skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe.

My company has approximately 1,000 open positions for engineers. Not "build a website" or "use AI to sell ads" engineer but "build a TX tuner for spaceborne synthetic aperture radar from scratch" engineer.

We don't grant massive quantities of stock as part of a get rich quick lottery scheme, but I make over 3x the current US annual household income in an area where a 4 bedroom house on an acre and a half is $400k and that's enough. Anyone who thinks that isn't enough is crazy-- sociopathic, even.

Maybe there's not a shortage of biology and IT skills and coding bootcamp grads but there is a shortage of people who took, and paid attention in, a linear algebra class.

There is 100%, irrefutably, undoubtedly, unquestionably, a shortage of engineers. Actual engineers not "use AI to sell crypto ads" engineers.
I started EE, switched to CS because it was easier.
Political conflicts were always a risk for Substack. The problem with it is that it's not a matter of choosing between (say) Nazis and anti-Nazis, when a scenario like this plays out they lose both the Nazis and anti-Nazis.

Worst of all, Substack gets almost all its revenue from literally a handful of popular blogs and any of those people can hook up a payment gateway to a bulk email script and stop paying a cut of their subscription revenue to Substack... Thus they are highly vulnerable to pissing those people off and losing them and a political kerfluffle is a great way to do that.
I haven't read the details on the recent plagiarism dramas, either Claudine Gay's or Neri Oxman's, but does anyone know how original were the parts they plagiarized?

Eg, was it a key original idea central to the work's thesis, in which they may have stolen someone else's breakthrough insight? Was it an important bit of supporting information, but not a core part of the thesis? Or was it background/extraneous stuff that's not really important?
OpenAI must defend ChatGPT fabrications after failing to defeat libel suit
AI systems are not “drawing a picture”. They procedurally generate output given vast amounts of input, much of which has been stolen. Without it there would be no credible output. I dont understand why are ai cultists hell bent on theft.

Llama, ollama, etc are not the issue here. Nor is ai. The issue is theft for training.
I started university in 2004, and I did not party. My university coursework was no harder than my high school coursework, outside of a couple of weed-out classes (like organic chemistry) -- but those were graded on a curve, so they FELT difficult, but in practice weren't hard to pass at all because we were being graded against the students who were there to party and missed the fundamentals that everything else was built on.

I suspect that your partying made the coursework seem a lot more difficult that it really was.
The same thing was said by other famous philosophers, such as A. Grande who publicly declared: "whoever said money can't solve your problems, must not have had enough money to solve them".

Yet there seem to be many other things playing a role in happiness. Besides the famous ones like love, I can cite Ikegai, Wanderlust, Ubuntu, Hygge, Wabi-Sabi (...), and it may be foolish to concentrate on just one of them.
I’m curious: what policies are conservatives implementing that are not about removing protections? I’m genuinely curious, because all I hear about is like loosening child labor laws for factories and butcheries, voting against policies designed to protect women against domestic abuse, etc. Restricting access to certain books, restricting medical decisions of doctors, etc.
Yet Another Password Reset Tutorial in Flask
What Makes a Narcissist?
What am I supposed to see after I click analyzer colors? I'm on mobile chrome and nothing happens for me
Might well be true. But the advantage is still the ability to focus on a task indefinitely with no physiological impact, and clone a mind, and communicate between thousands of collaborators instantly with basically no lag or bandwidth limitations compared to typing into a text box.
The text refers to bcompiler.tar.gz, and indeed, changing .html to .tar.gz and keeping the rest of the archive.org URL the same, you can download
http://web.archive.org/web/20121030222527/http://www.rano.or...
Trends from 2010 are no longer applicable. Market has shifted significantly. When there is too many applicants it's easier to limit to local area.
> I am fairly confused by the amount of work people are willing to devote to runner-up work

