skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>USB C is easier to use.

Not in my experience. The last few times I went to try to use one of my USB-C peripherals it was a pain. For example I wanted to use my portable external monitor with my laptop. Both are "USB-C" however the issue is that USB-C describes the physical connector and not much else. I already new my laptop supported DisplayPort Alt Mode and I knew that was what the display was expecting (rather than being USB display adapter). However, I then ended up digging through the box of USB-C cables testing them until the third cable I tried lit the screen up. This was the general experience with my Thunderbolt M.2 interface as well. I don't have much that takes uses PD but as I understand that's yet another dimension of permutations.

Without intimate knowledge of both devices /and/ the cable it's hard to say what any combination of "USB-C" parts will do. Even OEMs fail to get this right. I friend recently told me of buying Dell laptops which offered a dock as an option. Unfortunately, the dock expected Thunderbolt & DP MST while the laptop only supported USB3.

My personal opinion is that the relative lack of USB-C in a highly competitive, consumer market like DIY Motherboards is likely because even after 10 years the consumer demand is just not there. When judged the more lofty aspirations of USB-C that are being expressed here (replacing most if not all USB-A, HDMI, DP, Thunderbolt, and lower wattage power cables), I consider USB-C to be a failure.
I wonder if it is just the result of applying some transformation to “was underfunded for decades” in an attempt to make it cover the present.
Yeah it’s super annoying when companies have a “taxes and fees” section that contains mandatory taxes alongside fees that they decide to impose. Uber and DoorDash come to mind.
Might not be all that crazy; people are often sentenced by courts to perform community service - perhaps related?

There's also apparently a volunteer -> actual employment process for national park service.
How does this work? I thought the terraform state file was the single source of truth - if people are applying terraform 'manually' I assume that means on their local device? Are people sharing around the state file but don't have a central location for a lock file? Apologises if this seems obvious...
Exactly this. We don't need protection from AI, we need protection from corporations. And they sure as hell aren't going to police themselves via internal "safety teams", especially not if it starts to affect their bottom line.
A company works on multiple games at the same time, yes. Some of those games are exploratory and have a low likelihood of seeing the light of day. Some are rehashes of proven formulas with good confidence that they'll be profitable.

Something goes awry. The "known profitable" game is very much so behind schedule. An executive decision is made to give development another year.

There is now a gap in the release schedule. Leadership shops around and talks to the other teams. They say, "If you can promise me that you can ship at this time then I can promise you your game will ship. If not, then I can't make any promises because our primary game is taking the launch slot a year from now and the world might be entirely different in two years."

Those leading the less important game go back to their team with the news. They say, "Hey. We have a real opportunity here for this game to see the light of day, but we will need to make concessions to do so. Do you want to try for it?"

Most sane teams respond by saying "Yes, we will make that work" because no creative wants to work on a game that fails to see the light of day.

This results in a game being shipped in a state that is perceived as being rushed by consumers. The game was rushed, but there was never a guarantee that the game would release if not rushed.

Is this an idyllic scenario? No, but it is a pretty good scenario compared to what could've happened.
I heard that reading is very dangerous. Reading allows people to for example learn how to build bio weapons. In addition, reading can spread ideas that are dangerous. Many people have died because they were influenced by what they read.

It would be much safer if reading were strictly controlled. The companies would have “reading as a service” where regular people could bring their books to have them read. The reader would ensure that the book aligns with the ethics of the company and would refuse to read any work that either does. It align with their ethics or teaches people anything dangerous (like chemistry or physics which can be used to build bombs and other weapons).
Neural networks are universal function approximators, transformers are universal sequence to sequence approximators. Crucially, the sequences here are the stream tokens in an LLM. This means an LLM can do arbitrary language manipulation.

If the reasoning task requires something that can't be done using language manipulation in embeddings-space, it won't be able to do it.

Idk, maybe my mathematical intuition is wrong, but it seems obvious to me that if all you have is a function on a vector (representing a token stream), then the only transformations you can create are ones that can be expressed in that vector space. In other words, if you express a problem in a more complicated space (e.g. a visual problem, or an abstract algebra problem), you will not be able to solve it in the smaller token space, there's not enough information. You COULD first transform the vector into a different representation, perform the transformation there, and then encode back.

This step would have to be different for every reasoning problem, so the underlying transformation to solution space would have to be generic and move into one of N reasoning subsystems.

Also, if we hypothetically assume this limitation doesn't exist, we would still have the issue that a trained LLM represents a single such transformation function.

If we want generic reasoning skills, the approximated function would have to be different for every reasoning problem. Even if we use a subset of the vectors degrees of freedoms to express each type of reasoning, it would make any truly reasoning LLM computationally intractable, because the embeddings space would blow up.
There are few if any ways to do voluntary software development. At least not for a charity org. Few of them need software work and of those that do it's really hard to just bring in volunteers have them do something useful. Probably the best thing you can do is just work on useful open source.
> I also don't understand the US practice of not including relevant sales tax charges in the cost of a good.

