skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With better oss tools, we've been able to achieve more with less people but for a long time there was more demand for skilled developer than what is available in the pool, hence the decent salaries coming from the market squeezing that pool. If robot takes over and the pool of available labor expand instead of shrink, the effect is the exact opposite, pressure on salaries from the remaining participants, worse conditions, ...
Sounds like a classic case of F.A.F.O.
Probably should have said what it does in the title.
Multiple sci-fi plots are that very premise. Just like this chip, no ground braking idea in this thread either
Healthcare, pension and extra vacation make this harder to calculate for teachers than for other jobs. It's not 1:1.
you'll make your progeny exceedingly wealthy beyond even your wildest dreams and for generations to come if you can answer the first question. but you're obviously just being sarcastic given the second, so no, that's not likely what they intend to do with it.
Haven't read the archive because it won't load, but from what I did read, wouldn't really say they're in the stone age unless they are doing something more advanced than hitting nuts with unmodified rocks.

If they are modifying rocks or using rocks to modify wood (like to make a stabby stick), then I'd give them the credit.

Regardless, pretty neat.
Right, but that CLA stemmed directly from the decision that they needed to monetize better & change their licenses.

Point remains: there's a more than small irony here that a company wasn't doing well/was struggling with open source, but could perhaps have done great if the help freshly created has been at all available when they were fully open source.
The math is more like: top 10% of tech jobs in the US would make ~3-4x of top 10% of Europe. And there are so many tech jobs in the US that this top 10% is much larger in number than anywhere else. There's a reason people emigrate to the US from everywhere despite pretty harsh work environment and social security nets.

For example, a Google IC5/6 in Paris would make between 150k-200k vs ~500-700k in the bay area.
Is that true though?

I mean, what is it that US schools are doing which schools in other countries aren't, which would produce significantly higher per student costs?
> 2 Somalia blocks, with different colors

The western one should be Somaliland, as you mention. The map seems to take the duck-typing approach to countries, rather than taking the official stance of any one country. There's Somaliland, Taiwan, Kosovo, Cyprus, Israel and Palestine, etc. No Northern Cyprus though.
What's the likelihood do you think this ban will be legalized and even enforced?
You're going to like this:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802144/
Does anyone have any non-toy, fully open source data and code examples (“fully open source”) of open-weights LLMs fine tuned on non-instruct style data AND the resulting instruct-style queries “actually” “work”? Are there any fully open source examples of actually working RAG that to the end user are obviously superior to the most sophisticated open source full text search, or even Google indexing?

In creative art, there is a thriving use for fine tuning. Much of it is reproducible. There are specific guides with specific results. But where is the guide for “corporate knowledge base?” I get the feeling that “it” meaning “fine tune an LLM or use a RAG” is inferior to sophisticated open source full text search, but so many people are invested in pretending otherwise because of all the dollar signs.
They've also laid off a lot of office workers, who were not replaced with robots... so we can't correlate the robot number and all of the changes in head count.
The first average is between two people over a few years.

The second average is for similar tech jobs.

But good job resorting to ad hominem.
Is the size of the effect in any of these studies stated in your comments? I skimmed them but didn't see what I was looking for.

Or via non-paywalled links?

Thanks.
GPT4 was released a year ago, and trained two years ago. I wouldn’t sleep on OpenAi, especially how confident Sam Altman sounded in his Lex Friedman podcast.

The real race is to AGI anyways, as whoever gets there first will immediately capture 100% of the market.
RIP Stefan
s/encountering/& faster, cheaper, and/or better than you or most people/

PS: I would ask: "What kind of biscuits? Do they have low glycemic and high satiety indexes?"
Trying to hire for it has been deeply unpleasant. Very few people actually have the experience they claim to have, and asking them basic programming questions that any senior developer should be able to talk about has roughly 80% of the candidates going straight to chatgpt and pretending the answer is theirs. I'm not talking leetcode stuff either, more like "what is polymorphism" or "what is refactoring".

