skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is how they got the tobacco companies to pay damages

I'm not against this, but consider that those damages are future unknown liabilities from when the product was first sold.

Do we really think that southern tobacco farmers or how ever far back the tobacco industry really goes, there was a forethought about the potential harm? I'd wager no, they saw a market for a product that people liked at the time I'd wager the entire idea of addiction was hardly understood when the industry started. From my historical knowledge addiction as a form of profit was first discovered by the East India Trading company as it was the first entity to trade opium to the Chinese, which by the way literally kept the English Monarchy from going bankrupt(more of a factoid then a piece relevant to my response).

My overall point is, we discover some harms because of scale or after long periods of time both of which are future liabilities. The discussion is WHEN we discover these harms at scale how do we handle them. Emergent harm is a society level issue, but for many products it's almost beyond a secondary or tertiary effect.

> I think at the least it's a matter of truth in advertising if you're aware of common negative side effects your product has and you don't disclose them. It's dishonest.

This isn't something I outright disagree with however the solution is one of incentive. It's clear that in the game of future liabilities for products as I think we can agree societal level harm is typically the more costly one both from a bottom line standpoint and from a human health or human harm standpoint.

The incentive here is pretty obvious sounding the alarm of harm is not in the interest of anyone profiting on it.
There should be a legal avenue required for shutting down peoples' accounts introduced along with privacy controls. Google, Apple, and some of the other OAuth providers control almost all of peoples' online livelihoods.
And e.g. a few scientists, politicians and random civillians. And I'm not sure it's according to international law to assassin even "enemy" officers.

But who cares, right?
I work for a big tech co and I have been involved in defining our hiring process for ML Engineers for the last couple of years.

Right now the loop to hire ML Engineers is the same as Software Engineers, swapping one coding round for one ML round. The content of this ML round is highly debated, although most interviewers seem to do a ML knowledge quiz type round (these are often conducted by data or research scientists).

From my experience we mostly get two kind of candidates:

a) People from academia, with masters or PhDs in ML.

b) developers who built a ML model in the last job and are trying to transition by jumping companies.

So far finding people who excel at both things have been really really hard.

Then there is the whole thing about whether we should test people for ML expertise, and the best way to do it. My personal opinion is that I prefer to hire strong engineers and then have them learn on the job. A general pushback I receive from hiring managers about this is that they have no ML knowledge whatsoever in their team, and they need to hire experts to get going. Which then raises the fun chicken-and-egg problem of how do you hire experts in a field that you know nothing about.

TL;DR What are AI engineers? My take is no one has a fucking clue.
I think it's CRUD endpoints all the way down 95% of the time unfortunately. I'm not sure how old you are, but early in my career I jumped around a lot feeling the same way and that if I could find a company or technology that I was passionate about, I would be less bored, less burned out, happier, etc...

Overall what I've found is that the things I find interesting and enjoy working on in an engineering capacity almost have 0 overlap with things that will make money or turn into a business of some kind. Instead of continuing my search to find the perfect balance of company mission statement, interesting technology, competent and friendly coworkers (culture), and pay, I optimize for trying to get at least 2 out of 4 of these, if I can get 3 it means it's a great fit for me. Of these, company culture has made the biggest impact on my overall happiness.

There is some truth that joining a smaller company or a startup to wear multiple hats can fix this somewhat, but I would advise against doing this unless you either really strongly believe in whatever the company is doing, or really strongly want to learn something you feel is only possible to learn at that company. Otherwise you will end up working 60 hour weeks making CRUD endpoints for someone panicking about how to raise the next round of funding or get to the goal of the month that the investors have said is important now.

Until you find some field or area of technology that lights your hair on fire in excitement, keep CRUDing my friend. Realize that you are exchanging your time for money at your job and treat it as such. Save the interesting things for your personal time or if you believe strongly enough in it, start your own company and have someone else CRUD for you ;)
> I just had to skip over all the parts about entering your code into punch cards

Haha I bet that was a fun and weird experience.
What does Apple have a monopoly on?
A lot of your arguements seem to hinge on "if". "If a tractor-trailor converts to electric" and "if infrastructure is built to support it" and "if we fund infrastructure from something other than fuel taxes" and "if truckers recharge off-peak" and "if chargers have a stationary battery" and...

The more conditionals that get levied the farther off the solution seems to be and the less of a slam dunk electrification appears. They're solvable, but I think it's reasonable to expect a cost and timeline for each of those before we start touting electrification as a great solution just on the horizon.

The original claim was: out of planes, trains, and automobiles, the only one that's a problem are planes.