You're not entirely wrong, even if off-topic. See also: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211229
And plenty of people are threatened with lawsuits for seeding on an ongoing basis, especially in some markets like Germany where an entire industry stalks public torrents looking for German IPs.
This is such a common talking point, the "hassle of side-loading app stores and the insecurity of trusting them (for permissions enforcement)," that I wonder if some PR firm out there was hired and this talking point is showing up everywhere so people subconsciously think it's consensus and start parroting it themselves (why I'm now seeing it and responding)! The application security model is at the OS level and not the app store level (which is really just a dressed up branded package manager, and has been done forever in GNU-land).
Why are you introducing this 'last decade' thing. Was the decade before not relevant? The original point was not about lawsuits anyway. Are they American lawsuits you're talking about?

You seem to be conflating a whole bunch of things, seems like misdirection.
The first hurdle with some self checkouts is before you even scan an item: Bags!

If you've brought your own bag and it weighs more than the mass of a few protons, the system assumes you're trying to steal something, and a human has to intervene before you can even get started.

And then they have to come back almost immediately to deal with age-restricted items or other glitches.
Why should I believe that

1. these boundaries are reasonable groupings.

2. That the thresholds identified are valid.

It's hard to tell what some of them even mean from the page.
this is false "nobody cares" - think for yourself
It does seem incredible that chatgpt has so much expertise in literally everything. Does this mean you can beat chatgpt by creating smaller "experts" and directing questions to each?
When I first saw this I thought they released Doom 2016. I doubt anyone from Id will be able to comment on if 2016 will see the GPL, but there is no harm in asking. :-)
I get that the concept is upsetting. And, I'm not going to tell people to not be upset or not state their will. Ex: DeviantArt has instated an opt-in checkbox for "It's OK to train on my art" and I think that's great.

But, everything I've heard and learned about how AI works leads me to the conclusion that such a move is almost entirely symbolic. Counter to what our egos would like to believe, the vast majority of the training images and the vast majority of the learning value for AI comes from random, crappy photographs of various things. Without a million photos of dogs and trees, the AI can't make a stylized dog distinguishable from a stylized tree. And, it's turning out that, from that base of crappy photographs, it doesn't take many high-aesthetic images to make a high-aesthetic AI.
The article is saying what we’re all thinking. Like nobody is going to genuinely disagree with the spirit of the article and I think anyone would be hard-pressed to defend any of the “fallacies” mentioned. Finding a software engineer job blows.
I saw getting my bachelor's in electrical engineering as similar to when an aspiring writer gets a degree in classics instead of English lit. I always knew I'd end up a software engineer, I just also knew I really wanted to know how things worked on the physical level and wouldn't be able to muster up the energy to touch enough differential equations and vector calculus to actually grok it for myself ever again after college.

Walking in with that mindset made the whole thing really enjoyable, actually. Recommended!
And Debian itself is a combination of Deb and Ian, Deb being Ian's partner at the time.

Deb broke up with Ian and then Ian had a tragic end. It is a name surrounded by tragedy.
Whether or not those things are equivalent isn't relevant to any part of my point.
Chevron deference was originally defended by conservatives concerned about judicial activism, particularly wrt liberal judges holding sway over regulatory policy. A cynic would point out conservative enthusiasm for Chevron waxed and waned according to how liberal they perceived the federal courts, and that now that conservatives have an unassailable SCOTUS majority and a solid power base in the circuit courts they're finding intolerable those judicial restraints. But to be fair, the liberal contingent is mirroring the same behavior, becoming defenders of a rule they once opposed.
> I do not need to have a solution in order to identify a problem

I'm the only one who's identified a problem. You haven't. Production costs aren't the only type of cost.
I can appreciate the spirit of the comment. I'm more pedantic than is typical -- perhaps even more than is healthy! Even so, I don't think the claim is deceptive.

Willow's claim has to do with erasure of the _networked_ data. It doesn't claim that copies people make are destroyed. Almost everyone understands and expects that if you can view data, you usually can somehow make some kind of copy of it. The question usually comes down to: how good of a copy?

