skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the same boat. I've been chasing my tail for the last 6 years, just trying to keep my head above water financially. I'm a computer hardware engineer so the pickings are slim to none outside of the military-industrial complex, which pays shit outside of sales and executive management. Ended up at one of the big US semiconductor companies where I got paid 1/3rd of what my peers in the US earn, with similar expenditures. A starting salary of £26k... Barely broke £34k, plus a couple of grand in stock each year during my time there, while my US colleagues doing the same job get paid $120k+. That's with a good master's degree from Bristol, which is relatively prestigious.

I'm sure if I moved to London and focused on software engineering I could make more, but that shouldn't be the only route to wealth in this country.

I've spent so long trying to build out a minimum viable product in my spare time, so I can make my start-up dream a reality, but going through integration hell needs to take up all of your time, every day, for a long time, to get through the hurdles in any meaningful time frame. Every time I go back to it, I feel like I'm back at square one. 6 years of saving and I have zero runway to take this full-time to give it the time it needs.

What's embarrassing is that I discussed this with my colleagues, and they didn't quite fathom how fucked it is for young engineers in this country until I had the conversation with them. I was getting the same salary now as my mentor did when he was my age; in the early '90s. Wages haven't just stagnated. When adjusted for inflation, they shrank massively. That's not even considering the £60k of student loan debt I get hammered by every month.
The company was already public, though.

It's not the contracts that were the problem -- it was the fact that in those days it was uncommon for rank-and-file employees to really diversify.

We've mostly learned that lesson now.
I tried God Mode and Evil several times, but it never ended well. Mostly because of the muscle memory I accumulated over a decade.

Evil is fantastic, but it doesn’t play well with all the packages in the ecosystem. There are adapters for Magit, Compile, etc., but most packages define key bindings that require Ctrl-Meta cords, which causes cognitive dissonance.

God mode is a neat idea, but I never committed to it, and I found it confusing at times.

Overall, I decided to accept Emacs as it is, with all its quirks, and embrace its way of doing things. I’m not married to it, so I can occasionally cheat by switching to Vim or VS Code without feeling guilty.
War criminal is war criminal. Nothing else factors in. And that they point both out at the same time makes it easier for them to avoid being seen one sided.
I wanted to love that game. I gave it a good go, but just could not bring myself to want to play it.

I think the story and narrative just put me right off of it from the very outset for some reason. I don't know why but it was a total turn-off.

Also the zero-G thing made sense from a setting-perspective, but the slowly-slowly-drifting-around with limited control was just frustrating and infuriating in equal measure. I am sure it is "realistic" but then this is a game about being in space tearing space ships apart so who cares about realism? If I was able to do things faster and with more "arcade" style movement then I am sure it would have been a blast, but slowly drifting about in treacle was not fun.
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After I've consented... right.... right guys!?

I really worry that the financial incentives for this are all wrong. MSFT has a massive incentive to obstinately push AI interference into every element of their products. They must show traction to justify the continued exuberance around AI in the stock market. But a tool like this just has so much scope to make the user experience worse. I know what I want to do on my computer, do I need some AI clippy to ask if I need help.

Windows has been on a strong downward trajectory for a while now - and that's been a conscious decision. In the last week I can remember my computer - unprompted - telling me the pollen count, a football score, 10 teas to sip for international tea day. That the FTSE Auto Index is down 3.24% (just go that now). None of that information is useful to me, I feel a strong sense of hatred towards windows now and I will be dumping this computer as soon as possible.

But that's me, the user, I'm not who Satya Nadella cares about, Satya cares about saying "300% annual growth rate of AI usage" so that their numbers go up and to the right and I think it's going to drive me away from MSFT products completely.
Question is: Where else could they have spent those $25m? Could they have built something with more value?

Opportunity cost is a cost, too
Moving in Europe is not like moving in the US. Language is the big one ofc, but the cultures are vastly different compared to US states. That doesn't mean it not worth it, but it adds a layer of friction.
Thanks for that, some pretty cool street view panoramas at that location
> Hell, in France being a billionaire is seen as a negative thing in many social circles.

Well, purely socially, having a billion euros is kinda... bad? If you think about it, what do we call all other kinds of people that have a lot of 1 thing, more than they need or could possibly use within their lifetimes?

Hoarders.

It's not a positive term. It implies something being wrong in the head.

Now, an entrepreneur building a business that becomes worth billions and themselves having a new worth of a billion? Probably a different story, but as we're seeing more and more, power corrupts and most of these folks don't really stay in touch with reality 5-10+ years after they become so rich.
I really just don’t want software to have these ai things in them. How long are they going to maintain it?

