skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happens a lot more often than you might think and I agree with the sibling that EM should not be considered a promotion over IC (and I’ve tried to shape our career ladder/matrix to minimize that, but we do operate in a market where that influence exists and we can’t ignore that entirely).

If your alternative is eventually quitting, approach the discussion with that in the back of your mind. You don’t want to “threaten” that, but realizing that it’s not working for you and talking about what would work is helpful for both sides.

As an exec, I’ve helped employees navigate this a handful of times and have a few more ahead of me I’m sure. I don’t want you to be unhappy and I don’t want you to suck at your job. If it’s not working for you, both are likely to happen and so let’s talk about it.

If your company is one with a significantly higher comp for EM vs IC, I would understand that and indicate openness to switching back to the IC comp (which is only fair, but your director or HR might be worried about you holding unrealistic expectations, treating a comp change as a constructive dismissal, and therefore not be as flexible as a result).

But overall: if you don’t like what you’re doing and don’t see a prospect for that improving a lot, speak up and make the change that you know you need. Life’s too short to hate a big part of it, assuming any option to not hate it exists.
UBI is universal, as others have said.

There’s also the concept of “guaranteed minimum income,” which, I believe, just tops you up to the minimum income amount if you make less. In comparison, guaranteed minimum income seems much more difficult to administer (means testing and all that), and it seems like it would incentivize bad habits, in the sense that if you make less than the threshold, why not just quit your job?
Below the title, there's a few others you can choose from (GPT-2 small and XL and GPT-3)
Did you read his links? At least he gave some, you didn't.
This research would protect us from aging, but not from bullets or poisons. The likes of Hitler and Stalin would have still died at about the same time had anti-senescence treatments been available to them.
Industry doesn't need to produce anything of value - it needs to produce money. And there are many examples of successful business selling hate, eg extremist media.
But that is derived from profits from the sale of Alaskan oil. It is not a wealth redistribution program, increased taxes, or reductions in spending elsewhere. Alaska is also a very costly place to live. It's also the only state that actually sells something and makes a profit which it can redistribute to its citizens. Maybe if America as a whole profited from the sale of its natural resources then it could, in theory, redistribute that and call it a UBI. Either way, to implement a UBI the money has to come from somewhere which at this moment means it has to be taken from someone/something else.
It seems to me that every basic income ‘experiment’ is flawed because they don’t account for the externalities of higher taxes and the fact that the pool of recipients is limited enough that the market is unaffected. Giving a few thousand people a few thousand a month isn’t going to cause much on an impact on inflation and it’s not going to make rents go up across the market. Additionally, others outside the experiment aren’t getting taxed at a higher rate so they aren’t passing costs on to consumers.

My other main criticism is the fact that most of these experiments measure how “happy” or less anxious the recipients become. Which to me is obvious, yes, free money can do that. But again, they’re measuring the impact of limited free money without the downsides of higher taxes and market impact. Would any of these experiments demand that the recipients also lose access to any other government assistance they may be on? To my knowledge none of them do.

Edit: To put it more succinctly, they are measuring the impact of a stipend and not a basic income program.
That’s true totally separate from UBI. No matter what else you do, UBI’s effect will be increased rents. In absolute terms you could overcome this by increasing supply, but 1) nothing about UBI makes increasing supply easier, and 2) UBI would reduce the positive effects on rent achieved by increasing supply.

If you want to reduce the cost of living you increase supply. UBI will not affect supply nor demand, it will just affect the existing demand’s ability to pay a higher price universally and knowably. As a landlord, I would be an idiot not to raise rents by $x soon after implementation. Every landlord knows this and so they’d all do it together, no coordination necessary.
Use It or Lose It: Exercising one's right to waste water (2015)
I think I'd still prefer a negative income tax over a UBI. Functionally they have the same result. But giving everyone money and clawing some of it back via taxes I think introduces unnecessary political liabilities and accounting headaches.
Or at the very least would you have to finetune some 3B or 7B model to do this?

I want to create some locally hosted model that can do this in real time with a low memory footprint

Let people mash the keyboard at 2x-3x their typing speed and the unscramble it for them in real time to enable typing at 200-300wpm
Show HN: Chatroom app to interact with multiple LLMs in real-time
Hey all I've been building an alternative frontend to chatgpt for a while now and it has recently added a bunch of nice features for working with gpt-4 and claude since they have such large context windows.

