skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The characters ○金 and ○ビ were invented by the author Kazuhiro Watanabe in 1984 in his book Kinkonkan. These were quickly accepted into Japanese vocabulary, and they won a buzzword award at the time. And they are right there in the Sharp emoji, represented as characters enclosed in circles. They were in common use throughout Japan’s bubble-era, 1986-1991. The words eventually fell out of fashion and are now considered obsolete.

What do these mean? What is this book? What is the story here?
That Google is a monopoly that should be a broken up is a whataboutism.

It's intrinsic in capitalism that firms often increase in value as they fire works.

Your values determine whether that's a feature of a flaw though.
Looking pretty and finding a sugar-mommy?
Investors are dumb enough to link employee count with company health, so they have to give them a huge bribe to calm them down
Lack of multi-threading simplifies a lot, but is at odds with performance.
Quora has always been trash. There's a reason why we append 'reddit' to a search query if we want a human opinion and not 'quora'.
There are many reasons why one takes antidepressant, I do yet I love my job and I am happy with my choice.

I take them to manage anxiety caused by my wife metastatic breast cancer (at least it's was only oligometastasis and she had a complete response to treatment that she has to continue as long as the disease doesn't come back) and parkison disease.
MH370: A New Trace
I wonder what kind of stories people made after Pompeii..

Though back then it was easy, you could just say god
I misread that quote as “they do not like” three times before it clicked. It made a lot more sense then…
So 77% of bachelor's degrees have positive ROI (considering individual salary alone)?

Sounds like a very positive result, especially since public education is widely regarded as a long-term investment that benefits society as a whole.
The article complains about saying that the app is sandboxed. I don't want my ide to be sandboxed anyway, so just flagging that in the store should be enough.

Vscode on snap runs unconfined for example, that's explicit
Hahahaha. They will learn a lesson that can be learned in no other way.[a]

Regardless, all this entrepreneurial activity is great news for the country!

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[a] With apologies to Mark Twain: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8006482-a-man-who-carries-a...
I love the idea of a centralized wrapper for spawning various language servers.

As the maintainer of a language server which is primarily used in VSCode, we've relied on community contributions to add support for other editors (NeoVim, Atom, Rider for example). Information about how to do this is spread out, prone to breaking (depending on how well the implementor understood the domain), and also requires the IDE user to follow manual steps in some cases. I don't even know where I would go or who to speak to if (for example) we changed our download URL format, or added new process architectures.
Have you seen....people? Quality of an idea has marginal influence on people's decision to execute on it.
Corman's autobiography is oddly inspiring. His title? "How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime."
Apple have the same obligation as any other company to be compatible with third party parts, which is legally no obligation as far as I can tell. Expecting them to spend engineering time and effort to ensure compatibility with other peoples parts isn’t reasonable in my opinion when other companies aren’t held to the same standard.

That said, I agree with you - if there was the option to use third party parts but also tell then that’s fine with me, but it would have to be a law to ensure that other manufacturers are forced to spend the engineering effort too. They should also force all manufacturers to support devices for minimum periods too.

I have seen no user-hostile moves from apple in my 20 years of using their devices. I’ve seen lots of people misunderstand some of their moves and wrongly attribute it to hostility however.
AI compute is not super latency sensitive. Surely you can just stick the DC somewhere that has power? A bit like the Chinese crypto miners moved to hydro dams
I don't mind Java so much as the types of code people tend to write with it. No one needs a FooReactorFactoryFactory when. There is only a single FooReactor which is always chosen. I've recently learned that it's possible to write such abominations in C++, which is equally bad.

And don't get me started on dependency injection systems like Guice. @Inject just means I have no way of knowing the type of an object or how it is initialized without sifting through the entire code base looking for an @Provides. And even then I can never be sure.
Going on vacation has a “negative roi” if you only look at it from a financial perspective. That doesn’t mean that choosing to travel is always a bad idea.
I think there's a subtle point here about the cost of layoffs being hard to quantify but hugely underestimated by large companies.