Maybe the whole industry has gone that way... but the smaller talent pool makes it a lot more obvious.

Were it up to me, we would be using something else where I work, and not just because of the smaller talent pool (although that's probably the biggest reason). Many of the "delightful" and time saving things about rails either turn out to have relatively insignificant impacts for complex applications, or turn into sharp edges that slow us down.
1. It's complicated.

2. Peak curtailment is mid-April through June: peak hydro and solar production, plenty of wind, and little HVAC load: http://www.caiso.com/informed/Pages/ManagingOversupply.aspx

3. Yes, you can see that batteries are charging from solar on CAISO Today's Outlook.

4. There is an enormous amount of home solar which shows up as a drop in "Demand": http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/index.html#section-... . Set the date widget to April 8, and notice "demand" rise to 20GW at the 11:15 partial eclipse peak and drop almost 6GW over the next couple hours. Figure > 10 GW of peak output from home solar

5. Grid and home solar together (> 25GW) are roughly comparable to total load (~26GW on this cool spring day).

6. Neither the transmission nor the distribution networks can efficiently send supply to load; both have bottlenecks.

7. This waste is an opportunity for more batteries, grid-scale electrolysis, etc.

8. A GWh is worth roughly $50,000. In the context of California's (~$4T/year ÷ 365=)$10B of daily economic activity, wasting $500k is not that big a deal. Particular matter from the state's natural gas plants kills many people a day.
Yeah, that's essentially saying, "yep, your slice of the pie will become ever smaller, but that's fine, because what you get in absolute terms will stay the same - the pie just has to keep growing exponentially forever".

It's obvious that this is not a sustainable solution.

(And that's assuming the company fully passes the reduced labour costs on to the consumer and doesn't just pocket it as increased profit margins)
Is this actual spending, or are you rolling pass-through savings programs into this? Cause the caveat there is people always seem to want to count the outflow but not the associated inflow…
Oh all I'm saying is you can set the conf file to read-only. Basically this entire feature is "we want a nice error message".
We were running the same hardware as the rest of the world - nothing high end. OS/2 always outperformed NT regardless of the hardware. And it didn’t need to be rebooted everyday.
> Where in “TFA” is Maryland discussed?

It isn't, but as you asked that of the commenter above I took the liberty of looking for articles relating to erosion in Maryland, quoted a section and provided a link.

You're welcome.

> Am I expected to

I do not speak on behalf of all HN users but for my part I expect nothing from you and note that you've delivered not the slightest demonstrated effort in researching your own question.

> Again I ask: much erosion per year (ie on average)?

That's not a well formed question, deep foundational schist (medium grain metamorphic rock) rising above the sea level does not appreciably erode on a human scale, sand banked coastlines can move on the order of millions of tonnes in a single season.

> A dramatic number like “70ft in a few weeks” cannot be true for all shorelines all the time.

No single answer is absolutely true for all shorelines for all time, this is so obvious it's surprising you even raise it.

> Do you really believe that?

Clearly not, why would you raise a straw position that's clearly false and then ask another if they believe it?

If you have an interest in erosion studies you might look to, say, the work of the Scripps Institute, the Marine Science department at Queensland University, or any number of other fine oceanography research facilities about the globe.
Click? Back in the days you could get infected with blaster by just having a Windows XP machine connected to the internet. No action needed.
> I think the issue that happens in modern times, specially in webdev, is we aren't actually solving problems. We are just glueing services together and marshalling data around which fundamentally doesn't need to be algorithmic...

This is true and is the cause of much frustration everywhere. Employers want “good” devs, so they do complicated interviews testing advanced coding ability. And then the actual workload is equal parts gluing CRUD components together, cosmetic changes to keep stakeholders happy, and standing round the water cooler raging at all the organisational things you can’t change.
> work together on projects of their choosing for 90 days, before regrouping for their next project.

am i crazy or does intuitively this sounds like a recipe for disaster?

how do you provide long-term value (never mind complete a new drug?) if everything changes every 90 days?
I’m surprised not more momentum on this. It would be neat to modify this to support local a LLM and maybe with txtai try to build semantic knowledge graphs on screenshots to auto detect “topics” of your desktop activity.
The thing about nuclear deterrence is that it only works if you announce that you have nuclear weapons, so we know pretty well who has them and about how much, not only via the NPT but also by simple game theory. Israel is probably the only nation that has nuclear bombs without confirming because it is the only nation who’s officials regularly threaten their use without officially declaring their existence.

