skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just something I'm noticing, but it seems the majority of people having problems getting new jobs are front-end guys?
Does this seem like a fair assessment? Are we just flooded with front-end/full-stack guys? (curious as I'm not a front-end guy..)

P.S. - Kudos on just doing stuff for fun now. With 10 years experience, you're well past the "do it for your portfolio" stage :-D
Get consistent data from your LLM with JSON Schema
It's not really clear at all to me, since, eg some people here are talking about getting several bot account follows daily, while for me it is the opposite, where I used to get a lot more bot follows than I have gotten over the past year or so (down from 4-5 per week to less than 1 per month).

On the other hand, I do see a lot more bots in replies (haven't had any reply to me yet though).

Overall my opinion has been slightly positive, my usage of the site is up and I'm hearing far less of people I follow (or those they follow) who have been unreasonably suspended or forced to delete tweets. It feels a lot "wilder" than before, but that's kind of what I enjoy anyway.

But I also don't really engage with political Twitter, I only use it to keep up on space related reporting and weeb stuff. The worst part has just been a lot more engagement farming through dumb statements from content creators who are circling the drain.
> No test required. Just try... catch.

That doesn't even make any sense. Where on earth would you insert a try...catch?

So many people commenting on this article seem to have fundamentally misunderstood what the situation/scenario even is, which is made more jarring by the fact that so many others seem to have gotten it just fine.
Either way, if their argument were upheld, it would be insanely interesting to see the second-order effects of that.

Like, could you spawn up a local LLM, have it take out some loans and transfer you the funds, and then "kill it" (^C), so the loan liability dies with the LLM?
Yes it is. It just shows there are far fewer users of streaming service for non-sport entertainment.
That’s right. Im not sure how this is controversial. Its a sad reality of plastic.
He was a realist and tailored his positions to appeal to the Russian mentality in the hopes of changing it from within. If he really wanted "personal gains" he wouldn't have gone back to Russia.
That'd be an okay outcome probably. In my area you instead see both trash and recycling cans emptied into the street as an easy source of cans.
Shameless plug, but I already came up with two terms describing the author's vision of open source.

https://gavinhoward.com/2023/12/is-source-available-really-t...

I also think that forcing companies to accept liability would fund FOSS.

https://gavinhoward.com/2023/11/how-to-fund-foss-save-it-fro...

Do it right, and the most important projects would be the ones flush with cash.
Exception safety guarantees have been around for decades and were originally defined by David Abrahams who was on the C++ standards board.

As the author is a Microsoft employee I'm a little surprised no attribution or reference to the original author of (the levels of) exception safety guarantees which his article partly describes.

Raymond Chen (article author) is refering to the "no throw guarantee" in his article as opposed to one of the other outcomes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_safety
This is the part I never got.

How does using a computer suddenly wash away any responsibility? Like if Air Canada's desk agents were all a separate company and they told the guy the wrong information isn't Air Canada still on the hook for training their sub-contractors?
Yes, that is in the body of the article.
I think Windows is the epitome of following Hyrum's Law decades before Hyrum's Law came into being :)

https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/13632600649293620...

I guess the linux kernel still supprorting binaries from ages ago might be too.
Maybe you should build an operating system from scratch, keep building it for more than 25 years and then come back to revise your comment?
The question no one wants to ask; how much resources is consumed by the people whose economic output would be replaced by AI?
How exactly does multi-stream recycling solve any of the problems you've mentioned?

It's pretty easy for recycling centers to sort out most of the glass and metal from that stream and then as technology improves they can sort and recycle even more of the plastic.

As for the food waste, I just assumed it was mostly destroyed by the recycling process. The high temperatures for metal and glass recycling make that seem easy to me. Plastic would be harder, but I think that's also part of the reason plastic can only be recycled a couple of times (it's not "pure" after it's recycled.)
ClrMD[1] is great, if you want info on debugging .NET.

[1] - https://github.com/microsoft/clrmd
You've just described Redux/Flux
The worst case for these airlines is always just a refund for whatever money they took in the first place.

Someone could make a killing making a fake airline, taking payments for flights, and then cancelling every single flight and only refunding the people who fight back hard enough.
Related:

McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39388518

I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39346870
I doubt there's any evidence it's effective, only evidence that a lot of people with "analytics platforms" found a way to get paid to browse Twitter. (Oh no! China's posting memes on the internet!)
Perhaps a book on Idris would be of use?

https://www.manning.com/books/type-driven-development-with-i...
The GrapheneOS projects takes security seriously -- unlike every other AOSP derivative, security is the primary focus of the project.
Where it makes sense to switch from plastic to aluminum, id say it makes perfect sense.
Whether or not it is fair for it to be on you, it still is. Because it is your problem whether or not Medium succeeds, not ours. Even if you are 100% correct, and HN's attitude is completely incorrect and unfair... that don't hurt us none. It does hurt you. (If you care about us as a potential market segment.)