Short answer: It's solvable, but a heck of a lot more complicated than that statement lets on.
Considering the opposite is called a "variable-length tuple", and I wanted to express that I'm talking about arbitrary tuples with non-variable length, what wording would have made this clearer?
I don't believe that they do, in fact, it is probably trivial to make a fake WorldCoin identity, but people who support WorldCoin largely support it on the assumption that this is not possible.
Man, I didn't realise HTTP alternatives were so serious.
Toyota advert banned for showing pick-up truck convoy driving through river
I sometimes eat meat (chicken) and feel really good, but I alternate with rice and fruits. Fruits require exercise outdoor, that's where they work well, fruits indoor all day is not good from my xp
As a point of reference, Go was considered “safe to expose to the internet” in 2016, and I’d really like Rust to be in the same position: https://blog.cloudflare.com/exposing-go-on-the-internet/
If the pay difference is only 8% then on average we're probably only talking about a superficial experience difference. $800k, on the other hand, is probably actual researchers who understand the underlying math and aren't just gluing API calls together.
> commentary online and on podcasts

:/
For a second or two I've read 9B, like OK a bit bigger sum than usual but this is fight about core of their business (screw everybody while they can since people generally don't like dying or suffering).

9M is peanuts, it may give you few votes on a matter or two but it doesn't move the big picture a bit.
Training of 1T Parameter Scientific AI Begins
When asked to review something, I like to use a version of Brené Brown's question, "What does support look like?"

I can rubber-stamp, LGTM, proof-read, rip to shreds, etc. You tell me what you want.
Harsh Realities for Plant Based Meat Movement
I am convinced we are doomed, but still would like humanity to try something to mitigate the amount of hellfire that is going to rain on us in the not so distant future.
Sounds like a neat set up! I've got the Volca Sample for the beats. Does audio go from Drum to Freak to headphones; and does the Freak control clock for the two?
Is primary OS a dealbreaker for you (when taking a new job)?
I've had to switch to a different OS (on my dev machine) for my latest job.

I've primarily used Macs as a data engineer, but recently switched to Windows since that is what the rest of my team uses at my current job. The company I work for does support macs, but it is a small percentage of engineers.

I know this is a very nuanced conversation. In an ideal world, you should be able to choose which ever OS works best for you.

That said, I've typically taken the approach of "use whichever OS the rest of the team is using" since it isn't worth the battle of rewriting all the team-specific setup scripts for your given tech stack and development OS.

I wouldn't say Windows has been a "terrible" experience thanks to WSL2, but it has prevented me from using my standard suite of tools (clipboard manager, note taking app, etc.) that I am used to using.

I'll likely prioritize macOS over Windows going forward in my career due to my most recent experience but wouldn't go as far as calling it a dealbreaker.

I should probably reiterate: my goal of this post is to discuss "is primary OS a deal breaker for you" and not "which OS is the best."
I don’t know many software developers that are OK using AGPL software. The license will infect all products that someone may try to go build even if it doesn’t compete.
I tried it for many months but their web UI is super slow.
The Unsettling Lesson of the OpenAI Mess
I am not sure but Sam Altman is probably the next Steve Jobs. One of the greatest CEO of our generation.
More like "Privacy destruction and flagrant disrespect for users in the name of slurping up as much personally identifiable data as possible that you have no right to have or see is bad."
yeah, it's not even a job well done the way it's done. usually more power tripping above all else. the security theatrics of TSA should be gutted to be honest. I remember flying into the US in the 80s, that was a treat. Very different times.
Plus an additional 25% off if you're upgrading from v1, which I did today.
IMO:

If the comment is a quality comment, I don't care if the poster used AI, if its a low-quality or inappropriate comment (and a summary of the existing comments counts), then downvote or, for egregious cases, flag it.
50% off https://netwrck.com which is an AI Art Generator/Chatbot platform
Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building an Effective Board of Directors
You won't like the answer, but perhaps your search will be simplified if you generalize the problem: https://xkcd.com/2055/.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

If you know more than others, that's great, but in that case please share some of what you know—without putdowns or snark—so the rest of us can learn.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It could be that the parties involved have chosen at this moment to re-imagine whatever occurred back then in a less favorable light. Since firing is on everyone's mind, and since you can get media attention points by playing along with a juicy narrative, what might have just been described as a disagreement in the past might now be called a firing. I would be skeptical of takes like this.
RedHat and a couple other companies will sell you OpenStack clusters, up to a certain size.
The symptoms described in the article are not actually those of Asperger's; they are more closely related to sociopathy.
and how can you tell they reason and not parrot some text in training data?

