skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The taught masters degrees already serve that role - you can get on OPT with a masters degree. Consider yourself blessed if you do not know what OPT is. Expect more of this if the proposal goes through.

Also the insult: anyone with a degree from Windy Flats Community College in Wyoming is in, and anyone from Imperial College, RWTH, ETHZ, any of the Grandes Ecoles &c pp is out. It just plainly does not make sense, any way you look at it.
> This all, imo, is simply a trust problem primarily from leadership. Leadership does not trust the grunts to do productive work.

Which, IME, stems from a deep-seated classism that sees "grunts" today as being essentially no different than assembly-line workers in the Industrial Revolution: you're just a pair of hands who not only doesn't know enough to make changes in the process, you shouldn't even think of it, because it's not your place.

In this worldview, it's managers (and up) who have the education, intelligence, and breeding to know best, and lowly workers just need to shut up and do what they're told.

...This attitude is also responsible for a lot of other really destructive problems in the modern world of work.
No. That's just a nested ordered list. The difference that occurs when we all agree that it's also a ToC is night and day. You can also create custom elements, but again, if nobody has consensus on the meaning of those elements then they're just elements.

That means that as a client I am not empowered to automatically display your content in a new way.
Definitely. And that's the kind of thing that could certainly be managed by a "small" (at least compared to IBM) sized team. While it's not quite as simple as "Terraform it and call it good", it's probably not radically different from that, at least in concept.
> 5 years ago, I switched to NextJS. It's a spaghetti of NPM modules just to build a very static website for very simple content. Sure. But 5 years later, the very same site is still up. There is no maintenance involved as the site is hosted in Github.

Now try actually checking out the code and building it. I’m sure there is some Node.js runtime feature that is no longer supported in the LTS version you currently have installed on your notebook.
Arirang, a Korean folk song [video]
Lessons from a Year of Building with LLMs [video]
These are the skills you need to do any tech job. But whether we like it or not, it's the bullet list of technology skills that get you to and through the interview. So I think it's worth discussing what tools and languages might be useful to learn for the future.
Kraken Says Hackers Turned to 'Extortion' After Exploiting Bug for $3M
The scale of the IF text-parser problem isn't that bad, and they addressed a lot of the issues decades ago, modern games don't struggle with this nearly as much. It's just that that Interactive Fiction tends to be a niche hobby, so most of the IF written today assumes you are already at least a intermediate in the field -- they often don't throw in a Tutorial, the way every modern triple-A game does.

From an 'intro accessibility' standpoint, Modern videogames are often way more willfully-obtuse. We just don't recognize it, because it's assumed that everyone who plays a game already has basic understanding of twin-stick first-person and third-person gamepad controls, we assume it like it's another form of basic literacy. (Who hasn't played a game before, right?)

But for folks who don't -- for the (many) folks who have literally never touched a gamepad in their life, sitting them down to modern graphical interactive-fiction controller game (say something like Firewatch, or Gone Home, or Edith Finch, or Life is Strange) is even more challenging for those folks than the traditional IF text parser.

I've seen people spend thirty minutes just trying to figure out how to look in a general direction -- it takes truly-new adults quite a while to get used to the feel of twin-thumbsticks for movement+camera-control, it requires a lot of careful fine-motor control on both sticks simultaneously and often has to be felt to be learned well.

At least with text-based IF, most people have been exposed to typing at school or at work or at a library or such. The same is not usually true of twin-thumbstick gamepads.
Actual complete compatibility, which wine doesn't have.
Yeah, when the author was writing about that initial query about delay-per-unit-length, I'm thinking: "This doesn't tell us whether an LLM can apply the concepts, only whether relevant text was included in its training data."

It's a distinction I fear many people will have trouble keeping in-mind, faced with the misleading eloquence of LLM output.
Ha, I was going to say that. I think it was like 1992 and we got a packard bell for Christmas and it came with a stack of shareware CDs. 2mhz and 2MB of ram I believe. There was some kind of Sherlock Holmes CD-ROM point 'n click type game that had a bunch of FMVs. The whole family would gather around (sometimes the neighbors included) and we'd all oodle over the "graphics".
And it makes me wonder what they can get away with in other countries that they are afraid to try in the EU.
> more or less the first people to think about geometry rigorously as an abstract system.

The first people whose thinking was preserved until the present.

Which is still noteworthy, but a different thing.
So that will result in an "innovation hero" improving on Google's model so the fundamentals don't create such waste, no?
Quoting this line is not a blanket pass to say whatever you want about a culture credibly.
Why did this comment require vouching?
Tell us more... what has happened?
I doubt it too, but I notice that I keep underestimating the models.

