skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wake up buddy. You have well learned the French socialist propaganda lesson. Unemployment in France since our 4 latest presidents have become aligned with California (around 180 days max). Ie capped in amount and limited in time.
I don’t doubt many people around you have it worse.

Heavily subsidized rent ?? Where do you live in a social housing project ? What an ambition for an engineer graduate from a so called good public school ! What has this country become frankly to be happy with heavily subsidized rents ? I guess it comes half of the time with drug dealers in the entrance hall, or am I wrong and you have an included gym and swimming pool in the building ?
In that case I understand why you have zero debt for sure you don’t own the place where you live because at 15k per sq meter in Paris you can’t own anything decent for 60k salary.
Social security ? Let me laugh, unless if you compare it to UK’s NHS or 3rd world system, I hope you will never experience the French hospitals Emergencies admissions. Just compare it to Spain and you’ll see how miserable things have become. And I’m not talking about medications shortages, +6months wait time to see a specialist, generalists that refuse new patients, etc.
Subsidized child care ? I guess you have no clue about what a proper child care system works, ask your colleagues from Northern Europe and they’ll tell you.
I guess you didn’t check the news about what’s going on inside those public creches. It’s as good as what’s happening in French retirement homes. But you’re probably cool because you were told it was cool.
Both companies are American, as am I, so I'm speaking to my experience, but you're right, it's a rather global phenomena. Greed is a universal human trait, as are xenophobia, racism, and elitism. There's some good traits in the mix too of course. Can't say you naming yourself after a serial killer inspires me though.
Your examples are not very good.

As a software developer, I have stopped buying bread from bakeries many years ago, because I no longer like the bread made by modern industrial methods.

Now I make every morning a bread for myself, kneading the dough and baking it (in a microwave oven, where baking is much faster and more reproducible than in a traditional oven).

I would like to also mill the wheat seeds into flour, but I do not have a suitable electric mill. Nevertheless, I mill other plant seeds that I use in much smaller quantities, e.g. poppy seeds, from which I bake a sponge cake.

Anything that you can do yourself at home independently of others will always provide better results than anything that you can purchase.

I agree that there is a correlation between specialization and the size of the labor pool, but even in a small country with a few million humans the size of the labor pool is enough to cover all specialities.

The reasons why various industries are now missing from most small countries (even if they frequently have existed there earlier) have nothing to do with the size of their labor pool. An explanation of those reasons would need a much ampler space.

If I compare my standard of living with that of my grandfather before WWII, there are no real improvements, except that now I am able to do myself a lot of work that he did not do, but my grandmother did for him.

Because now I cook everything with a microwave oven, I can spend very little time with cooking in comparison with my grandmother. The same by using a programmable washing machine for clothes and a vacuum cleaner instead of brooms.

So the progress in living standard is only that I no longer need an unemployed spouse or a servant to do the housework, which is good, because unlike my grandfather I could not afford to support adequately a second person from my salary.
> That was all at the expense of the company, but so what?

If somebody steals a plane or burn a building, so what? Insurance will pay.

> I think the real issue is why did that company's culture and reward structure allow this to happen?

It would be a positive outcome (for society) this kind of company (that rewards inefficiency and poor of work ethics) going bankrupt.

But it's complicated because there is a lot we don't see. Companies matter to, they are made of people and people depend on them to provide goods/services or income.
>It allows for apps to have almost free reign over the filesystem of other apps (read, write, modify), among other powerful capabilities

What went so wrong with personal computing that allowing an application to have access to the files on the device with the user's permission is now considered an unthinkable crime? Is the average smartphone user so clueless about the capabilities of their device beyond scrolling through tiktok that the use cases for this are beyond them?

It's because of people like you that I can't even load up an FTP app to backup the files on my android phone to my PC anymore.
Too few humans for the infrastructure we've built, perhaps
> The proportion of those aged 18 to 24 who had never had sex was 28 per cent, up from 5 per cent in 2006.

What? If this is correct (I doubt it) this alone sounds extremely worrying, also because it indicates that it's mostly a problem with the new generation. It's a 5-fold increase from 18 years ago.
Mobile phones! I'm always shocked how couples on dates in restaurants don't talk but each attends to their own screen.

Governments will need to switch off the signal on Saturday nights to ensure survival of the population (looking at World Bank fertility statistics increases the concern raised in the article).

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN
This just seems like a completely insane take to me. Every country that manages to combine a hard on crime approach with an actually effective police force has incredibly low crime rates.

Singapore is the most expensive city in the world, has no minimum wage, and doesn’t have a universal welfare program. It also routinely hands out prison time and caning (which is rather gruesome if you weren’t familiar with it) as punishments for crimes as minor as graffiti. That combined with an effective police force, a very high police to resident ratio, very low corruption, and there’s no question at all why their country is so clean and safe.
The world was not an entertainment-less void before TV & computers. There were social gatherings, reading, writing, radio, games, thinking, hobbies and crafts, etc.

