skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you projecting your own need to have others think you are good? I can assure you I have no need to make strangers think I'm good.

The point I was making was that it is possible to know, and acknowledge, that you are doing something that has negative impact without having to deny reality. I don't think anything is gained by departing from what observed reality tells us and turning the discussion into a moral discussion. When something becomes a moral discussion it stops being about solving problems and it becomes a spectacle where assholes unashamedly pleasure themselves in public and expect applause. It solves nothing.
I use ChatGPT multiple times a day every day. It has mostly replaced search for me and enables rapid problem-solving and research.
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(obvious throwaway account) I had a similar experience in Amazon, ngl the thing about "precendent caching" is real. People have to be put on PIP regardless of performance so management set crazy standards that people will fail.
BBC BASIC remains a remarkable learning tool, and now it's available everywhere
I use it multiple times per week, more than I use Instagram and most other apps.
Of course, the one having to do hour long commutes in personal tin can has it worse.
small apartment + not driving anywhere is much better
And don’t you end up with hire-to-fire practices as a result of this? Hire a lame employee just so they can be the one on the chopping block; preserving your actual valuable team members?
To be honest I extracted only one useful piece of information here.

"No particular comment on that unfortunate leak"

The word unfortunate for me sounds significant. If it was random noise as so much we heard recently, such a word wouldn't be used and so much emphasis wouldn't be given to this paragraph, right?
Ahh yes, I remember them announcing this. I'm not planning on adding new people to my immediate family so I'm OK for now.

I've used Fastmail in the past and it was a very good experience. Pricing for four people tipped me towards the MS Family plan.
At the time I hadn't, but now I've used the sample image (the one with the fox in the bottle in the snow) to load up the workflow with sdturboscheduler, and it's still about the same time.

Edit: Even thought the UI says sdxl turbo, I notice that the command prompt is saying sdxl.

got prompt
Requested to load SDXLClipModel
Loading 1 new model
Requested to load SDXL
Loading 1 new model
100%|| 1/1 [00:00<00:00, 11.30it/s]
Requested to load AutoencoderKL
Loading 1 new model
Prompt executed in 4.04 seconds
gc collect

Edit 2: More info... I noticed that if I just change the steps, it takes less than a second to generate an image. If I just change the prompt, it takes 3+ seconds. I don't know enough about this to know what that means.
A search for `rg -e foo -e bar` will return lines that match either foo or bar. Some lines may have both, but it isn't required.

The standard way to run "AND" queries is through shell pipelines. That is, `rg foo | rg bar` will only print lines containing both. But composition usually comes with costs. The output reverts to the standard grep format and it doesn't interact nicely with contextual options like -C/--context.

See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/875
That's probably by historical incident. I'm a big advocate of open source design tooling, and I think the reason they haven't taken off as much is because design tools are generally ignored by developers. We spend loads of free time building open source developer tools, but there doesn't seem to be as much excitement as building solutions for the design side.
I'd say PPE is. Getting paid 5k to spend 4k on rent is pretty similar to getting paid 2k and spending 1k on rent (all else being equal).
Those are four long instructions, and there's a chance that you could do better within your desired accuracy bounds by using one of the inverse square root instructions and a round of Newton-Raphson iteration.
The binary structure of an mp4 file of a copyrighted movie also doesn't resemble any work, until you interpret it in a specific way.
Maybe it was that the manager was being pressured to PIP a certain percentage of people, and instead pushed back really hard to retain this person because they wanted to retain them instead. Before spending their political capital, they asked the employee if they were committed to the long haul.

In the end, they went to bat for the author and then ended up in the same place. They could have just PIP'd them with a lot less effort.

The article doesn't make the reason clear, but this seems more likely to me than vesting stock.
Realistically, this is an interview that should never have happened. Giving non answers non-stop isn't that interesting. It's understandable when there are contractual obligations for press availability such as in sports but for a CEO of a company who can just say no (he could have, no?) it makes no sense.
Someone designed unix based on the idea that some system functions are both core OS functions AND tools for human use. That leads to some bizarre outcomes decades later like "there must be a program called xyz that accepts these arguments and works exactly like this".
The U.S. is not really a “modern country”. It’s not fair to compare it to functioning Western European democracies.
I really don't see this as fundamentally different from digital sampling equipment for music that became popular in the 1980s.

Some new technology comes along that repurposes things created by others that allows people to use it as the implements of a new form of art. The digital sampler was used as a musical instrument in its own right - with high variations, skill, and taste applied to the arrangements of other people's copyrighted sounds.

There's a wide variety of opinion on digital sampling and it's really the same thing here. I'd be surprised if a particular person's views on the two are in conflict.
But you can’t argue that a one off really sad rich person has meaning. Nor can you argue that that’s a common occurrence that wouldn’t immediately be lost in the noise.