NPT countries such as Iran can also acquire nuclear weapons without braking the treaty via Nuclear Weapons sharing[1]. This is how Germany, Turkey, and Belarus have nuclear weapons. If Japan or Taiwan wanted nuclear deterrence that is a route available to them (maybe that is even one of the goals of the potential Pacific Partnership military alliance; This is how Taiwan had these horrible weapons in the 1970s). It is probably harder for Iran though as they lack nuclear capable allies, but for e.g. Saudi Arabia, or Iraq, they could probably keep some USA weapons in at one of the many USA military bases (though I doubt Iraq would actually want that).

But you are wrong to omit politics as a barrier for proliferation. The NPT is strong, it has and most countries either comply with it, resign from it (North Korea) or don’t sign it. If Taiwan wanted to develop their own nuclear weapons they would need to resign from the NPT and potentially make any military aid from the USA infinitely harder in the process. I think their best strategy is to do enough nuclear research and have enough nuclear infrastructure so they are on the threshold of being nuclear capable without ever stepping over it (I think this is actually their strategy; as is Iran’s) that way they get the benefits of the NPT while still offering some nuclear deterrence, as in “we can develop them quickly if the need arises”.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing
>Thunderbird can do everything Outlook can (i.e. provide an email client, calendar and address book), but there is no official(ly supported) Thunderbird server software suite so there's always a potential for subtle bugs between whatever one chooses for directory, email and calendar backends.

Thunderbird is a lot more reliable than outlook - I use both daily. But yeah there's no 'thunderbird software suite'. I don't think that's really an issue though. Outlook breaks regularly, and our desktop support group had to deploy an 'outlook reset' app because the vendor is unresponsive. Being that unresponsive lessens the attractiveness of a 'software suite'.

>Or hell, even compatibility with old versions of the same app isn't a given in LibreOffice.

If I find MS word can't open a file, Libreoffice always does. I've never had a problem opening a libreoffice writer or MS Word file. I'm no 'power user' though.

The reason businesses and organizations stick to microsoft is because it's what they're used to, not because the apps themselves are better.

As for microsoft as a vendor - they are as obtuse a vendor as I've ever dealt with. Nearly always 100% unresponsive - even with projects involving hundreds of thousands of yearly dollars in licensing fees. I think being unresponsive is some kind of corporate culture thing with them. They're like the McDonalds of IT vendors. You get what's on the menu and that's it. If it doesn't work, well too bad because they know the perceived cost of switching is believed to be too high.
I hate your spa bc 100% of the time it breaks
Apparently they'll still be making the ez80, which is binary compatible. Don't know if it's a drop-in replacement though.
If I had 2 hours to prepare whetstones I’d do 1 hour of billable work and then order some whetstones online.
Oh, 100%. It's critical to wrap the crappy APIs into good ones. But that means you have to write the wrapper, and do so very carefully. Then hope you can get your wrapper adopted widely enough to be standardized, and have the old crappy API deprecated & removed (unlikely). In practice, the crappy API will be kept for backwards compatibility, and will forever remain a footgun. You have to be aware of it, even if only in a "here be dragons" manner.

The POSIX filename rules are a "here be dragons" sign. If you can avoid dealing with them, it's best to do so. If you can't avoid it, you'll need to parse your inputs into valid text, and fall back to a byte string handling path (or just fail with error) if they're not text. You can't safely just assume they're text & treat them as such, it doesn't end well.
Sanctions are effective tools at undermining the economic & industrial base of an adversary.