If they want to allow extensibility for the explicit purpose of Llm integration then why not just… make an API?
Isn't this only for personal bankruptcy? If you have a limited company and it goes bankrupt, it's it that's bankrupt, not the owners. Or is the UK very weird in that regard and I'm reading gov.uk wrong?
Microsoft doesn’t care about user consent. You can say “yes” or “not now”.

“No” is not a vocabulary word in Microsoft anymore.
What's the selling proposition of it running remotely?
You always need such interpolation nonetheless, because the physics timestep is fixed but your FPS will not always be 60 (that is, you may have slowdowns that lower your FPS temporarily)

Running two physics steps in the same frame isn't a problem (besides consuming CPU pointlessly), the problem is when you run no physics step between one frame and another
> still can be dodged by good players

You are presuming that units would do as they are told, in a timely manner. Which they do not.
To be honest I'd also assume to be able to create arbitrarily sized boxes.

Last time I used OpenSCAD I didn't notice any arbitrary precision limitations — maybe the ones who expose interfaces to the web have them, but even there I don't seen how anything but millimeters would make sense (then again I live in Europe).
App? What's an app?

It's a thing you put on your phone

I don't have a phone

Well, we can't register you

You don't accept people who don't have phones? Could I have that in writing please, ..., oh, your signature on that please ...
I only want this if the entire model is running on my device. Otherwise it's a massive security risk.
I mean this: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonatation_du_b%C3%A9ton#/m...
On a related note it’s amazing just how much better the UX of 1Password is, compared to KeePass X, etc.

I used to not want to use 1Password or any other hosted password manager like that. But I had to start using it for work since a couple of years ago and they also gave me a free personal account for it and when I experienced how much better it was than everything else, I started using it and haven’t looked back since.

I wish an equally awesome, but completely local and completely open source password manager existed.
iTerm is a great program and I love it.

If there is one thing I could add to it, I really would like "IDE style autocomplete", like fig promised, and I guess that warp terminal or whatever it's called.

Right now when I press "CMD+;" it pops up an autocomplete style box, I would just like to have pretty much that but always on, and filled with suggestions for the command being typed, like an IDE or code editor with a language server.

I know I'd get a lot more use out of that than any kind of AI feature – but in the end it's a free tool and has served me well, I don't want to complain about it, I would recommend it to anyone.
That's not exactly the same thing as the LLM photographic memory that we launched at Lamini a month ago - https://www.lamini.ai/blog/lamini-llm-photographic-memory-ev...

We focused on LLMs that can reason while still remembering key facts exactly.

But I like that the concept is catching on in the AI community. Go Satya.

LLMs are powerful, but unlike humans, their weights are fixed during inference and cannot be used for working memory.

Computer memories are abundant and perfect. It's not unreasonable to store your entire life in all modalities in a personal computer of the near future.

AIs with that ability should exceed human performance on knowledge tasks.
I've trained LLM to make conversion from American English to British English and vise versa. To do that I've used 10k sentences for fine-tuning.
Quoting the expert who contradicts the headline halfway through the article:

> The boss of National Grid said in a speech in March that data centre electricity demand in the UK will rise six-fold in just 10 years, fuelled largely by the rise of AI. National Grid expects that the energy required for electrifying transport and heat will be much larger in total, however.

But then you realise they're aware that the headline is BS as they've used the classic "correlation not causation" headline trick of simply stating two things are happening at the same time but leaving it to the readers mind to connects them.
> "Run commands automatically" is hilarious.

Yeah they should make it so it mocks the user for attempting to set it to true and explain in select, direct, simple to understand words why that's a dumb idea and that obviously the user didn't read the disclaimer.
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Yes, I feel gaslit by the whole situation
I suppose with enough funds that legal maneuvering is available to every single citizen, and that is what this is really about: equality of opportunity! Right? /s just in case....
Haskell was one of my most important discoveries; it affected my thinking and approach to software engineering the most.

However, as I mentioned in the opening section, I deliberately removed programming languages from candidates for several reasons:
1. They received enough praise already.
2. My presentation would be very biased.
3. The article would be way too long.
You can set a custom URL to use Ollama which is OpenAI API compatible. Llama3 8b runs quite fast for me on a M1 Max. I'll be making use of this feature I think (haven't tried it yet).
Never in America. We live too spread out, and many cities lack coherent work centers.
Yes I use Google search less frequent nowadays. And I usually skip the first 5-10 results.

Regarding political news I believe in Trust No 1.
Where are you getting this from? You can definitely be the director of a company after bankruptcy (assuming you didn't try to deception or scams of course), and stuff like an overdraft or loans are up to the lending bank/company.

EDIT: Unless you mean personal bankruptcy, which you probably don't, but while you're under the bankruptcy order (~1 year) you can't become a company director.
Scarlett voiced Samantha, an AI in the movie "Her"

Considering the movie's 11 years old, it's surprisingly on-point with depictions of AI/human interactions, relations, and societal acceptance. It does get a bit speculative and imaginative at the end though...