Here in Canada too, but I don't mind. When I feel the pain in my wallet, I want to know where to direct my bitterness. Credit card processing fees should be broken out too IMO.
VSCodium is VSCode without the extensions ecosystem that people love.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Calvin

> Graduating with a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 2003, she began post-graduate work in cybernetics, learning to construct positronic brains such that responses to given stimuli could be accurately predicted. She joined US Robots in 2008 as their first Robopsychologist, having earned her PhD. By 2029, when she left Earth for the first time to visit Hyper Base, her formal title was Head Psychologist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robopsychology
No. I don't think anyone seriously believes that. AGI requires human level reasoning and it hasn't achieved that, despite what benchmarks show (they tend to focus on "how many did it get right" more than "how many did it fail in stupid ways").

The issue with most criticism of LLMs wrt AGI is that they come up with totally bogus reasons why it isn't and can't ever be real intelligence.

It's just predicting the next word. It's a stochastic parrot. It's only repeating stuff it has been trained on. It doesn't have quantum microtubules. It can't really reason. It has some failure modes that humans don't. It can't do <some difficult task that most humans can't do>.

Seems to be mostly people feeling threatened. Very tedious.
It actually does run reasonably on a Mac if you run it under crossover with a patched DLL [1]. Even with the overhead of multiple translation layers I’ve seen people hit 30fps as a baseline. Not saying that’s great by any means, but it’s got three translation layers at that point.

Importantly, the game is largely CPU bound and that is something that the Macs are really good at. The game is really bad at taking advantage of high end GPUs but it actually scales reasonably as you go down the tiers precisely because it’s so bad at using the GPU. And yes I know it currently has bugs and comical oversights that thrash the GPU, but it does so pretty equally, seemingly responding better to more VRAM (which makes sense given the nature of their inefficiencies)

I’d also push back on the “anemic” wording. A base M series Mac is probably the best iGPU performance vs Intel/amd iGPUs. And the higher end MBPs (not accounting for value) are very performance competitive against similar form factor laptops. Where they fall behind is when you start comparing against larger desktop replacement laptops or on the desktop end against the top end GPUs. But I wouldn’t call them anemic by any stretch of the imagination either.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming has a surprising number of people you can see messing around with running ports natively. I wouldn’t get a Mac for the express purpose of gaming but they are reasonably capable, and largely held back by lack of software not hardware.

[1] https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky/discussions/560#discuss...
This isn't correct. A few weeks ago it started stopping me in FF with uBO running.
How would you know what an unnecessary fee is? No one goes around and examines the taxes applicable at every business they patronize.

The amount of money coming out of your pocket is the only number worth caring about. The rest is for government auditors to worry about.
> I click on the file and "open with handbrake" and press "convert". I can't imagine how anything night be faster.

I use both. One thing I prefer about ffmpeg is that I prefer it when I'm being a control freak.

Basically, if I'm encoding a lot of videos, I will sometimes fail to notice that some box has been ticked in Handbrake, that will screw up my encode. In particular, Handbrake always defaults to resizing my videos, 100% of the time, and I always have to turn that off manually. If I fail to do that, it will resize my videos and I'll end up wasting an hour doing encodes, or 3-4 hours if I'm using CPU instead of GPU.
The only thing worse for a company than burning customers who might choose not buy their next product is if they fold before having the opportunity to release another product.

Early in my career I was a minor participant in discussions like this (albeit not in the video game space) and no one was in denial about the massive reputational cost of prematurely releasing buggy software, they were just balancing it against the increasing probability of bankruptcy.

Established companies with deep pockets and startups with shoestring development teams and patient investors might be able to weather a delay of six months or more, but most companies don't have that kind of runway and must constantly weigh the bottomless desire for more time to polish and the need for cashflow to make payroll.

(Thankfully the last couple companies I've worked for have had deep pockets and a strong desire to protect their reputations, but I appreciate that this is a privileged position.)
just pay for premium, it's like $10 a month
I remember VLC (the video player) having an output option for playing a video as ascii art. I could actually recognize some of the items in the scene.
> and will happily tell you to go pound sound if you try to argue about it!

Perhaps it's better to leave a review about deceptive pricing on Google Maps, TripAdvisor, etc.
The point is that you're not changing the interface to the system, but you're changing implementation details that don't affect the interface semantics. TDD does lead you to a sort of coupling to implementation details, which results in breaking a lot of unit tests if you change those implementation details. What this yields is either hesitancy to undertake positive refactorings because you have to either update all of those tests or just delete them altogether, so were those tests really useful to begin with? The point is that it's apparently wasted work and possibly an active impediment to positive change, and I haven't seen much discussion around avoiding this outcome, or what to do about it.
you could refer to the Motor vehicle fatality rate in U.S. by year as a proxy.

