skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I did no such thing. I explicitly acknowledged market power several times.

Your premise is that if market power exists then market power is the problem rather than price discrimination. The issue is that price discrimination isn't possible without market power. Its presence implies that the company both is capable of and is overcharging the people coerced into the higher price tier.

> That I suppose "market power" implies monopoly

This is not an argument you make explicitly, but it's something readers commonly assume and my point is to highlight that companies successfully engaged in price discrimination can and do have market power even if they don't have a full monopoly.

> Of course it was. I acknowledged as much! I quite literally said the example doesn't generalize. The example serves to illustrate a 'there exists' claim. I felt a concrete example would be easier to follow than some kind of generalized model.

And I'm providing the 'there exists' claim for the alternative, to demonstrate that price discrimination can be (and often is) detrimental to customers without providing any countervailing benefit to any of them.

> The obvious observation we can make is that such competitive dynamics imply that no one would make any profit!

Profit doesn't really work that way. For example, if a company takes investment and uses it to buy a building to operate out of, the money not paid as rent to a landlord is added to the investor's profit, but if the company takes less investment and instead pays rent, the same money is counted as operating costs. Likewise, if you develop software needed before you can start operating and you take investment to pay for it, the net returns are called profit, but if you take a bank loan to pay for it then the interest on the loan is counted as operating costs again. The interest rate you'd pay the bank would even be proportional to the risk you'd fail, unless you post collateral, for which you'd need an investor.

So a company that didn't take any investment and operated entirely by renting everything, taking loans and using off-the-shelf software instead of developing anything in-house wouldn't be expected to make any profits in a perfectly competitive market -- and there would also be no investors to pay any profits to. Profit in companies that take investment would still be present and equal the cost (time value) of the assets bought with the money, but in a perfectly competitive market this would exactly equal the risk-adjusted market rate of return in the overall capital markets.

The distinction in uncompetitive markets is that profit exceeds that amount. (Or at least can; a market can be uncompetitive and then the companies become inefficient from lack of competitive pressure and waste the money they extract from customers instead of returning it to investors.)

It's true that "perfectly" competitive markets don't exist in the same sense that perfect anything doesn't exist, but this is splitting hairs. A gold coin might be .999 gold and you can say that it isn't perfect but you can still distinguish it from a wooden nickel.
RTFTFA?
> Perhaps there is no license that makes sense because licenses on ideas do not make sense. You simply cannot define them logically from natural principles without having to concede that they are intellectual slavery. Ideas on licenses have never made sense and never will.

No, the idea is fine - I mean, sure I'd be fine[0] with totally abolishing copyright, but in the world we live in it makes perfect sense. I think it really is just a naming problem, if anything.

[0] Probably.
How is debugging a "micro level skill"? Jumping into an unknown project/system/whatever is something you will likely have to do at some point. (Sometimes it might be code you wrote yourself years ago, but revisiting without any context makes it feel unknown.)

Is this hypothetical guy always writing 100% correct code?
Likely a lack of recently published code. Claude has been trained more recently.
What is different vs. GPT-4o & Copilot?
Pre-Covid, a quarter of my team was phoning in via zoom everyday. There was always someone that was sick, kid was sick, waiting for a plumber, didn’t want to deal with commute etc. There was always something. No one batted an eye.

Post-Covid, people act like remote work is some strange new thing.

Only thing that really brought people into the office was the free food. But I know that has been scaled back dramatically post Covid.
> The "editors" for most such publications do not edit, they make publishing decisions.

My spouse is an editor at an academic journal in her field and does some of both. In papers selected for publication, she does exert editorial input. In terms of remuneration, it is a compensated position; but how the money flows between the academic society, the journal and Elsevier, that part is lost on me.
I’ve rarely if ever seen a model fully explain mathematical answers outside of simple geometry and algebra to what I would call an adequate level. It gets the answer right more often than explaining why that is the correct answer. For example, it finds a minimal case to optimization, but can’t explain why that is the minimal result among all possibilities.
Anybody can curate. Curating a work doesn't require an exclusive copyright to publish that work. Michelin curates restaurants without charging their guests for admission.

You can even start a subscription newsletter titled "rtpg's best of Arxiv", containing curated links to a shortlist of the highest quality research you can find. It could become very prestigious for researchers to be mentioned in your newsletter, and your own reputation will hinge on the quality of the papers you link to (and the ones you leave out). Even so, this service still doesn't require that you host or own copyright to those works!

Nor does this arrangement require that any one work be found on only one single curator's shortlist and no others.
I found it takes the same amount of time to go from 0 to 50% completion as it is to go from 50% to 80%, and similarly from 80 to 90%.

This means when you are at 50% completion, you need to spend more than two times more effort to hit >90% completion.

99 to 100% takes an infinite amount of time.
I'm not going to pass any judgement on what is reasonable or unreasonable for LLMs, just pointing out that it makes serious mistakes.

Many people here argue that LLMs are able to reason, you can check my post history 3 months ago to see an example of this.

