skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Downstream impact is gamed internally at Amazon.

People crucified Sears for making teams compete internally but that’s literally what’s happening at Amazon at a larger scale. Teams and orgs regularly push back against helping each other. Will not waste resources to help others.

I don’t believe Amazon has a good outlook over 5 years unless they get lucky with random bets. They no longer innovate, they just copy and try to compete with scale. Even then, it doesn’t work because no one working on that product actually cares about the problem so startups can easily outcompete with “customer obsession.”
> Since that education is sorely lacking, I made a course. It's called Team Dynamics and Soft Skills for Developers. I put my 25 years of dev, management, tech education, and interpersonal communication training into it. I think you and your team will find it useful.

There's the pitch.

Most of the time people aren't trying to be jerks. They're just not having a need met. They may or may not know about the need, or may or may not be working to address it. It may be something that you're responsible for that you're not acknowledging.

Don't underestimate how far a little humility, open ears, and boundary setting might get you. Writing the person off as a jerk just makes the problem worse.

Not to say you're responsible for anyone elses bad behavior, but it's also not ok to pin all the problems of team dynamics on one person. Having a emotionally healthy productive team is a lot of work, and it's a group effort.
Since when is Carl Sagan a climatologist?
The tangent on manipulating Titanium in order to prepare it for the beam was more interesting to me, and IMHO sounds like a much more practical and potentially useful bit of knowledge coming from this.

Titanium is a pita to work with.

But also... the 'island of stability' is fascinating, and I think we have to assume that we don't know enough about the Strong Force until we either prove it exists and is reachable, or doesn't/isn't.
Isn’t that how math works in some respects? In that, there’s only a hierarchy of consistency (no absolute consistency) for most of math. And we just keep building and building. We tried the absolute consistency route and found it too limiting.

Maybe that this doesn’t work for LLMs is a sign they aren’t on the path to AGI…

Personally I found LLMs horrendous at this kind of stuff. I’m basically a RLHF peon by trade and if I’m ever needing a quick way to fool a model, I go to simple logical problems, where it can’t lean on external structures, only itself. I don’t mean logical syntax but logical reasoning. I can’t share recent stuff but a just a few months ago the models I work with failed to reason removing 12 cards from a regular deck couldn’t remove an entire suit. That kind of stuff. Why would I want to make my prompt longer and more detailed to provide it extra structure (which is logically superfluous) to ensure it gets the right answer. Im sure a wordy prompt could get it to the right answer. I’m interested in its ability to “reason”, not prompt engineering.

Given that math is devoid of external structure, I wonder if there something to this (it’s at least interesting to speculate)
In theory it would be the role of management to create the conditions for a ND individual to do their best work and not be difficult to work with. However, like everything else, skill levels in that department vary widely and are profoundly hard to evaluate.

I know for myself (moderately ADHD), I become more of a jerk when I'm not getting the supports that I need, and I know the answer is to simply remove myself from those situations when it's a repeated occurrence. But usually there are other factors at play, such as me having become personally invested in the success of a project.
Both "smart" and "jerk" are _very_ subjective. OP takes a stab at providing a definition, but it's not a very useful definition, since it could apply to anybody that OP doesn't like.
> How much does autism play into being a "genius jerk"? Should a special exception be made in that case?

The OP defines smart jerk in a way that would rule out most people with ASD - by their definition, a "smart jerk" is aware their behavior is obnoxious and aggressive. Usually people on the spectrum are not aware of their own behavior's effects on others, and usually attempt to correct the behavior when they learn about it, so I would think this is not a very big factor. Low emotional intelligence seems a far likelier culprit, and personality disorders.
yes, precisely. if you and a bazillion other people do it so that the percentage goes down. it's the fact that scammers are glomming onto a trendy TLD ruins the reputation of that TLD. If the percentage of scam is higher in one TLD over another, people will consider it a TLD used for scams. Not sure where the logic breaks down here

> No, it's still the first of the list, and .com is still second.

also, what do you mean .com is second? it states that .top was second to .com
pndy’s comment is correct. I just poorly phrased my comment, sorry for that!
Yeah, I raised the same issue before reading your post; ninja'd I am.