I’m also unconvinced that obesity is caused by “the economic policies that improve GDP”.
I think it might be stretching the Bitter Lesson a bit to extend it to cover fine-tuning, since the original idea was addressing something very different.

Anyway, even if generalist models are truly better at everything, they’ll never be faster or cheaper than their specialist counterparts, and that matters.
Prosperity gospel is a fringe belief, even among evangelicals. It's definitely real, but the amount of attention it gets on the Internet is disproportionate to its real-world influence. From Wikipedia:

> Mainstream evangelicalism has consistently opposed prosperity theology as heretical[37] and prosperity ministries have frequently come into conflict with other Christian groups, including those within the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements.[39] Critics, such as Evangelical pastor Michael Catt, have argued that prosperity theology has little in common with traditional Christian theology.[83] Prominent evangelical leaders, such as Rick Warren,[9] Ben Witherington III,[9] and Jerry Falwell,[84] have harshly criticized the movement, sometimes denouncing it as heretical.[9]
A contributing factor, but doesn't explain why the USA was pulling ahead years before the Ukraine war.
This is very cool, and I think would have been useful in a project I worked on a couple of years ago where scaling the units in a tool by 1000X surfaced a whole litany of FP accuracy problems. For that application, it would have been really useful to have even just the part of Herbie that reports the accuracy of an expression.

I was interested in how the percentage accuracy metric is computed, but the link from the tutorial was dead. I was wondering if it could be useful to supply a bit more information. The example I was thinking of is linked from the math.js complex sqrt example, where the fastest version is rated more accurate than the original, because it avoids some catastrophic cancellation, but does not even use all the inputs to the problem. (Maybe that's not as bad as it sounds? I didn't get deep into the FP semantics but on the surface it sounded like something you'd be unhappy about if you blindly copy-and-pasted it into your product or library.) It seemed like % accuracy was hiding an important property that you might want to know about, which once you got into the details, you'd have an "aha, but no thanks" moment about. I'm not sure what metrics would make that clearer at an earlier point, but it's sort of an interesting problem.

Another question -- I see that you can restrict the ranges of the inputs to get improved answers. Another very common fact you might know about an expression is that one input is expected to be much larger than the other. Could Herbie take that as another assumption, and could it help? Maybe as a suggestion as to what ratios between inputs are most important when evaluating accuracy, or as a runtime test to break it into cases? Which it looks like you are already doing for ranges of specific variables (I guess the search space increases pretty fast when you start considering relationships between the inputs.)

Very cool work -- both esoteric and practical all at once!
I agree with people saying the app wasn't "all that"... But even it was the greatest thing since the iPhone, I don't see Apple nor Google giving them anything. If MSFT were still in the smart phone game however...
That's really nice, thanks. Long ago there was the Google Desktop Search where you could 'Google' your local documents. But the difference is that that worked with an index, so I imagine it's faster if you have thousands of pdfs en epubs.
Everyone should read "Superintelligence". OpenAI is rushing towards a truly terrifying outcome that in most scenarios includes the extinction of the human species.
Well, the trick is, a surefire way to make voters angry in large part of the continents (or, well, large part of France anyway) it so put "Constitution" and "Europe" in the same sentence - so there is not much of a place to enshrine that at the EU level.

Besides, every member state's constitution probably already has a variant of "privacy is a fundamental right except in cases defined by law".

I will argue that we _definitely do_ want cases where privacy is not 100% respected (sadly, "investigating crime" is not always a red herring, newspeak, lobbying propaganda, etc...

People really do that for a living, and in the common interest.)

In the end, it will always be a policymaker's job to draw the lines.

What I would love to enshrine in a constitution is that "People shall choose policymakers wisely.". But I'm not sure of how to enforce that :/
AI-augmented AI researchers find sparks of life in novel self-replicating AI architectures and discover humanity's true soulmate The world has to collectively decide to shift compute towards this new, power-hungry paradigm and willingly sacrifice advanced automation in order to find itself again.
> 100 GB of weights don't resemble any work

I don't think that argument has a lot of weight. By the same logic a zip file of a book doesn't resemble the original work if you look at the raw bytes but you can extract it and get it back. It would be hard to argue that the copyright violation happens only when you extract the zip, and not, say, if you distribute the archive.
Lenovo t14s g2 at home

2021 14" mac m1 pro at work
Unless they team up of course
Does Odin have support for async/concurrency ?
i was given the option to take 1 month PIP or take 1 month severance. I took severance but not quite sure why they offered me pip. I am guessing something do with unemployment benefits?
I would never trust the output from it to use it as a search.

