skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because we can't be sure whether two people interpret what "inner monologue" means and whether they think it describes a phenomenon that actually isn't different between them and other people.

For example, I can think of interpretations of "I picture objects that I'm thinking about" that range from me not experiencing the phenomenon to me indeed experiencing the phenomenon.

To say that you're not experiencing something that other people are experiencing in their head is a solipsistic notion where you hypothesize an experience that you imagine others are having and then discard it for being different than yours.
> Are all plastic liquid containers bad? Almost certainly not, you wouldn't want to store a corrosive acid that eats through glass in a glass bottle.

I'd argue that most, especially containers in regard to food item, are. You don't have to have a database to figure this out, you can start simple by just banning the use of single use plastic with regards to food. There aren't many (any?) items that are highly corrosive and intended for human consumption.

Plastics in medicine could wait for another round of legislation. Single use plastics used for shipping consumer goods and food are the 80% of plastic production problem.
it would be interesting to know how global politics and wars would change if the US were to stop shoveling money to foreign countries.
I think we nerds often fall into the trap of thinking that there must be some meta law that says "laws must treat similar things similarly" but there's no such provision in the law of any land that I know of. You're right that your analogous case seems implausible. It's irrelevant though.
Leave it up to the courts to decide. It seems to be the only place that the truth matters now.

If you cannot reasonably prove you acted in good faith - or cannot prove you did not knowingly make false statements it’s (and now that they are proved false you retract and remove) then you are a problem.

What that looks like in actual practice I don’t know but burying our heads in the sand and saying “it’s to difficult to stop” is not a good position to have.
This leaves those who don’t wish to limit their candidate pool by previous stack experience with no option.
Atomic AI Agents Framework – A Better Autogen / CrewAI Alternative
I've been working on a new open-source AI agent framework called Atomic Agents. After spending a lot of time on it for my own projects, I became very disappointed with AutoGen and CrewAI.

Many libraries try to hide a lot of things and make everything seem magical. They often promote the idea of "Click these 3 buttons and type these prompts, and wow, now you have a fully automated AI news agency." However, these solutions often fail to deliver what you want 95% of the time and can be costly and unreliable.

These libraries try to do too much autonomously, with automatic task delegation, etc. While this is very cool, it is often useless for production. Most production use cases are more straightforward, such as:

1) Search the web for a topic
2) Get the most promising URLs
3) Look at those pages
4) Summarize each page
5) ...

To address this, I decided to build my framework on top of Instructor, an already amazing library that constrains LLM output using Pydantic. This allows us to create agents that use tools and outputs completely defined using Pydantic.

The result is a lightweight, flexible, transparent framework that works very well for the use cases I have used it for, even on GPT-3.5-turbo and some bigger local models, whereas autogen and crewAI are complete lost cases unless using only the strongest most expensive models.

I would greatly appreciate any testing, feedback, contributions, bug reports, ...
Buy it. Will take a great backend engineer at least a week in the best of conditions to do this, and another week for the frontend engineering.

That's, say, $10-20k, as a low bar, but in truth, testing and refinement will take months, and those engineers need to stay, driving the cost up in the high 100Ks. Whereas I'm sure the vendors would be happy to bill you 1-10k/mo for a service like this and it's ready to go TODAY so you don't spend the opportunity cost.
Google unveils AI-led technology for predicting human molecules' behaviour
So they’re using the old gateway drug argument when it comes to “internet addiction”? I thought that whole thing was supposed to be bullocks
entirely agreed

i don't think mdpi is a scam publisher, but then, i don't read mdpi papers from following some kind of latest-mdpi-papers feed; i read them because other papers cite them, so i couldn't tell you if the utter-bullshit-paper percentage on mdpi is 1% or 99%

i just know i heave a sigh of relief when the paper i'm looking for turns out to be on mdpi, because i know that not only will i be able to read it without hassle, it will have a clearly marked creative-commons license that permits me to archive and redistribute the paper. same with hindawi actually, though i'm mmaybe a bit prejudiced against hindawi papers
Indeed, taking 20% boost, factoring in 3% raise / year, for 30 years is in fact 49% higher.
No single 3D API is capable of supporting all 3 of those platforms. However, if those are the only 3 you're concerned with, then Direct3D gets you farther (Windows+Xbox) than Vulkan (Windows only). You're still going to have to write/use something different for PlayStation (which has its own custom API).

The two major platforms that favor Vulkan are Android and Switch, but the former is in the "mobile" category rather than the "desktop/console" category and few games overlap both categories.

But really, Asahi Linux on M1 Mac is about as niche as you can get, so broad hardware support for native APIs isn't really relevant, and I don't think AAA games are necessarily what's meant to be supported either, since they generally won't work for other reasons (can't install x86-64 Windows kernel driver DRM/anticheat on an ARM Linux machine).
You should consider that this is obviously a "study" meant to manufacture data to support the organization's favored position not a real investigation into what actual people think.