I like your "cheese and chalk".
Linux would not be stable if Linus wasn't a constant jerk about code quality. Microsoft would not be an empire if Bill Gates played nice with IBM. Steve Jobs was considered to be a massive jerk, yet Apple is one of the most successful tech companies in existence. The list continues with Zuck and Musk. All of the above are confirmed jerks, yet they are also incredibly successful at business.
You would think so, but people like Sam Altman have suggested that they can use AI-generated data to train their own models. See here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-ha...
Exact point I bailed; the "close account" flow doesn't appear to work either.
> terrible iOS keyboard

iOS user since 2014. What's wrong with the keyboard exactly?
Wait. Does this mean you're a plain-old, regular jerk?
Not for biologists; typically, they will do multivariate calculus but not so much diffeq (although depends on the school and the student).
Language models are best treated like consciousness. Our consciousness does a lot less than people like to attribute to it. It is mostly a function of introspection and making connections, rather than being the part of the brain where higher level reasoning and the functions of the brain that tell your body how to stay alive (like beating your heart).

By allowing a language model to do function calling, you are essentially allowing it to do specialized "subconscious" thought. The language model becomes a natural language interface to the capabilities of its "subconsciousness".

A specific human analogy could be: I tell you to pick up a pen off of the table, and then you do it. Most of your mental activity would be subconscious, orienting your arm and hand properly to pick up the pen, actually grabbing the pen, and picking it up. The linguistic representation of the action would exist in your concious mind (pick up the pen), but not much else.

A language model could very easily call out to a text processing function to correctly do things like count the number of r's in the word strawberry. That is a job that your concious mind can dispatch to your subconciousness.
Given a time snapshot and enough computing power, isn't recursion inevitable? It's like running out of known universe given time x. So then we're back creating data without a prior dataset, which is still a human domain.
Thanks. I suppose it could've been an "I'm autistic, so ..." instead. I'll keep that in mind if ever again I need to answer similarly.
> Meanwhile OpenAI, Anthropics, trains on AI generated data to improve their models, and it works.

They got a secret ace in their pocket - chat logs created with human in the loop. Of course those might still have errors, but much fewer. They can infer from a human response if it was accepted or not.

I think OpenAI generates at least 1B sessions per month and 2 Trillion interactive tokens. Those can go into the LLM again for analysis and synthetic content generation, or for RLHF with the whole conversation as guidance. Having access to the following interactions can shed light on previous answers.

Even more, they can correlate chats across days, presumably humans try out LLM ideas in reality and return for iteration. That way LLMs indirectly get real world grounding.
Thanks, that's some really bad accuracy/performance
What makes you wonder if it should? They are both personality traits, more or less. Aren't autistic people just as responsible for their behavior as a jerk that has no diagnosis for their behavior? If anything, a diagnosis makes autists at least as responsible given that their behavior is more explainable and has management strategies.
Doesn't it list three major ones, Google, Bing, and Yandex, plus Mojeek and a few other small ones? That's a bit more than two.
Sure. 60k members on r/jellyfin. But if you look at actual activity, comments per post, votes, etc., the forum is now on par with r/jellyfin in its hay day. But now we can pin important posts, guides and walkthroughs, sub-forums to group things together. For example, having Themes be in a separate sub-forum is huge for seeing what your options are.

The only thing you can say in favor of reddit is that most people already have a reddit account. Had, in my case. It is convenient in that sense, but reddit is not better than the forum. And reddit stands for everything that Jellyfin is against.

With all the practical and principal considerations summed together, ditching reddit was an easy, and the right, choice.
If you jam a lot of protons and neutrons together they become stable thanks to gravity. I wonder where the crossover point is.
I'll explain in Steve Jobs language:

A voice assistant, a home automation controller, and an internet-connected speaker. Are you getting it? These are not three separate devices. This is one device!
It's not just a paper. They have a working demo. IDK what its hardware requirements are, but they are certainly lower than the specs of a decent VR rig.