But for quickly creating some template when i want to write a big report or email for something, then yes it's very useful.
How is this relevant? Once I had an appointment with a mechanic for regular maintenance but my oil pump started causing issues after the appointment was confirmed but before the appointment date so I got my oil pump fixed too. Is my oil pump not fixed because I had a face to face confirmed with my mechanic a week before the oil pump issues?
Convenient considering their average tenure is less than 2 years.
Time to go amd, poor old me, Intel MB Air 2018 (zsh: exec format error, Darwin Kernel Version 22.2.0, MacOS Ventura 13.1).
Asus Vivoboook F510UA, 2018
I5-8250
24GB RAM
15.6"

Running Ubuntu. They start as 8GB but there's an extra ram slot and I put a 16GB stick in, which helps a little but not as much as upgrading to an SSD did. It's got a 2.5 bay and also an m.2 slot, really cool upgradability.

Currently using a Logitech M650U Bluetooth mouse with it.

Sadly the back is textured, which seems crazy to not be compatible with stickers.
In a few 7 or so hour drives in our ev, charging stops added probably an hour total. For how we drive it actually wasn’t bad at all and the chargers were (almost) all in nice spots where we could grab a coffee and use the restroom. I wish I could squeeze a bit more range out at interstate cruising speed though.
I had a similar situation with a junior dev in our team some time ago. He would only ever contribute a sentence or 2 into any meeting when asked upon, otherwise would be silent.

We discussed it and tried a few things, but ultimately what worked for him was to write down some bullet points about what he wanted to say before a meeting. This gave him time to do the thinking up front and relaxed him greatly.

Turns out he was really quite clever and chatty. It can just be very intimidating to think and talk on the spot amongst a group of experienced peers.
You're absolutely right. I think they are restricting their definition to the closest thing to today's cars: 4-wheeled, enclosed passenger carriages. Not quite fair, as two-wheeled carts, while less luxurious, certainly existed.
I regularly use it for menial tasks and it has almost completely replaced searching documentations of major libraries for me. As a senior developer, it's a productivity gold mine if you learn how to use it correctly. But I wouldn't recommend it to any junior dev, because you need lots of experience to see when it starts hallucinating.
Yeah, I hate sports talk only because I find sports talk incredibly boring.
Someone gave me an added tip to include a tape measure in the shots so you can more easily line up where things are after the wall's closed.
They mostly run on copium these days.
Gee I wonder who ordered the leak ;)

Just more fuel for the hype machine to maintain the valuation
My 1990 Corolla rusted rather. I think the newer ones may have better rust proofing.
Finally, some good name and shame. I hope someone well-funded exposes these people for who they are and turns public opinion against them en masse.
Putting aside the fact that what we call AI today is not learning in the same way as humans. They operate on a VASTLY different scale compared to humans. On a good week I can read a book. A single book. A massively parallelised data centre can do that billions or trillions of times faster. Scale of effect (lacking a better phrase) must be considered.

a rack of equipment does not need to sleep, eat, take care of themselves, earn a living and so on while churning through millions of words a minute. An actual thinking and learning person has to choose what to spend their limited time and money and attention on, while reading at a pace of dozens of words a minute. Those are not the same things at all.
This could just be crazy, given that brick walls may be composed of various types of bricks that break with various numbers of hits and also given that the walls will have various shapes depending on which bricks you break first.

This drastically changes the game in the sense that as a player, you can't decide precisely which bricks of the opponent you break (as opponents move their walls): you have some influence on which one of your bricks you break and you most fundamental goal is to make sure that the ball just bounces against your own paddle/wall to send it back and not lose a life.

And the more you touch the ball with your paddle, the more the paddle's size shrinks (because of all the broken bricks), which contributes to make the game harder for you and might give your adversary some chance to come back.

That's a terrific idea, even without the brickception (just a simple brick-wall-paddle).
No, a PIP is about creating a culture of fear, so that management can PIP anybody with no or manufactured reasons, and control workforce with loss of job.

And it has the double advantage of 'id you leave under PIP, you lose a bunch of money'.

It's 100% about culture of fear and control.
If you're running Roundcube on its own subdomain, you just set the webroot to the "public_html" subfolder and then nothing else is accessible.
I mean the whole point of the “bitter” part is that if you push most people that aren’t convinced of the data hypothesis, they will talk of a belief that there’s “something special” that happens to create intelligence that isn’t just raw number crunching (so to speak). It’s a human bias in how we view social hierarchy and expertise, and ignores the epistemic/biological perspective.

It’s a philosophical position as much as a technical one
I don't know about BTRFS, but with ZFS there's a lot of bad information and assumptions floating around. It's one of my favorite topics to ask AI about because it shows the obvious deficiencies in AI as it regurgitates all the bad info. So when you go to the issue tracker, it seems plausible to me that you're going to find issues where the devs can't explain what's happening because the user(s) might be doing something crazy.