A culture where employees feel that their dedication to the company mission is reciprocated must surely provide value?
Start a startup and see your marriage break apart
The reason people are complaining is because the in current capitalism:

- Shareholders are given a preference over labor

- Executives continue to print shares for their own compensation. Like a food chain, the years/decades of value is being sucked off by shareholders and execs without adequately compensating the people who built it. No, the handful of shares given to engineers doesn't cut it when they were the one who toiled to make it happen.

This system is not rewarding workers appropriately. That's the root cause.

If employees continued to get residuals/printed stocks after losing their jobs, they'd feel more ok with such mass layoffs where value is sucked by some at the expense of others.
Freedom does not necessarily mean a lack of responsibilities. For someone who starts their own company I imagine it means not having a boss.
We already do beam search, which allows LLMs to backtrack on branches until they find the highest probability path. Discounting things like Toolformer, this is about as good as it's going to get.
a more robust approach
https://yonigottesman.github.io/2023/08/10/extractive-genera...
> This whole movement of simply increasing compute or throwing in more data to hopefully attain AI results is just a dead end.

It’s the logical incremental step until an actual breakthrough is model on technique
I've never heard of the gender pay gap meant as this very granular, targeted comparison.

On the contrary, I find that most data shared about this gap are just a lazy average of all men and all women earnings without controlling for stay-at-home parents, experience, diplomas, fields, etc.
Mergers Ruin Everything. (2022)
Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season
My take is that they are useful in two cases:

1. Careers where there is an explicit barrier to further advancement otherwise.

The typical example here is the MBA, but this is also often the case in engineering, education, and nursing, of the fields I know people in, and I'm sure there are more.

2. In order to get your foot in the door in a different field.

I think this is more effective than it's often given credit for. It's really difficult to switch careers, and an academic program is a good way to both make initial connections and have a credential at the end that helps get past initial screening. This may well not show up as positive ROI in a quantitative sense, but I think that's because the calculation is failing to capture the (very high) value of choosing what you do with a very large portion of your time on the earth.

I think bachelor degrees can also be seen as a form of this career switching. The kinds of careers you can do without a college degree are different than those you can do with them. That difference is about a lot more than the level of pay.

I also think optionality is valuable, and never seems to be analyzed in these kinds of papers. My impression is that any college degree opens up a bunch of options that are simply closed to those without a degree, and doesn't close any existing options. I'd like to see an effort to incorporate the value of that increased optionality into these kinds of discussions.
With regards to distributed systems you must understand transmission. I suggest learning about streams and pipes for moving binary between local interfaces and secondly tcp/udp sockets for moving binary between computers.

I do not have books to recommend for this as I am self taught writing hobby applications in Node.js
There is a fanatastic smallish YouTube channel called S3 that showcases some of this (mostly manufacturing)
I think it's a bigger slight against yourself to "not try" in your life and your work. You won't learn as much and feel less accomplished. Just find somewhere where you'll feel good about it.
I started looking at the cost of solar installations vs. future energy costs and this has worked out well.

The long view is critical so I looked at the solar install costs against the retirement cash flow needed to pay for energy.

My first install has got to be over 10 years old by now and has been completely trouble free. I have sold SRECs in that time that have almost paid for the system. I only receive an electric bill in the winter(heat pumps). I also received text incentives at the time. I feel like now I'm in a position where my only costs will be replacing failed components. These components replacement costs will be a fraction of the original install and will perform better.
Do you think that graduate dentistry is a bachelor's?
> People recommend tracing garbage collection because it performs better than atomic reference counting, even though reference counting is much simpler.

Reference counting is a lot more complicated! It turns every read into a write.

> [...] if my goal is performance and predictable latency?

Reference counters don't have predictable latency: a single reference decrement can lead to an arbitrary amount of follow up work, like more decrements and deallocations.

