skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a common refrain from the YIMBY crowd, but I'm skeptical that the driving force of NIMBYism is wealth.

My own experience is that I couldn't care less about my property value: I view my mortgage as mostly a locked-in monthly payment, a guard against rent increases and against being forced to move if the landlord decides to do something different.

However, I would actively campaign against a large multi-family housing development being built within a few blocks of me. I don't want the added traffic it would bring, I don't want the added noise, and I don't want the more frequent turnover. I enjoy being able to recognize all of my neighbors, not just because it's nice but because it makes me feel safer.

If you actually went out and interviewed NIMBYs instead of just reading the stereotypes on the internet, I suspect that the motivations I describe above are much more common than wealth. It's not as exciting or provocative as "the upper-middle class just wants to get richer", but it's the reality that many of us live in.
> tongue in cheek counterpoint: Rimworld players love Random Randy :P

Even randy random isn't entirely random, people love it since it sends you big threats, so it is coded to ensure it throws you big threats. If it randomly didn't send big waves people wouldn't like it as much.

"If Randy has not fired a major threat after 13 days, the next Randy fired event becomes a major threat."

https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Randy_Random

> There's been a lot of games recently that seem to be doing procedural land generation, is there not a way this can be applied to AI personalities as well or is there no overlap between them?

I'm certain that is possible, but we don't have nearly as much intuitive understanding how to generate full fledged personalities hooked into an LLM that changes how the character acts and his motivations etc that will actually work well when put in a world and interacting with other NPC's in that world.

Terrain is just really easy to generate well enough, almost everything else is way harder.
I use devenv with flakes. That allows me to use standard Nix commands including nix run.
Thanks for asking! I'm Michael Brantley, Flox CTO and formerly responsible for build and release engineering at the D. E. Shaw group. The high-level summary can be found in https://flox.dev/about but the back story is that I started diving into Nix in late 2017, and once I finally understood how Nix worked, how amazing the Nix community is and the incredible potential of the Nixpkgs collection I immediately realized I'd been "doing it wrong" all this time! It was then that we embarked on an effort to deploy Nix internally, but soon ran into many obstacles to enterprise adoption.

As I'm sure will be similar for many other teams, our Nix deployment started life as a series of bespoke applications and systems created to address such obstacles, but I suppose the difference in our case was that we had an internal venture studio called DESCOvery who recognized the impact that it could have on devs everywhere, and then worked closely with Ron, founding engineer Tom Bereknyei and me to launch the business. It's been an awesome journey - we hope you like it, and stay tuned for more to come!
People largely don't seem to read past a headline that says US to ban Tiktok (or whatever other permutation of Tiktok and ban). It is an incomplete and dishonest picture of what the actual legislation does and the purpose of it.

I'm not surprised people at large get up in arms if you say congress is going to ban Tiktok. If you tell them the full story, that the legislation requires them to divest from Chinese ownership or no longer be widely available, I think the response would be somewhat different. I'd certainly like to think so, anyways.
Related from a few days ago:

Automakers Are Sharing Consumers' Driving Behavior with Insurance Companies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39666976
"Call this an unfair generalization if you must, but old people are no good at everything."

- Moe Szyslak
No is complaining that the benefits of AI research are all privately owned instead of at least being tacitly about knowledge.

I think it says more about incentives for people working in automation than it does anything else
For now, my feelings are that AI can be really helpful if you know the field. You need to be senior to know how to ask things and to understand the answers.

For anyone not understanding the domain, AI is just a glorified stack overflow but with hallucinations.

Hallucinations can be fought but you need to suggest that you got the wrong answer and why. And that requires a deep understanding of the domain.

Honestly I’m really frightened that we collectively accept that AI is an acceptable source of truth and that it’s ok to make decisions from its output or worse, use it as a learning material.
Yeah - I have 40+ yoe, and I could see a lot of places don't need a 'senior'.. they just need a couple more junior coders.

Also, you tend to get a bit jaded - I basically ignore companies that are going 'to change the world!!!' :-P

I broke my own rule and went to a startup that actually seems to have a useful product, rather then just big dreams...
You should probably couch that in terms of % of base comp or you're going to get people's hopes a lot higher than is reasonable.

I don't think I saw substantially more than 10k in Seattle, or heard rumors of non-sales coworkers seeing much more than that. Inflation adjusted maybe twice that, still less than half of yours. But you might also make 3x what we made because goddamn are condos expensive down there.
"To save us time I tasked my AI, Anton, to debug the code, and Anton decided that the best way to get rid of all SW bugs was to delete the entire codebase, which is technically and statistically the right solution to what I tasked it to do."