So it is on you because you are the one who needs the brand to be viewed positively.

Specifically, it is on you to put on a product hat, come understand what we feel, why we feel it, and what might make us more interested in your product. Or not. Your company, your choice.
Systematic Inventive Thinking
> They didn't program it to do that, it's a characteristic of the technology that it makes mistakes

It sounds like you meant to say that they didn’t _intentionally_ program it to do that. They didn’t find the system under a rock and unleash it on the world; they made it.
Right — but there’s a broad question of if Congress can establish special courts. This is being asked about more than labor, including taxes and regulations.

The rise of special administrative courts is arguably denying people their rights to be heard in courts, which while you say benefits average people here, is also harming them when in disputes with the FDA/USDA.

Should we save labor unions at the cost of Big Ag destroying small farmers?

Unfortunately, there’s not a simple solution here. (Though, I’m generally against the rise of the administrative state — so I think special courts are inherently wrong.)
> The result would be a de facto ban on AI chatbots, because nobody knows how to get them not to make stuff up

I think that banning lying to customers is fine.
Did you even finish reading my comment? The whole point of the last sentence is that you don’t need to “seriously consider this problem of which GPU to buy”, if your willing to pay more for written guarantees through the sales channel.
That makes more sense than the Musk true believers theory.

I mean, I get it, if you work at spacex, then that's one thing... you're building rockets and all.
Probably Python Crash Course.
But this isn't only what AI does.

AI can also aid in optimizing energy grids that adapts to supply and demand [1], aid farmers in optimizing fertilizer and water use [2], logistics companies to optimize routes and fuel use [3], etc.

It's not at all only about the consumer-facing products and these are areas often in need of urgent attention and optimization to boot.

[1] https://www.iea.org/commentaries/why-ai-and-energy-are-the-n...

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3587716.3587742

[3] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/logist...
Even the post isn't using /dev/tcp, but compiled a C file into bash "loadable builtin" (which is something I learned today). It still feels kind of cheating to me tbh.. But cool enough!
> One annoying thing about both the Collatz and Goldbach conjectures is that if they are unprovable, it's also impossible to prove they're unprovable (unless math is inconsistent). This has been proved!

So is there a countable order of metaprovability? i.e. are there problems that if they're impossible to prove, it's impossible to prove whether it's possible to prove whether they're unprovable, but _that_ can be proven? Or does that mean the same thing? What does it mean if that goes infinitely deep? That we'll never know anything about a problem in that set unless we prove it? I guess it's not possible to prove that a problem is in that set, right? Is it possible to prove that problems do exist in that set at all?

edit: (non-vacuously. Provable problems are obviously vacuously in all the sets).

edit2: oh I see now (I think). Above I'd need an "AND if you can't prove it undecideable ... then you can't prove its undecidability's decideability either, and that can be proved"

So basically each level needs to be conditioned on all 0..n-2 levels not holding, then you can prove level n-1 is undecideable.

level 0: provable

level 1: provably undecideable

level 2: if not provable (can't prove level 0) then can't prove undecideable. (Goldbach, Collatz)

level 3: if it's not in level 0 or 1, then can't prove level 2.

level 4: if it's not in levels 0, 1, or 2, then can't prove level 3.

...

Which means there's no level infinity, since there's no level infinity minus 1 to talk about so it's meaningless. Correct?
If you only flip a coin to the same side 21 times in a row, it could just be chance!

It's only 1 in a million, but at about 10 the same I'd start to figure the coin wasn't fair.
Its a good point tbh. We are continuing to learn about the harms of plastic and dividing and heating them are always central in this equation. Plastic roads just sound like a recipe for microplastic runoff.
Can you go into more detail here? My understanding is that a free market requires capitalism (privately owned wealth) to function. And capitalism needs free-ish markets to actually use the wealth.

I'm also unsure how libertarianism is anti-capitalist.

Are you conflating Corporatism and Capitalism?
> There is really no reason anymore to look at any posted art, image or article illustration

Given the demand for AI art, it's safe to say that most people disagree. Personally, I like looking at pretty pictures.

Also realize that death of the author was proposed many decades ago.
> ...even though the person being sad didn’t contribute to making the ice cream.

But the issue of non-GPL software is the person on the receiving end might want to contribute, be technically able to contribute and indeed need to contribute to be able to keep using the software ... but then be blocked for legal reasons. The GPL doesn't care if you sell software or give it away or whatever, it is all about protecting freedom over time after the initial installation has happened.

The thing that makes the ice cream analogy ok is that the ice cream is literally synthesised into your body and comes under your complete control. If the ice-cream seller retained any sort of control over the ice cream after you'd ingested it that would be a serious problem! Both technically and morally. The GPL is aligning what happens in software to the analogy.
It looks like chains of reactions etc. As you say for something simple you don't need something complex.