Perhaps the best way to prevent perfect copying of data is to prevent someone from viewing it on a device they control.
This is a huge source of emotional pain for me to be completely honest.
I would like to see these stats compared to the average age of marriage by state. The top states regarding divorce are, overall, rural and relatively poorer (except for Delaware.)

I'd also like to see the marriage rate by state for comparison, too. Arkansas has more than 2x the marriages per capita of California (lowest divorce rate), for instance, but only 20% fewer divorces...

Again, this article is a bad conceptual and statistical analysis of the data.
Defining a discrete "boundary" seems misleading, since most of these things have linearly worse effects as you do more of them, there's no bright red sharp line. Eg. climate change is obviously bad, but you can't really point to a specific temperature as a "boundary" - 2C of warming is worse than 1.5C, 3C is worse than 2C, 4C is worse than 3C, and so on.

I didn't recognize the term "novel entities" - it seems to refer to new industrial chemicals, plastics, etc. developed by humans that don't exist in nature. The graphic is drawing on a paper which says people are developing and releasing these chemicals without enough safety testing. That's bad, sure. But how could you say when this has crossed a "boundary" - at a million tons of release? Ten million tons? Of which chemicals? Any chemicals? The paper is very fuzzy, and basically just waves its hands and says:

"We define and apply three criteria for assessment of the suitability of control variables for the boundary: feasibility, relevance, and comprehensiveness. We propose several complementary control variables to capture the complexity of this boundary, while acknowledging major data limitations. We conclude that humanity is currently operating outside the planetary boundary based on the weight-of-evidence for several of these control variables."

Again, sure, obviously pollution is bad, but this doesn't meaningfully define what a "boundary" would be, or what the consequences of crossing it are.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04158#
> In January 2023, DPC was forced to increase the fine issued to Meta Platforms after a review by European Data Protection Board found that the initial fine was insufficient.[12] European Data Protection Board determined that DPC has failed to perform its enforcement responsibility with "due diligence". The critics have pointed out that 7 out of 8 decisions handed down by European Data Protection Board were against the Irish DPC, and that the DPC "always choose the most tortuous, lengthy and expensive legal route to a decision rather than a simple application of EU law".[13]

Interesting.
¾ of 109 embryos across 21 mothers is 3.8 embryos per mother.

For human miscarriage rates, remember it depends heavily on how far along the pregnancy is:

70% of conceptions lead to miscarriage
50% of implantations lead to miscarriage
30% of aggressively confirmed pregnancies lead to miscarriage
15% of typical confirmed pregnancies lead to miscarriage
These models will discourage creative work. They exist at the expense of the people who made them possible.
This so much.

I want easily pluggable/connectable systems for everything. I want to see all my messages and all my contacts and all my stuff in interfaces I choose. The future is definitely not searching email, Whatsapp, Signal and Instagram to find the message my friend sent me the other day.
>suppose you find that the model has a bias in terms of labeling African Americans as criminals; or women as lousy computer programmers. If all you have is the model weights of the trained model, how easily can you fix the model?

That's textbook fine-tuning and is basically trivial. Adding another layer and training that is many orders of magnitude more efficient than retraining the whole model and works ~exactly as well.

Models are data, not instructions. Analogies to software are actively harmful. We do not fix bugs in models any more than we fix bugs in a JPEG.
It seems kind of obvious that if you explicitly exclude medicine jobs from STEM you end up with a low % of biology grads in STEM. My experience at University was that 80% of Biology as a program was doing it as pre-med.
Yeah. Makes me assume it is meaningless fear mongering.
Extremely poor journalism.

Very misleading and a misunderstanding of what's actually going on.

Example:
"The Census Bureau reported in 2021 that a paltry 28% of STEM grads are working in these supposedly in-demand, highly paid and important STEM jobs."

It's not 28% of all STEM grads, it's 28% of physical science STEM grads.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/06/does-majoring...