Their conclusion is based on multiple surveys with different questions and methodologies but consider they did things like ask first, ": Before today, had you heard about a challenge called Plastic Free July, which encourages people to refuse and reduce single use plastics?" Told them about the harm single use plastics cause and then asked them, " How important or unimportant do you believe it is to have an
internationally binding treaty to combat plastic pollution?" To which a large percentage of people obviously responded that yes it is important.

In another survey they asked, "The United Nations agreed earlier this year to develop
a global treaty to end plastic pollution..." with the following question then referencing this treaty, "The treaty will include global rules for participating countries. How important or unimportant do you believe it is to have global rules to:" To which one of th responses was, "Ban unnecessary single-use plastics.", another was, "Ban types of plastic that cannot be easily recycled", etc.

And then they interpret agreeing that there should be a treaty to stop plastic pollution immediately after being given information about how bad it is to be the same as "Ban on Single-Use Plastics" which by and large no one surveyed actually said they wanted explicitly, nor were they asked.
It's a really exciting time. Also the Chinese have lots of space going on. Chang'e 5 is on its way back from the moon. Tiangong is quite large now. I'm thrilled to see humanity accelerate this.
This is not anecdotal come on. Worldnews is 100% now a narrative control ops by pro Israel forces. Just looking at one thread is enough to confirm this.
I am OK with plastic bans but they need to be implemented smartly. Near me, bans on single use plastic bags have resulted in all the stores handing out extra thick plastic bags that are treated as single use by everyone anyways. So I feel like it’s made the problem worse.
Maybe I misunderstand, but how would you send SMS via an Asterisk server? Wouldn't you need an SMS gateway in the end anyway?
I don't think it's utterly ridiculous for most people. It's very common here in the Netherlands and I'm not sure the average Dutch person is so extremely peculiar to the rest of society. It's really no more inconvenient than carrying the bank card I need to pay for my purchase and in the worst case scenario if I forget it I can just buy a new bag to reuse with my other items.

Regarding how clean they are, I just wash mine in the washing machine and I wash my vegetables as well.
Calling everything a "scam" is quickly evolving into a scam of its own.

It seems everyone on YouTube is doing clickbait thumbnails and Yellow Journalism in an effort to build a get-rich-quick "creator" business ultimately selling ads for junk D2C products and VPNs.

Soon we'll have folks doing hour-long YouTube exposés about the people who create hour-long YouTube exposés in a recursive loop. The winner will be Manscaped.
"a drummer could fine-tune on samples of their own drum recordings to generate new beats"

Yes, this is the reason someone becomes a drummer.
> Any other price will leave unsold inventory or unmet demand

Monopoly pricing leaves unmet demand in favour of higher expected profits.
When I watched the keynote/preordered it seemed obvious the LAM UI training was work-in-progress. The core of the device was a new UI for interacting with an LLM via voice in a way that's better than the phone. It does this.

I think the people calling it a scam are the same group that just complains about anything. The author drawing an equivalence between prolog and LLMs is a lot of evidence in favor of this sort of bullshit, I just have a really low tolerance for this kind of argument and person.

I'm not delusional - I think the Humane device is extremely disappointing (and their marketing was way more misleading imo), but I'm glad they built and shipped something/tried something in this space. I don't believe the rabbit complaints are earnest it's just cool to hate new stuff for some people. It's the same batch that hated the iphone in 2007, just tedious and uninteresting.
Researchers to retract landmark Alzheimer's paper containing doctored images
"greatest ally" according to whose claim? that reads like propaganda, just plain nonsense. perhaps a contender for greatest external funding liability? not sure how the hard data would rank such numerically.
some do take that form, yes; others are simply complaints that tenure and hiring boards were going to have to evaluate the quality of candidates' research for themselves because mdpi wasn't doing it for them
systemd is a project which provides building blocks for an operating system. PID 1 is just one building block. Lennart has said this since at least 2013. How the systemd naysayers haven't understood this in at least 11 years, I'll never understand.
It's a paid product. I will try it out.
I'd be happy if I were successful in my job and maybe had another promotion. It's been a struggle just to keep a Dev 2 job. No chance of promotion based on how "inconsistent" I am. I'm hoping not to get PIP'd.
Because they have to answer about the budget in aggregate. If three developers are paid $100k each on year 1, and they hire a new one on 120k on year 2, the average salary has only gone up 5%. If they don't hire and just bump the veterans to 120k, overall expenditure is lower but the average salary is now 20% higher and it looks bad (and you're not growing).
How long do you think for them to get to the point where they can carry all the raw materials up there?
> I don't think even Windows makes this an option anymore

It does, they added it back into Windows 11.
Except now the dark forest hypothesis precludes the development and use of warp drives with detectable collapse signatures.
> Neuroscientist Karen Ashe plans to retract her team’s landmark Alzheimer’s paper after acknowledging that it contains manipulated images. The 2006 study, which suggested that the disease could be caused by an amyloid beta protein, has been cited nearly 2,500 times. “I had no knowledge of any image manipulations in the published paper until it was brought to my attention two years ago,” Ashe wrote on the discussion site PubPeer, adding that she stands by the paper’s conclusions.