It's a DSL for computational biology where very little documentation has apparently made it to a public forum. I can decode the programming language part of it but I'm not up to scratch on computational biology so I'm not sure exactly what they want it for.
The slippery slope fallacy is: "this is a slope. you will slip down it." and is always fallacious. Always. The valid form of such an argument is: "this is a slope, and it is a slippery one, therefore, you will slip down it."
Those are mutually exclusive.
But each generated image likely pulls from thousands, maybe millions of pieces of training data, each at a very small weight.
You realize he already owes 443 million dollars and improper behavior by a prosecutor doesn't exonerate him from his 91 indictments right? Arguing about this is a little silly, but what would actually be interesting is for you to link where you get your news.
That wouldn't make sense though - once a sizable portion of the customer base is too poor to buy the services, there's no source of income anymore and the whole system collapses.
> have read several practical guides on ledgers and found them interesting reads

Can you share some links?
I enjoy amateur radio too. I don't feel it's value for a software dev, especially in terms of interviews/resumes. Unless maybe you're working on radio related things.
That doesn’t sound like copyright.
Have you considered using a good font?

Having people with no understanding of, or worse no interest in, beautiful UIs making decisions for the display server is a worry.
Recycling saves me money because I pay monthly for my garbage service. The 64 gallon recycle can is free, but the 32 gallon garbage can has a fee. Without the free recycle can into which goes all the cans and paper waste I generate, I'd have to get a 64 gallon garbage can and pay more each month.
I often think about my grandparent’s house. She never seemed to be missing anything that was needed, and didn’t seem to want for anything, but it never felt like there “stuff” everywhere, like so many homes today. Everything was used and had a purpose, and many things were reused. My grandpa’s workbench was all organized with old glass jars to hold various sizes of nails and screws. These days people buy a plastic organizer and throw the glass jars away.
Probably because they felt confident they could set a precedent would be my guess.

Of course the argument is absurd, but this is exactly where companies like this would love to go. Virtually free support staff that incur the company absolutely no liability whatsoever.
The fact that there are so many people re-posting/sharing and joining telegram groups pretty much shows how it's effective. The fact that some of the "proof" from some of these hard core believers is directly the content from these spammers also shows its effectiveness.

I think there's plenty of evidence that counters your claim.
Some of it is “real” but some of it is kind of cargo-cult. Someone wearing gloves for their entire shift doesn’t really provide anything protective. You have to regularly change gloves to make it worthwhile.
Then they'll make it hard to get the information in any other way as well. Three humans on the phone lines and most of website content gone as they lay off the staff.
Man this is gold. Thanks for sharing. Would be curious for any naming you can do re: where to look for said BIN lists, as well as, a company or two that does this CCN thing.
After the API exodus most of the subs I like were shadows of themselves.

This is probably a good move for the Reddit owners to get some revenue for a site rapidly becoming as relevant as Slashdot.
Yes; recycling is really downcycling.

Firstly, there are too many plastics mixed together (and the article touches on that).

There is also the issue that even if you have waste that is made exactly of one kind of plastic, and it's the right one for some application, recycling works by chopping plastic into pieces. This chopping shortens the long-chain molecules that give the plastic some of its important qualities like impact strength. The resulting plastic is inferior to the original, even if pure and homogeneous.
> why do you expect that to be the future, such that you have reason to fear it?

Because if I don't have an income I don't expect to be able to afford anything bigger.

> In the absence of that tech, humans could still get jobs doing whatever the stuff is that AI can't do

Which will be manual tasks that I am aging out of being able to keep up with, or.. what? Stuff that traditionally doesn't pay as well as knowledge work, right? And may not pay much more than the UBI anyways?
What's more suspicious to me is that someone would make a seemingly obvious assertion but refuse to explain it. Help us understand what you mean instead.
It’s been quieter there than here other than done licensing derails. I think most people are desensitized to it after a decade of memes:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/fully-automated-luxu...
Happy cake day. Have an updoot.
Right so its not worth doing. Simply your just distributing stolen time and labor to subsidize it .
> What difference does it make if "we" or other spiecies (or natural events) have agency in that?

My usage wrt human agency implies will, cognition and self-reflection. Ecological exhaustion is not inevitable like with a cosmic catastrophe, because economic decision makers and consumers will it so.

"Legally" speaking, we can be held responsible.

> So essentially one of your feeling (happiness) is linked to your other feelings in some sort of a loop, correct?

It is linked to the widespread disregard of sanity and self-regulation and more specifically to the ongoing and upcoming damage this causes. We are clinging on to broken systems (food, energy, travel, throwaway electronics, general level of consumption, neoliberal narrative) thinking it can go on forever.