I'm going to do a better job than some shmuck journo.

"37% reported a bachelor’s degree in science or engineering but only 14% worked in a STEM occupation" & "About half of workers who majored in engineering (52%) or computer, mathematics, and statistics majors (51%) worked in STEM."

This makes a lot of sense, about half of all STEM grads are going into STEM jobs. It's in tandem with the famous 50% of lawyers are not practicing law.

I'm certain that if you started doing breakdowns of demographics you would result in it making even more sense and easily explainable.
"Circle to Search is launching January 31 on select premium Android smartphones — the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and the new Samsung Galaxy S24 series"

Well that's a little disappointing, I was expecting at least 2 generations of Pixel devices would get it. Wonder how long it'll be before it makes its way to other handsets.
I think of it slightly differently, but it's basically the same:

In many germanic languages we say half-four when the time is half past three, where brits these days sometimes say half-three, to make it maximally confusing. I.e. we have an implied "half [to]" and they "half [past]".
This way of counting is what the Danes do. "Half-four times twenty" is "a half before four, times twenty" is "3.5 x 20" is 70 is "halvfjerdsindtyve" is "halvfjerds".

But it is only confusing to think of it that way, to speak Danish you have to just learn it as an opaque pointer to 70, or you'll get stuck doing mental arithmetic every time they say a number.
And this is the crux of the matter, and why I feel young people are becoming increasingly nihilistic. They are realizing that they are increasingly powerless and unable to drive change.

There are major problems out there in the world, and they can't be solved unless entities and individuals who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo actually change their ways.

"Be the change you want to see in the world" is increasingly more and more meaningless each day.
Yup! We tried to eat them. He's a scientist, and we were curious kids. Why wouldn't we?
Totally agree, I am not trying to single out specific countries. Now we just need to figure out how to deal with the consequences of that, because so far we have only been relying on bandaids: exhort people to have more kids, offer subsidies (that don't even come close to offsetting the extra costs of course), making it up with immigration.
Meh, you can make any industry look awful by picking the worst side effects.

Rocketry: We can now incinerate civilians 0.5 seconds faster than before.

Pharmaceutical: The stage-4 cancer patient will spend five more days in agony.

Electronics: Your new smartwatch can now render ads at 60 fps.

Chemistry: We added a dozen new forever chemicals to rainwater.
“To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim." ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I'm reasonably confident that firmware/boot and drivers are orthogonal; consider that there are PCs with normal UEFI boot that will happily boot any Linux image you want but it'll come up without drivers because nobody's written them, or on the other hand the Raspberry Pi has open source drivers[0] but the boot situation is still its own bizarro thing that's unlike any other machine so you can't boot the same USB stick on a Pi and anything else[1].

[0] Weirdly not all upstreamed last I looked, but mostly.

[1] I mean, you might be able to put a Pi-compatible bootloader and, say, a UEFI+ARM bootloader on the same stick, but I mean with a single boot path.
I definitely didn't intend such an implication, and I don't think it follows from what I said.
How is Ozone depletion going up after we banned cfcs?
I read the TOS as giving google the right to terminate my Google account.

And to be fair, video is expensive. Ads give both Google and the creators a return on their money.

Edit: just to clarify; I run ublock disabled on Youtube.com
efivars is probably the goofiest and most uncomfortable way of handling this. They created this giant wasteful infrastructure in EFI and at the end of the day, you're still poking around in a bespoke filesystem to hopefully communicate GUID tagged facts about your boot drives to your bios.

There were tons of other ways this could have been accomplished for far less effort and with previously existing systems.
Listening to people bash the luddites without understanding the actual history of the luddites is getting exhausting.
Don't worry... this year fuel is gonna get expensive.
Ah, the old states rights take.
Why? Genuine question, what is the exciting differences in the day to day work for you?
I took a look at it not so long ago, they were pushing AI features rather too aggressively, essentially turning the cursor into an advert for them.

