under a register article. should be noted that this is a private citizen's complaint and not initiated by the state.
Not a great reason to pointlessly flagellate ourselves.
Chromatin, not just DNA.
Anyway, the "code" category is too simple to describe what is actually happening.
There is a sort of nanoscale industrial cyber-bio-physical-chemical plant/factory/machinery/complex within each cell.
If you consider CS-stuff as an analogy, you might miss the 'physical-chemical' aspect of it all. Like, you know, you would not call an autonomous android with embedded micro chemical facility just a computer or server. Yes it is also a computer, yes it runs some code, but it is moving, it is chemically very active, it has sort of initiative capabilities.
cs analogies are way too barren.
is the proxy service available for user modified browsers? otherwise this sounds like WEI with a fake mustache
What a sad world that would be
Google is a monopolist. Why shouldn't we regulate it differently than we regulate other companies?
I read a series as a teen that I'm fairly sure had some product placement - characters mentioned multiple times how much they liked Smuckers preserves.

Interestingly, the series had multiple viewpoint characters with each book narrated by one, and one of them had much more product placement than all the others - I only remember Cinnabon being mentioned outside her viewpoint books, or her being the one to mention a brand. I wonder whether it was a result of the author method writing, as that character was also the most ruthless of the group.
I know what you mean, as long as you paid for it nobody has the right to tell you that getting rid of ads in a book or webpage is wrong.
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I keep getting a crypto trading bot ad with AI generated Elon Musk. Ad blockers are necessary.
Why do you pretend that you are entitled to free video storage and bandwidth from YouTube? You haven't been sleighted. That service costs money to provide.

No, you don't have a right to free service either. Do you pay your other bills while you demand free rendered services from these companies?

Having a disability or similar does not entitle you to an unsubsidized Times Square with no ads.

(NASA is running their own streaming network and competing; it can be done. EU should try to run competing free video streaming businesses before shoving preferred American companies around with anti-competitive claims. EU haven't run a video hosting business that's been prevented from competing by the success, existence, and approved mergers and acquisitions of American media companies; and so EU video hosting businesses haven't and can't have been anti-conpetitively disadvantaged.)

I also run ad blockers for various justifiable reasons; but I don't tell myself that I have a right to free shtuff.

How the heck can you require only Netflix to host 30% local EU content and also demand free video streaming service with no ads?
Seek ways to support the creators, not the platform.

Videos that take a shitton of time and resources to make and are actually useful information-dense content don’t usually get enough viewers to pay for themselves with ads — their audience is way too small by definition — but some stupid low-effort viral shit that gets viewed by billions does.
This is a publicity stunt.

He’s simply gone to the Garda (Irish police) and reported a “crime” (that Google have apparently broken the law). The Garda will “investigate”, inevitably find that, no, the law designed to arrest blackhats breaking into computer systems does not cover this scenario despite its vague wording, and inform the complainant accordingly.

A small waste of police time and taxpayer money, reported on by trashy clickbait websites as though it’s some meaningful event in order to drive arguments in the comments on the legitimacy of the complaint.
EU is all about over regulation, this is just what they do.