Python 3.6+
Flask
Flask-SocketIO
Flask-SQLAlchemy
Flask-Migrate
eventlet or gevent
boto3 (for interacting with AWS Bedrock currently Claude, and S3 access)
openai (for interacting with OpenAI's language models)

Real-time messaging between users in a chatroom.
Ability to join different chatrooms with unique URLs.
Integration with OpenAI's language models for generating room titles and processing messages.
Syntax highlighting for code blocks within messages.
Markdown rendering for messages.
Commands to load and save code blocks to AWS S3.
This is an excellent tool to realize how an LLM actually works from the ground up!

For those reading it and going through each step, if by chance you get stuck on why 48 elements are in the first array, please refer to the model.py on minGPT [1]

It's an architectural decision that it will be great to mention in the article since people without too much context might lose it

[1] https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT/blob/master/mingpt/model....
Ask HN: Good Marketing Strategies for a Cookbook?
I've recently self published my first ever cooking book! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNNLCPZ4/

I'm not a professional chef however, I think I have a nice unique set of life circumstances that make the book unique: I've learnt cooking from my parents since I was old enough to handle fire and I come from Portugal which is a country with a very rich food tradition and nice cuisine that crucially, I think, appeals to a wide range of different cultures like Brazilians, Italians, even French.
I've blended my life experiences from living in a few different countries to create what I think is quite a unique cookbook!

While the editing and "polish" of the book will not be perfect, I 100% stand behind every single for I've written there, it's around 30 recipes!!
It'd make for a great Xmas gift too :)

Any ideas on how to market it and especially where to do it, would be great! I've done some posts on FB and Twitter but not gaining a lot of traction yet. Advice on the "marketing strategy" would be awesome
So a transducer? Hmmh
I think I remember a potential usage in oil pipelines as pointed out by someone above.

Puts the expression "cable leaks" into perspective lol /jk

Anyway, interesting.
That depends on how it's paid for. If the money is printed, then yes. If it's raised through taxes, then not necessarily.
Thank you for this. I would add: XSLT
Maybe they will at one point, but JetBrains so far did never take VC capital (and if I remember correctly said "no" more than once) [1]. That doesn't tell about the future, but they probably had many options to cash out and never did.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/czech-sta...
Surely you can’t believe the outer space treaty will be followed once interplanetary travel is actually possible.

If someone like Elon Musk were to liquidate all their earth assets to lead a mission to mars to start a permanent colony there what actions do you think would happen to stop him? What consequences would he face once he staked out “muskland” with some other settlers?
The biggest issue I have with the plugin is the container takes a significant amount of resources to run.

I don't know how that compares to other solutions like github though. Being able to run a really lightweight container in argowf has its advantages
Will ham licensing die? The average age is like 60-70 usually, the government kept lowering the requirements to get a license and it's even less popular. I heard they're usually mostly benchmarking distance and truckers listening. Besides apocalypse or maybe wanting to tunnel data through it (illegal) it doesn't seem to serve a real function or benefit.

Family radio and the public channels I heard are full of useless chatter and insults, I can't imagine radio being any better than the internet besides the idea of broadcasting data on it which the government doesn't like.

Because it runs on tattletales that tell the government, if they removed the licensing we'd just get the ability to not illegally (maybe dirty) encrypted long distance messages anonymously. A far superior system than today's.
Isn't it amazing that a random person on the internet can produce free educational content that trumps university courses? With all the resources and expertise that universities have, why do they get shown up all the time? Do they just not know how to educate?
Tesla: Security Vulnerabilities
Many tyrants have been multi-generational. Many have been deposed, so death can't be the "only" equalizer. And many modern "tyrants" are organizations and systems, not individuals. And who knows, maybe tyrants will act more sensibly if they expect to live in the future they're harming (wishful thinking perhaps).

If you take antibiotics when you're sick or choose your diet based on health concerns, you're not fine with the life expectancy you have. Natural lifespans (my words, not yours) don't make any sense with the level of intervention we do.

I like to imagine that choosing how and when you will die will one day be right there with self-actualization in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Yep, good stuff.
i've also tried learning J and can't really say i've managed it yet, but i think the idea is that everything is an array. in J an array can contain a box, and a box might contain an array, so you have nested arrays, (different from multidimensional arrays.)

lisp baffled me for a while because, in my mind, a list is different from a tree, but in lisp a list element might be itseld a list, and so a lisp list might be a tree. similar situation with J arrays.

i'm not sure how APL does it. i /think/ it uses a flat array model, but i'm not sure what that means exactly, or if it's even applicable to modern APL, let alone what it might imply about bending APL arrays into other data structures.
I guess it’s ok if the gdp difference between the 2 warring countries is at least at the same order of magnitude. Actually dollar numbers probably don’t matter as much as dollar/unit gdp
Morality is importantly a question for the individual. The question is, what do you weep for, not what do we weep for. If you're taking moral cues from others, you're not doing morality, just groupthink.
I've been thinking about how LLMs will affect the future of socialization, power over information, and predictions. I decided to write some thoughts down. Would appreciate comments / other perspectives - love discussing this type of thing!
So they can confirm that Worldcoin is centrally controlled?

