skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key word is "occasionally". For anything even close to AGI, it would be reasonable to expect a correct answer to such a simple question 100% of the time. Or at least not confidently wrong answers.
Remote vs. non-remote seems like a huge factor here.

Sure, many people when they're young are geographically flexible. But that's less true as you age and are tied down by a house, spouse's job, kid's school, daycare, etc.

If you have to come into work, then all those details depend on your job location. You can't just change job locations. Again, this works for some single young people who rent apartments in NYC or SF. But that will always be a subset of job candidates.

This is why the trend towards remote seems inevitable. There are just too many incentives for too much of the workforce to require it. Long term that

Of course these things have always been true, but since remote work became prevalent I think people have realized how shitty of a situation it is - especially when you're not compensated for it. In fact you are actually compensated LESS since you arent job hopping.
Hot take: it's not going to stop at diamonds. Marriage is expensive. Weddings are expensive.

Honestly, if you compare it to the other really expensive things that happen around the same stage of life... buying a home, having children... Unless I'm from a highly religious family(also in decline), I can tell you easily which one I'd call pass on.

https://ifstudies.org/blog/1-in-3-a-record-share-of-young-ad...
Every token emitted is a full-pass through the network, with the prompts and previous tokens (sent by you and the AI) given as input.

And I agree that there is certainly a capacity for reasoning, no matter how flawed it is. There is plenty of evidence of AI solving novel problems 0-shot. Maybe not 100% of the time, but even if you have to run it 100 times and it gets it right 75% of the time in pure reasoning problems, it's doing better than randomness.
S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record highs as markets digest economic data
Fuck that. Journalists had to go to the far east to film plastic laden rivers in order to shape public opinion. It isn't our problem. Now if you're going to accuse us of just exporting our waste then that might be true. In that case we should stop the recycling scam and just burn it like we do with all other oil.
The trick is to have influence over the laws that define "foreign agent"
They're two sides of the same coin. But, frankly, criticizing this as censorship and stifling of free speech ignores the very real dangers of online {m,d}isinformation, and prevents adoption of efforts to mitigate it.

The reality is that we're flooded with false information, which can be generated by anyone with enough resources and motivation to change how a group of people think and act. We've seen how this can corrupt democratic processes and influence the outcome of elections with the Cambridge Analytica scandal (which still continues today), and how it can be used to rally people and cause social unrest in many countries. Social media is the most effective tool for spreading political propaganda, astroturfing campaigns, and conducting any other kind of mass psychological manipulation, starting with advertising, of course.

The current state of online services is an existential threat to modern civilization, which will only grow larger with the increase of AI-generated content. Governments and companies should be doing _more_ to control this, not less. I'm not saying that I agree with mass censorship and total government control over public discourse, but surely there's some middle ground between that and the current situation.
I don't think the GP is making any comment on whether there is or isn't a genocide, nor trying to be convinced either way. It seems they are saying - and I agree - that there is a difference between an article accusing someone of committing genocide and an article which is critical of someone.
If the bags are actually reusable, it doesn't seem very hard to coordinate to have the delivery person pick up the last delivery's bags next time they're at your house.

For home grocery delivery, I could imagine that using stackable or collapsible crates or similar containers might even make more sense, assuming the delivery is via car/truck. Why stick to a container optimized for walk-out customers at all?
Based on my experience, I assume disabled people also job hop less often.

I often wonder if my lower pay is because I don't job hop, because of my disability, or if I'm just a piece of shit.
I dont understand your point that you are cheaper then others and work for b2c when pricing is very similar to other similar services.
Damn look at NVDA go. this bull market is relentless.
Also, inflation is not guaranteed at all. Let's say this hardware results in robots, which can produce near infinite amount of goods and services. That immediately puts downward pressure on prices.

Not all printing money results in inflation. If you print money just about the same rate of productivity gain, you will not get inflation at all
Job hopping works if you're already in the top 10% of engineers and really talented when it comes to... interviewing.

I suck at leetcode so maybe that's why I'm just not cut out for this. As long as I'm making $150k+ and can WFH I'm not exactly confident I could go out and interview and get something better.

My work history isn't great because I tried job hopping and was a co-founder at a few startups. I quickly found a few 6-8 months stints really made me look radioactive even with around 5yrs of experience.

I'm open to advice here, but I don't blame people who are optimizing for consistency and a stability.
I apparently didn't clearly convey my message. He'd have to use some twisted logic to blame the banning of Trump from twitter on the influence from government agencies and not on Twitter. That is what the person I was responding to was saying. I don't disagree with anything you said, nor do I think my original statement does in the context of the comment I replied to.
People bought all of these things before plastics.

When I get meat it tends to come wrapped in (waxed?) paper.
I guess I exaggerated.