-Gilfoyle
John McCarthy coined the term AI in 1955 for a research project that included NN. He then founded the MIT AI Project (later AI Lab) with one of the researchers who joined the project, Marvin Minsky, who also had created the first NN in 1951.

If NNs aren't AI, what is?

http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/dartmouth/dartmouth.pdf
LOL. Yes, exactly.

Even in the future when the AI is provide everything and we are no longer able to understand it, humans will be doing human competitions, playing chess, etc... The human on human action will be only thing left, and only thing humans care about. Chess is already unwinnable, but humans still want to measure themselves against other humans.

Chess, Go, what next? Pizza delivery? Accountant Simulator? Humans are already being outclassed one feature at a time.
And what signs of intelligence are we looking for this year?
Design better software abstractions using bipartite composition (2019)
Bespoke languages are always a hard sell for this reason. You really have to support SDKs in the main languages people use.

I will never understand why something like this cannot be just a library. They'll make their claims and pleas, but general purpose languages are general purpose languages and can do anything
Bikeshedding about terminology isn't worth anybody's time. You can be skeptical of technology without grandstanding about it for social clout.
This story is at least a few decades old. The only reason to stay in acedemia as a computer scientists/software engineer is if you want to focus on cutting-edge research or otherwise have a passion to teach others. Industry will outbid for everyone else.
Isn't it the case that there are a near infinite number of forms of cancer for any organ? Any combination of mutations that causes unrestricted growth right? So how can it just be 2 forms?
Yeah, I remember in 5th grade we had a day where each kid got a turn on the classroom computer to see how far they could go.
> can change a Junior into Senior very quickly

Not to derail the thread, but its really not that simple. People are subject to their own biases and knowledge gaps. Long form responses do not fix either of those issues though they might help with the latter. If it really upskilled everyone that cleanly its effect on roles would've happened by now.
I've noticed a lot of people frankly do not have the natural "context length" needed to really take advantage of AI and there are those that are really benefitting from it, but they're in the smallest minority.
Sustainable logging at its current levels makes the logged-out areas in the West look like it does now (stumps, new growth forests which aren’t 1:1 replacements, etc).

To get back to “how it’s supposed to be” as sustainable logging promises, we’re talking 100 yr+ timeframes to even make solid progress, not a full easy replacement. So, the environment is still degraded under that approach.

I’ve lived rural and urban coastal, and your view highlights a perspective I started to notice only when I lived rural West, and it’s frustrating:

To support pro-environmental needs of the densely populated and often coastal urban centers, the last remaining near/wild environments bear the cost and get carved out under the banner of pragmatic sustainable use - logged out, REM mines, wind farms on mountains, etc.

For instance, if every rural wind farm was met with a wind farm in SF Bay or Cape Cod or… I’d be ok with it, but the reality is it’s not done this way, and in fact heavily resisted due to vacation home views and so on. Bitteroots and Bighorn ranges have massive REM deposits discovered. This was spun as a positive env news story vs a massive mining threat to some of the best un-impacted/well managed areas of the Rockies. On and on.

So let’s raid our mountains and last wild places to support environmentally unsustainable lifestyles in the dense areas, who get to avoid none of the tradeoffs I describe that the actually wild areas now face. Doesn’t sit well with me. What’s the point of environmentalism if we destroy the last best parts of the environment.
AI beats multiple World Records in TrackMania [video]
Plagiarized is too strong of a word. Poincaré too based his work on Lorentz's. And both with Einstein he sort of derived E = m c * 2, independently and earlier. But Einstein's publication was more complete.

Science is not totally ordered, the same invention can occur at two different places from the same shoulders of the same giant. Science is just partially ordered.
Insert “short term” before “financial”.
haven't heard of this one, will look into it, looks interesting
> Why doesn't the same logic apply to people who don't like the high prices of housing in some areas?

Because the cities in question green lit the office buildings that have the job I need. If a city chooses to grow its economy, it has an obligation to allow enough housing for those new people.
This is so dooope
Do you think the govt. has zero responsibility in the welfare of our nation's children?

If a foreign adversary attacks, can parents alone protect their children?

