skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a deeply nuanced situation that probably cannot be addressed through a short HN post. Write a post that’s ten times longer than this and instead of posting it here, bring those thoughts and concerns to your manager and HR and work through it together to build a course of action you all feel is productive to try.

If the company, as represented by HR, is disinterested in trying to help improve conditions for all, then you probably can either tolerate it or leave. This isn’t really a problem with an individual that the individual needs to fix. It’s a Human Resources issue that the company needs to work out.
Worth mentioning Kagi.

I’m a paying customer and it’s routinely better than Google, it’s now my default.

If it wasn’t for maps I’m not sure how much I would use Google at all any more.
Done, see you in three years.
I argue removing "How" doesn't even reduce clickbait score much
Conversely I had a classmate who used to joke about the fact that by the end of our degree, his macbook air had become a 4 "page" (mac)book as both covers were splitting.
I don't think NSFW content is disallowed on Hacker News.
I’d say SD works quite well at the macro scale, comparatively; while the artifacts the GP mentioned still occur with SD and to a lesser extent Midjourney and DALL-E, they’re much less of a common occurrence in comparison.
>Is there some limit where AI just can't get better?

Yes, without question. There must be, in fact. Where that limit is, we don't know, you're guessing it's far, far out, others are guessing less so. At this point the details of that future are unknowable.
On the one hand, I agree Tiktok is an abomination that shouldn't be used.

On the other hand, there shouldn't even be such a thing as "banning an app."
A minority of people got more into those activities but the US has a population of 330 million and the outdoorsy hotpots have little carrying capacity so now they are swarmed and overwhelmed.
It might be hype, but it allowed me as a Python backend dev to build things without spending too much time learning the big JavaScript frameworks, just some vanilla JS needed. But no npm, node or build tools. And since it’s server focused, the server logs tell a useful story. And btw, hype is good, because we currently lack good concepts on how to organize the html fragments served by htmx. Before htmx came around, I was sure that I’d have to at least learn vue.js, now I’m happy I don’t .
Autistic people want to do a good job just as much as anyone wants to do a good job. If you spoke with them frankly about whatever these "issues" are I'm sure you could come to common agreement. I'm relatively sure this person doesn't want to give you trouble. But you may have to meet them halfway.
No. The input and the output are the same thing with transformers. Internally, you're providing them with some sequence of tokens and asking them to continue the sequence. If the sequence they generate exceeds their capacity, they can "forget" what they were doing.

The "obvious" fix for this is to ensure that the their instructions are always within their horizon. But that has lots of failure modes as well.

To really fix this, you need to find a way to fully isolate instructions, input data, and output.
I knew there was telescreens in every workplace and home in 1984, but Cameras in every vehicle observing the drivers action perpetually is something even Orwell couldn't come up with
> It's about the sacrifice, and what that represents. It's about the tradition.

Diamond wedding rings have only been en vogue since De Beers' 1946 marketing campaign. It's a garish facet of soulless modernity masquerading as classical. Even the notion of pampering one's wife is a way of maintaining the patriarchal division of labor by keeping women in a dependent role.

In a world where money talks, insisting that men afford diamonds while women only receive them is tantamount to disenfranchisement and an abridgement of women's free expression. Are we equal partners, or is she your domestic servant? Are you the gatekeeper of her wealth and, therefore, speech and agency?

What a man buying a diamond ring "represents" is his agreement to financially provide, while the woman’s acceptance of the ring "represents" her agreement not to pursue financial independence.
> will improve at all in the next ~16 years?

Improve "at all?" Well, of course it will, but you're just moving the goalposts here. I'm telling you I don't think it's going to be anywhere near the level of AGI that can solve most programming tasks with less effort an energy cost than a human in that time.

> It will just be stuck at it being able to write simple scripts even in 2040?

Pretty much. You can improve the technology, but you have some massive gaps you have to cover, and electrical use is going to be one of them. Short a massive improvement in transistor technology or a move to an entirely new computing platform, I don't see it happening in that time.

> I fully expect human programming to be completely obsolete by then.

You seem that you mostly _want_ that to be true, so much so, that you've failed to complete the analysis. What's worse is, I'm just hedging your bet. If I'm wrong, no big deal, if you're wrong, you're in for a world of pain and problems. I get that this is hacker news and untamed expectations are en vogue here, but I'm content to be the hipster on this issue.
You can set reasonable boundaries w/r/t when and how you communicate with them. Without knowing details about specifically what you're dealing with:

- Team members who need to communicate too frequently can have dedicated time scheduled for them when it's convenient for you.

- You're allowed to tell them that you're busy, or to not respond to them until it's convenient.