Plastic wrap: $1.97/200sf = $0.00985

Foil: $3.78/75sf = $0.05040

Looks like it's a bit over 5 times as much.

However used foil can't be recycled, while used plastic wrap can be burned for energy. But that depends on the disposal options you have available locally.
I remember seeing numbers several years ago that the average retention at Uber was around 18 months.

My big learning from employer hoping as a JavaScript developer is that it’s risky. There is a universal assumption that the people who do that work fall below an accepted baseline of delivery and maturity compared with other developers as qualified by the amount of tooling and hand holding they require. That said many employers will not invest much in these employees and thus expect them to jump ship.

The other side of that coin is that employees see this too. Those who tend to be more competent and have a really good situation with their employer tend to be the people that stick around knowing they are missing out on pay raises by moving around. 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.
HA! Your LLM agents/prompts nailed a hilarious tone. For https://ellipsis.dev

> This website looks like it was designed by someone who just discovered the concept of "AI" and decided to slap it all over a half-baked template. Your color scheme is about as inspiring as a Windows '95 screensaver, and your layout feels like it was put together by a kindergartner with a crayon and a ruler. What's with the "trusted by 1,400+ GitHub users" badge? Do you expect anyone to be impressed by this grand endorsement from approximately 0.00001% of the developer community? Your idea of "AI code reviews" seems as lofty as a middle school science project titled "Let's Cure Cancer." You hail it like it's the second coming of sliced bread, but your execution and presentation scream amateur hour. And "7-day trial"? Can't wait to dedicate a whole week to something that looks like it was made on a GeoCities page. Fix your design, your messaging, and maybe try again when you actually understand the tech you're hawking.

The worst part is we did use a template!
Reference 40 is scaring me. A page and a half of authors?
Well of course, just like there's a beef farm next to every supermarket. /s

Really not sure what your point is, to be honest? They stopped using frozen patties for them. Do you use a different definition for fresh vs. frozen meat?
hubris!
Nvidia stock makes history, reaches new all-time high at $1,200
I guess it depends on the region. Recently, I have quit a job to get a 15% increase (I know, it’s not a huge increase but I am already hitting this glass ceiling around here in Europe for senior developers)
What’s top of market these days for <job_role> ?
Amoebas and blue whales: they both respirate. I see no difference other than the fact that a blue whale is already extremely large, while the other is merely striving for a similar size.
Increase Canadian monthly fees by 5% and let the Canadian users pay their Canadian "fair share".
> Taking inspiration from those problems and aiming for even simpler settings, we arrived at a very

> simple problem template that can be easily solved using common sense reasoning but is not entirely

> straightforward, of the following form: "Alice has N brothers and she also has M sisters. How

> many sisters does Alice’s brother have?".

Cute paper, but claiming they invented it, when it's an extremely basic variant of a common[0] riddle asked of LLMs, is kinda weird.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39786666#39794890 (Me, referencing the riddle, 74 days ago, having known it for a good while back then.)
You've never had a package of meat leak a little juice in to the grocery bag? If you have, you either wash it (inconvenient) or you have rancid meat juice if you don't (it doesn't start rancid).
is it confirmed? it can be celiac disease which can be managed.
They are in 0g environments presumably having 1-6th isn't as bad and there might be ways to prevent/mitigate those issues.
It was a joke on investment disclaimers saying past performance isn't indicative of future performance.

As in "Texas's future is bright because of past performance", which is just an assumption that doesn't take a lot into account, like harsh weather patterns, weak infrastructure, and living in texas.
Ugh I've been to other countries that have such bougie takeout containers, the shit we have here in the US is insufferable by comparison.

It is funny, sometimes a new Chinese restaurant HQ'd in China will open up locally, and they'll start off using the same high quality takeout containers that are used in China, including such things as every order comes in an insulated bag (!!) but eventually they bow to economies of scale and adopt the same shit takeout containers everyone else uses in the US.

Bleck.

I always think of when I went to Beijing, ordered a fruit soda, and they took out a real glass bottle, filled it up, sealed it, and gave it to me! 100% premo feeling.
For freezing things, the ziplock bags are definitely hard to find an alternative for me as well.
They have to put the bag somewhere. Paying for a guy to come around and haul your garbage away every week to be responsibly disposed in a secure landfill is laughably out of budget for a huge chunk of the world population.
Canon C400
Both are unacceptable behaviors in my opinion

Quietly continuing to record is ignoring that the person even has protested. It's still asserting that your right to record them trumps any objection they might raise.