Most people probably went to bed earlier though.
I won't agree... I think it was much easier in 2009 to operate online completely anonymous. The video surveillance was not prevalent – just pick some crowded places with free wifi randomly, don't use a cell phone, wear some sunglasses and a surgical mask, use a clean generic browser agent, use a usb-stick linux distro which will not be able to save anything on the hard drive and have some hacked proxies in another parts of the world ready to entangle your traffic routes - state actors back then would be scratching their heads forever trying to solve such a case.
Put differently: when we ask them to give us payment details at the start, we know a significant percentage will forget to cancel (or FOMO) after their need is gone.
Is F5 trying to kill the original nginx.
[Cfr hostile take-overs of Microsoft]
I am attempting to come to grips with this problem actively. What are people's thoughts about using an LLM as a tool for linking out information?

Traditional search is not proving enough in connecting patients and providers with the absolute wealth of information on grants, best practices, etc. There is simply too much content in too many places. I dream of something like "Cancer Bot 9000" that would be able to connect to resources pulled from a RAG, not necessarily answer the questions directly but interpret the questions and connect the person with the most likely resources. Bonus points for additional languages or accessibility which I constantly see as a barrier.
Looking for the Crypto Island – Bitcoin Cash 2022 Documentary [video]
Money is anything which: is a store of value; is a medium of exchange; is a unit of account; is a standard for future payment.

It needs to be durable, transportable, divisible and difficult to counterfeit.

Famous example - cigarettes in a POW camp:

https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/econ4260/out/radford_pow.pdf
"How do you know that the Soviet Union was planned by a back-end developer? - All the users were starving but the database was huge."
No. Just a normal licensing deal to get direct access to the API firehose and permission to consume it and use it.
> As an engineer who cares deeply about quality as an ethical imperative

Nothing you said after that matches this statement.
You're supposed to publish results that can be reproduced as you describe.

And it wasn't an outlier.

The simplest comparison I can make to illustrate the point without boring you is measuring the power of a car engine.

Imagine that you get a very high torque number, but horsepower doesn't match. Issue is: torque and horsepower are linearly dependent

torque = HP * RMP / 5252

Measurements that linerarly correlated with the voltage published were all consistent with a number 10/15% lower.
It's hard to call something virtually every other systems language does 'novel' given for example C++ has async/await though?
Do you have a source? That's also what I thought but I wouldn't be surprised if the model learned to identify its own perplexity during the reinforcement learning phase.
There used to be an entire sub-field of NLP called Open Domain Question Answering (ODQA). It extensively studied the problem of selecting the best answer from the set of plausible answers and devised a number of potential strategies. Like everything else in AI/ML it fell victim to the "bitter lesson", in this case that scaling up "predict the next token" beats an ensemble of specialized linguistic-based methods.
> True, but I think we can fall into the trap of expecting too much of LLMs.

We’re already well past that point. Why? Because saying incredible things about AI attracts VC money.
Not addressed well or at depth.

The current pressures global populations face due to water access and increased insulation in the atmosphere are not ones that can be magically waved away by technology in short order as population increases and increases the scale of those issues.

Of course there are other challenges, but those two suffice for now.
I disagree with the last paragraph. If there are four factors that all combine to create an outcome, we don’t ignore factor 1 just because factors 2-4 can nullify any advantage.

My garden grows based on light, CO2, macro nutrients, and water. We don’t say “CO2 is not a factor in plant growth because deficits in water, nutrients, and light can prevent it from showing in overall outcome.”
It is probably not that Kagi or Marginalia have more advanced technology. The problem is that SEO scum is only targeting the relevant players.
Isn’t that an even stronger argument for upgrading an existing plant in situ versus spinning a new one up?
I believe what they're trying to get at is related to the following quote from your article:

> This also alleviates the need for considering any sort of question about “what happens if you cancel the cancellation future,” and whether that is recursive or idempotent: once a future begins canceling, “canceling” it again is idempotent, because its already canceling; there is no second future to cancel.

I think the misunderstanding they had is that what you call "async cancellation" requires a second future (which is implicitly constructed from `poll_cancel` or something like that), whose entirely purpose is to run the cancellation code of the first future. If this were the case, then we'd have to ask the question "What happens if the cancellation future is cancelled? Who cleans up after it?"

I don't have enough experience with async Rust in practice yet (sadly), so I was also tripped up when reading at first. I think that you call it "async cancellation" makes people think that it's a separate future, even though (from the type signature of `poll_cancel`) it should be completely clear that it isn't.

