skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They released a giant ruby blob of their patches. Usable, but certainly not cooperative. I wish Apple would get over themselves and just contribute to WINE. Make it seamless and easy for developers, and help fix the bugs as they find them. They are stuck in the middle of the chicken and egg problem while refusing to hatch some eggs.
I don't know anything about California, but if those salaries are true and achievable within reasonable effort, why wouldn't young people flock from the entire nation to work in healthcare? Maybe there's some limiting factor?

Biglaw and finance consulting I doubt is open for everybody to work in, unless your parents paid for a prestigious college. The door is pretty well welded shut, as far as I know. Social media is on the other hand free to start building your audience.

Tech is the outlier, I agree with you on that one. If you have the talent you can make it in tech still as a young person only on talent and hard work.

Social media is such a tiny opportunity monetarily that it doesn't even count. It's not the money making young people flock to social media – because there is almost no money there – it is the chance of being somebody, having people listening to you and getting some respect as a person. Rather than being treated as a piece of shit by your boss for no reason.

Not in the US, but the (hard working) engineers and dentists that I personally know all needed financial help from parents to be able to afford their very humble dwellings. Every financially successful person I know either inherited real estate or bought real estate before most of humans were born. Some of them also work hard, but that doesn't influence their financials much.

I'd like to ask what is the average pay for a non-working homeowner in California? How much can they expect to earn tax free per year from their real estate increasing in value, as compared to the hard working and highly taxed nurse earning from labour?
The lack of thoughtful urban planning is only a small factor. Yes, you have 30% more traffic related deaths, but check all other quality of living related indices and you can only conclude the US is a not even competing.

As a result, check your position in the happiness index and wonder if you, as a country, maybe fail your citizens. The only index where the US is leading is GDP, and that’s not a big factor in anyone’s life.

You can’t put a price on feeling safe. There are lots of tiktok and yt videos of expats living here who explain just that.
Warp Terminal is now available for Linux
Thanks. Well, everyone says there’s little interest in…, but for some reason surveillance keeps increasing. That tells me there actually is interest.
Because the bot can't see deleted posts, can't see associated metadata, and whatever else reddit hides from view.
In a socialist economy (in theory!) the lives of people have intrinsic value regardless of their productivity. In a (purely) capitalist economy, a person's value comes instead from the value they contribute to society. Under socialism, work is a necessity to keep welfare solvent. Under capitalism, a worker's welfare is the market price of their work.

Under (ideal) socialism, automation reduces how much human labor is required to provide welfare. Under capitalism, automation displaces workers from jobs, creating structural unemployment. It's up to the workers to justify their continued existence by re-skilling and finding a new job.

A major problem with socialism was laziness. If income isn't tied to work, why work at all? And if nobody works, there's no income. Usually, this is answered by authoritarianism - you must justify your existence to the Party, rather than the market. This is less relevant with automation, since machines don't need financial incentives. Socialism should become increasingly viable as automation makes UBI cheaper.

...whereas the endpoint of capitalism, it seems to me, is serfdom, as it becomes increasingly difficult to justify any wages, so a person's value becomes purely a function of the capital they own - such as shares in increasingly autonomous megacorps.
This is a matter of ergonomics and how close this thing is to production readiness; there's no reason the neural-net approach couldn't evolve and open up the parameters you want to tweak. Neural nets are just functions after all. You can refactor functions to expose params.

Without being an expert in this area, I imagine one such way would be to train a second neural net that learns to regress traditional workflow parameters to best approximate the NeRF output, then let a user post-edit those parameters to fine-tune.
I think going to a statistics based generator with the intention to take what you see as an accurate representation of reality is a non starter.

The model isn’t trying to replicate reality, it’s trying to minimize some error metric.

Sure it may be inspired by reality, but should never be considered an authority on reality.

And yes, the words an LLM write have no meaning. We assign meaning to the output. There was no intention behind them.

The fact that some models can perfectly recall _some_ information that appears frequently in the training data is a happy accident.
Remember, transformers were initially designed for translation tasks.
Well, few unpopular thoughts:

- cities was NEEDED despite their issues for many reasons, reasons that slowly almost disappear while the society evolve, especially in the modern time with '80s logistics revolutions that nullify the benefit of having productions, workforce and customers in a tight area and WFH that nullify the need of offices, so the need to be near enough to reach the office we have almost exhausted remaining reasons of existence for large, dense cities;

- large dense cities can't evolve, simply because it's too complex and costly doing ANYTHING compared to do the same in a far less dense area.