Even with its relatively low resolution, the demo blew me away. Given a choice between current 8K@120 content and something equivalent to this 4 year old demo, I would choose the latter hands down.
I think even if Amazon stagnates, servicing that core business at scale is a once in a generation moat.
> I have a finger for that.

You have to get your finger to the switch.

> It can tell me the weather? I can open the curtains and look outside.

That doesn’t tell you the weather today, just the weather right now.

> It can deliver counterfeit garbage to my house? No thanks.

Garbage often is sufficient. I don’t need good quality goods in most cases.
What a weird take.

What can a phone do for me, I can tap my finger a few times to send a message over telegram.
The paper is not talking about verifiable synthetic data generated by some means other than LLMs.
I don't lecture my kids. What I do is probably not acceptable by many, but hey, it works.

When we go to hospitals, and those cancer patients are outside smoking, I point out "see, these are the smokers". Every opportunity when marginaal people are smoking, I point out how stupid and marginaal they look. My kids are disgusted by it, the same way I was.

So it's not a "you are not allowed to smoke" or "smoke is bad for you", it's a "you want to be a loser who thinks he's cool? Go ahead and smoke"
Well, the classic way, is training, shadowing, and mentoring.

But those were the days, when people stayed with companies for many years.

"Tribal Knowledge" is actually the classic way that skilled vocations have been passed on for hundreds of years, but then, companies got obsessed with hiring people right out of school, and putting them on projects that used to be done by folks with many years of experience.

I have found that process and documentation are supposed to replace this type of knowledge transfer, and I have also found they don't actually work that well, for many reasons.
Absolutely nailed the tone of mandatory corporate training.
All of the above would have been even more blindingly successful if they hadn't been jerks. You can be insistent, you can be stubborn, and you can be sure you're right all without being a prick about it.

This is still a bug, not a feature. These people all handicapped themselves from even greater success.
I can and have rejected candidates who seemed qualified but were significantly unpleasant to interview. I don't mean they weren't super happy cheerful and outgoing during a stressful situation. That's a lot to ask for and plenty of awesome people get a little quiet and clammed up during interviews. I mean, they made sarcastic remarks about other people, or spoke condescendingly to me or other interviewers, or reacted nastily to feedback. That kind of thing.

If I'm going to spend 40+ hours a week interacting with someone, I'm not going to hire a brilliant jerk. I don't care if they're great at their job. If I'm going go spend most of our time together wanting to scream at them, I don't want any part of it. No thanks. Life's too short to spend it around jerks.
Is 128gb so much? My last workstation (not a laptop) had a 5950x and 128gb of DDR4 and that RAM is like 4 years old now.

I am not saying you will have it in an ultrabook form factor, but I had 32gb of ram in sandy bridge laptop (intel core i7 2700 ?) and 64 not that much later. That was like 10+ years ago. Those were desktop replacement and thicker style laptops, but not exactly unreasonable equipment.
Because alcohol is more interwoven into our society than cannabis.

If I had a magic wand and had to pick 1 legal one, I would go for cannabis. I think it has less negative effect on society than alcohol. But here we are, and my standpoint is to no approve new drugs and try to phase out the current ones.

I like my beer, wine and tequila, but I also see youth doesn't flock to it as much as my and previous generations. If properly done, it can be phased out.
> There is a major issue of limited resources to replicate results, in terms of both time and funding.

Undergraduate students love being involved in research. It's one of the selling points of many top universities. Grad students replicate research all the time. Maybe funding is an issue in grant fields (some research is extraordinarily expensive) but that doesn't excuse the lack of replication across the board.
Ah yes. We're in the crypto stages of "it's like the internet".
Cipolla Matrix can help - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cipolla-matrix.svg
> How costly can it be to test the file fully in a CI job?