Sorry, I hope I got everything right, and that this clears up what I believe to be the misunderstanding for everyone involved!
People saying "he doesn't address the downsides" could read the three pages on the same site which do address the downsides, and which are prominently linked right at the start of the essay:

https://rootsofprogress.org/unsustainable

https://rootsofprogress.org/catastrophic-resource-shortages

https://rootsofprogress.org/can-growth-continue-ignite-talk
Splinters inevitable: An innate limitation of working with wood /s
> disingenuous argument to smear me like I am stupid

I don't know what this is about. My post has nothing like that.

The thing I disagree with is that you think being an American gives you the unique privilege to weigh in on the matters of America, and that people in other countries should just keep their nose out of it. And that not knowing one single detail about something fairly inconsequential disqualifies people from having an opinion.

Attack their argument. You don't get to disqualify them from having one because of where they live.
Actually it seems to me that they do... I asked via custom prompts the various GPTs to give me scores for accuracy, precision and confidence for its answer (in range 0-1), and then I instructed them to stop generating when they feel the scores will be under .9, which seems to pretty much stop the hallucination. I added this as a suffix to my queries.
A lot of people have said chat-gpt/copilot is a lot like having a robotic junior dev around.

I think perhaps your description is more succinct
I completely agree with your sentiment, but I think whether or not you did vector arithmetic correctly at a first-year undergraduate course level is not subjective.
Via google drive. It's not an automatic sync but it's sufficiently low-friction one for my purposes.
Not saying anything about LLM But in CS in general many issues "cannot be solved" or "Cannot be solved in reasonable time (NP)" but approximations upper bound by some value are solvable in reasonable time (P).

And in the real world if the truck route of amazon is 20% off the mathematically optimal solution the traveling salesman is "Solved" in a good enough way.
I would highly encourage everyone that I strongly dislike to find random things with nonsensical artificial intelligence generated descriptions and then sudo curl | sh
The scale is the whole system, so many different groups of people.

To take your restaurant comparison that'd be like saying McDonalds is an average sized restaurant, which might be true for each individual McDonalds, but not for the entire system of the McDonalds chain of restaurants.
That is your opinion and you are welcome to it, I'd agree with you but then we would both be wrong.
The government cleans the streets regularly, so relocating unclean people into places the city doesn't clean isn't going to make the city any cleaner. You probably haven't had much experience being around people who can't take of themselves and haven't got anyone caring for them. Whatever properties they inhabit will become blighted and swarms of insects like cockroaches will infest everything nearby.
Ah. I see. For me such a moment was "The Zen of Erlang" and reading Joe Armstrong's thesis. Earlier (much eralier) it was Numerical Recipes or "Multiple View Geometry" by Hartley and Zisserman.
There are links to three pages where he goes into depth.
> MIME type may be application/jsonl

Don't do this. Don't encourage people to use a value that's not registered yet. Say "x-jsonl", and you're OK.
> it requires buy-in into the npm ecosystem

Actually, that’s not true anymore. There is the standalone tailwind-cli that can be used without npm.

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/standalone-cli
I think the big difference is that with web search there will be a couple of reputable sources that will be at/near the top, like web MD and Mayo clinic. I can search and click one of those and be fairly sure it'll be accurate. There is no immediate way with chat gpt for me to know if it is reliable or crank mode.
I wonder if cognition or intelligence is actually "brain damage". Your bad memory is leading to erroneous paths but some of these will eureka. Genetic evolution and natural selection are essentially that.

If your memory is too bad, then you are either insane or in an advanced state of Alzheimer. If you have enough stable paths to lead a quasi-normal life, then you become an inventor or an artist; or something atypical.

Hallucination is the feature, not the bug.
The design in Eric Holk's post that I link has that property because it has an `on_cancel` combinator to add a future to run when another future is cancelled (and anticipates the problem of then cancelling that future and so on); that section of my post is just about why I wouldn't have that combinator and how if you don't, this problem doesn't exist.
Everything in those links could have been more concisely expressed in a single sentence, short enough even to make a pithy quote, drawn from one of them:

"The question of severe externalities is interesting and difficult, but let’s set it aside for the moment."
https://archive.is/T798z
It doesn't really matter how well you can imagine your job afterwards, if the powers that be are more likely than not primarily imagining reduced labor costs.
Hype and "good enough" override critical thinking :(
> Surely learning an algorithm is memorization?

Not in this context, no. An LLM is never given any algorithm to memorise. It is given only input->output sets, and it "learns" what the algorithm is from those sets.