There are papers about trying LLMs on generated reasoning problems, and they usually fail.
'Only a Sith deals in absolutes'

- Obi Wan to Anakin
Why would an American company need China's go-ahead to acquire another American company's American subsidiary?
How would this affect you if you are using Github as a OAuth provider? Does Github mention under what conditions they are going to take away someone's username? No code? No OAuth? No activity?
Same here, not sure if they still list it but GitHub had a name-squatting policy on their site, and after referencing that in an email to support, requesting a username of someone who only had a handful of repos about 8 years ago, they released the username to the public so I could switch to it.
Did you actually do what you were suspected of doing?

Edit: the reason I ask is not simple curiosity, but to clarify your remarks, specifically, "It worked fine," by which I assume you mean, you did not ultimately get convicted of the suspected crime. If you are an entirely innocent party, it would seem unlikely that something you could have said would incriminate yourself (plus you probably have some other exculpatory evidence). The only reason your silence in the car "worked fine" would be if you avoided making statements that would signal your guilt.
>Back in the day we just used to say life isn't fair

That's why back in the day sucked.
>an industry that large

For perspective, weren't the sales from one drug just in the US alone enough the boost the entire economy of Denmark?
I spent several years trying to figure this out and I did not keep track of my sources because it was a personal interest, not an "argument" I was trying to make. But here is pg talking about Jessica Livingston and YC:

YC had 4 founders. Jessica and I decided one night to start it, and the next day we recruited my friends Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell. Jessica and I ran YC day to day, and Robert and Trevor read applications and did interviews with us.

Jessica and I were already dating when we started YC. At first we tried to act "professional" about this, meaning we tried to conceal it.

http://www.paulgraham.com/jessica.html

Note: That's from November 2015. I originally joined in July 2009 and the company dates to something like 2007.
Is that pre or post IP filter attempted spam?

Or what I'm saying is, if the SMTP server blocks by IP first before determining what mail is being delivered then the actual rate of potential spam to any particular email address is not being discovered.
> I know the value of my shares will go up with him.

I haven't followed the situation as closely as others, but it does seem like board structured to not have 7 figure cheques to undermine safety incentive seemingly willing to let openAI burn out of dogma. Employees want their 7 figure cheques, their interests aligned with larger powers with 10 figures on the line. Reporting so far have felt biased accordingly.
Lots of good stuff here. It would come through cleaner with a measured tone.

> Is America some God given land that is not to be touched?

Yes, to Americans, obviously.

> CIA has been involved in offing plenty Indian Nuclear scientists

Got it, a CIA operative went on the record with a Hong Kong newspaper to out a conspiracy that nobody in New Delhi bothered to notice.

> India has always been on the right side of history and history will judge us positively for that

This is common to hear in India. It is, obviously, wrong—no people or even person can say this universally. But it’s also dangerous. Because it’s an attitude that tends to precede a predictable path of politics that accompanies a loss of honest introspection. (If you’ve always been right, no need to interrogate the past.)
You are talking about something different.
> the point of the article is that you don't have to pay for the stuff you don't need.

I kind of don't get this attitude, TBH. A bad register allocation decision could cost 5% in the wrong circumstance, yet no one is suggesting reintroducing the register keyword, and rarely do they drop down to asm to get it. But as soon as the cost is for "safety" they're hell-bent on getting rid of it. Wth.
I thought only neutrinos could do this?
Runway Television
Yes, absolutely. I cannot do my job properly using Windows as it's been so long since I've used it and it tends to fight against a lot of the Unix paradigms I'm used to and need for containers and cloud engineering. Also, now that I've used an M1 Mac I also could not deal with the battery life on other machines
In a lot of cases the libraries are developed by researchers and academics in physics, engineering, biology, and other sciences. Having a huge pool of CS graduates isn't very helpful, except for the subset getting Phds in one of those other fields.
Ok, but Free Software has also failed at the stated goals—we still have no control over the software we use even if it's copyleft software backing it. This is a useless comment.
Most scrapers search for anchor tags. So a span with the aria role=link could work too. This will also keep accessibility. Because I'm not shure what a screenreader will read for the encoded E-Mail.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...
>which is less than what slaves in mid 19th century's America earned.

slaves aren't paid
Gift article link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-22/openai-st...
I've fired people and later recommended them for jobs where they'd be a better fit. Not uncommon at all.
> Warned that firing Altman could destroy OpenAI, Helen Toner, one of the board’s members, replied, “That would actually be consistent with the mission.”