But I imagine that movie did/does spark the imagination of many people, and I guess Sam just couldn't let it go.
> We focused on LLMs that can reason while still remembering key facts exactly.

It can NOT reason and exact facts are simply not a property of LLMs.
> Except when they can't, as in the case of senior government figures.

It is a principle of democracy that senior government figures can be held accountable.

E.g. in the US, Trump, a former president and a potential future president, is currently in several trials.

E.g. in Israel, where Netanyahu is under trial in several cases (unrelated to the ICJ) and where e.g. a former PM was convicted of several charges and served time in prison.
These pics are 2000 (Chittagong, Bangladesh) posted around 2009 as you can see from the low rez. The photographer has a doco - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832903/

As others are posting there are better videos / pics out.

Good book, not too long, easy read - "Ship Breaker" by "Paolo Bacigalupi" - https://booko.us/9780316056199/Ship-Breaker I think cyberpunk, Amazon says dystopian romance.
Yeah, very odd. Don't get me wrong, I'd absolutely love Johansson's voice on the thing, but Sky is not it.
You'd be ruled out of many FCA (financial conduct authority) regulated jobs for at minimum 6 years after.
> The thing about the situation is that Altman is willing to lie and steal a celebrity's voice for use in ChatGPT. What he did, the timeline, everything - is sleazy if, in fact, that's the story.

Correcting, the thing about this whole situation with OpenAI is they are willing to steal everything for use in ChatGPT. They trained their model with copyrighted data and for some reason they won't delete the millions of protected data they used to train the AI model.
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Tweet sized programs for the Pico-8 virtual console.
>> are the crazy-high rankings of Britain's top schools

The problem(in general) with University rankings is that the ranking is done almost entirely on the number of publications.....in English. So it's no wonder that British universities take a lot of the top spots. I've had these conversations many many many times with people - it's not like the Universities of Warsaw or Milan or Prague are not as good as Oxford - but that's not what you're going to see in rankings because a lot of research doesn't get published in English, so somehow it doesn't "count".

As a completely separate point - British universities got absolutely decimated by Brexit in ways that are not immediately apparent, but I work with couple professors at Russel Group universities and they all say the same thing - the number of PhD and research positions applicants from the EU has gone from hundreds a year to literally a handful a year. Some of those were replaced by British applicants or non-EU applicants, but the number of people who want to be researchers in Britan and further the scientific fields has dropped drastically.
How does iTerm compare to Prompt from Panic for people who used both a lot?

I just use the default terminal that comes with macOS but was considering trying one of these ones.
Yes, but all web frameworks are not excellent for any web development.

For example, highly concurrent multiplayer game servers are "web" but they're not "CRUD".
Meanwhile I have a hard time connecting bluetooth devices in 2024 and fight with clunky settings windows just to find a relevant piece of information. I should calculate the raw seconds of lifetime I lose in a day waiting for the search to finish its webrequests before showing me local results of my search term as well.
People have fixated on the word "union", but when a group of white collar people get together to set standards and gatekeep them it's called a profession. In the UK, this is usually structured as "chartered". It covers other types of engineers (see the repeated discussion of whether software engineering is engineering; iron rings in Canada; etc) as well as accountants and surveyors.

Older craft professions had guilds. Lawyers go back still further in history and have their "bar" exams.

But in all cases it requires imposing a costly barrier to entry in exchange for not having to prove yourself over and over again to potential employers. Nobody makes a lawyer do fizzbuzz before hiring them.
Happy to help dude. Enjoy! :)
I would love to have my own service and technology to localise videos by using AI. All startups in that niche are growing so fast.
"- Clipboard content reporting via control sequence OSC 52 is now supported, but requires user consent to enable."

This pairs well with the recently released neovim 0.10 support for OSC 52 to interact with the clipboard.
Are we past the point of no return? Does all software need to have AI features now? I know it's opt-in, but just knowing it's there makes me not want to use this any more.
I use Safari on mobile (iPhone 13). I’ve seen what you described on the search page for some result items, but the main site has always been ok.
Not to be confused with Sun Microsystems SBus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBus
Not sure, as I don't live in SF, but I know that not all start-ups are in SF/The Valley even if the VC money is raised there.

In the UK, they're disproportionately concentrated in London. In fact the UK government has encouraged many of them to set up around Old Street / 'Silicon Roundabout' (sigh). That area is only accessible by public transport, whereas SF/California is accessible via cars, so the choice of where you live is considerably greater in the US. The vast majority of people that work in London live within 10 miles of the absolute centre of London and use public transport. The magic '1 hr commute', if you will. Hence the rental prices.