- With folks who have trouble making themselves understood, I like socratic method type questions to get them to answer their own questions, or to get on the same page.

As a manager, you can be helping them to set goals, and listen to what they think they say they need to meet them. You can work with HR on any additional assistance they need.

While folks with autism spectrum disorders sometimes need additional support, your role as their manager doesn't need to change dramatically to address that specifically. You will also encounter people who either don't have a diagnosis, or you won't know have a diagnosis, and you will need to address their needs whether or not you know about it.
You haven't said enough for anyone to offer real help.

I mean you've got to accept that he won't be aware of, let alone considerate of, other people's feelings. Social rules will be a challenge for him. He won't respect you simply because you're a manager. You have to earn his respect. He will be very logical and reasonable with what he does understand. His ability to remain on task is going to be limited unless he's fired up. But if he gets there, his productivity may shock you.

He will likely overestimate how much he understands. But when he actually gets things, he really will get them.

This is all vague generalities.
It might help to be more specific. Can you give an example of the communication problems?

Depending on the details, it might be helpful to ask him if he can think of any changes that could be made to make your working relationship more effective.
I was initially skeptical, but these days most of my ESP32s just run micropython and I write my "firmware" in Python. This includes (low-performance) callbacks for interrupts, python dicts. Because the ESP32 has nice peripherals, lots of stuff is really just using python or C as a command-and-control to enable part of the chip, like PWM. And porting Python to C++ is usually pretty straightforward.
This is a zero-sum way of thinking about the world.
Chess is a closed problem. Whereas software development very much isn't.

You will also have to provide a source for 'chess engines are so strong now that any human intervention just holds them back', a cursory search suggests this is by no means settled.
> Seems like the trick really is to deeply intertwine economies.

On one hand, I read experts say that. On the other, I read experts point out that it failed to prevent WWI.

I wonder what the consensus is, if there is one, and what the evidence is.
I ran into the same issue and have been separating the prettier and eslint steps ever since: https://cpojer.net/posts/fastest-frontend-tooling-in-2022#es...
Just like human-driven cars.

I mean, it could happen. I don't know it can't, and I won't be totally shocked if it does.

I'm not totally sold either, though.
Annual hours worked in the US is down from 1900 to 1800 since 1970: https://www.jkgeography.com/growth-and-purpose-of-leisure-ti...
Bugs is a big one. I have a hard time enjoying wherever I’m at if there’s a bunch of mosquitos or wasps around for example, even if I’m wearing repellent.

I guess that means I should move somewhere that’s frequently snowy if being outdoors often is a goal.
Kai-Fu Li's Yi-34B uses exactly Llama's architecture except for 2 tensor renamed
Background information here: https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/05/valued-at-1b-kai-fu-lees-l...
I have a few of these I use in the garage. Slap an SSD and fresh battery in them and install a lightweight Linux and they're damn near perfect as a workbench computer. My only complaint is HD video playback can be a bit slow.
People can be addicted to games as well, and spend thousands of [insert monetary units], tons of such cases on Eve and simple mobile "pay-to-play" freemium games. Probably not on the scale of addictive gambling it's definitely no insignificant.
Why should he be? This isn't whistleblower territory. He was not compelled to provide the answer. He screwed up.
Is faster growth good? I remember hearing that faster growth means fewer nutrients.

Also some herbicides work on the principle of making the plant grow too fast in order to kill it.
Or you know, revenue growth to serve the only stakeholders that means anything to them - their shareholders.
They do, but a regular diode noise source can't double as an actual radiation detector. I was thinking something like a SPAD diode or something, so everyone could have background radiation monitoring at all times and get an alert if someone mixed a cobalt source in the scrap metal used to make their furniture or whatever, or the nearby coal plant was puffing out radiation or something.
It absolutely is. Even bing/ddg is better now.

Though I find I use search very little now. If I just want to know something I don't Google it anymore, I just ask chatgpt. Because it will give me an actual answer instead of a long list of clickbait sites I have to sift through to find my answer.

The only time search still makes sense to me is when I need to find an actual website which is actually not all that often.
And there is a 10 year Extended LTS commercial offering for those who need it:

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Extended
Yeah my thoughts too. My feeling is that there won’t be some perfect solution that stops all wars. But that it was a very rational idea that may have stopped some.

Indeed it would be interesting to see experts attempt to enumerate situations that were avoided through this approach. Though I’m not sure if that’s even possible given it requires a form of alternate reality synthesis which is all but pure bias.