> Scientists are divided over whether the problems with the paper undermine the dominant, yet controversial, theory that beta-amyloid plaques are a root cause of Alzheimer’s disease.
I really wish there was a way to disable .DS_Store on local/removable storage as well. I don’t know why but it completely bugs me having these files when I want to never customize folder views.

There used to be this brilliant utility with a brilliant name called Asepsis that let you corral the files into a specific folder (like the vim cmd directory for .swp files), so you could have the functionality without the mess, or wipe them out like (or using) a tmp dir.

Unfortunately, when SIP arrived you had to disable it to get the functionality and it died off.

One or two defaults settings would do it, c’mon Apple! There’s a reason for not shitting all over network drives, why not local storage as well?
Responding to an unsubstantiated claim with an unsubstantiated claim just adds another unsubstantiated claim.

So far as I know, whether the universe behaves deterministically remains an unsolved question. Given that, your statement here would already be one of belief rather than fact, even before we get to the parentheticals. There is information here, but not about whether LLMs can develop into AGI.
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> I know for sure that my reasons for criticizing Israel have nothing to do with dislike of Jews. Why? Because I'm inside my own mind, so I would know if I had anything against Jews or not, and I don't.

People are classically horrible at that kind of self evaluation and will do amazing mental gymnastics to assure themselves they have "real" reasons for their opinions rather then the truth.

Unless by point 3 and 4 you mean the complete destruction of Israel I don't see any other outcome Americans protesting could accomplish to "solve" the conflict. Though since it's hard to find a protest that isn't pushing for that maybe your right on point 4.
And this is why you don't get job advice on reddit or HN. You'll get unsolicited advice that you should quit your job because you mention you're trying to make your workplace better for other employees.
You seem to assume a good CEO equals a successful company, and a good CEO also needs to have industry experience.

I don't know if either of those are actually true, there are plenty of good CEOs who came from zero experience in the industry. And plenty of bad CEOs who came from plenty of experience in the industry. Both of these run successful and not successful companies.

For example the currently Boeing CEO does not have experience in airplanes, came from a business background. And is considered a bad CEO by the average person (though considered a good CEO by stockholders, or at least was before the past few months).
I mean, LLMs are pretty different than deepfakes, but are "fear" and "being impressed" mutually exclusive?

I agree that deepfaking stuff with politicians is extremely concerning, but that doesn't really detract from the fact that Stable Diffusion is pretty cool. I was very impressed the first time I tried out Midjourney and Udio.
"My prompt after ChatGPT gave me an answer of 5: 'Yes but you aren't including Alice in your logic. Shouldn't the correct answer be 6 (since Alice is also a sister)?'"

Useful, if you know what the answer is. What happens if you don't give it the correct answer?
Manim I have tried once. While it's cool - it feels designed for a specific use case. I will check out canvas API!
Not just growers, I don't think grocery store employees are washing their hands religiously when they're putting this stuff out.
Using STM for Modular Concurrency: An Industrial Experience Report (2020) [video]
Pesticides are water soluble. Cat feces is not.
And garbage bags. How the hell are we going to handle garbage without plastic bags? Garbage caused a lot more pollution even in developed countries before everything could be neatly bagged up and buried in a landfill.

I don’t think proponents of the ban have really thought through the society-wide consequences of a single use plastic ban. I wish there were better alternatives but plastic is a bit of a miracle material and who’s to say we’re not going to face the same issue with any other polymer that we use to replace it.

That said, I don’t think we’ve ever properly priced in the externalities of all the garbage we create so maybe it’s time we had a major rethink of how we approach our refuse.
Concur - I had 5 offers two years ago, 4 last year, and 2 this year before settling in where I currently work - all about the same (one outlier was +20% the rest, and one outlier was ~70% the rest). I've come to accept the median of those offers as my "set point" for a while.