It is in effect reducing them from a person to simply the subject of your recording

Yes, one of these behaviors you describe is much more visibly obnoxious, but the quieter version is still obnoxious. It shows absolutely no respect for the people you are recording
Anything that ends up either in a landfill or in the environment (fwiw landfills are usually part of the environment, but that's a different discussion) is something that doesn't get to amortize production costs over several uses, so arguably both are best to be avoided, if at all possible.
I wonder how feasible a Metal compatibility library wrapped around Vulkan would be? That way you could use Metal on other platforms.

Also, what is the best resource for learning Metal if all you know is some OpenGL 1.x from the old “Lego” book?
Yeah, love how HR says, "We can't do that..." Um, yes, you can. You just won't.
Someone like Microsoft ? /s
Thanks:

there is a podcast called the "Ted Dabney Experience" which talks to a lot of game developers of the time from Atari and such. I like the old business stories kind of interesting.

https://www.teddabneyexperience.com/episodes
In general I would agree. However, you could have many people retiring early from fat salaries, or high growth with low attrition.
What do you think is a good sample size? How would you arrive at one?
Or maybe we could tackle the root of the problem, avoid waste that doesn't decompose on the human timescale.
And Apple has an HQ in Ireland. Tax havens don't guarantee jobs. They're just tax havens.
Was referring to pg's comment
Ukraine frustrated with US over F-16 pilot training
Ukraine has urged the U.S. and Europe to increase the training of F-16 pilots. They have 30 eligible pilots ready for training in the U.S., but the Biden administration has limited the training slots to 12 pilots due to capacity constraints in Arizona.
> Of course we should ban unnecessary and wasteful things

i strongly disagree with this; in almost all cases, the choice of what is unnecessary and wasteful should rest with the individual person most affected by it, not some kind of political authority or social consensus. even when it's legitimately a question of public policy—alcohol, for example, an addictive drug that causes massive amounts of crime and something like 5% of the world's human deaths—pigovian taxes are far preferable to outright bans. alcohol is a useful cleaning fluid, for example, and an effective antidote to ethylene glycol poisoning (though in rich countries safer antidotes are now available)

kim jong un has banned unnecessary and wasteful hairstyles, which is the road down which 'of course we should ban unnecessary and wasteful things' generally leads

i find it rather horrifying how casually people promote totalitarian ideologies like this nowadays
you are describing GOFAI (good old fashioned AI) which was using things like logical production rules. The issue is that the ability to model the complexity of things like human languages and continuous/real-valued systems makes it infeasible to use at scale. For something like the alice brothers/sisters example, that is a canonical example where GOFAI and/or logical reasoning with languages like prolog excel. A common example in prolog is:

philosophers => human
human => mortal
plato => philosopher
plato mortal? Yes

But encoding enough semantic information to create compelling AI with this type of system is difficult. Some have tried to enter thousands/millions of rules and still the system isn't convincing.

The main breakthrough that has enabled LLMs is an encoding of words that relies on their frequency in being near other words in the english language (using all the text available on the internet). Therefore words like "philosopher" and "plato" become associated in a high-dimensional space (so instead of "plato" you have a "token" with thousands of numbers associated with it).

You can then perform numeric operations on these numbers to come to conclusions. For example, we would expect something like a "human name" to emerge in this embedding space where we could determine if something "is used like a name" in various contexts by applying some non-linear transformations of the word vector / token.

LLMs have simply make a sequence of these transforms, while using prior words it generates as additional input (which allows it to construct sentences). So it is quite different from traditional reasoning. It is better at "fuzzy reasoning" but also worse in situations that require precise results (in fact, at each step it chooses one of a few best possible words based on its stats at random, the variation in this is called 'temperature').
My first semester of college in Fall of 1999, I wrote a paper about cyber warfare and the summary was that the superpowers were already doing it, and the only thing expected to change in the future was the resources that were online and susceptible would increase the scale of cyber war.
For us Google wasn't even on the table, due to what you mentioned.

It was AWS or Azure. AWS didn't have a data center in our country and our customers are required by law to keep their data in the country, so easy win for Azure.
I would hope that one of the things that has changed in 100 years is that the rest of the US wouldn't want to go murder a few million people simply because they don't want to be together anymore.

> I very highly doubt that the fed woudl let Texas secede without a fight.

Sure. And I would expect the fight to be litigative, or even diplomatic in nature. But martial? Though, I will say I keep forgetting how bloodthirsty the typical person is, and how few socially approved avenues they have to engage in that mindset. So who knows.
The tax might not have to be monetary. Putting geolocation QR codes on stuff could help mitigate the super-polluters by taxing perception.
This is why waiting for pullbacks does not always work. Sometime you will never get a chance to buy lower, as prices keep going up to no end. And then when the correctio nodes come, it will never fall low enough that you will ever be able to buy at the original price you wanted to buy at. You have to hold your nose and buy. For every comparison between today's tech boom and the early 2000s, you have situations like NVDA where prices keep going up without the long-awaited crash.
Sorry, that question was rhetorical to point out the sillyness of equating driving to freedom.
They say it's going to be free forever with no subscription, but they have to pay for chatgpt API calls. Even if you forgive them for overhyping their chatgpt wrapper, they're still a ponzi scheme.
This seems very generally true to a point, so on average it works out. But I think there is a big caveat. My thoughts are centered around software development, but I know there are many analogous career paths.