In 1985, before airbags etc: 2.5 deaths per 100 million miles travelled.

In 2000, after airbags: 1.5 deaths per 100 million miles travelled.

After 2010, with extra safety systems: Around 1.1 deaths per 100 million miles travelled.
> Companies must have a strong reason, hopefully with some data to back it up

This isn't how companies or indeed people work. Most decisions are made emotionally while trying to find data to back up what one already believes. This is especially true when we have bought into the idea of an army of professional managers who are neither any good at the actual work nor management not because this is a useful social organization but because it provides a useful justification to reinforce the existing stratification of society.

We bless folks who prove they have enough money to earn a potentially useless degree with a position in the social hierarchy that befits them.
Imagine cheering and thanking the US for a ceasefire in Vietnam without sending anyone home
> If you like a product and want it to be available long term, you would want it to be a self sustaining business, not a cash bonfire.

He doesn’t want the product at the current price. It’s a bad value for him.

You’re requiring the consumer to want management’s goal. But product survival is not a buyer’s goal. The buyer has limited money, and wants his own profitability.
It appears to be proprietary.
That's precisely what I meant by "whether it ever gets implemented is up to policymakers."

The central banks, though, are the ones who actually implement the mechanics of the CBDC, even though policymakers are the ones who authorize it. And it's likely that unless policymakers are especially wonkish about those implementation details, they will defer to the central bank's research and recommendations, in terms of how it should be implemented, once the policymakers have decided that they want the central bank to introduce a CBDC.
Definitely a scam, stop being naive or a bootlicker!

If you draw a curve (likely bell shaped) of employee performance, there is high probability that those on lower half will be severely pressured into to taking PTOs (if they are self aware that is). this wont be compensated by employees on performing half.

In fact likely the way this would be used is most people will be overloaded with work under the pretense that its normal amount of work (i.e.. counting in PTO time) & those who fail to meet obligations and take PTOs will be dinged/let-go in reviews. the fact the you get accounting & tracking benefits is just a nice icing on cake.

its time to call a spade a spade.
I sometimes wonder if NASA has a dedicated team paid just to "debunk" people who claim that Moon landing is faked.

Nearly every comment I leave about it gets a (rather poorly constructed) reply.

EDIT:

After leaving a recent reply and getting negative karma on several other unrelated comments in like 5 minutes, I can confirm with high probability that my assertion above is correct. Thank you NASA!

Parroting how "conspiracy makes no sense" is dellusional at best:
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie-1/

Just explain to me how the USA managed to fund two large foreign wars and a bunch of expensive Moon landing missions at the same time, but now it's too expensive? You can't.
That’s how you run out of runway.
A superset of Terraform 1.5. Terraform 1.6 has features that OpenTofu does not have.
It may be rare, but it absolutely does happen. https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article279873...
Nice that you must have an absolutely baller system to play it on. Most aren't so lucky
> Under-appreciated: not wearing shoes all day.

For me it's regularly putting my feet up, standing up to stretch, and looking out of the window into the distance for a few minutes.

You know, just some things you should absolutely do if you value your health. And yet, having coworkers around tends to guilt you into not doing them.
I've heard the licenses Meta releases its AI models under described as "open access", to differentiate them from the stricter "open source" definition.
FYI many items in Safeway are not taxable, due to the exclusion for certain types of food (grocery, not restaurant).
There's a couple paper plants, not sure if you'll call that "considerable".

Software there is growing but mostly as consulting. Also b/c of the tax breaks companies are incorporated there, but people works elsewhere.

On the cloud side if someone needs edge stuff they use Buenos Aires or Sao Paulo in AWS. There's no region in Uruguay
Indeed...it seems to me that Google is doing the right thing here. They’re protecting me from a site that anyone can use to link to malware. Working as intended.
Yeah, but why are hotels not forced to include these taxes in the price?

They could, but choose not to.
Interactive Common Lisp development
Not saying that it is the way it should be, but what did exactly this guy expect for the exclusive price of $69.99 (current price on Amazon), what makes this news?

You get what you pay for (and in the world of "smart" things, you don't even get what you pay for - I would expect many guys in the industry to have realized it).
This is the sort of thing, we have to have an adult in the room.

When complex, confusing pricing structures exist.. fiddling with them becomes a salesman / marketers main tool. It's what they do everyday, how they operate, the wins bring to the table.

These are the knobs that they twiddle, and have for decades been producing reports quantifying the value of their work. They are now panicking, that they won't know how to do their job.. and reporting to CEOs that profits/sales in all those reports will disappear.

Irl, this is pulling a Band-Aid. You could make all service charges illegal, from cafes to airlines.. and the industries we'll have forgotten about it within weeks or months.
What is your concern exactly?