They’re poor tools as substitutes for criminal penalties for local residents.
Ok but what are the actual stats?
I can’t imagine more than 1 percent of users have JS disabled. I think I can live without that.
> > You won’t hear me argue the NY state legislature is not deficient and/or corrupt.

> What makes you think that’s the problem?

The US has a presidential system (even at the state level) where the legislative and executive branches are kept independent, which harms policy coherence

Most of the rest of the Western world (outside of Latin America) has either a parliamentary system (in which the executive is fully subordinated to the legislature) or a semi-presidential system (in which the executive is partially subordinated to the legislature and partially independent of it).

This doesn't just happen at the national level, but often gets repeated at the state level – in American states the executive (Governor/etc) and legislature are independent, in Australian states and Canadian provinces the state/provincial legislature controls the state/provincial executive

When things go wrong in the US system, it is so easy for the legislature and executive to engage in buck-passing in which each side claims they could solve the problem if only the other side would let them do it. In the rest of the English-speaking world, in most of Europe (and Japan too), that technique doesn't work, since the leaders of the legislature are also the leaders of the executive.

See also Latin America, where the same system leads to even worse problems. The US has other advantages (wealth, power, etc) which lets it overcome some of the downsides of its political system, where countries lacking those advantages can't
GPT-4 has been updated multiple times since then. Anthropic has been trading blows with those updates to GPT-4.
"Nope, they will just bite the bullet and rewrite everything to use Graph API instead."

LOL, no I won't.
A close friend of mine lost $200K USD (around half of it borrowed) over a period of five months. The scammer met him on Facebook Dating, had video/audio chats with him on a daily basis, then eventually introduced him to a fake crypto trading platform to help him pay off his mortgage.

These platforms generally allow users to withdraw their funds at the beginning, and it was only after he had deposited a significant sum that they disabled withdrawals. They then demanded (and collected) withdrawal taxes, fees, etc. before moving their platform to a different domain.

My friend is convinced the scammer is also a victim who has "lost" 90k by "loaning" it to him in preparation for the pig butchering event. Unfortunately, he's continuing to speak with her and I'm concerned for his well-being.

It's sick how persistent these scammers are - they will isolate and wear down their victims over time until there's nothing left.
> They have a URI, but only for the whole thing, not for all of those valuable things that are inside of it.

This isn't always true, and I wouldn't actually find it to be false more most SPAs I use. Its straightfoward to sync the URL with Javascript state. Most high grade SPAs takes URIs seriously, because they are still the primary way users share views with each other. Traditional URIs point to static resources, but most SPAs contain at least a record identifier, and possibly even a view state. Google Slides is a SPA, but I can easily share a URL with another person, and if they have access they will end up on the same slide as the one I was viewing when I copied the link.

> Business logic does not belong in the client, unless you like having to redundantly maintain the same logic in every kind of client you support (in addition to maintaining it on the server, of course — remember that you can never trust any client).

I don't see how moving view state management from the client to server solves this issue. Of course you can't trust the client, anyone can spoof API calls. But even basic forms have this issue. You can't trust a form just because you generated options on the server.

Also view logic is tightly coupled with the client UX. Moving it to the server does not magically make it reusable. Additionally, having client side logic often is more about displaying a list of possible options, than validating correct choices. Just writing server side validation does not eliminate the need for client side business logic.
Often whenever someone quotes how many years/decades of experience they have, I then begin to wonder if they have become complacent and/or adverse to learning, improvements, and change.
Why_do_I_feel_fullfiled_when_I am_writing_code_but not when I do marketing
> I wouldn’t sleep on OpenAi, especially how confident Sam Altman sounded in his Lex Friedman podcast.

How confident Sam Altman sounds doesn’t figure much into my assessment’s of reality, other than the reality of Sam Altman’s promotional skills.

> The real race is to AGI anyways, as whoever gets there first will immediately capture 100% of the market.

AGI has no actual objective definition, and nothing supports this beyond naked conjecture and quasi-religious dogma.
♬ I believe I can fly. ♬ Oh, shit! No I can't.
For those who want to do x86 assembly first, google Paul Carter assembly language.

