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Impressed? Here are few things that impressed me in the long decades since I am online.

In 1995 we discussed the HP48G calculator on Usenet and Dave Arnett who designed the calculator chimed in.

When my uncle left illegally Hungary in 1981 for the US, communication was sparse. We went to my grandmother for Sunday lunch and wrote a letter, together. Answers came in like two months. End of the 1980s phone calls began to happen but supremely expensive and short. By the time my grandfather passed in 2011 at the tender age of 98 he spent easily an hour every day video calling over Skype for free with his son.

I wintered out in Israel in 2007. It was almost impossible for me to get around on public transit as I do not read Hebrew. I also spent more than a week at the turn of 2015/2016 in Israel: Tel Hazor, Tel Megiddo, Avdat, Mitzpe Ramon, Eilat. I used public transit for all that, thanks to the smartphones with GPS and maps and real time transit instructions it was trivial.

I am easy to impress. You just need to knock down barriers of communication.

On the other hand, I can't say I was impressed by https://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/ -- I surely was entertained, no question about that.

When these LLMs roared onto the scene I was neither impressed nor was I entertained. I was frightened. Nothing has happened since which would have proven us wrong, to the contrary. Australia leads the way by banning deepfake porn. More of that please, most especially ban the use of deepfakes of people who run in elections and the mass generation of texts about those.

As an aside, I enjoy the translate-in-camera functionality of smartphones very much so I am not against all AI -- it just needs to be used wisely.
Nvidia hits $3T market cap on back of AI boom
Fair enough. I'm just verklempt about the plethora of purported tutorials that barely scratch the surface. Sit down with a textbook. Read it. Think hard and do the problems. Watching cartoon animations is not learning the subject.
Excuse me, I've got a lot of clouds that need to be yelled at.
The client doesn't create queries in this situation, you explicitly define them server-side. So optimization is easier. I've seen this time and again with services that aren't GraphQL but tried to provide a semi-freeform query feature; if you only have a few clients and control them all, it's way easier to just make separate endpoints for whatever they need. If you have many clients, maybe GraphQL makes sense.

Auth on leaf nodes, maybe I'm not understanding the issue but it seems solved without GraphQL. JWTs are one way.
> You've never had a package of meat leak a little juice in to the grocery bag?

Not frequently! If that’s happening, the butcher is doing a bad job sealing the package or the meat isn’t fresh.

I agree in those situations I’d likely toss the bag versus rinse it. But this is—and should be—a once every couples years problem. (And I buy meat almost every time I go to the grocery store.)
My brain just came up with the phrase "You can't spell propaganda without PR", which I think is clever. But I'm going to put it into a search engine now and see that it's not original...
From how you describe it, it sounds like it's taken the same approach as Haskell's async exceptions + mask/uninterruptibleMask, which to me seems like one of the best solutions around, so props to them
Wow, I had thought TBI's could only be diagnosed on autopsy, but I guess that's CTE which is different. Does CTE mean lingering effects from TBI's? Can TBI's if treated early enough be prevented from leading to CTE?
I've experienced this to varying degrees over my 15 year career, but can safely say that my current job at a FAANG probably pays more than any job I could get today (including another FAANG). Stock appreciation and more importantly, extra stock awards, are difficult to match.

Or I could be a sucker and 100% wrong.
I don't recall a ball, but they dropped a feather and a hammer (the gravity experiment).
I'm not sure that this is sustainable anymore. I've definitely done the job hopping game, and it generally led to a substantial increase in salary each time, but eventually that comes back to bite you.

I got laid off three times last year, and that already looks pretty bad on a resume, but then seeing a bunch of jobs beforehand where I was only there for two years makes a lot of employers really hesitant to move forward, especially in 2024 (ten years after this was written).