This was a first-pass study in a field addressing some of the criticisms leveraged against an earlier study where the spatial reasoning problems were viewed to be too hard. They seemingly made the spatial reasoning questions as easy as they could.

The qualifications they put on MTurk are pretty standard if you want humans who care about what they are doing responding to your study. It costs more to do this.

It is a limitation of science that is both budgetary and procedural.

By calling into question their results you seem to be suggesting that an average human would only 33% of the time be able to tell e.g. how many points are inside a box, or whether more points are inside or outside of a box. This is extremely basic spatial reasoning we are talking about.

The problem they were addressing with the settings is just noise in the results by cheap bots and clicky humans trying to earn $0.50. It is endemic on MTurk.
EU perspective: i work remotely in a german company, and my salary is way higher than the top engineer/engineering manager/director of engineer salaries in my country.
There is no office/commute/etc debate for me, more like if i had to work to a local company i would need to take a massive salary cut. Hence I will try to work remotely as much as possible.
I used this in college around 6 years ago to render my animation for the computing course.

Thanks for the reminder!
> This is criminal! Who will be held responsible if my kid gets assaulted in the flight?

I was with you until you went off the deep end here.
HTML5 Canvas Clock Clean
If anyone is interested, I am trying to bring back the spirit of Flash with a project to build animated websites with Adobe Illustrator. See svija.com for details.
A 30-Year Trap: The Problem with America's Weird Mortgages
Human Trafficking's Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims into Cyberscamming (2022)
They didn't use an x, they used a hyphen.
> I began megadosing 4-5000 IUs daily

That reads as "four to five thousand IUs."
> At some point AI becomes [...] legal/compliance

AI safety and ethics is not "done". Just like these large companies have large teams working on algorithmic R&D, there is still work to be done in the direction of what AI safety and ethics means, looks like ot can be attached to other systems. It's not, well shouldn't be, about bullshit PR pronouncements.
My experience with this was front page material a while ago - the linked article contains info on how I dealt with it and preventive measures (that you are probably too late to implement now)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802366
I don’t mind the office, but I do mind that without remote work I cannot work for a company located in Berlin while living on the other side of the country (e.g., Düsseldorf).
Been waiting for years. Ended up ordering a hybrid maverick. Also been waiting about a year.

Near impossible to buy a SENSIBLY sized truck. Every other truck on the market is an (expletive) monster truck. Even the ranger seems 2x bigger than it was in 90s.

Make trucks smaller.
https://archive.ph/zaquI
the (implied) social contract around volunteering is "everything" .. here in California I was bluntly told by my Japanese colleague "never volunteer, you are being taken advantage of"

true to his words, the only volunteer contact I got with that guy later was to be an usher at an exclusive dot-com event in San Francisco, pre-covid.. I did do it to hear the speakers, and lo-and-behold, the organizers mostly thought of the volunteers as worthless suckers.. you could see it. And, volunteers got the 'show up on time' authority talk from a typical hotel-worker-manager type, too! awful
I hate the summer time daytime thing as well and I live in the west. Just keep summer time all the time.
I don't understand how this isn't considered fraud.

A reasonable person would look at the price on a menu and conclude that this is the price that they will be paying.

And no an asterisk and a tiny piece of writing somewhere does not make this not fraud.
ZIRP is in the past. We've seen a lot of outfall from this already.
So 7-9 hours of sleep, 2.5-5 hours of moderate physical activity if you are healthy and not require more sleep or activity for chronic conditions. 8-9.4 hours that a software engineer (in games) is expected to be at a screen which bossware tracks. Plus an hour for lunch, which is kind of throwaway. All together, that makes 18.5-24.4 hours a day.

But where do you fit other adult responsibilities, chores, social life, spiritual life, self-care, entertainment, learning, hobbies, intellectual pursuits, and other things? Where do you fit your commute, shopping, and kids - the non-negotiables? So something has to give. Sleep or exercise, right? Perhaps this is why we're all so unhealthy?
Quite a few of these "opportunities" are asking a LOT of volunteers, implicitly asking for unpaid labor. These are not your typical "volunteer a few hours a week helping fix up a school/sorting at a food bank/helping the homeless" to give back to your community.

Look at this[1] particular ask:

> Applicants must be available to work a minimum of 32 hours per week.

> [minimum 3 month commitment with possibility to extend to a year] ... Weekend and holiday work is required.

> shovel snow for extended periods of time, hike-ski-snowshoe in extreme weather conditions with a 35-pound backpack at 7,000ft, live in remote locations with regularly snow packed roads.

> Groceries and shopping facilities are approximately 60 miles away; reliable personal transportation is required.

[1] https://www.volunteer.gov/s/volunteer-opportunity/a093d00000...