It could be one option.
The biggest contender for breaking browser history and middle-clicking are the fucking Microsoft Admin Portals, especially the Azure Portal.

Oh. My. God.

I lost all trust in Microsoft when I started using these. It's like the devs don't know the very basics of web browsing, or they all use Macs and want to impose their preference onto everybody else.
Amazing product. I'm a bit dissapointed though at the lack of scrolling possibilities in the website.
The simpler to understand a topic is the more comments and discussion there will be about it. It's a big shame but it's what it is.
> noticing you got better at something you enjoy

Everypony needs to get (and develop) their cutie mark?
seeing a general assignation of young men's character. An easy target adopted by those that never had cards in their spokes. When I hear that banging I recall how terrible car culture is for the human. These young men are simply reminding you of it. Could have investigated the connection between cars and nihilism.
There is math for classical causal inference with observational data; that FWIU also hasn't been applied to cognitive outcomes studies.

From "The World Needs Computational Social Science" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37746921 :

> "Answering causal questions using observational data" (2021) [PDF]
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2021/10/advanced-economic...
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2021/pop...
There are crows that crack nuts by placing them correctly on the road. Then, they wait for the traffic light to collect the pieces. Some crows know how to bend a little stick to pull out food out of something that's too narrow otherwise. In some sense they even create tools.

It seems like the imaginef gap between human intelligence and the one of other animals is shrinking. I guess much of this difference comes from the fact that humans accumulate so much knowledge over tens of thousands of years. Take all this away and we'd probably not be so different.
Agreed. These numbers are being cherry-picked. From Amazon quarterly filings[0][1], here's their employees count:

- Q3 2019: 750,000 employees
- Q4 2019: 798,000 employees
- Q1 2020: 840,400 employees
- Q2 2020: 876,800 employees
- Q3 2020: 1,125,300 employees
- Q4 2020: 1,298,000 employees
- Q1 2021: 1,271,000 employees
- Q2 2021: 1,335,000 employees
- Q3 2021: 1,468,000 employees
- Q4 2021: 1,608,000 employees
- Q1 2022: 1,622,000 employees
- Q2 2022: 1,523,000 employees
- Q3 2022: 1,544,000 employees
- Q4 2022: 1,541,000 employees
- Q1 2023: 1,465,000 employees
- Q2 2023: 1,461,000 employees
- Q3 2023: 1,500,000 employees
- Q4 2023: 1,525,000 employees

The 1.6M count was a clear seasonal/stay-at-home blip.

[0] https://ir.aboutamazon.com/quarterly-results/default.aspx
[1] https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/2023/q4/...
> When you apply for your next job as a manager they will ask you “How big was your team?”

Just lie. Then you will see it doesn’t matter anyway. I’m not sure how to recruit for managers in a huge corporation, I don’t think even huge corporations necessarily know.

One thing’s for sure: a big difference between some ICs and Managers, at least the managers you actually want to work for, is that those most non-manager ICs seem to be really fucking bought into some very reductive points of view.
Nothing controversial about it. That’s a very simple deterrence argument a la Schelling.
Teachers in the US are famously poorly remunerated compared to other developed countries.
I thought about making the same move but quickly dropped the idea when I see this:

The average salary for a truck driver is $24.98 per hour in Montréal, QC.

That's less than a third of my cash compensation.

I do wish getting a non programming laid back day job so that I can program happily in my free time. I kinda gave up the idea to find a programming job that I love to do -- it's just technically too tough to get into one of those low level programming jobs.
The life has, like it or not, integrated with the trash. Adhered to it; put spores on it; coated it. Remove the trash - remove some fraction of the life.

Not trying to be standoffish. Just being aware that the law of unintended consequences will bite you in the ass every time.
Trains running on time requires far far far more than just more drivers. I don't think you need that explained to you.

I simply agree with you about housing policy. There is no excuse for not housing people. The US is a pathetic failure of a society.