It didn't need a CI job. It just needed one person to actually boot and run a Windows instance with the Crowdstrike software installed: a smoke test.

TFA is mostly an irrelevent discourse on the product architecture, stuffed with proprietary Crowdstrike jargon, with about a couple of paragraphs dedicated to the actual problem; and they don't mention the non-existence of a smoke test.

To me, TFA is not a signal that Crowdstrike has a plan to remediate the problem, yet.
But they jack up the prices every few months, right? You can get the original at the original price, but from the new vendor “OUFIOU”…
The main concern is confidence that the product will remain usable even if the company goes out of business or pivots and abandons this product. Being a thin client is great from that perspective because there's little incentive to keep it proprietary, and it should be easy for a third party to maintain if the company abandons it.
It’s plausible but there is no evidence to support it so it remains a theory. A theory concerning a conspiracy. A conspiracy theory.
> I'm begging to be rejected because I don't want to work with such people.

...you do know you can reject the position, correct? You're not obligated to take the job once the interviewing process has started.
One kings privateer is another’s thieving pirates.

It depends on who is getting robbed.

Kings and governments just make up special words for when they commit crimes.
In the IT world the jerk is always some dev, never a "scrum master”, some HR dude, or some project manager. Did anybody notice? :D
Thanks!

As a fellow developer with no formal education I also feel that strictly requiring a CS or similar degree probably isn't the best way - that there should be a way to account for work experience, perhaps some kind of test. Wouldn't mind taking one myself.

The further I am in my career though the less any employer seems to care where and what did I study.
> Let’s pause for a moment to remember that we’re dealing with types. And the expression 1 / (1 - a) contains both a negative and a fractional type, neither of which have a meaning yet.

This makes me wonder, is there a ring of types? There's addition and multiplication. Division and subtraction aren't necessary to define a ring, so their absence isn't particularly surprising.
Equifax and Boeing are other examples
I haven't found a single coding problem where any of these coding assistants where anything but annoying.

If I need to babysit a junior developer fresh out of school and review every single line of code it spits out, I can find them elsewhere
ULEZ is a London specific thing where you have already admitted there are great alternative transport options.
I don't believe that anyone has ever said that jerks can't be successful. But it's not a necessary condition, either.

The world has far more unsuccessful jerks than successful ones.
On top of that, a sizable chunk of Reddit content is ripped from elsewhere, whether videos, images, etc.
It doesn’t test “on tokenization” though. What happens when an answer is generated is few abstraction levels deeper than tokens. A “thinking” “slice” of an llm is completely unaware of tokens as an immediate part of its reasoning. The question just shows lack of systemic knowledge about strawberry as a word (which isn’t surprising, tbh).
Well if it does react it won't be positively! Intel has been hinging their future on becoming a general purpose fab (like a Western TSMC) and the CEO even said he was open to making chips for AMD and Nvidia. But if their manufacturing process has major defects and contamination then they might as well scrap all of that. They're not coming off as trustworthy here either so who is going to want to have their products made by them?
How much were you willing to pay? Still, rude of them not to even discuss the issue. Every time I've gone to buy data, if I'm too small of a fish, vendors have always been happy refer me to a reseller.
Hmm, sort of? I can't really generalize from my own (first year, before joining a lab full-time) PhD courses, but I found them challenging in a way that differed from undergrad: more expectation that you'd be able to figure out the solutions to the hard problems by learning entire new fields on the fly.
As an American kid, the rule with farts was "he who smelt it dealt it," so you never ever wanted to be the first person to say someone farted or everyone would blame you.

But as adults, we forget this lesson and openly call one another jerks, toxic, Nazis, etc.

The adult behavior is just as childish but less wise.
What make and model of cell, and with what minimum order quantity?
I just tried llama 3.1 8 b this is its reply.