At this point I'm happy enough to just sit my ass down and stay at my current place; I didn't realize how much I valued stability over anything else until 2023 came along and became the worst year of my life.
That is not a textbook.
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Technologies: Fullstack + devops. Python, Django, FastAPI, Pydantic, Pandas, Jupyter notebooks, Reactjs, Typescript, Postgresql, Ansible, Docker, Microservices, Linux. Some embedded experience with C/C++

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Senior Software Engineer with 12 years experience of software development. Predominantly focused on python. I'm a quick learner and have a PhD in physics. Examples of projects worked on:

* Developed a document processing and anonymization platform with django, django ninja, react, typescript, and Konvas js.

* Data processing pipelines using RabbitMQ and pydantic

* Developed a backend engineering platform with django, django rest framework, celerity, pandas, snowflake, MongoDB, and python.

* Developed a web development platform with Django, reactjs, redux + material ui, plotlyjs.

* Developed a Data Analysis platform with python, numpy, pandas, jupyter notebooks.

* Developed a Devops & sysadmin platform with docker, jenkins, digital ocean, postgres replication, ansible, elastic stack.

* Developed an Embedded Development platform with C++, arduino, ESP8266, ESP32.

* Managed a team of 3 - 4 developers.
Yes, you could.

But this needs doing in every single downstream user of GTK. Far more efficient to do it once, in the toolkit itself.

This is why sane people don't use GTK. The maintainers literally couldn't care less that their 2 hours of "work" doing the removal causes hundreds of thousands of man-hours of refactoring on the part of others, plus the testing and validation work to prove that every part of their applications are still working correctly.
The whole field seems to be having issues with comparisons right now.

We really don't even know how Mamba vs Griffin compare.
I often also feel imposter syndrome. But it's also good to realize that some people are just better at things than others, others have more free time, more motivation, more experience, etc.

Don't let other people's success bring you down.

Of course I've been dealing with imposter syndrome my whole life because my older brother is a genius and it's taken me my whole 44 years of life to try not to compare myself to him.
Use foil can be trivially recycled - it's metal: https://www.calgary.ca/waste/what-goes-where/metal-aluminum-...
Sadly it seems to have an exception (or Easter egg?) for Firecrawl:

> Ah... Firecrawl. They are the ones who made this website. Can't roast my creators otherwise I will get fired.
As with almost all things, it's not really to have it, or not. It's a matter of how much, and in what way.

The overwhelming majority of GMO crops are modified to allow the increased use of "round up" type pesticides. More pesticides = not good.

Examples of other modifications include "golden rice".

It is sad that all of this gets rolled into one thing, since it's not. And I was not in favor of the Greenpeace campaigning to prohibit golden rice propgation.

But using this greenpeace mistake as an argument for all GMO crops is also a mistake.

The really sad thing is that the human primate is so bound to binary logic that actual good decisions are almost impossible to reach...
I wonder where this need to deny the impressiveness of LLMs is rooted. Maybe fear or ego.
I don't know what the average number of uses for a reusable bag is, but it's certainly not one. We've got about a half dozen, including a few freezer bags that do most of the work, plus a few that have been repurposed as the "beach activities bag" and "kid's soccer stuff bag" and so on. The ones used for groceries have been used at least once a week for going on four years.

The old bags also averaged slightly over one use, but the mandatory "bag of bags" in the pantry got depleted much more slowly than it filled.

If someone is throwing their reusable bags in the landfill and getting new ones every time, they're using it wrong...which I admit isn't entirely their fault at this societal scale, but let's at least agree it's the expected way to use the tool.
The abstract seems to say "Yes, it does."
Because it seems a fairer way of apportioning limited opportunities than just looking at what school you went to, looking at previous companies on your resume, or seeing how well you can shoot the breeze.
Let me clarify: you cannot make useful judgements on the basis of an issue poll alone. The information they obscure is just as important as the information they purport to present. This is why we have legislators who in their offices actually investigate and discuss issues of lawmaking with their base, and can even contextualize it within a framework of privileged or classified information they may have access to rather than take an issue poll at face value that says “most of <nation’s population> support X on issue Y” and simply vote that way.
Mm.