Long story short my unpopular view of modern cities is a kind of modern open prisons where inmates are just farm animals to be used to operate services they consume to live without owning them and without the option to earn enough to elevate their condition. ALL modern development I see so far goes in this direction. Personally I do not like being a farm animal and I do not like having no choices about not only my own personal future but also the future of my descendants after me, meaning the ability not only to live my life producing eventual new life, but also the ability to give my newly produced life resources and knowledge to go past me based with what I did not only what the society offer at a certain point in time.

A high rise not designed to avoid Sun exposure in summer, grabbing as much as needed in winter can't be adopted much, we can't really create exterior structures to shadow the "high Sun" in summer and allow deep penetration of "low winter Sun" and that's MUCH of energy issues of buildings in most inhabited latitudes. Similarly we can't do much to make "heat chimney" to evacuate locally produced heat (from heat pumps, fridges, anything) toward the atmosphere to keep as cool as possible at ground level. Something can be done, but with less effect and higher costs than simply giving up MOST dense cities to implement the new deal in new areas where there is also a bit less exposure to floods, fires etc etc etc.
I know it's comedy, but the essense relies on faulty reasoning of why you were employed.

You are employed because the company expects the profit/savings you generate to exceed the cost of employment. If that stops being true, then naturally it's no longer profitable to employ you.

You'll notice there is no mention of the overall profitability of the organization in that equation. It holds equally true for both profitable and unprofitable orgs.

Obviously the world in messy, and it isn't always clear whether a given department or unit is or will be profitable.
Thanks! Can you send the cached link?
AskHistorians is like 2M, and remains the best that site has to offer.
I'd go a step further: the compiler should solely be a way to run the library, no extra code.
Navalny’s wife was just banned and then shadow banned. There are countless examples of leftist accounts getting banned just for being critical about Musk.

It’s absolutely conservative cesspool. Nazis can are literally posting 14 words propaganda all day long and there are no consequences.
Have you tried the simplified, local-first distributions e.g. k3d, kind, etc. to experiment on your machine first?
If I want an elephant, I would accept literally anything as output including an inflatable yellow elephant in a swimming pool.

But when I improve the prompt and ask the AI for a grey elephant near a lake, more specifically, I don't want it to gaslight me into thinking this is something only a white supremacist would ask for and refuse to generate the picture.
> I'm not sure why

If I remember correctly as most of them were DSPs and need a driver to load a binary blob to work correctly. All of them had their own spin on the process. Most linux distros did not ship the blobs either. So you would have a bit of fun cracking it out of some random windows EXE just so you could put it somewhere the driver could reach it. It was worth the extra 20-50 bucks it would cost just to not buy one of those things and use it in linnx. Remember this was at a time when a bit of ram (1MB) would cost 100+ dollars. There was a reason they were cheap. They did not have enough hardware to run standalone and relied on the OS to do the loader work.
Training on data from Reddit will certainly fix Gemini's bias against white men.
You're ready to lead.
Farcaster and Lens are much better alternatives than Bluesky. Not only you host your own data but you can choose your frontend and permissionlessly use the protocol backend. Web3 is the way to go for social media.
This is dystopian. A company like Google will be able to surveil more and the only outcome is more invasion of privacy and more targeted ads. Why doesn't FTC stand up for this?
The complexity and scale of moderns systems are on another scale of magnitude.
Is that 425,000 lines of APL?!
If they used coreboot I’d probably be able to upgrade myself.
I think any company that does layoffs in the US should be blocked from hiring H1-B workers for a period of 5 years.

In addition, the CEO and board of directors should have a tax increase of 15% on their income and capital gains taxes for 5 years.
It's literally the main reason to go. It's most explicit in the MBA schools, where the admissions office of various schools would tell me "we're great if you're going for this area, or live in this area, otherwise we recommend another school". The MBA teaching is almost the same everywhere, what you learn - but the whole value is who you meet.
They elected to do that because the 1 billion dollar write down yield 300 billion in market value -- firing people literally raised their market cap more than what those people could earn doing a real job earning real revenue.

To be clear, this is not people being fired for bullshit jobs. This is people being fired because their 1 billion in revenue is a fraction of the 300 billion in stock price opportunity.

Ask me how I know...
Here’s a simpler explanation. Google is getting their butt kicked by OpenAI and rushed out an imperfect product. This is one of probably 50 known issues with Gemini but it got enough attention that they had to step in and disable a part of the product.
The reason the custom hashtable wins out isn't something generally applicable. For the very specific dataset used in the challenge, the hash function could be radically simplified, to just a single multiply and rotate left.