According to multiple sources, including linguistic analysis and word breakdowns, there are 3 Rs in the word "strawberry".
100% agreed. Talking about "needs met" is actually a fundamental part of the course I produced (I did put a link to it, but at the end because I really do think this is a problem in general. Also, I think education for devs on the topic is lacking.) Humility and boundaries 100% agreed too.

There is "team" in "team dynamics". It is absolutely a group effort. I will say, though, it's a group effort that can be greatly impacted by just one individual.
Wow. There’s my RDA % of irony consumed!
Yes, 128 GB of memory is a shitload.
For the most part, it's called porn, and you already know whether or not you are interested.

Beyond that, though, there is a lot of potential just past the horizon. Check out the demo for the paper I linked. Sure, you can't move around very far, but you can move enough to be part of the scene, unlike the usual tripod video setup.
Many people are saying it's all about the Zeiss machines and TSMC isn't actually bringing much over that. Usually as an argument about EU tech competitiveness.
> Abbot refused to let me download my data after I was forced off their platform to Glooko

So I've been using Abbot (LibreLink) since 2019 and if you log into LibreView (https://www.libreview.com/) there's a 'Download glucose data' link in the top right of the screen.

There's also a handy PDF report that I send to my diabetic nurse before my annual meeting, I think I'm the only one of her patients who knows how to do this because she's always thrilled and spends half the appointment going through it in amazement at the data/trends.

Abbot have been quite good overall despite the fact I reported a bug to them in their Android app in 2022 and they still haven't fixed it. If you add LibreLink to the whitelist of apps that can interrupt DND, then enabled DND, LibreLink alerts you saying "Alarms unavailable."
And they're always saying things like, "We should have unit tests" or "We should have an automated deployment pipeline" or "We should use version control" and they're SO MEAN to everyone who doesn't want to waste time on that crap.
I love Obsidian my only problem is syncing things from iOS - haven't been able to find a solution.
When I meet a brilliant scrum master or PM, I'll let you know whether or not they can be jerks, too.
Get-WmiObject Win32_Processor

For windows powershell.
Just an hour ago I asked Alexa

"Is negative ten an even number?" and was shocked when it said

"No, minus ten is a negative number and is not even"

I asked again and the reply was exactly the same. Variations of the question still resulted in

'negative numbers cannot be even or odd'

I checked again 20 minutes later and it then gave me correct answers to the exact same questions. I deeply want Alexa to fail as a product. It is constantly objectively wrong and should not be used for anything important.
It is pure: utility.

Bitcoin has many, many problems - but “usury” isn’t one of them.

In fact, that its sole utility: freedom for corruption, has yielded such a high price, is evidence of the desirability of that one utility!
I'm so old I remember when ps would directly get the processes via system calls to the kernel and none of this reading from /proc.
I thought someone would mention this. I believe these are the exceptions, not the rule. They just get the press. Far, far more people fail because of those same qualities.
I've travel in Europe a bunch (CEE, Scandinavia, and UK) for work and pleasure and Amex has always worked for me. I can only think of a handful of times where I had to revert to my Visa instead.
Teach Yourself Racket
Is it AMD that has this specific craftsmanship, or TSMC?
> Basically still needs a human in the loop.

Yes, and big LLM developers have millions of humans in the loop. That's why they provide free access, for human in the loop filtering & guidance.

If I go to chatGPT and solve a coding task, maybe the first 3 ideas don't work and the 4th works. It can do RLHF setting the first 3 with negative and the fourth with positive score. They just used me to test their model and create a datapoint.

Using LLM is useful both ways - for humans, we get assistance, and LLMs get feedback for their outputs. This seems like the new form of "you are the product".
I think mean the .goog TLD:

https://icannwiki.org/.goog
They mean never in the context of fleeing from these explosions.

My sidewalk has no vegetation, but that is because I weedwhacked on Tuesday not because a geyser 10 meters away is flash boiling water in a pressure vessel made of stone and glass shrapnel-to-be.
Very interesting. But wouldn't human preferences still find their way into the datasets of the future?