Performance of reference counting isn't generally better than that of garbage collectors. (Especially since you still need a backup solution to deal with cycles.)

Figuring out a lot of your memory management at compile time is definitely a win. But doesn't really have much to do with reference counting.
> This way of thinking has been disseminated as being "The Truth" of business while... It actually isn't, returning money to investors used to come only after taking care of your workers and after providing a benefit to society, training workers used to be a thing so your company could keep its edge in the long-term.

Business always has and always will be investor focused. Because they own it. Because the whole thing is literally made up out of their money.

Likewise, the tradeoff between short-term cashflow and long-term viability always has and always will be a choice investors have to make.

The optimal choice depends on the business and where it is in the business cycle. A wise investor ends up with Berkshire Hathaway; a foolish one ends up with Boeing and loses his shirt.
IMO the people who tune out from all science at least remain neutral.

The problem is the people who spent half their day reading and sharing fake scientific articles. Those are not really "tuning out".
thanks for the suggestions!

i think i have no legible way of asserting myself, alas. he is a better developer than me, more liked by upper leadership and has a way with words that escapes me.

this coworker was succesful a few years ago in having our former very well-liked and professional project/scrum master thrown out of the team after they had several arguments.

he is comfortable to have around for upper management because he gets things done, only it has to be done his way.

to me it's a case of at some point giving someone a fingertip and eventually the entire hand and arm will be taken.

it basically boiled down to that the project manager felt he wasn't actually in charge of direction or leadership. the jira board would suddenly change without there having been consensus about it, or he would unilaterally have meetings with key stakeholders without inviting this project manager.

i think it hurts more for project leader types to be talked over or go uninvited to meetings than an IC, or maybe i have just gotten used to it
This is literally just a scheme for the government to pay Altman’s company a fixed amount for every single citizen. The ultimate in crony capitalist bullshit.

One wonders if he is struggling to find a way to make the value of GPT models worth the price he needs to charge to keep them working.
> ...If they answer doesn't make sense LLM has no ability to retrace the steps.

Beam search already exists, it precisely allows the model to backtrack on its past tokens and find the global maxima of probability, at least within set depth/breadth. I think this is just a larger limitation of their shallow world model. Perhaps giving transformers registers will remedy this.
A better metaphor than gambling is carnival games, the prize return on investment in arcade gaming is systemically low. I've worked at several game companies and never known a single gamer in my life who's been interested in gambling.

The sports community is obviously what's being taken over by gambling. Sports are being so thoroughly defined by and ruined by it that it's weird to think of gambling as a big deal in other contexts. If you try to apply the gambling moral panic to video games it doesn't work because sports so conspicuously shows what it looks like when the slippery slope is real and not just hypothetical.

Trying to see the effects of gambling anywhere but with sports right now is like trying to see the stars when the sun is out.
Here're a couple links for you:

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/cbd0a7/found_e_in_the...

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/ikwn03/e_in_the_prime...

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/n0mw3r/deriving_e_fro...
With static binaries that is not needed (and you can use OS=_any in the extension release file to mark them compatible).

If you want to repackage distro binaries without recompilation, you can have a look here: https://github.com/flatcar/sysext-bakery/pull/74
There are two tools, one can bundle the needed libs in a separate folder, and the other one works more like Flatpak and uses a full chroot. Since you already know what files are needed at runtime I think you could try the first approach, otherwise the second might be easier.
How is it not against the terms of service for the websites that are trying to keep their journalistic content paywalled?
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Yeah but large companies often execute badly or develop solutions that are many many orders of magnitude more complex and expensive than needed.

Large companies also generally push for all their products to work together, limiting their ability to build clean standalone things.
You should definitely try hard in your life and your work. Google is not your life, however, and you don't own your work for them. They only deserve the dedication they demonstrate towards others, which is none.
Is there an issue with more information I can follow?
Doing the bare minimum at work isn’t “not trying” in your life. It’s not even “not trying” at work. It’s just trying the agreed upon amount.
Agreed. (Pun intended.)