I really believe if your career goal is to peak a lot higher than just middle-management or senior software engineer, and earn the pay that comes with those higher positions, you need to stay on the same company and even same project for much longer periods of time (I would say 5 year absolute minimums). If I look around at the careers of Distinguished Engineers and senior principal engineers, or VPs of Engineering at FAANGs, etc., these people always have massive chunks of time at the same company, often many years on the same product even. If they have changed companies a few times in their careers, it’s after a string of promotions and delivering big things. It is really hard to build a portfolio of high-level impact with 2 year stints.
Late-stage capitalism is definitely different than late-stage feudalism.

For example, we still have the equivalent of early Medieval English right of "socn" ("soke") — the right to withdraw our loyalty from one lord and grant it to another. We're not "tied" to our corporate overlords the same way that serfs were through strict infeudation.

A recent court case threw out most of the nonsense non-compete clauses also helped beat away or forestall the rising threat of "you can't leave with what you know... I'll make you unemployable." But that was a threat to modern day "sokesmen."

One can even establish themselves as their own freeholder by incorporating, say as an LLC, or remaining a "freelancer" like the errant knights of old.

In other terms of what I consider "corporate feudalism:"

• Do you wear any "corporate heraldry" (logo'd gear like t-shirts, hoodies, polos, backpacks, laptop stickers, etc.)

• Do you participate in any "corporate jousting?" (benchmarks, competitive bakeoffs, panel talks or meetups)

• Do you have or retain any intellectual property you've created during your employment, or was it all work-for-hire and assigned away in perpetuity?

And don't get me wrong. I am somewhat of a big fan of the medieval period and feudalism. In a way there were more freedoms under feudalism than we realize.

Certainly we had far more free time.

I just find it an interesting mental exercise to spot the commonalities and the differences of then and now.
> Given that designation as a separate state, complaining that they can't vote in Israeli elections is like complaining that Canadians can't vote in US elections.

I don’t remember the US ever occupying Canada.

Not like that at all, and this is a clearly biased take even considering this line on its own.
Yeah, I used to keep all my grocery bags and use them as garbage bags, at least that got a reuse out of them.
SLS is a jobs program. It's not economically viable at over $1 billion per launch.

As for Blue Origin and New Glenn, this is an object lesson that simply throwing money at the problem doesn't necessarily solve it. Did you know Blue Origin was founded ~18 months before SpaceX?

For the longest time (up until ~9 months ago), Bezos had the former Honeywell CEO in charge of Blue Origin, which to me was such an odd choice. You see, this guy seems to embody everything wrong with corporate America: he was completely focused on not failing rather than succeeding. So there were constant delays with New Glenn and the BE-4 engine, which is years behind schedule. You can't fail if you don't launch.

And the new CEO (David Limp) used to be in charge of Kindles.
Keep in mind that in the methodology [0] the survey company emphasized that "the samples in Brazil, Chile, [...] Mexico, [...] and Uganda are more urban, more educated, and/or more affluent than the general population." It was an entirely online survey, so respondents in poorer places are more likely to be those with internet access and the spare time to be poking around on the internet.

If you restricted the survey in wealthy countries to only the comparatively affluent I would expect you'd see similar percentages as we have here in poorer countries.

I do love that Japan is such a major outlier (only 60% say it's important). They don't have the litter problem that the rest of us have constantly reminding us about the problem.

[0] https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/...
While I agree in principle, I don't think this quite solves it. For example, disposable bags are extremely cheap to dispose of - they compress well and would take up minimal landfill space. The problem is how many of them "escape" between the initial purchase and getting to the landfill. How do you include that in the cost?
If you're unfamiliar with Vulkan 1.3 but are interested in low level graphics API work, you should check it out. It is a game changer and a huge difference to Vulkan 1.0.

Once past the initial hurdle it's a pleasure to work with, with all dynamic states and no render pass up front set up, it is much easier to work with, even easier than OpenGL (which I've used for 20 years). Graphics programming is fun again.

It's available, or at least most of the features, on all desktop platforms with GPUs less than 10 years old give or take as long as drivers are up to date.

Unfortunately there is no "reasonable defaults" framework to get you off the ground but there are a lot of useful helper libraries for several languages.
This is why waiting for pullbacks and comparisons between today and the past bubbles are unhelpful. History rhymes but seldom repeats.