Let me get this clear:

1. you don't want govt to act for children because "parents", 2. you don't want govt to act for adults because they are "rational".
Are we talking about geniuses, or your average developer using the state management library du jour?
Heh - most are younger then me as well ... I had an interviewer about 15 years younger then me ask "what was the most important thing I learned about DevOps"... my reply was "dont deploy on Friday" :-) I got the job (and a chuckle) :-D
A pre-commit script would be nice and easy entry (at least for me)
The US government absolutely has its own government run media outlets such as Voice of America and foreign governments do ban them. For example, the Taliban has attempted to ban VOA in Afghanistan:

https://www.insidevoa.com/a/despite-taliban-s-censorship-voa...
That's quite alright, I didn't expect to convince someone who believes that in a war for survival, an opposing dictatorship can freely operate the most powerful propaganda weapon humankind has known against the democracy. Just because you know, it's idealistic.
Nor do you apparently care about the fact that "NIMBYs worry that the mere existence of nearby multifamily will decrease their home value" is a false stereotype.

A NIMBY straight-up told you that their motivations are about lifestyle and not money and your response is "I don't care about your preferences".
You are responding to the headline and not the content of the study. Yes, science headlines are stupid clickbait.
Somewhat related, AlphaStar has such a control input limit for Starcraft limiting the actions per minute by some amount.
Most think that statins do anything at all.

Most think that cholesterol and LDL is bad and the direct cause of cardiovascular disease.

Most just parrot wrong and frankly dangerous dietary advice. Choosing a dietary plan by throwing a coin is literally better than following the advice of most people, even doctors. Hell, we've gone from recommending low fat to vegan diets for health, while still demonising low carb diets because of misinformation that's 70 years old, and American religious lobbies pushing vegetarianism. Wikipedia still calls low carb diets a "fad", while no such moniker is attached to vegan diets that have only been possible since the 1930s with the discovery of vitamin B12 and its subsequent synthesis.

https://youtu.be/gDq3HHExpnY?si=Vx5rAhsxXHDmWCZ4
This can work but many buildings are unsuitable. Office buildings tend to have too much interior space where it’s difficult to give all residential units access to natural light. There are also differences in building code for safety issues.
Don't forget pig headed stupidity!
A neat variation from the era is Hellschreiber teleprinter, graphically prints the characters using a spinning head that impacts the tape strip, which results in readable messages even with heavy interference

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellschreiber

Edit: some ham radio operators still use it for fun, and I'd heard that one of the SDR decoders can read it
I just don't think the government should be in the business of deciding on behalf of its citizens what media sources they are allowed to read. On that path lies danger.
I don't know why I am surprised to hear the BB foundations were deep enough to cause that issue. It's clearly a deep water channel.
> It seems outrageous to consider a national firewall in the United States, but you're absolutely right. That is where this has to go.

Maybe not a "firewall", but the USA (and in fact the entire world) has effectively already banned communicating some types of data. Pictures of naked children is the prime example. You would have to be a brave man to have a picture of your child frollicing in the sea naked for the first time.

To put it into perspective, 30 years ago that was perfectly fine where I live in Australia. Everybody understood the photo just captured a step in the child's life; that time when water was new to them but clothes didn't matter. It's a moment a parent might want to share with relatives.

That and a lot of other things were innocently posted to the internet in the beginning. Then a collective "internet consensus on morality" seemed to take hold and they quietly vanished. No firewalls were needed.

It's been fascinating to watch in real time how a group of humans develop a common morality, despite being separated by distance, cultures, and ages. I think the power of it is underappreciated. After all, it has effectively banned what had been perfectly acceptable behaviour in Australia for decades. This was driven home when someone in Australia was jailed for having cartoons in their possession, parodies of the Simpsons. Just a couple of decades ago that was unthinkable.

But back to firewalls - so when are they needed? It seems only when a minority was to change the majorities moral stance on some issue, but can't convince them to just "do it" of their own accord. So they force it on them with a firewall. I doubt that's going to work too well over the long term in a democracy.
I say this as a greybeard myself, but as someone who been on the interviewer/hiring manager side of quite a few interviews with older candidates, it's a lot more common than they realize that they're just *bad*. Yes, there are many good ones, and yes the wisdom they have is a huge benefit. But plenty of them think this applies to them when it does not.

The most common issue is they've long since let themselves go technically. They've been flexing the same 2 or 3 muscles for ages, and let everything else atrophy. They haven't been staying abreast of current changes, and by that I don't mean jumping on the latest fad but rather knowing that the fads exist. So it winds up being the case that they have few useful/transferable skills and their "wisdom" really isn't all that useful outside of the exact niche they'd found themselves in for decades.

And then another large chunk of them wind up being jerks. I've been this person myself. Whether it being standoffish, crapping over what the company is doing without a full understanding of why they're doing it, or even just clearly being defensive about ageism.