A statistical approach may find there’s still too little data?
It's also rather vague and at least in my first pass skim I'm not seeing them define what it means to be skilled or unskilled. So I'm not sure the metric is even meaningful without this because it's not like you're one day unskilled in driving a car and the next day you're "skilled." Does that mean anyone with a drivers license? Does that mean a professional driver? We talking taxi driver, nascar, rally racing, F1? What? Skills are on a continuous distribution and our definitions of skilled vs unskilled are rather poorly defined and typically revolve around employment rather than capabilities.

I hope I just missed it because the only clarification I saw was with this example

> e.g., “Competent”
or higher performance on a task such as English writing ability would only be measured against
the set of adults who are literate and fluent in English
How realiable is Aljazzera? He is a UN link on this one. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2023/November/...
Here at least we can agree, I view the bulk of diamond and gold mining as a waste of energy for "pretty things" to prop up a value growth mindset that is neccesary neither economically nor to advance quality of life.

Mining in general I view as a somewhat neccesary evil that needs to made humane for workers and as something driven by unthinking consumption, the remedy lies upstream from mines in the mindsets of populations that demand resources.

Resource extraction can't be eliminated but it can be reduced, as should population numbers.
> 12-year-old Thinkpad has outlasted two high-end Macbooks

Nice! Our two MacBook Air from 2013 died at about the same time, about six months ago. Despite putting in a faster SSD and changing the battery: eventually RIP is RIP (and thanks for the 10 years). Our recent MacBook Air M1 lasted... 13 months. Upon waking up one morning the screen was fuxx0red.

Meanwhile my 2017 LG Gram's screen is ultra flexible and sturdy and can deal with pretty much anything you throw at it, including its previous owner (a friend of mine) waking up one morning and stepping on it by mistake.

You can also throw it down concrete stairs and it'll keep working fine: (skip to 0:34... video not made by me but it's basically my experience with that Laptop)

https://youtu.be/herYV5TJ_m8

They're not cheap laptops. They're not "retina display". But, darn, can they take a beating.

Not like the precious and ultra brittle porcelain that the latest Macbook are.
Zelle is like a bank consortium, no? They should have a vested interest in both identifying fraudulent transactions as well as customers using their accounts for fraud so they can close them down
Official reports can be self-serving, both intentionally and unintentionally (it represents only one perspective). Journalists talk to many sources with many perspectives.
Worse. We paved paradise and put in a completely non-walkable big car hellscape and parking lots to go along with it, so most can’t or won’t walk to do things.

Moving to a walkable area was a game changer for me in so many ways.
>It definitely happens, but it's not as commonplace as you're making it out to be.

It's very, very commonplace for LGBTQ children in America. Their Christian parents kick them to the curb as soon as they possibly can and disown them. There's constant postings on Reddit about it, from these poor kids who don't know where to turn for help.
> dystopia due to a small minority getting control over the world to a precise

Unfortunately this is how nearly all technologies pan out in the end.

The Internet of the 1990s unavoidably us the surveillance-industrial complex of the 2010s/2020s.

The running-wafers-in-an-old-strip-mall Silicon Valley of the 1980s unavoidably led us to the current "world economy can support only 1.5 leading-edge fabs" situation where having an ME/PSP/TrustZone in your chip is not something you can opt out of anymore.
It matters because I think that this coercive aspect does has moral implications. It is a core moral position for me to be as minimally coercive as possible in all actions. Or put differently, I believe all people are equal in value and should have equal access to self-determination and freedom of choice. At some level cooperation at the level of civilization and society requires that we surrender our individual freedom to some degree, but I believe one of the strongest lessons of history is that, as a general rule, nobody is a better judge of what is "right" for a person then that person themselves.

With that as a principle, coercive choices require, morally, a higher bar of justification.

If we truly throw concern for others our the window, I believe we ultimately lose the foundation for cooperation and polite society and eventually degenerate into some form of "might makes right," and I would argue we're already there to some degree.

As you can probably guess, I am doubtful that the value of RTO justifies the coercion required, at least as currently envisioned and with offices as they are currently designed. And the proof of this, to me, is the exodus of workers from companies making this mandate.

I recognize that company ownership has the ability to require this, but they have to recognize that this kind of coercive action is counter to a spirit of cooperation and "ownership."

From the employee POV, even if I was a RTO supporter, I would not be in favor of mandatory RTO because of this coercive aspect. I prefer not to force my preferences on others in any aspect of my life.

I recognize that this may be a point where we disagree, but that is why I was so passionate to point out that the two positions are not the same. They differ on a point that is critical from my point of view.
The code in the blog is from Vue Pinia, a state management library, and not from Loro. It serves as an example demonstrating that CRDTs can be modeled similarly. Thus, you might expect to use Loro in a similar way.