Do you have a challenge task I can try? What's the easiest thing I could get an LLM to do for circuit board design that would surprise you?
Corrupt, that is how US regulators look, and everyone knows it. But this is the website that is spawning far right fascists who are advocating for political violence in the bay area, so I don't think you will get a lot of reasonable takes here.
sentimental slop -- the USA has a teen mental health epidemic, plastics trash in the waterways, tire residue in the fresh water, and many other avoidable woes.. 100x for China. In a longer time frame, pushback is healthy for stability
I salute your ability to discuss this topic irreligiously and from a place of knowledge.
Longer strings with more tokens are exactly where real templating engines with proper parsing/quoting/sanitizing would shine, instead of injection-prone interpolation.
Heroics are responses to crises.

Why are there crises?
The thing is there's a lot of dysfunctional organizations, and being an innovation hero is an easier and more fun career path than fixing dysfunctional organizations, which seems (as someone that only half-heartedly tries to keep insane decisions from the top from ruining things) to not necessarily be possible; there are often hidden agendas and people more interested in their cash out than the viability of the organization long term.
Interesting article, thanks. This is about the legal aspects of Shaken Baby Syndrome, and how Robert Roberson's was sentenced to death in Texas on the basis of now-obsolete science.

It's almost impossible for the medical profession to admit that mistakes were made, especially when the mistake takes on a life of its own. I guess the judicial system has a similar problem.

I visited /u/rossant's profile, and found a blog post about his book on this subject: https://cyrille.rossant.net/sbsbook/
It has nothing to do with the US. EU regulations are simultaneously unclear and very aggressive. There is significant business risk to operating there as a multi-national. It’s becoming a region that is profitable enough to exist in but not to invest in and Apple is declining the regulatory risk of introducing AI there. Some companies will go for it. Apple is too risk averse. Simple as that.
I can totally understand why Apple is doing this. And I hate it. Mostly because the regulations are not technical enough to get followed within soft- and hardware. The EU is just preventing any (most, maybe just a few, but „any“ from my perspective) new (consumer) technology now.
Discussion yesterday (32 points, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40740049
Current AI does not require rights. It is just matrix multiplication inside GPUs. There is no consciousness inside a GPU or a CPU.
> Hard disagree. The idea that the machinery your life will depend on might be made with half-assed safety in mind is definitely not part of the deal.

It's definitely built in. The Apollo LM was .15mm thick aluminum, meaning almost any tiny object could've killed them.

The Space Shuttle flew with SSRB's that were solid-fuel and unstoppable when lit.

Columbia had 2 ejection seats, which were eventually taken out and not installed on any other shuttle.

Huge risk is inherently the deal with space travel, at least from its inception until now.
https://archive.is/2024.06.20-220759/https://www.haaretz.com...
Why do people write headlines like this? It would be so much better to say laziness is a source, a possible source, of innovation and creativity. We live in an information world for people are clawing and grabbing for attention by writing inaccurate and dramatic headlines. As someone who came of age when the web went online, it is so sad to see how we have muck it up.

I wish there were a magic button. I could press to silence all this kind of garbage thought that entirely litters are information landscape. I’m not sure whether to hate people like this or hate the system that causes them to behave this way. The old saying, “don’t hate the player, hate the game”, Seems a little quaint these days. Lately, I’ve been thinking that we maybe should hate the player a little bit since they are willingly contributing to an overall worse existence for everybody. People trying to “explain” complex topics with platitudes and absolutes are real barriers to the understanding of the topic. I wish they would find another hobby.
After a few months of writing all my homework in LaTeX I'm finding my thinking slid towards the raw latex rather than the rendered form. I'll have to wait till fall semester to give 3.5 a good whirl.
As an American, my perception is that Europeans work to live while those of us in the States live to work; the highest crime in America is hurting the rich, and the highest crime in Europe is hurting the working class.
Everybody does NOT know about using a cute puppies for testing image functions. F minus. What about kittens? Hedgehogs? Quokkas? Get with the times, greybeards!
This site is fucking amazing! Who knew getting my code roasted could be so fun? The songs are hilarious and spot-on!!
They were a bridge to the internet IMO - without them, I don’t think the web would have grown as explosively as it did - they encouraged adoption of PCs with multimedia features, and provided the spur for people to experiment with and get serious about digital content.
Make two separate signals arrive at exactly the same time on two 50 ohm transmission lines that start and end next to each other and go around a right hand bend. At 3.8GHz.