I don't normally like reaching for SciFi in these conversations, as there's always at least one of someone who mistakes a story for reality, and someone who misses the point and accuses the person giving the SciFi as an example of the same…

…but there are two episodes of TNG Trek which come to mind:

1. Elementary, Dear Data: Dr. Pulaski asserts that Data, being a robot, is incapable of solving a mystery to which he does not already know the outcome. Data accepts Dr. Pulaski's challenge and invites her to join them on the holodeck. There, Geordi instructs the computer to create a unique Sherlock Holmes mystery, but accidentally specifies an adversary "who is capable of defeating Data" rather than "Sherlock" and thus shenanigans happen.

2. The Measure of a Man: Lawsuit over "is Data (a) a person with the right to refuse consent; or (b) a thing to be disassembled, studied, replicated, and used as a mechanical servant?"

We've had ongoing arguments about #1 with AI for a long time, even though Chess and Go playing models beating the best human players should've ended this one.

I think we're going to get a lot of real life cases like #2 even when they involve high-fidelity brain uploads.
We most certainly are not an enlightened society.
Also as EV/Plugin-Hybrid adoption keeps increasing, the emissions generated from even a dedicated trip aren't an issue.
Honestly, to me, the 85% statistic is meaningless because the survey is simply asking if you believe "plastic = bad" - a pretty common sentiment, especially in a third world country like India where plastic pollution is visible everywhere. I'd be more interested to see a survey that asks "would you be willing to pay 5% more at the grocery store for plastic-free packaging?"

In less prosperous countries, the majority of consumers are more interested in saving money than saving the environment.
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Caves of Mars Project (~2004)
Ironically, the value of employees tend to go up the longer they stay as they grow more familiar with the people and systems at the company.
> But they’ve been going backwards since 2020, with dick moves like disabling auto-save to local files in Microsoft Word (your autosave data only autosaves to OneDrive)

I missed this when it happened. What the fuck?
Okay, so you weren't actually asking "on what", it was part of your prediction, got it.
" 9-12 months with no gaps in between jobs--in reality, this means "it doesn't look like you were fired"--switching jobs not only makes you look more motivated, it also gives you a wider breadth of experience to draw from."

Fuck HR. 12 months is nothing for actual deep learning. I've seen job hoppers come through my company and it's obvious most of them don't get very deep in the work and just move on instead of becoming a real expert in the system. It's one thing not to hold it against them, but it's something else to say count it as an advantage at such short intervals.
>> I suspect it would make more sense to do so via tax policy, i.e. high property taxes (or LVT) with a deduction for each occupant.

Vacant land use taxes do make sense to me. That is not what GP advocated for: “Owners should be required to maintain their structures and keep them occupied, or forfeit the property.” Increased taxation is not forfeiture, and being forced to sell because taxes are prohibitive is different from the government taking your building.

>> governments have a vested interest in not being overthrown

This is a tortuous chain of logic to go from unoccupied buildings to overthrown government concerns.
Why not both? Just kidding!
It is almost certainly the lack of "flight risk". I've been on the management side long enough to know that you reward the most useful folks who "could go anywhere".

As GP said, it's a rational strategy for them. I personally have lowered my expectations of salary growth over the years, and would be happy with some of those other benefits GP listed in the mean-time.
Democrat calls only 7 EV-charging stations deployed under US program 'pathetic'
I just tried that with ChatGPT 3.5 (4o stopped responding after I asked the initial question and it produced the wrong answer). Here's the Prolog it generated:

% Define the number of brothers and sisters
brothers(4).
sisters(1).

% Predicate to calculate the number of sisters a brother has
brother_sisters(NumberOfSisters) :-
sisters(NumberOfSisters).

% Query to find out how many sisters a brother has
?- brother_sisters(Sisters).
I'm always a bit skeptical of those questions. When asked: "Would you do more if you were not busy doing less?", who would NOT say "hmm hypothetically, I guess"?