Indeed, schema migration is challenging. There is a lot to explore, both in reducing the need for migration and in ensuring a smooth transition when it's required. We plan to tackle this issue in the future.
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That mechanism for cash is called "civil court"

Yeah you're SOL if you give cash to someone whose identity you don't know, but that's hard to do unintentionally with cash. Whereas Zelle will shield scammers' identities so your recovery options begin and end with Zelle.
Makes me wonder if Prettier would be noticeably improved it it were migrated to TypeScript (first).
Alaska has pretty gnarly mosquitos.
Aimpoint Research recently ran a AgriFood wargame to look at the future of food and health. Could rural America innovation unlock better healthcare?
I’m so confused by this article’s comparison of GPT-4 to a powerful Go or chess engine. First, is coding some sort of competition like Go or chess? I have heard of competitive programming or code golf, but have little clue how that compares to “the craft of code” or why using GPT-4 diminishes it. Is it cheating if I use GPT-4’s assistance to write code? On the other hand, I do see why it would be harmful for people who don’t have the knowledge or experience to be relaying answers from an LLM to others on forums.

Second, I am seeing a parallel here with the college educators being preoccupied with how to teach calculus. Yesterday, I was reading the preface that Martin Gardner wrote to “Calculus Made Easy” by Silvanus P. Thompson and he wrote something along the lines of how many students and even educators (circa 1998) do not see the point in knowing how to differentiate or integrate by hand. I suppose now more than ever, some people even suggest to stop teaching calculus to high school (and even college students) in favor of some kind of vague statistics, data science, or information literacy course. But most mathematicians would discourage that kind of approach.

I think I agree with the last point about how it is not really about the knowledge of code itself but rather it is about being curious and knowing enough to not let yourself be taken advantage of.
> My feeling is that there won’t be some perfect solution that stops all wars. But that it was a very rational idea that may have stopped some.

Yes, absolutely. Also, it generally makes us wealthier.
They're publicly funded public data. But the images are mostly only useful for tracking cloud cover.
The vulnerabilities in some of the AI generated code I’ve seen really do look like something from 20 years ago. Interpolate those query params straight into the SQL string baby.
> Huh? We've gone from being mad at Google for bribing Apple to being mad at Apple for charging too much?

Isn't accepting a bribe also as bad as offering it? Apple is a gate keeper of a huge segment. There can only be one default. You either come to an agreement with them or lose.

If the general consensus is that Google is is abusing monopoly in this case, what should the resolution be?

- Google isn't allowed to pay Apple, but other search engines are.

- Nobody is allowed to pay Apple, and Apple should pick one without getting anything in return.

- Apple is forced to offer a choice on startup. But which search engines would be at the top of this list? And how should Apple decide that?

The first option seems unfair to Google (in a lawsuit about "fairness"). The second and third a loss for Apple more than Google.
Yeah, I was listing a lot of things that C++ can express that Rust can't. But C++ doesn't have lifetimes so you can't express those. And you can use that to eliminate temporaries. But if you say that you can also somehow do that with template meta programming then great!
isn't that full of gcc specific intrinsics? Namely, it excludes de-facto alternative compilers like tcc, cproc/qbe, simple-cc/qbe, etc? (and clang until it catches up)
Thinkpads' longevity is largely defined by their repairability and upgradeability, to the point of Frankenpads. Not a single Mac was ever close.
Would it still be "her house" or more of a grandma-lives-with-us-situation?

My sister lived with her kids and husband under the same roof with my mother and the situation was extremely complicated because my sister always were to be a guest in a way.
There's probably more than a typical share of devs that are on the spectrum to various degrees.

What actually is the issue you're facing? Can you be specific?

If you can find a way to communicate effectively with this person, you might be able to turn this situation into a positive. The folks on the spectrum I've worked have typically had insights and working strengths that neurotypical people didn't, such as an extremely detailed and in depth view of systems to a degree that many of their peers considered obsessive.

Yes, communicating with them takes extra empathy and sometimes patience, maybe some work environment reasonable accommodations. Maybe there are some communication styles, or simply individuals, they respond better to. It takes training, and not gonna lie, a lot of heart.

But nobody can give any useful advice (or even anecdotes) if you don't explain what's going on. "They are autistic." OK, and? What's the issue you're facing with them? What have you tried so far?
Climate change (less predictable weather, higher temperatures) is and will likely continue to be a factor as well.
No, they write it because they are confident they will prevail in court. They wouldn’t leave it to chance. That’d be naive. Why do you think nobody has successfully challenged Ferrari and Porsche? Scalping is very lucrative after all