Edit: no VSWR constraint. Can add that later :)

Edit 2: oh or design a board for a simple 100Mohm input instrumentation amplifier which knows what a guard ring is and how badly the solder mask will screw it up :)
> My advice is to focus less on the “chaining” aspect and more on the “provider agnostic” part

a lot of our effort recently has been going into standardizing model wrappers, including for tool calling, images etc. this will continue to be a huge focus

> My other advice would be to build a lot of these small libraries… take advantage of your resources to iterate quickly on different ideas and see which sticks. Then go deep on those. What you’re doing now is doubling down on your first success, even though it might not be the best solution to the problem (or that it might be a solution looking for a problem).

I would actually argue we have done this (to some extent). we've invested a lot in LangSmith (about half our team), making it usable with or without langchain. Likewise, we're investing more and more in langgraph, also usable with or without langchain (that is in the orchestration space, which youre separately not bullish on, but for us that was a separate bet than LangChain orchestration)
Again, where do I interpret scripture? I am referring to the fact that others interpret islamic scripture in ways that fit their purposes. I have also cited several well-known islamic reformers who claim the same. Your football-comparison is irrelevant and off the mark since it does not matter how much faith people have, what matters is how they act. Faith is personal, actions based on faith can affect others. Violent actions based on faith - no matter how shallow - have a detrimental affect on society as a whole.
If you're a corporate customer, then you take that risk when you sign up for a month to month contract. Now usually a month to month works very well for you, but it is a risk you accept.

A lot of corporate customers will seek longer term contracts, a year or even longer, so they can lock in a price and various service guarantees. Even in the case of this acquisition it's only customers on a month to month plan that have to migrate by September, customers on a long term contract will continue to have access and support for the duration of their contract.
Vercel AI SDK[1] shines in this aspect in JS ecosystem.

They have the concept of providers [2] and switching between them is easy as changing parameters of a function[3]

[1]:https://sdk.vercel.ai/docs/introduction

[2]: https://sdk.vercel.ai/docs/foundations/providers-and-models

[3]: https://sdk.vercel.ai/docs/ai-sdk-core/overview#ai-sdk-core
>No of course not, we doubled our number of tickets and filled in "placeholder" on half of them, and used them as needed then closed everything out at the end of the sprint, where we were congratulated by everyone for our phenomonal estimation.

Are you sure this is a negative example? You even have a work around which makes everyone happy.

This isn't what a dysfunctional organization looks like.
This reminds me of my professor's (probably very poor) description of NP-complete problems where the computer would provide an answer that may or may not be correct and you just had to check that it was correct and you do test for correctness in polynomial time.

It kind of grosses me out that we are entering a world where programming could be just testing (to me) random permutations of programs for correctness.
I really appreciate the effort and attention to detail that went into this.
Dear Elon,

Get a vasectomy, for your own sake.
You can do the same with all numbers, and you get the construction of the surreal numbers.
Sure but I was responding specifically to a scenario proposing that rich people would develop fully automated factories thereby cutting out their reliance on workers. Getting even halfway there still leaves plenty of room for revolution, I'm just responding to the 100% automated scenario as being unrealistic.
> chatGPT probably has decent advice

If chatGPT has anything other than banal platitudes, I'll eat my hat.
Sorry, phone autocorrected “irational” to “rational” rather than “irrational.” fixed!
Ongoing discussion (31 points, 38 minutes ago, 25 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40751339
Like? The regulatory concerns will exist for ANY AI offering.
Even with Pentium + Adaptec 2940UW + UW SCSI disks + Plextor SCSI + tons of RAM, just opening notepad.exe resulted in a buffer underflow... I practically held my breath while the damn thing was burning a CD !
> in fact some of them can be quite small

The biggest changes always start with someone taking one small step towards their goal.

Some of the biggest software (used by billions of people) I've ever worked on started as a simple script made by a teenager.
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky denies it's a hazard after the US bans its software
There is a 1-to-1 mapping between integers and rationals.
Never been a fan of ORM for databases. So why would that change with AI/LLM “prompt engineering”? Author confirms my point.
I appreciate you consider it key but that several others are disagreeing whether something was successful is not them simply moping it was successful but not enough :). Keep in mind this all started out with this being the only way to get people on other browsers like how it had already worked in the EU so that's going to have steered more disagreement in the conversation than you might expect.

I think the browser ballot style thing may have hurt more than it helped in the long run. E.g. users clicking things they don't understand during the initial setup of their computer (while a whole lot of other things they don't really deal with often are going on too) may have actually resulted in some extra short term download hits that immediately scared those users away from spending time trying other browsers out once they realize what their selection meant in terms of change. How many users that clicked on Maxthon and were confused/disappointed with a (then) Trident based browser that wasn't quite IE? Hard to say but the data isn't jumping out to show the opposite.