With the exception of a couple people like Jim Salters, I don't take any advice I see about ZFS unless I know the person is a dev or has commits on the project. And most of the time I take the advice I've seen 'ryao' post which is, paraphrased, "use the defaults unless you know what you're tuning". That should go without saying, but there are a lot of armchair "geniuses" posting online about ZFS and they are just guessing.

And, how to you get any new developers if the expectation is an immediate, complete understanding of the system? That just isn't realistic and, in most cases, the dev that knows a little bit probably knows exponentially more than an average user. Interacting on the bug tracker and debugging things they don't completely understand is going to improve their understanding. There's value there.

Things have gotten more complicated too. We aren't using spinning disks without caches any more, right? I can understand a disk from 20 years ago. They're relatively simple. I couldn't tell you the first thing about SSDs or NVMe stuff.

There are going to be bugs. Just be glad the devs acknowledge them and fix them. Personally I still rank ZFS as the least likely to lose my data and I'll keep using it. I put roughly zero value in a forum full of people complaining.
Bingo. Remember, one of the key points of a PIP is to gather documentation. When they sit you down for The Meeting, the 'evidence' is already on record, reducing your leverage should you decide to pursue them legally later for something like wrongful termination. Then, they often dangle a pittance in the form of severance pay if you go ahead and exit right away, of your own free will and volition. This gets even worse if the person is on a H1B.

It's a machine.
The list was great. I have the two partial archives that were once posted. Are there any real archives around? I know one of the concerns was redacting names (even with just initials and no mail paths it is obvious who most people are)
> US cities are also full of homeless people and thugs with guns.

So are big European cities like Amsterdam, London, Paris etc. The only difference is that it's not guns but knifes, machetes, brass knuckles and what not.

Those are just problems of big cities, not some problem unique to the US.
Well, you could just slide a 10-token window over your dataset, and insert those (10-token tuples) into the bloom filter.
In this article, we will discuss how to create a Docker image for a Phoenix application, which is a popular web framework in Elixir.
Why? Latency too big, must be connected to smartphone. A smartwatch imo is much more versatile for cheating, esp those that look like analog watches with physical needles that indicate the hour.
To what end? The public and the employees don’t have a say in the corporate governance. That is the function of the board.

As far as I can tell, the board had no obligation to consult the public or their shareholders or their employees on any of this.
Do you trust the content of the sites Google returns you? Or do you cross verify the content to other sources.

ChatGPT is about as accurate as random websites on the internet, and you don’t get obliterated with ads.

Simple example, ChatGPT will give you a clear recipe for whatever you want, sans life story designed to make you scroll past a million ads.
I think at this point all the major ones do. 1Password Business, LastPass Enterprise, and BitWarden Enterprise all do.

I think the commenter was advising on the use of SSO in lieu of passwords where possible (at least in a corrosive context, but personally I use SSO via Azure AD wherever I can at home too.)
PR damage control
I'm not disputing his complicated legacy, but it seems strange and unjust to me that if he had committed some straight-forward crime, like murdering his wife, we probably wouldn't be talking about his complicated legacy. He would be a politician whose career ended in disgrace.

But we somehow feel compelled to weigh war crimes that lead to the death and suffering of millions against other positive accomplishments as if one justifies the other. We're basically conceding to Kissinger yet again by evaluating his legacy in terms of realpolitik.
LLM Divergence Attack
I'm going to share an unpopular opinion: US engineers are drastically overpaid, living off easy VC money for too long. We're not that much better than our foreign peers (if at all). We just live in an epicenter of speculatory investment, with easy money and careless spending meant to give the illusion of early success prior to an IPO or acquisition.

The bubble finally burst and thousands were laid off, and the market is correcting itself slowly. Hopefully salaries will come back down to earth.

US techies are hated for a reason, because we're drastically overpaid compared to the skill and education that it takes (vs other white collar jobs) and we drive up costs of living for everyone else while contributing much less to society than your average doctor or engineer.

Covid made matters worse (I nearly doubled my salary switching companies during that time, although it was never my intent). The intensity of demand fueled even more unrealistic salaries, followed by even more intense layoffs.

In this environment, especially with our lack of social safety nets, you can't easily make a small and stable tech company that wants sustainable business instead of hypergrowth. Every startup aims to be the next Alphabet / OpenAI, instead of meeting some practical need in a niche.

The US has always been a gilded society with the capitalists driving society and economy, and we just happen to be higher up that pyramid for the time being, as their latest minions. Not because we are that special or that great, but just because they need us (for now) to recoup their investments. We're just pampered pawns in a sinister game, destroying cities and communities in our wake.

I'm glad Europe doesn't have the same mentality. Don't copy us.
I had a project that a US developer wanted 4x the money and 10x the duration for a really small project. I went with the eastern european developer and it was fine.

The eastern european developer outsourced the project to India too when i read the code signature, which I laughed about.