My point isn't to dump on older candidates. Again, I sometimes am one :) But as is often the case, plenty of older candidates refuse to look in the mirror.
The missing numbers that I really want to see-

* Power Usage

* Rack Size (last one I played with was 17u)

* Cooling requirements
They aren't just trying to bring up an analogous example. It derails the discussion, it is a rhetorical device that has no bearing on the conversation at hand.

> Regardless, I think it's a bit alarmist and overly aggressive to assume nefarious intent.

You can think those things. You can try and color my points using whatever language you want. That doesn't make it true, you are putting words in my mouth about "nefarious intent". Mojo is taking Python programmers and their programs out of the Python ecosystem and bring them into their ecosystem.

Thanks for the splaining about predates, I'll continue to use it. Mojo is definitely 'taking booty' from Python.
I think you underestimate how rigid government is. Nearly everything is fixed. hours, location, salary raises, retirement plans, etc. They are very safe but rarely the most compensated in anything except intrinsic benefits (There are a lot of veteran programs, for instance) and job security.

The main story here isn't so much the headline as it is acedemia asking for more funding.
Ah, so you were merely replying at me, rather than to me.
Relativity was ripe for discovery. And a lot of other scientists came very close:

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

But that's just how science work, and no ill will would have been employed by any participant; just as their fanclub want to pit them against one another.
Yikes, Pandemic public health measures are NOT totalitarian in any way, shape or form.

Totalitarian measures are "TOTAL"; i.e., they encompass all aspects of govt and society.

Public health measures are LIMITED to the scope of the public health threat.

Being unwilling to take even small measures that not only help you but also help your fellow citizens does not make you some kind of 'free-thinking libertarian'.

It simply shows you like to behave like a sociopath, and your statement that a policy idea is a result of "trauma" is an uncalled-for insult, as you intended it (which again shows your drive to prioritize feelings over facts). Seriously, no one is trying to "dominate" you. As if you were that important. Sheesh.
> Autocompletion doesn't need to be braindead.

I wouldn't go so far as "brain-dead", but it is an annoyance, because I am looking at the screen when I am typing, and the lines below and lines above are context that I can easily retriever without needing to store them in my head.

When the autocomplete window pops up it obscures the context above and below the line I am on, and in turn my context switches instantly from (for example) "Use the results of the previous operation as a parameter to this function" to "what was the name of the variable that I used for 'results' on the previous line? I can no longer see the previous line".

For me, I think, an autocomplete would be best if displayed off to the side, in a consistent spot that never changes. Maybe reserve a small box on the right hand side of the editing window for things that constantly change on every keystroke.

This has the advantage of being able to ignore it, and only switch my gaze (and hence my context) when I actually want to read what it is displaying.
First AI-developed drug for deadly lung disease enters clinical trials
Look at it this way: if you don't walk at least 15,000 steps a week, you can expect your lifespan to shorten by 3 years on average. 15,000 steps is in the realm of bare minimums.
Except only those working in the field are familiar with the historical context and "AI as a field from the 60s".

The public only see the advertisements. Are we really going to blame the victims and tell them, of course it's not intelligent, you dumbass, why did you trust its answer?
you shouldn't have fallen for our marketing.
I think you're somewhat missing the idea here. It's _not_ saying that China-sensitive topics are less popular on TikTok than Insta. It's saying that the difference between TikTok and Insta is _hugely greater_ for China hot-button issues than it is for other topics.

It doesn't really matter how the hash tags are chosen; the fact that this is uniformly true, by a lot, for all the obvious hash tags you might pick is damning evidence.
The sale of Grindr is a much closer precedent https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/06/grindr-sold-china-national...

The bill doesn't block any content on Tiktok, it is to require American ownership of the company. The penalty for non-compliance would remove Tiktok from appstores, but it wouldn't prevent Americans from accessing it either via the web (Probably easy to sideload on Android at least).
aka, seemingly boring enterprise software is the place to go. Some of them are actually very good places.
I suspect it's less pre-trained than you think, the tweet is prefaced with a message that all actions are driven by neural networks indicating that it's probably adjusting for the objects, the environment etc.
Because that is an unproductive foreign policy approach.

It’s an unproductive approach to any relationship in general.
Figure Status Update – OpenAI Speech-to-Speech Reasoning [video]
operational management is influenced by the pressure it takes to survive. Nasa doesnt need to make money to survive. SpaceX does. but agreed theres more too it than that