Capitalism seemed to work for a while only because it has been tempered with socialists fighting back hard and incentives being aligned for a while (build more high-tech, time-saving stuff like fridges).

Now when the market has saturated with time-saving goods, capitalism needs to widen the divide between workers and owners more and more just to keep going.
It's the UFOs. They land anytime soon :DDD.
The "portals" mechanism can dynamically allow access to anything you pick in a file open dialog, while helping the app sandboxed.
A device like this exists for Apple II floppy emulation. I've not seen one for PCs, and modeling it as a floppy would have significant downsides to the alternative, just modeling it as a removable (hard) drive
> I'm sick of having to type everything twice, like e.g. `%{foobar: foobar}`

I'm actually very confused by this use case. How often do you have to do that? Fill a map with kv tuples where keys and values have the exact same value?
>These facts are irrefutable and confusing them for your own desire for how the world should work is a waste of time.

Are you seriously saying that identifying the gap between how things work and how things should work is useless? The only domain in which that is true is the laws of physics. In other domains, the way things work can be changed.
We really should restrict buybacks.
Current capitalism? It’s always been this way.

Shareholders (the owners of the company) are always given preference. They own the company.

Yes, shares are printed for CEOs but also employees (quite generously at Google) so I’m not sure I’d go down that line of thinking.
"A paper published in March by the Census Bureau found a particularly sharp increase last year in business applications based around artificial intelligence (ai)."

If we exclude the gold rush of startups doing something "AI", the picture would look a lot different. Personally, I'm looking forward to a similar article two years from now about a sharp spike in US business failures.
Floppies are stil alive in 2024
Supply and demand should correct the situation if we get over-lawyered. Looking at university enrollment rates, it seems that’s exactly what’s happening.
> Reference counting is a lot more complicated! It turns every read into a write.

Why? Maybe it's crucial to the story, but I am exploring Rust-like single ownership semantics.

You would have to "write" only when you create a new reference to something, or the reference is destroyed. But it wouldn't turn any read into a write, no?
And there comes the fact LLMs are actually terrible at coding beyond advanced regurgitation, precisely because their single-pass architecture does not give them Turing completeness to model a Turing machine, which may also be the reason they model the full chain of cause and effect to formulate a coherent plan...
Another theory:

An initial undersized hole was drilled using any of the methods they suggest which produce no concentric rings. Then a single point boring tool was used to machine the hole to its final dimension. The hole tapers 1 cm over its length. 0.5 cm of wear of the single point tool in use would account for the decrease in diameter.
I mean, while generally LLMs are ruining the internet as a whole, Quora, in particular, was pre-ruined.
I got a chuckle out of that too, but then I thought: Wait--why do we simply accept that starting a business should mean sacrificing one's family or freedom? I mean, if it's an actual, viable business, shouldn't one be able to just do it from 9 to 5 like it's a normal job? Why does every startup have to be this heroic herculean effort against all odds that requires 140 hour work weeks and employees with no lives? Maybe a startup that requires that much effort is really not a viable business and requires that much just to prop it up and keep it going? But, then I can't find any examples of startups that just operated as normal, chill businesses from day one. So, maybe it just does have to be that way.
> Junior in 2019, was one promo away from principal when I left in 2023

I'm broadly unfamiliar with Microsoft's promotion culture, but this strikes me as incredible. But in the "something seems incorrect" sense of the word. Were you hired at an incorrectly low level, were you a one-in-a-million talent, or is there huge title inflation at Microsoft now?
I don't have any citations.

Just look at what is being published in Arxiv.

Call your friends in university departments.

Ask people working in startups or corporation.

AI at this point is just Neural Networks.

Do I think it's a dead end for AGI?

I really don't know what AGI is, but for what ever new possibilities we can unlock.

We need newer techniques that are less intensive computationally.