To be fair, I didn't try out the hashbrown API. Maybe that, together with FxHash, would have been enough for the official dataset with 97% of keys < 16 bytes. But, I was optimizing for the "10k" dataset as well, with a lot of longer keys, and hashing just the first 8 bytes was the winning idea.
This was called a "softmodem": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmodem
Because it is chicken feed to them but sets a floor that represents a significant barrier for other players that might seek to get the same type of deal?
Can you at a high level explain why people are mad about this? Is there a difference in the sort of people on Bluesky vs Mastodon, or is it a technical disagreement?
It only takes a few people missing an exit and swerving to create a bunch of traffic. So many people are used to not navigating manually anymore I can’t imagine it doesn’t have a big effect.
I thought MK has severe infrastructure issues that the council has no money to fix, and everyone is just ignoring it? I could be totally wrong though
The young lad who blames capitalism has obviously never lived under socialism.
Operations is one part of a business. Canning your development and marketing doesn’t affect that right away. Everything gets a little shittier over time.

The best tech example is IBM. They descended from industry leader to desiccated husk, only sustained by legacy business and acquisitions.
The problem with hand-written lexers/parsers (and some generated parsers, notably PEG these days) is that you have no idea if you can actually trust it.

There are so many weird edge cases for lexing and parsing that I would never dare to do it without machine verification.
A company probably should try new things if they have enough extra money. A company definitely shouldn't develop a reputation for abandoning every new thing they try shortly after launch. Why would any company risk depending on a new Google offering for something they actually care about?
I chose 70B and gave it a code task, and it answered as Phind-34B. This was my first query. Did I trip a limit or do something wrong?
Please give me some DIMM slots on the GPU so that I can choose my own memory like I'm used to from the CPU-world and which I can re-use when I upgrade my GPU.
It's a lot simpler than that, firing people was earning 30x return in stock price. Almost no one's actual revenue to the company was worth that. The market has created negative human incentives.
Ideally when you automate yourself out of one job, you are then available to take on another, and also to have more flexibility and higher compensation as part of that process. This is pretty much what “leveling up” is. Either literal automation, or automation through establishing process, culture, and hires around you.

If you want to automate yourself and then stop working you need to be an owner.
Agreed! My own gut feeling is that it leaned pretty heavily left and it's now closer to center than ever, and people are noticing the delta.

Every time I open BlueSky it's like 50% Liberal rage-bait and like 40% people posting mostly about their sexual and gender identities.
Twitter has a lot of very right-wing posters and a lot of very left-wing posters. Which of these you're likely to see as a huge problem and which you're likely to dismiss as a few insignificant goofballs is probably going to be based on your own political orientation. It would be surprising if there hasn't been a rightward shift, though, considering that causing such was one of the current owner's explicit goals. I don't think it's unreasonable for people to perceive Twitter as favoring the political right when the owner is actively doing so.
The Five Principles for Solid Software Design (2017)
I heard a rumor years ago that Russian train systems still run on Delphi.
They may not have needed to go, but they almost certainly received advantages for having gone.

Even Billy G would have had two years of knowledge of people whom he could tap - and if you go back and research early Microsoft, I bet you'd see evidence of that.
Abortion Shield Laws: A New War Between the States
The fact that the training data is human curated arguably further removes the generations from representing reality (as we see here with this whole little controversy)

I think, with respect to the point I was making, they are the same thing.
> The bullshit job phenomenon is the problem here.

Which part is bullshit? The part where, in order to survive, everyone* needs a job? Or the part where, because everyone* needs a job, some jobs might not be as important as others?

*Y'all know what I mean.
I agree. We are gradually discarding (again) all possible methods of resource allocation other than market capitalism, so we have to make up pretend jobs for people to do in order to give ourselves the excuse to feed them. For some reason, we think that companies should maintain this insane indirection as a public service.

We're not paying people to dig holes and fill them up as a society, instead we're demanding that centers of production and growth willingly disdain productivity in order to subsidize people digging holes and filling them up.

We'd be far better off directly subsidizing education, health care, or even customer service and scientific research than demanding that the real sources of all economic growth (and prosperity) have departments printing out reams of paper for another department to shred. Efficiency and technology lower costs and (when properly distributed) give people more time for leisure across the system. You aren't sticking it to the fat cats by telling them not to do layoffs; if you want to stick it to the fat cats, tax their profits and strip layers of economic indirection/middlemen.
It's not quite that simple. "In March, UC temporarily suspended the current standardized test requirement for fall 2021 applicants to mitigate impacts of COVID-19 on students and schools, effectively making UC “test-optional” for that year." So the May decision had no immediate practical effect, since the requirement was already suspended.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/university...

In this case there was a coincidence, because California had started reconsidering the test requirement back in 2018, and the process happened to reach culmination in 2020... but not until after the pandemic started.