Great. What does it mean then? That if people cared, then they would stop not caring?
I can recommend the lecture for implementing database systems by Thomas Neumann, who spearheaded the Umbra system which CedarDB builds on. The slides and lecture recordings are available online:

https://db.in.tum.de/teaching/ss21/moderndbs/
Curious. Did you use some type of websockets ?
Opinions/desires expressed and actual behaviours are very much two things.

Spent most of my life in Africa & actual behaviours line up a lot closer with your instinct. If you're close to the poverty line practicality trumps environment. Choice between paper bag and plastic? Plastic obviously - it's more durable and has more uses later
> Is the culture just so broken at these companies that it’s hopeless to expect people NOT to blatantly exploit the system for their friends? Why don’t people get fired for doing that?

How do you catch them? Unless they’re idiots they’ll write facially plausible explanations of their hire/no-hire decisions.
Places that still have open defecation and garbage in the streets have bigger issues to be solved before we deduce plastic bags are the problem. E.g. third world.

Seattle and SF have banned plastic bags and the streets are still littered with human feces. Maybe for their next initiative they should pass out reusable bags for people to poop into. Sorry but a feel good measure to make grocery bags illegal doesn't move the needle for me when I still have to play hopscotch with literal logs of human shit.

These priorities are hilariously out of order.
I'm one of the only ones being paid what I'm worth, so I'm not going anywhere.
The digital lock is a matter of conflicting rights. They have a right to prevent infringement of their copyright; you have a right to make limited copies.

The lock on your door is not -- assuming that they don't in fact have some kind of claim on you, like a landlord to whom you have failed to pay rent. So the situations are not parallel, and it should be no surprise that the decisions would differ.

The job of a court is to decide which right prevails when rights conflict. There's often reasonable disagreement over it, and the distinction is often based on a complex and esoteric set of precedents, and on the specific wording of a law.
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> For example if I get to spend half my office day watching movies and working on side projects in a stable company with no stress that potential raise from the next employer might not be worth it.

tbh when I'm on the hiring side, this is why I consider a long tenure in the same role at a company a... not really a red flag, but maybe a yellow flag, something to talk about in an interview.

Hate to say it, but lots of long-tenured employees are in this situation. They remain at companies because of interia. Processes have been built around them; they have tribal/domain knowledge which is poorly documented and not readily replaceable; they may be functionally a "C player" but they have additional value they bring via historical context ("Oh, this bit of weird nonsense code? Yeah, I remember we hacked that in right after the acquisition in 2017, we don't need it now...") It's a real concern that someone coming from a situation where they only do ~4 hours of actual work per week might not be able to handle a new job where they have to provide value through other means, i.e. shipped code.

It's not a total disqualification of a candidate for me, obviously, but it'd certainly be something I'd ask about.
Of course the HN gods have smote this post off the front page, as they did with the post criticising Microsoft for producing a crappy LLM hype product.

It seems recently that any post on HN criticising LLMs gets instantly wiped off the front page. This seems to coincide a little too neatly with YC's announcement that almost all of their funding choices this year will be "AI based" companies
Let's assume that both humans and AI can produce statements that are new and useful, and can both produce statements that violate copyright. For example a human can operate an illegal a video tube website where they serve verbatim copies of copyrighted movies.

I'll argue that's not enough reason to grant the AI the right to learn from copyrighted materials, because the right to learn is intimately wrapped up in human needs, while AI rights are focused on corporate and societal needs, which are currently being decided.

The human right to learn

You're a human and you need the right to learn from copyrighted material in order to not suffer Ignorance, in order to serve Society, because it's not feasible to charge you a rent for ideas you get from a book, and because it would cause suffering and indignity if we tried to charge you for your own thoughts.