Changing jobs sucks anyway.
> That is what is going on here. Look at MKBHD's review, the main potential he pointed out was the LAM functionality and the possible future uses of that. It turns out that entire thing was faked, and the "magic" that was the LAM is a "hidden physical mechanism" of duct tape'd together manual automations

I suspect the plan is/was to replace this with an actual LAM after release or possibly they thought they'd have it ready for release but ran into the 'last 5%' issue that seems to plague AI automation of anything. Definitely not an ethical move, but I can see how someone who bought into the AI hype might think it was a reasonable gamble to become a billionaire.
Why not? People get paid to play video games and any other vast number of examples that break the traditional concept of "job"
These days I often see the grocers using gloves when stocking shelves.
The worse pay is what adds on to the feeling of the job being terrible. As much as many want to claim, its not very satisfying to slog away and ship an elegant product for peanuts. When the pay is lower than what is the standard, it's always going to make the job feel terrible.
If your question is asked entirely free of bias from a truly randomly selected population, you can use standard statistical methods to come up with a number based on your desired confidence interval. On the other hand, if you're an organization with your funding tied to the perception that people support your mission, and you're surveying whether people support your mission, I'm going to need damn near everyone in the population to respond to your survey before I'll buy it.
Maybe you’re just enjoying it rather than spending all your waking time writing code?
That’s how I became cto at 40 years old, I stayed long enough while being indispensable enough and always taking the difficult projects.

It’s a gamble though and I needed to play hardball when negotiating with the owner for the new salary to properly reflect my new position. That only worked because I was more willing to walk away than he was.

I’d honestly recommend doing 2-3 years stints in the early 20s and then progressively longer but only if the company had room for growth and ways of to get into difficult projects where you both learn something and deliver actual quantifiable benefits to the company
Depressed people get paid less. I'm guessing that's the dissability. Apropos the larger context, job hopping correlates with over-confidence. It's all related.
For general software engineering roles, like senior and below, 12 months is plenty of time. Good employees, in my experience, can reach full productivity in ~3 months as long as the company isn't a total mess. This isn't to say they're total experts and know all they need to know about the technology/domain/etc., but it's enough time to pick up what's needed to be a productive contributor.
For each domain, we determine whether or not it is a fake-news domain by referring to a predefined list of fake-news domains. Our list of fake-news domains is defined by combining data from Grinberg et al.8 and the proprietary list from the journalism company NewsGuard (https://www.newsguardtech.com/newsguard-for-researchers), using the 29 March 2021 snapshot.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07524-8#Sec9
I haven't encountered people whose empathy is so perfectly aligned with ethics that they don't need to be taught anything, but I suppose these perfectly selfless people might exist.

However of course in reality, empathy only gets you so far. Should you feel empathy for a CSA consumer because their feelings are important too? Do you empathise with their feelings?
In an effort to be pejorative, you have reduced the process of learning to a basic regurgitation of facts. Rather, learning about reasoning is more about developing a framework that allows one to construct claims based on available information and then check the veracity of those claims while avoiding all, or at least typical, fallacies.

Critical thinking requires a certain amount of rigor, which formal education is well-suited to impart. It can be self-taught with a hefty dose of discipline, but it cannot be intuited.
Or you might double your comp in a much calmer role. That’s what happened to me within the last year.
Thank you, I suspected something along those lines because the reality in the mind of the consumer organic = tastier product, so in a certain way companies aiming for organic are aiming to appear "tastier"
For the record, I agree wholeheartedly. It's hard to word these things. I hope it's clear the meaning is short of "The UN/UNWRA is above all criticism", happy to explicate at length if it isn't (I wouldn't be surprised, at all, anything I write on this looks like an unnecessarily mousey person's verbal diarrhea to me :) )
If you love in the USA, I don't know how you job hop if you have more than two specialist doctors. Everytime I have to figure out how an insurance plan works is suffering.
One complicating factor is also there's a huge range of time required for different levels of quality.

Something that's quickly hacked together with limited error handling, limited security, limited flexibility/reusability, vs. something very high quality and enterprise quality.
>People bought all of these things before plastics.

Yes, and that was dangerous and inconvenient.
>> It's a public policy failure for land to sit vacant like that.

Then the government should buy the land.

>> For a very clear example: if you're surrounded by starving people, and you own a warehouse full of food that you plan to let rot because you can't be bothered, the government absolutely does have the right to tell you what to do with that food.

Let’s not use other examples and argumentation by analogy when we already have a very clear fact pattern. You own a building and the building is not currently occupied. The building is unsightly but structurally sound. Does/should the government have the right to make you surrender that building without compensation (because that’s what forfeit means) simply due to it being unoccupied? Why?
Clever. You seem to want to live on forever...
This was a bit more than a hundred years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

I'd say that such an event happening over a populated region of the Earth would be pretty bad. It's worth a bit of investment.

Here's what would happen if Tunguska happened over Paris, using a mid-range estimate of its magnitude: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=30000&lat=48.8583&ln...