I don't believe in karma, but I do believe in self-correcting systems. And the biosphere is one.

Meanwhile chief capitalists are obsessed with childish or cultish ideas of colonizing Mars (lol), building kitsch cities or conquering the earth with AGI.

That said, I also think there's a timeline in which a suitable AGI really does save us and other life forms from ourselves, but it's a fundamentally non-democratic process and a huge gamble, perhaps the last one we will ever make.
The purpose of AI, and the entire drive of investment in it, is to eliminate labor costs. There's no other purpose. It is not to advance science or make a better world, it is to make money. That money comes by the expense of the many and the gain of a few. And there will not be new jobs to replace the ones lost. There's no more "learn to code!". They're there to replace all jobs possible, make a more unequal society, and nothing more.

You'd best understand this today.
China didn't draft the West's policies. If the West openly signals its own weaknesses, that is not China's problem. Globalism destroys cultures and ultimately statehood; China understands that, but the West is still firmly in denial. Who can blame China for not wanting to enter a suicide pact?
This is the daily frustrating experience of many blind or otherwise visually impaired users. Most software applications other than the really mainstream ones (MS Office, etc.) are almost impossible to use without a mouse, meaning that they are inaccessible to blind or keyboard-only users.

One way for software developers to build empathy for the experience of disabled users is to remove your mouse for a day and see how things go for you trying to use your computer.
Yes, I think people underestimate the amount of imagined LLM use cases that require accurate responses. To the point that hallucinations will cost money in fines & lawsuits.

This is a new frontier in short sighted customer service staffing (non-staffing in this case). The people who are on the frontline communicating with customers can convert unhappy customers to repeat customers, or into ex-customers. There's a few brands I won't buy from again after having to jump through too many hoops to get (bad) warranty service.
I’ve never lived anywhere in North America where scrap merchants wouldn’t buy aluminum by the pound or steel by the ton.
Counterfactual Tasks to Evaluate the Generality of Analogical Reasoning in LLMs
I think that's accurate except it looks like you need to manually continue the applications of your transform.

It looks like they've got a pure functional thing going on.
> to whom and why

To the Nazis that were kicked off or fled when Twitter had decent moderation to let them know Nazi conversations are flowing like wine and they're welcome back.
>Philosophically, if a lead developer is doing most of the commits on a project, then they are monopolizing both the code and the decision making process, which is a sure way to kill a project.

Or, just follow me here, a open source project really doesn't get that many dedicated contributors beyond the leads and everyone else may casually drive-by.
Big ag also has many advantages in the regular court system. Like simply having more capital.
Why do you assume the sun will rise tomorrow?
From the first link, it seems like the slightly to moderately higher cancer risks (correlational) of living near a dump are due to socio-economic factors (smoking).

Quotes:

A proximity analysis, which modeled how many cancer cases could be explained by distance to Fresh Kills, found that none of the five cancer types had elevated rates closer to Fresh Kills between 1995 and 2004, although it did find that some thyroid and bladder cancer rates were higher near the former landfill site between 2005 and 2015. But the researchers still saw little evidence of a link to the landfill because they could not find any reasonable explanations for how residents would have come into contact with materials in the landfill that were known or suspected to cause bladder or thyroid cancers, especially since Fresh Kills closed.

“More plausible” explanations, the authors wrote, were higher screening rates for thyroid cancer and Staten Islanders’ higher smoking rates. Smoking is a known risk factor for bladder cancer.
They meant twitter employees, not users
ULi got subsumed by nVidia shortly after PCI-Express became the norm.

They made a chipset which offered a fairly compatible AGP-like slot alongside PCI-e, and one with two full x16 slots when this otherwise required a very expensive nForce board. So of course, nVidia immediately blocked SLI support on it.
No thanks, we need less hardware running this nasty bloated spyware from convicted monopoly abuser and more running free and open systems like Steam Deck does.
The Best of Intentions: Equal Rights – and Wrongs – In Lisp
The Magic the Gathering Comprehensive Rules are a fun read: https://blogs.magicjudges.org/rules/cr/

It's in English rather than computer code, but it sets out the data model and game loop in a way that should feel pretty familiar to programmers.
> The US used to fly planes to drop leaflets over population centers, so there was the expense of creating/printing the leaflets, the expense of flying them into place, the risk of invading foreign airspace, blah blah.

Is your point that this is so inexpensive that it’s hardly a line item on a budget? Printing leaflets and flying a plane.

Seems a lot cheaper than defending Ukraine from a madman terrorist. A madman terrorist in cahoots with PRC.
There's multiple ways to deal with those issues of course, but in those cases there is an actual legal entity who can be held accountable. If the chatbot on their website is its own legal entity, how exactly does one sue it, and who actually pays damages?

This judgement remains in the sensible part of law and in doing so, sidesteps a massive, unexplored, and highly problematic can of worms.