We know that it does this because it is able to generalize that algorithm to inputs and outputs outside of its set of training examples. So we know that it doesn't only memorise which input connects to which output, and regurgitate that information. It has come to "understand" the formula that connects the input to the output, without ever being given that formula.
> Strikes of rail workers and doctors are of course strikes, but they are mostly limited to just not working,

Not working is the definition of a strike.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_action

> Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

Rioting and damaging property is not part of a strike. That is somewhere on the road to a war, or some other word for conflict resolution resulting involving violence.
Surely the bush itself cannot be responsible for its own pruning, that would be a conflict of interest. Anyway, it's always best to start pruning at the top.
In the sense that one might read palms among the vast array of waving hands, yes.
any suggestions for node.js on this? This one seems specific to elixir
I don’t think it’s fair to single this individual out and quiz them on their personal circumstances.

They found time to do something they enjoyed and found a little more time to share it with like-minded people. That’s all that matters.
>The contrived nature of it makes race seem like a big deal, instead of something irrelevant, and it’s creepy and weird.

What's weird and creepy is the discomfort with people's preferences and the imposition of their own in such a non-transparent way.

It's also clear for things to have gotten this bad they have to be repressing employees into not saying the emperor wears no clothes.
Giving Ada a Chance (2021)
From the page:

> any help writing the RFC would be greatly appreciated (see issue).

I guess you can sign up if you want an RFC.
depends on the likelihood of those "what if" questions.

A bif chunk of good architecture is judgement: navigating the path between "building for the future" and YAGNI. It's much easier to end up at one end or the other, for example:

* k8s and microservices and sharded, cached data storage and Angular and NX in case we get to internet scale.... on our internal web app with max 400 users

* we're not gonna use a database because we don't know we'll need one... on an accounting system that needs to handle 1000s payments per hour.

I've seen both. I read GP's post as: we have ADRs that justify paying the complexity task when the balance of probability/evidence doesn't justify it. Good judgement is hard. It's one area where good devs/architects can make a really meaningful impact.
Rust shipped async/await before C++ (Rust in 2019, C++ in 2020). C++'s version is not memory safe.
And yet someone more than a decade older than me once told me they were a hippie and slept around in their youth "...because TV went off the air at 9pm and there was nothing else to do."
Isn’t it always hallucinating though? We just don’t care when it gets it “right”. As I understand it, it’s still just probability based on what is likely to be a good set of words to answer the prompt tasking it. It doesn’t actually know anything, it’s just extremely good at making stuff up.

Which is still very useful for a lot of things. Just maybe not things to which value is assigned based on how efficient and correct the answer is. Like you can have GPT make a marketing campaign for you, or you can have it design all the icons you need for your application UI, but you can’t reliably make it wrote high performance back-end code without having humans judge the results. Similarly you can’t use it to teach anyone anything, not really, because unless you’re already an expert on the subject being taught, you aren’t likely to spot when it gets things wrong. I guess you can argue that a lot of teaching is flawed like that, and you wouldn’t be wrong. Like, I was taught that the pyramids was build by slave labour, even after the archeological evidence had shown this to be likely false. But our text books were a decade old because our school didn’t really renew them very often… in such a case GPT might have been a more correct teacher, but the trick is that you won’t really know. Which is made even more complicated by the fact that it might teach different things to different students. Like, I just asked ChatGPT 3.5 who build the pyramids in 3 different prompts, in one it told me it was ordinary people. In the others it told me it was mostly skilled labour under guidance of “architects” and “engineers”. Still better than teaching us it was done by slave labour like my old book, but the book was still consistent in what was considered to be the truth at the time.
> I cannot believe how much this stuff costs presumably in the USA!

> ...

> Why is it so much more expensive in the US for these drugs? I’m struggling to understand how a place with a way more massive economy and no doubt higher demand, but also more supply, is paying these insane prices?!

Yeah, this is one of the places where pricing is broken a bit.

I guess that GDP number has to come from somewhere.

> I just bought a box of Saxenda (liraglutide) (5 pens + 100 needles) yesterday for $492 which is like the equivalent of $300USD and I didn’t use insurance or anything to pay.
>
> All up including the cost of getting my Dr to do the prescription it cost me $511. Which where I live this is considered expensive because most medications are free except for certain ones like saxenda. The hardest part of accessing GLP1’s where I live is that I’m in a tiny country and the manufacturers only supplies a small amount, so waitlists for the drugs are like 5 months long.

I do wonder how long until we see more international sales of these drugs... Found a super high quality article on this from KKF[0] -- it looks like we may be making some progress on allowing more international drug importing soon.

[0]: https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/10-faqs-on-prescrip...
Perhaps in a larger urban center the bread you prefer would be available in a specialty bakery.
To be honest, I imagine I would. Variables named could be different but it would largely be the same as code others have written. For example, I am creating an app in React Native at the moment. My app will not be unique in terms of code but instead in business domain.