I noped out very rapidly.
It does for the part you can act on, which is the only part for which you can be judged, including by yourself. And it also makes an example.
One of us.. one of us..

But seriously, if you haven’t given it a try you should. You won’t be disappointed.
Having spent four (4) hours on hold with the BATFE yesterday only to be given a robotic answer from a clerk, and told to piss office, I would agree there is room for improvement.

If you need my name and a serial number to tell me “delayed” and no actionable information why not make a form.
It can and should be said about every fiction, as a healthy reminder to yourself. Fiat money, government and property rights are complete abstractions, completely abused and tarnished beyond all limits. A verbal agreement is on a much closer level to reality. Even people who have never heard of money or owned property will take a man up on his word. As for sexual consent it is not something abstract at all. It's not words. It is the will of a person and something that can never be misunderstood.
Highlighted by the fact that this ruling is only up for debate since the political bent of the court has shifted enough to start reversing what has long been precedent from earlier courts with different political sensibilities.
And then what? We implement a dozen different incompatible bootloaders for it? The value in UEFI is that it lets us use a common interface for booting, regardless of how it's implemented.

(To be clear, I overwhelmingly prefer FOSS and open specs, but we need to be clear about what things solve what problems)
Kohut would say Narcissism is a state of arrested development: if you believe that then the question, particularly if you want narcissists to get better, is what makes somebody not be a narcissist. (e.g. my evil twin doesn't want you to see https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111687412198643478)
Boundaries? In what sense? This is an unhelpful exercise in vague fearmongering.

What actually helps is building and validating models and testing interventions against them along with planning for expected outcomes.

This seems engineered to frighten people to share and then post “why won’t anybody do anything” while that person changes nothing about their lifestyle.

I’m not opposed to science, I am opposed to whatever kind of thing this is. A scientist looks to uncover truth, an engineer looks to design for change, … this just seems like Bible-thumping on a soap box “beware sinners”. All the people who left Christianity still needed hell and replaced it with environmental doom.
If you drain the water when it’s at its coldest—right after you get back from work, say—that larger temperature swing might actually work in your favor.
Seems like they are venturing into Google Workspace and Office 365 territory. May be part of a bigger strategy.
This is why I’m sympathetic to direct action. What on earth else can young people do?

But boomers can only think about being made late for work
I'm all for bringing attention to anthropogenic changes we bring to our planet, and we should definitely be concerned with reversibility or runaway effects, but defining things in this fashion seems arbitrary and feels like junk science that can become easy fodder to the climate deniers.
Man, I did not think you were serious. I love how the liberal arts grads are trying to sneak in through the back door! That's hilarious. STEM is a hard nosed group of disciplines that build things. You'd have an easier time convincing me that CS doesn't belong in STEM than convincing me liberal arts does.
Google and Facebook pay well and employ a good number of software developers, but there are more types of software out there by the many other companies out there that don't involve selling ads. Sure, if you want to be depressing and toxic to the people around you, be reductive about it and oversimplify things, and disqualify the positives - software has done good things for the world, I'm sure you can think of some.
I agree. If we can’t collectively fix our planet we’ve destroyed, our natural birth rate declines seem to be a natural response to overgrowth. Seems like a healthy mechanism at least.
Anyone can get into a college program (and anyone does); one has to self-select into the "rigorous" fields of study to attempt to signal intelligence. What used to require a HS diploma now requires a college degree and so forth.

Humanities are now just a dumping ground for morons when they used to be the smartest people on the campus.
> "Be the change you want to see in the world" is increasingly more and more meaningless each day

It's a good start. But individual action has always been meaningless. What matters is collective action. Ironically, repeating the meme of widespread nihilism (which isn't true, it's a vocal minority) degrades that capability.
Self-Heimlich Maneuver
>You can feed whatever you want into your LLM, including copyrighted data.

That's currently the subject of considerable legal debate.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/10/tech/sarah-silverman-open...