And if you have to double check everything, how much time are you really saving? And is this thing really on track to replace programmers any time soon? Absolutely not.
Chevron in action: https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-strikes-dow...
My personal lack of imagination (but I could very much be wrong!) tells me that there's no way to prevent prompt injection without losing the main benefit of accepting prompts as input in the first place - If we could enumerate a known whitelist before shipping, then there's no need for prompts, at most it'd be just mapping natural language to user actions within your app.
> what we’re observing is X, but we see Y instead.

I think this might be a typo - we're observing X but want Y, or some similar variation. In any case, there's a bug.
Remember folks, they were bullshit before, they are bullshit now. Be ethical, and you will be fine.
Did any copy-editing happen? Frequently it does not. Which is another issue... copy-editing on scientific papers requires major cooperation between the authors and the editor.
>Exercises, quizes and explanations are routine enough that good teachers I know can generate them on the spot.

Every year there are thousands of graduate teacher looking for tools to help them teach better.

>good teachers I know can generate them on the spot

Even the best teacher can't create an interactive multiple choice quiz with automatic marking, tailored to a specific class (or even a specific student) on the spot.

I've been teaching for 20+ years, I have a solid grasp of the pain points.
Yeah… this was a pretty obvious power grab by a bunch of unelected bureaucrats. Sure, it’s popular, but what comes next?
One resource I use a lot that I didn't mention in my comment is https://rateyourmusic.com/. I find it's most helpful for finding the "canonical" albums & artists in a genre you're unfamiliar with. You can search by genre, influences, and year range, and its listings are generally very accurate. It also just has a culture of having more in depth and well written reviews, so if I'm looking at an album I've never heard of, I often get to read a review by someone who's been listening to it their entire lives. Much more helpful thoughts & opinions than someone whose job it is to review music (though I do enjoy reading some music critics blogs).
To be fair when I was <10 years old my siblings and I had a lot of fun in AOL chatrooms and various forums full of people of all ages saying all kinds of things. Not that it makes it okay but that particular aspect of roblox isn't really something new when it comes to kids exploring the web.
Neither this page nor the original announcement say what string freeze means. Am I the weird one for having never heard this term despite shipping a lot of software? Is it like a freeze of strings to be translated to various languages for the UI i.e. effectively a feature freeze?
> Well, if you give that line to a German who hasn't learned any English, the answer will also differ from what an educated English speaker will give you? What's your point?

Great observation.

A German who does not speak English will likely understand the question is in a non-German language and proceed from there. Perhaps seeking a translation, perhaps replying that they do not speak English and so the question is nonsensical for them.

My point is that the German has an understanding of this situation and will communicate accordingly. And, in this example, the LLM trained on Java source code does not have understanding, cannot have understanding, and will emit whatever its training data set directs it to do with the same confidence as any other answer to questions posed to it.

Because LLM's are algorithms, quite lovely ones, and algorithms can simulate the effect of understanding, but cannot possess it. Because understanding of this sort is a property of a person. Or maybe a better way to state this is what people think of as understanding is what we know to be understanding, which is by definition the ability to understand perceptions we, as people, experience.

> What's an original insight to you?

I don't think the following insight is original, but I'll put it out there anyway:

Understanding is a property of people for any definition of
understanding a person is capable of having. This is due
to the fact that understanding exists strictly within the
consciousness of the entity defining/possessing it.
I seem to interview in a different language every time I switch jobs.
Size reduction usually follows but not necessarily. That is easily measured is an irrelevance. The claim that its a decently predictive proxy I can't buy at the moment, can you try justifying that? Some very terse code can be very hard to understand without (comprehensive) commenting eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...

Maybe you're right. I've had a drink, I'll think over it in the morning, thanks.
My takeaway from this is that 1-in-50 drivers have a DUI.

That’s an order of magnitude higher than I would’ve guessed. Unbelievable!
This ban makes sense, but it is obvious in the domain of the legislature only.
Jimmy Kimmel's Use of George Santos' Cameo Videos Found to Be Fair Use
also as each comment is associated with a account name and has score per user and per post/comment. bad data sources would be easy to filter out from reddit. any comment with a sufficiently low score could be removed form the training set any user with two low of a score would also be removed
In your opinion, did any of those accidents occur in operations of some importance, small or large? What if the military simply ran fewer missions?

So what if there were Chinese naval operations in a place where American operations occurred?
https://archive.ph/6lUHO
Recommendations to help mitigate prompt injection: limit the blast radius
Why does no one uses snippets or create scaffold for projects? My main requirement for a tool is to be deterministic. So that I don't spend time monitoring it as failure is very distinct from success.
As long as Zuck keeps releasing open-source models, the moat will continue to disappear from these companies. Only expensive, corporate processing tiers will exist and everyone will run stuff locally. Not a lot of money to be made from local processing.
I hadn't realised people finished projects.
Can you post a question and answer example if it doesn’t violate NDA because I have very little faith this is good for students.
Ground-based launch sites can supply both position and orientation very accurately (few seconds of angle), more accurately than stellar correction can, and their gyro platform can keep it within a few seconds of angle as well.