The decision was also very much about guaranteeing spots for California residents in California schools.
Enterprise Darwinism.
It seems like the most likely answer is that it is just a lot of different things in different people. Fatigue is a symptom in almost any and all illnesses.
Yeah, not sure if it would be better if Google put all those people to work on their main products like most other companies. Google maintains their ability to launch new products by those constant launches, they are like constant small exercises, sure they usually aren't new billion dollar products but at least they still know how to launch new products fast unlike many other companies.
Retrieval Augmented Generation aka RAG with a relevant context. Long contexts continue to have the lost in the middle syndrome.
>With many large corporations and institutions supporting it.

Corporations don't give a shit, they'll just pander to whatever trend makes them money in each geographical region at a given time.

They'll gladly fly the LGBT flag on their social media mastheads for pride month ... except in Russia, Iran, China, Africa, Asia, the middle east, etc.

So they don't really support LGBT people, or anything for that matter, they just pretend they do so that you'll give them your money.

Google's Gemini is no different. It's programed with biases Google assumed the American NPC public will accept. Except they overdid it.
RS232 null modem ftw!
thank you for saying this. the archives of HN comments are going to make a fascinating case study for the next civilization explaining why this one collapsed.
And yet - the Soviet Union has an even greater advantage in resources and manpower over Afghanistan. But what eventually happened there?
We went from 0% interest rate to a whole lot real quick. It used to be there was literally no overhead for over hiring if it moved the bar at all. Thats not true anymore.
The Brave web browser.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035025231-Wha...

Also here, under "Who is using WebTorrent today?":

https://webtorrent.io/faq
I think discord did more harm since it's harder to find information.
> The vast majority of drivers are on familiar routes and are not navigating via electronic means.

I've been rerouted due to an accident many times, and I've seen the detours get backed up because of people taking more optimal routes (without traffic being redirected via other means).

I'd be curious to see more data on it, but I would speculate it's less than the "vast majority".

> Better question: How are the autonomous cars doing? Are they parked by the side of the road unable to navigate without cell coverage.

Yeah, that falls under my point about Uber/Lyft/taxis. I would speculate there is broader impact from those vs. autonomous cars (that are probably still relatively uncommon).
This is nice, but I'm confused about one thing: how can instance owners ensure illegal content such as CSAM doesn't get cached on their servers if defederation is not a thing?
So... WINE for Mac can run x86-32 apps again now? Awesome to hear, at least for my Intel stuff... but what I couldn't find, also not in the FAQ: can WINE/Crossover for Mac run x86/32/64 stuff on Apple Silicon machines?

(Alternatively: is there any at least somehow performant VM allowing me to run Windows 7 as a VM on Apple Silicon? I tried UTM but the guest tool drivers they ship are more or less all broken.)
Not a problem for AI that controls the screen (mouse and keyboard), it can participate anywhere and extract information by mimicking humans. Multiple companies are working on it, including apparently OpenAI.
Building a nuclear power plant required sustained competence at scale.

Modern Britain doesn't do competence as a matter of principle. And certainly not "sustained", nor "at scale".
The argument I think you're making is "0.0001% of scottish people in the 16th century were black, so it's not realistic to criticize google if it produces historical images of scottish people where >25% of the individuals are black".

If you take the totality of examples given (beyond the scottish one), it's clear there's nothing specific about scotland here, the problem is systemic, and centered around class and race specifically. It feels to me- consistent with what many others have expressed- that Google specifically is applying query rewrites or other mechanisms to generate diversity where it historically did not exist, with a specific intent. That's why they shut down image generation a day after launching.
> Why is anyone so quick to take the company side?

Corporate and Political propaganda since the Powell Memo.
How about we put a floor on bad experiences instead of trying to figure out how to push our experiences further

we can start by collectively solving poverty and go from there

It’s really as simple as caring about improving the world for others worse off than you over making yourself more comfortable

Only you can determine where your lines are
Weird how oil site cleanup/remediation programs and things like DAC are essentially an indirect subsidy for what should be a brownfield's lifetime cost.
Twitter shed 80% and still works, is still the go to outside of fringe empty echo chambers of the left and right divide. Not only that but they added a significant amount of features like Grok, which I know nothing about really, and Substack like payments.

80% is a lot and it works just fine. 7,500 to 1,300 in Jan 2023. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/twitter-is-down-to-fewer-tha...
And no, the article doesn't say where he got the material.
There's quite a number of variables that go into college selection, and just because you qualify for a bunch doesn't mean that the "most elite" would be the best. Sometimes it is better to be the big fish in the small pond; other times you're better off being smaller in a bigger pond.

Part of the problem is trying to work all this out at an age where you're not even allowed to vote, let alone buy a beer or a gun.

One of the surest things to aim for, in my opinion, is minimizing external debt carried afterwards, which for low income but high achieving students, may mean aiming at the very top, where full scholarships are available.