Yeah, that doesn't help decentralization.
Here is what you are looking for: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime
> I see them as a car drive shaft ...

That's a good metaphor, and it's significant that there are large innovations happening in car drive shafts as with CI tools:

https://electrek.co/2023/11/29/hyundai-kia-introduce-new-uni...
This is honestly very common, especially for first time managers. I've seen this happen at least 5+ times. Keep in mind that switching back to an IC time doesn't preclude you from being a manager in the future, and I'm fact many people switch from manager to IC back to manager ala https://www.google.com/amp/s/charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engi...

In terms of advice, talk to your manager about the fact that you're struggling.
I think there are sufficient examples below, but just to be perfectly clear: the "public good" is a nebulous concept, which can either mean objectively assessed public good (utilitarianism) or subjectively assessed public good (personal policy preferences). The latter is particularly likely in light of the "ethics aren't algorithmic" cop-out.

Neither utilitarianism nor your own personal policy preferences should ever take precedence over your actual ethical obligations to your employers, your clients, and your users.

If at any point they do, then you have breached an ethical duty and possibly committed fraud.
Wifi onboard is .02$? What chipset is that cheap?
Contextual autocorrect has been on phones for a decade. It's still far from perfect. Many ambiguities are not trivial, even for an LLM
The smaller the payments, the larger the coordination problem people have to solve together to aggregate the money into a capital investment that returns growth and jobs.

Arguably, in the group who received lump sums, if only a small minority of them started businesses that employed others, they would raise the quality of life for more people than groups of people getting small payments and having to coordinate larger groups to improve their collective prospects.

Whereas, those who got a monthly stipend would very likely just come to depend on it, and maybe pursue other things like raising kids or going to school, but I'd bet the businesses kept the opportunity and wealth in the community they built it in, where the kids and educated would leave to find better ones.
> China has shown us that you can modernize a country and make it a global actor without imposing yourself as a hegemon, and I choose that as a role model.

Don’t tell China’s neighbors this. The reason they are so friendly with the USA ATM is that China has long aspired to being (and often is) the regional hegemon (and it’s a huge region).
It doesn’t depend on how it’s paid for. If I am a landlord and I know that my tenants now earn an additional $600/mo, and every other tenant in my market is also earning an additional $600/mo, I would be an idiot not to raise my rents by $600/mo, and so would every other landlord.
The catch is your limited to a small number of parallel builds (3). Our CI pipeline would take hours to run with that limitation
18y Ago Today: Snakes & Rubies, Django+Rails Comparison by Adrian Holovaty & DHH
Then it should be done properly, rather than not at all, no?
We do streaming baseline compilation as fast as the network can hand us bytes, but we also kick off a more optimized compilation in a background thread.

A lot of optimizations can be baked into the generated wasm, but you still need to spend some time doing eg register allocation.
At least in Chrome, WASM is actually jitted and "tiered" on function level. Not sure how relevant this post still is, but AFAIK if anything changed then that the number of tiers has increased rather than decreased:

https://v8.dev/docs/wasm-compilation-pipeline

This may actually introduce visible "warmup-stutter" in rendering applications which is very unfortunate, but AFAIK the tiering was introduced to accommodate massive WASM blobs such as created by Unity which otherwise might take tens of seconds to AOT-compile.
Oh ye keep it simple. I worked as a Jenkins admin for half a year and one day I woke up from a nightmare and realized that I've made some sort of parallelization batch job processor communicating via outputting bat-files, in Groovy, to cut down build times.
That completely ignores the point of my previous comment...

We're seeing that this is not just a particular union within a particular company. Tesla is being hounded down from everywhere at once. So this shows that, actually, the 'rules' that Tesla is not following ought to be law. Same result, much less aggravation.

But it looks like the Swedes are extremely stubborn: Apparently Tesla definitely cannot do what they are attempting to do but there is also absolutely no need to make it the law...

Extra legal expectations of a course of action are what are creating the issue here, IMHO.
No it won’t, why would it?
The title is misleading. When someone says they offer “curated experiences” I assume they actually host and run activities. Like, if a company advertised “curated travel experiences”, I’d expect to be able to book a trip with them.
> a domain where crashes aren't necessarily a problem

So an application that doesn't deal with user data? Those are rare, but do exist.