Too bad it failed.
I would recommend Pop OS as a distro that just works. You don’t have to configure anything, and the built in pop shop meets all my software needs.
Did you miss the context of the image in that tweet? It's the famous "I have a particular set of skills..." speech from Taken: https://youtu.be/jZOywn1qArI

In other words, he's basically saying Sam is the best in the world at being a ruthless mofo in these situations and obliterating those who oppose him. "Admiring language", perhaps, but I wouldn't really call that "supportive language".
Sounds like hiarchial softmax from the early NLP days
FTX is kind of a special case, but yes: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/technology/crypto-collaps...
Thank you for the advice. I will do that in the future.
And then also:

Board Member Orientation: The Concise and Complete Guide to Nonprofit Board Service

https://www.amazon.com/Board-Member-Orientation-Complete-Non...
Dealing with Failures and Postmortems
I guess another place that's especially apparent is film budgets. Very expensive films are going for a chance of a huge payout. A film studio, or its investors, might very well prefer a 50% chance of a $5,000,000 profit on a $20,000,000 budget than a 70% chance of a $500,000 profit on a $500,000 budget.
Scurvy!
And this is another reason why managers growing their fiefdom to make big teams is bad for the organization.

Most of the most successful projects and incredible feats of engineering happen by tiny teams full of very talented people NOT a 4-layer management pyramid of people who are here for a nice stable 9-5. Not to say you can’t be successful with WLB but you need a certain fire in your gut and a hunger to execute as a small and efficient team.
What issues do you have with it?

I do really like that they're able to improve on the product with firmware updates. One of the benefits of software-controlled oscillators.

I'd love it if they'd open it up with an SDK like Korg's Logue series.
"Your actions speak so loud we can't hear what you say" - Jim Harbaugh
How would you define "new best HW"? Seems challenging, particularly if it's for generation N+1 ML models that haven't been created yet. Also, while there is work underway to use ML models to guide HW design, it's not clear to me that the best ML models for that == the best ML models for more general purpose tasks in audio, visual, and natural language processing, i.e. is HW circuit design done using transformers? What are the inputs, latent space, and outputs?

GPU development seems driven by more general computational principles that might be summed up glibly as "We're hitting fundamental physics limits for single-core processors, what is the maximum amount of data we can move per second through the maximum number of cores?" Perhaps there is a way to extend this with a view toward the challenges of current ML model training and inference, but I imagine trying to approach it as a black-box optimization problem could be quite difficult.
I wouldn't shake my hand with some of the best in the world. Why so damning? Heck we didn't even define in what they are best in, could be contract killing or lying for example (not applying to the actual topic and person, just generic statements).

More to the point, some people are natural leaders, they can process many stressful complex situations in parallel without breaking a sweat. I know I can't, not long term, all the kudos to them.

At least some of them are also amoral a-holes, highly functioning sociopaths (these get more common the more power and money floats around till they become the norm).
Jack Dangermond
> Have you coded the lexer/parser from scratch

Yes. Here is the lexer: https://github.com/rochus-keller/BUSY/blob/main/bslex.c

and here is the parser: https://github.com/rochus-keller/BUSY/blob/main/bsparser.c

and here is the language specification: http://software.rochus-keller.ch/busy_spec.html

I also developed and checked the EBNF in parallel using my EbnfStudio tool; this tool could also generate a parser, but since I'm using much of the Lua VM infrastructure a manual parser implementation was more straight-forward .
Azure runs on basically hyper-v I hear (which would make sense, right?), so it can't be that bad?
> you should also shy away from features if you do not really need them

>Learn those and you'll mostly good to go.

I wasn't really talking about "fancy" features of git, like rebasing history to try to make your history pretty or using things like git bisect. You need to develop basic understanding of git internals, even in the most basic workflow.

I would argue that your list of commands is not in any way complete for being "mostly good to go". At the minimum, you also need to know `git clone`, `git push`, `git pull`, `git fetch`, `git diff`, `git log`, `git blame`, and `git reset` as well. You need to save progress on your current feature branch to context switch to review some PR or analyze some production bug, well add `git stash` to the list. Your boss asked you to hotfix your recent commits onto the release branch? Better not forget `git cherry-pick`.

That brings us to 17 commands (up from the 7 you listed). Fine, it is still a finite number. Can you at least use them as a black box without bothering about the internals? NOPE. You also have to learn a lot of concepts to even understand the help and error messages for these commands - the worktree, the index, the stash, HEAD, ours vs theirs, conflicts, remotes, tracking branches.

Besides, so many commands come with their own gotchas (git checkout will happily overwrite your local changes - without any warning). Some have bad defaults, so you need to figure out which of the hundreds of options that command supports to make it do what you actually want (e.g. git log --oneline and git diff -w -b). Still others have overloaded semantics and do two completely different things (git checkout switches branches but also restores files).
How the U.S. financial system props up illegal logging and mining
Ok, not really software, but I'm hoping phind does a last minute BF deal (doubt they'll bother/need to) on their annual $300 offering. I'd swap it for my current $20/mnth openAI subscription.
You shouldn’t be getting your info from Brett Weinstein.
Amazon sold me a drive and it came with data