I agree it would take more than one approach to restore the balance but I disagree that means all approaches are inherently helpful to roll out, let alone inherently key. The ballot initiative didn't result in any measurable change, even against the tide when compared to other regions, and simultaneously focuses both people and discussion away from major issues like the tricks dominant players actually use to gain market share. E.g. Microsoft had IE (and later Edge) bundled as the default choice after the ballot and share continued to decline up until they used these other working tactics which have resulted in it becoming the 2nd most used desktop browser again.
> I apologize for any inconvenience my current licensing terms may cause.

Friendly advice from a stranger, worth what it costs: I believe the greatest inconvenience of a commercial license will be to _you_, as opposed to end-users.

The market is so saturated with open source, developers expect it, and commercial licenses cause huge usage friction and doubt.

The "dual license" died as a viable business model around the time Meta (née Facebook) and Microsoft starting investing billions into free-as-in-beer OSS, 10-15 years ago.

Today, this model will only sabotage usage. People using your OSS is good. Even if your goal isn't to become popular, usage & feedback are learning, and while it's fine for popularity not to be a goal, I would encourage you not to proactively target the opposite of popularity.

If you have some other IP (the other tech you're describing) that can remain proprietary or wrapped behind a service, then people using other pieces of your stack for free is a _really good thing._ At least, they're aware of your brand and have started to trust it. At best, they're ready to use your commercial offering out of the gate.
That is amazing. I worked with a (different?) finance company that did the same thing - every team was judged on their burndown charts.

From what I saw, it did no good. Teams simply did not use tickets to track work. If a story surfed sprints, its “ticket” was closed at the end of one sprint and a new one was opened for next. If a priority bug came in mid-sprint, we simply worked on it without a ticket.
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Some research to the contrary [1] - tldr is that they didn't find evidence that generative models really do zero shot well at all yet, if you show it something it literally hasn't seen before, it isn't "generally intelligent" enough to do it well. This isn't an issue for a lot of use-cases, but does seem to add some weight to the "giga-scale memorization" hypothesis.

[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2404.04125v2
They do not cite the AI act (which they probably comply with) as a reason but rather the Digital Markets Act
Over the years, overregulation will continue to lock the EU out of bleeding-edge technologies. Every feature, every website, every innovation that doesn’t launch in the EU further plunges the bloc into technological irrelevance.
Auto Dealers Write Paper Sales as CDK Global Hit by 2nd Attack in Three Days
CDK Global Summary from Bleeping Computer

> "If you are not aware, we experienced an additional cyber incident late in the evening on June 19.
> We continue to act out of caution, and to protect our customers, we have taken down most of our systems. Do not attempt to access the DMS until we can confirm the system is secure. Digital Retail and CDK phones continue to be functional.
> At this time, we do not have an estimated time frame for resolution and therefore our dealers’ systems will not be available likely for several days.

From CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/business/cdk-global-car-deale...

> “My selling team can hand-write a buyer’s order,” said Brian Benstock, general manager of Paragon Honda and Paragon Acura in Long Island City, New York.
> But salespeople could lack access to customer agreements that had been previously negotiated, making it harder to close those sales, dealers CNN spoke with said. There’s more than just the negotiated price of the car involved, since these agreements can involve rebates and incentives, some of which customers must show they’re qualified for.

From TheDrive: https://www.thedrive.com/news/auto-dealers-nationwide-go-bac...

> CDK Global provides sales and service data for 15,000 auto dealers in the U.S. and jumps to a total of 30,000 when accounting for truck dealers, per Auto News. CDK Global “dominates its market by a wide margin”.

From Fast Company: https://www.fastcompany.com/91144194/cdk-global-cyberattack-...

> [CDK Global]'s “core” product, the dealer management system — is a software hub that allows car dealerships to track all sales operations in one place.
> The cyber incidents impacting CDK come just a week after Findlay Auto Group, which operates dozens of dealerships in six states, announced that a recent cybersecurity issue had impacted its IT systems.

Further context from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/1djl...

> [magnanimous_rex] "Excel spreadsheets and post it notes for any parts we’re handing out. Any big jobs are not happening "

https://old.reddit.com/r/askcarsales/comments/1dk88un/anothe...

https://www.reddit.com/r/serviceadvisors/comments/1dk8uh8/th...
ChatGPT Fails to Understand Causation
This doesn't seem right to me -- for example, Stack Overflow seems to have far less instances of such gatekeeping than it used to, and seems less relevant now than it used to. The gatekeeping occurred before the pedants understood how broadly and differently the community was being utilized; and it didn't impact its growth.
Sure, now Starlink works.

What I'm saying is Starlink in general is a complete world-changer compared to just 5 years ago.

This mini just continues that trend.
> I don’t know what the endgame is.

Well that is your first problem, politics is not an "end game".
Well we had to keep increasing inefficiency somehow, right? Otherwise how would Wirth's law continue to hold?