> where security isn't a top priority (non-public facing tools often fall into this category)

So nothing accessibly remotely, no connecting to a server for influencing its behavior, no auto-update, no cross-user collaboration. I sometimes hear "this doesn't need safety, it's just a multiplayer game" and don't know how to answer in a constructive way. Even an application like grep can be exploited if an (hypothetical) unmitigated coding mistake exists and it reads a specially crafted file that somehow ended innocuously on your filesystem. The threat model is much bigger than you're giving it credit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xprize_Foundation shows no one won the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE. That pages also lists additional prizes not listed in your summary.

At least several of them must have a winner, so long as someone participates, as there is no hard goal and a winner is chosen from the participants. (For examples, "improve" and "build better" are soft goals.)
I'd say most things are more technical than access to a device through psychic means ;)
Credit to Simon Willison for the link: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1731353118074671203
Practical example of UI email testing with Mailpit and Playwright
Thanks. The clarification that basic means same amount for everyone is helpful.
He seems really worried about offending people and hurting his relationships with NASA execs.

I wonder if NASA people are more prickly, less, or the same in terms of taking negative feedback as compared to programmers and hackers.

I suspect since we spend all day with compilers telling us we made silly errors, we're a bit more inured to criticism than the general public.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong [pdf]
Hi! This blog post, which I wrote recently, may clear up some question marks: https://medium.com/@joakimtengstrand/understanding-polylith-...
I'm a bit confused why wasm is involved. What's the application of it in fluvio that makes it the right solution?
You're only considering the first order effect. A tax increase large enough to fund UBI would change the whole economy.
I'm not familiar with these projects, so I'm not sure how much time it would take to just keep them afloat, but I've seen they are popular and beloved apps. Looking at the GitHub activity, they have been actively developed for years, and several releases a year also contain new features. This was more than likely a full-time job for the developer.

It's regrettable that the funding model of these projects did not work out, and that the developer sold these apps without informing users about the change of ownership.

Though it feels like at this point we are bargaining for the amount of free work we are expected to get from this person, while sneering at the prospect of there being a paid version of the app published on Google Play as part of the original funding model that was in place long before the sale.
I cannot test that counterfactual now, can I?

But some people had it worse, so I guess it didn't hurt. And it is probable that vaccines protected me from original strains, which were worse.

If anything, I'm dissapointed that they didn't develop vaccines for new strains soon enough.
Because in school, you are still a babbling infant learning to use the new language that you’re learning: mathematics. You don’t try to teach infants who are still on the babbling phase, the complexities of metaphor or nuance.

People have a very funny view of education sometimes. Like, this thing exists, so we should’ve been told about it in school. Like, imagine the consequences of that kind of pedagogy. In order to know something about the subject and be able to learn more about it, you must know everything there is to know about it. Learning is a good example of the hermeneutic circle at work. On first entry into a topic, you don’t know anything and are bewildered by everything. Slowly, you begin to get a foothold where you recognize things vaguely. Then, as you go deeper, your understanding of what you learned at the beginning, also becomes deeper and richer. The simplifications begin to fall away. Complexity emerges, complexity that you are now in a position to handle because you are not completely lost anymore.
Rents are set by only two things: 1) the tenant markets’ ability to pay and 2) competition with other landlords.

If every single landlord knows with certainty (2) that every single tenant in their market has increased their ability to pay (1) by $1000/mo, then every landlord independently will come to the conclusion that they can raise rents by $1000/mo.

They know the tenants are able to sustain it, and they know other landlords know the same thing.
Have you considered the considerably greater breadth of content required for a full course, as well as the other responsibilities of the people teaching them such as testing, public speaking, etc.
Actually we don't know what would happen if a bunch of money were printed. I assume you expect inflation.

What actually happens depends on who gets the money. If rich people get it, I would not expect much to happen. If middle income people get it, we could reasonably expect inflation. If low income people get it, that grows the economy even in a major economy.

Let me explain. Yes, if you give middle income people more money, then they can afford to pay more for widgets. So, the widget store owner can increase his income by increasing his prices: Inflation.

If low income people get the money, now they can buy the widget that they wanted. So, the widget store owner opens a widget store in a low income area and orders more widgets. The widget manufacturer puts on another shift. Both groups make more money and more people are employed.

Should the widget store owner raise his prices, fewer people can afford widgets and the store owner loses money. This won't happen.

The real world is more messy than this, but I think the principle applies.

"Inflation" is often a bugaboo used by resentful people to brand social innovation as harmful. Such people eventually hurt themselves and hurt their country.
China is the main beneficiary of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Nobody is talking anymore about COVID lab leak and instead Russians are buying more and more things from China and sends cheapest raw materials to China in return. So they have an interest in stirring up tensions even more. Anyone remember this guy:

https://youtu.be/8fwgVUfW_O4