Our government is continuing the prosperity of London at the cost of the rest of the country. If you remove London from the UK, we're poorer than Mississippi: https://archive.is/UJZBP
people acting like they already don't
The highlights of the Erlang/OTP 27 release
Am I reading this correctly:

Training time was 4282407hrs. At, conservatively, 200w gpus, that's (4282407*200)/1_000_000_000 GWh ~= 1 GWh. At 10c/kWh that's $100,000 ?

So if you have a single eqv GPU at home, it's 500yrs of training time and $100k in energy costs. Or, in practice, 3000 gpus for 2mo.

The AI industry has to hope the world doesnt change fast enough for these models to be useless.

EDIT: price is $100k
True decentralisation is part of the problem with cryptocurrencies and why they can't work the way the advocates want them to.

Decentralisation allows trust-less assurance that money is sent, it's just that's not useful because the goods or services for which the money is transferred still need either trust or a centralised system that can undo the transaction because fraud happened.

That's where smart contracts come in, which I also think are a terrible idea, but do at least deserve a "you tried!" badge, because they're as dumb as saying "I will write bug-free code" rather than as dumb as "let's build a Dyson swarm to mine exactly the same amount of cryptocurrency as we would have if we did nothing".
It’s a challenge, but it’s not that bad. All the package managers have lock files, so no dependencies change daily until you update them. You could even have auto-update via dependabot or renovate and the smallest amount of CI would stop the breaking update from getting through. I’ve worked in a lot of node projects and never worried about whether they’ll compile today. Lock files have been standard/default practice for a long time.

The hard part is actually doing the updates. So many breaking changes, so many new (often better) approaches, so many different tools that interact with each other in weird ways…
Wonder how the solar panel factories will get power. Wind turbines?
I could be wrong but in these cases (or when people criticize voices, similarly), people are more put off by expressions than raw features. Nonverbal communication is high emotional bandwidth. I don’t begrudge someone disliking someone else’s self presentation.
Yeah, it kinda seems like a feature a developer would implement for fun but I don't see much practical use for it off the top of my head.

In the sidebar Codecierge convo they do give you a "Copy code" button whenever it detects code blocks. I think it'd be more practical to also add a "Paste and run" shortcut to each code block. i.e. A little "Play" button.

Aside, Codecierge doesn't seem to read the terminal contents like it says it should. If you ask it any questions or reference anything in your terminal, like an error in response to a command it gave you, it doesn't seem to have that context.
> Is it just me, or allowing hallucinations into my terminal a line that I am not willing to cross?

Depends how you use it. For example, writing jq filters, or awk scripts, or some shell pipelines is always a bit of a pain. It's something where LLMs can really improve quality of life.
if at uber's scale they still have enough opportunities of that scale for every one of their thousands of engineers i need to buy some of their stock
Adding views to an API-only Rails app
> What are actions?

Tactics; ways to attack.

(probably an unspoken assumption is that the two actions taught would both start in the same way, so one launches the attack, sees which* line gets closed, and continues in the line which has been opened. Even if you don't have the speed to properly determine the open line for the continuation, it's still possible to successfully run the pair as a mixed strategy and expect to find an opening stochastically)

* the same coach believes the most beautiful action is "feint direct, direct": at first you pretend to straightforwardly touch, but should your opponent fail to defend (because they're expecting a more complex action and are waiting to see where you're really going to attack), you go ahead and turn the "feint" into a real score.
Thanks Roman, that's a great observation.

Whilst we do not want to directly replace Salesforce we see lots of companies comparing Openkoda directly with Salesforce, mainly due to the ability to build dynamic data models, modify business logic in runtime and apply pre-built application templates.

Openkoda does not have some of the Salesforce's clear limitations: it's open-source, fully extensible with Java and Javascript (no need to learn APEX or redo you certifications every year), can be run on-premise, it has no limits on data quering and it's just faster.
Altman is a known conman. Surely you are aware of Yishan Wong describing how Sam Altman and the Reddit founders conned Conde Nast https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_bes...
I suspect they already had a team maintaining/debugging/operating dynamodb

Hosted services doesn't reduce maintenance costs to zero
I've been a big fan of iTerm for the last 10+ years. What do people think is the best alternative?
The EU cares about user consent. So just like with Teams and Edge defaults, we're likely to see similar pushbacks on EU versions of windows.

It's how I still don't have copilot on my Windows install despite the update bringing it to windows came to the US months ago. Or how certain employee tracking features in Azure/Office 365 are not available in EU.
It costs having to bisect to find it instead of just reading the code/doc
>If you find a guy that looks identical to him, however ...

...it wouldn't make any difference.

A Barack Obama figurine is a Barack Obama figurine, no matter how much you say that it's actually a figurine of Boback O'Rama, a random person that coincidentally looks identically to the former US President.