With an AI, it's less clear it needs the right to learn from copyrighted material, because it's not a person that can suffer, and because the scale of its usage of copyrighted materials - and its potential harm to copyright holders - is about 5 orders of magnitude greater than that of any single person, and is potentially greater than the collective impact of human learners.

Let's lay out the reasoning:

1. No AI Suffering (yet). The AI doesn't suffer from ignorance and isn't (yet) a real person. So it needs no personal right to learn.

2. Potential Social Harm. AI could pose a much greater threat to copyright holders than the sum total of all human learners. We'll be weighing this potential in court, and it's currently not clear how the matter will be decided. Copyright holders could be awarded protections against corporations training AIs.

3. Ease Of Accounting. AIs and their training materials can be audited, unlike a human mind. So we have a technical means to restrict the AI's ability to learn from copyrighted materials.

4. No Harm in Accounting. Since the AI is not yet a person, and suffers no indignity or invasion of privacy from being audited, it's safe to audit and regulate the AI's training materials.

In summary it's important to remember that human rights exist because humans need those rights to enjoy life in a dignified way as persons, and because those rights benefit Society.

When we decide the question of AI rights, it's important to remember it's not a person, and any rights it has will be provided on the basis of societal benefit alone. It's not yet clear which AI rights will benefit Society here. It's quite possible that we will strengthen copyrights against unlicensed AI use, at least to some degree beyond the current "free-for-all".
That's a fair cop, I didn't read it.

The thing is that "LLM reasoning breaks down" simply did not surprise me enough that I thought it was worth clicking. Making LLMs fail is not hard. They're interesting for the ways that they work, not the (many, many) ways that they don't.

edit: I've had a look and I don't think any of their prompts are very good. They're certainly not how I'd write them if I wanted a current model to actually solve the problem.

The way to make me take a paper like this seriously would be if you set it up as an adversarial collaboration with a competent prompter, and that person agreed they couldn't make a generic prompt that solved the problem. "We tried three times and none worked" is not news, or at any rate not news about LLMs.
presumably they also change roles over those decades and accumulate experience that new hires would not have.
Providing the context about the UN treaty makes it unnecessarily loaded. People are biased towards being agreeable, if you start out saying "everyone in the world agrees X, do you also agree X?", people are more likely to say yes than if you asked the question in isolation.

The word "unnecessary" also adds bias, and skews the results: "Of course we shouldn't unnecessarily use plastic. Oh, but my personal water bottle and the bag I get my food in and the cutlery I use to eat it and the... well not those, those are very necessary: I need them to eat and drink!"
> Don't them smell? If you wash them by hand you end up using more resources than if you had disposable.

No. There is absolutely no way that rinsing out a container uses more resources than creating and transporting new disposable containers.

> Are you dumping things in the street?

I personally am not. I see plenty of people who are. I see plenty of trash in my local rivers and streams, so I'm not sure what you're basing your statement on.
> like, you have to be of a very specific mindset to see message after message about the evil UN and not say, "uh, did we go off the rails somewhere?"

I think saying "evil" anything is wrong. But the UN is still a body made up of people, and like everything has its flaws. Its done some things that have turned out great and truly made the world a better place. Its done other things that haven't worked out so well. I certainly don't think it is above criticism.
Well... sure, but I think you're still almost purposely missing the point. Take this example - can we prove that a system of differential equations emerges in a meaningful way from discrete systems? Yes, obviously. That's a far cry from the OP's "if you think about it, all things are quantum", which is where this thread started and what I'm talking about.

It also illustrates the actual point pretty well - when you have a good set of differential equations that describe observed phenomena, that higher level of abstraction gives MORE insight into the processes at play, even when we know that it emerges from something more fundamental. Only when that model is a poor approximation do we need to appeal to the more fundamental regime (or when that fundamental regime is what we're studying).
I don't know you, but I know you aren't a piece of shit. Nobody is.
15% is a huge increase for most. I've never seen a 15% increase at one time.
Its Hacker News Dropbox over and over and over again.