Submarines can determine their position accurately enough, but their orientation data can be improved upon using stars.

The MIRV bus takes in the angular fix just before it starts giving the warheads their individual nudges.
This is such a great callout.

We have to acknowledge that conversation around this is also platform dependent.
Ethical?
Reasonable wages? Competition in the markets? Fair compensation?
Dupe:

GM to Cut More Than 1k Software Engineers, Mostly in US - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41296152 - Aug 2024 (104 comments)
I gave this interview 100+ times and my criteria boiled down to: did they propose a hypothesis and then follow it to a conclusion? Doesn’t matter if it was wrong, just mattered that they were able to falsify it or find the solution.

At the end, I would have them walk me through the bug, its cause, and the fix in very high level terms to make sure they could articulate the path we took.
Yeah, assuming Slack does prefetch these links that makes the attack significantly easier and faster to carry out.
I find this to be an interesting theory, but where is the evidence for it?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41304695
Fff. I think that banning non-competes is the single best improvement in rights of employees (who don’t own a substantial share of the organization )
I wish we had free public transit everywhere like they do on the strip.
Any data it is conservative towns? Bay Area is the probably the most liberal yet has very restrictive zoning laws.

It terms of population, liberal towns seem to be the culprit.
Are there any examples of (real, third-party) extensions built with Plasmo?
https://code.visualstudio.com/download
Yeah, how would the federal govt do that? Isn’t that a local govt or state jurisdiction?
Ask for a raise once a year, be happy if you don’t get one, and if a competitor tries to hire you away for a lot more money, stay loyal.
Distance can absolutely be concrete. We can specify distance traveled by light in a vacuum, or, if you'd rather, a specified number of Planck units. Similarly, time can be defined by the number of wavelengths of a photon of a given energy level. Which is basically the definition of modern SI second and meter are derived. They're based on the speed of light.

In the end, all you're doing is finding different ways to dissect physical constants. But you're still using those constant. The constant itself doesn't change because the Earth revolves slower today than it did yesterday, yet the planet certainly does revolve the same distance about its axis in more time.

Which is why I say distance and time are not really variable or imprecise (better terms than abstract, which simply has to many nebulous meanings) until you start to introduce relativity.

In fact, time is a fundamental element of many physical constants. The Planck constant, the gravitational constant, and the speed of light are all fundamentally based on time and distance. And since the speed of light relates to mass and energy, whatever units you pick need to be consistent. If we say that 1 second is always 1/84,000th of a solar Earth day (instantaneously I suppose?) then you've immediately made 3 of the known physical constants depending on how quickly the Earth spins. And you could do that and recalculate all of physics every day if you wanted to. But it's kind of stupid. It would be like re-graduating a tape measure every day you build a house. In theory it's just fine. Practically it's really not.
What would be an example of a “non-harmful” non-compete? In the game of employer vs employee, any non-compete is undesirable for the former and desirable for the latter.
I’m shivering in terror at the thought.
Let’s poll RLHF workers since they actually see the tech the most.
Yes, and open-source and source-available are two different things. The comment I responded to suggested they switch to a source-available license which falls back to an open-source license after a time period passes.
California banned non-competes years ago. There should be plenty of evidence available to use as a counter argument to this one judge's opinion.

Edit: In 1941, so it's been a while
Consistency is good but isn't everything. If you have a very large code base and insist on perfect consistency then no changes can practically be made and all code maintains a "day one" style forever.
I love how you claim that there doesn’t exist, while at the same time mentioning a (very old) study that would imply an alternative exists so that such study can take place.

If you go to anywhere in Europe you will find plenty of places that prove the opposite.
Such absolutely wild takes here. I think ruby is the worst language I have ever used, especially with rails.

I’m not surprised at all that the ruby ecosystem is dying, people have been complaining about its magic-ness for a decade and it’s still a problem today.
Most Americans vote with their wallets and feet. They don't want dense apartment living and the majority run from it as soon as they can afford it.

It is usually possible to rent small apartments near work in most metro areas, but instead they prefer 3000sqft places to 600sqft and supermarkets to corner stores.

There is a huge amount that would have to change about the American dream and esthetic desires to enable car free European living.
becasue after they did it everyone put roadblocks in place to prevent anyone from doing it again so even if you believe its fair use (I happen to think it is clearly a transformative work thus clear on copyright grounds) you still have to acknowledge the practical issue that its simply easier to pay for access to newly data. Also having new data of known provenance to prevent feeding ai generated data to the ai which is known to cause reduction in quality of output, as well as preventing lawsuits which even if your are in the right are expensive and time consuming at give you a bad look in the public mind, paying right now just makes since on to many levels not to.
What's the goal? Increase headcount at any cost?
This is what bothers me about the characterizations of CPU architecture in ELF files and (IIRC) Python eggs...

They're so vague about which particular x86 ISA variants are compatible with the binaries.

So, e.g., a program loader doesn't necessarily verify that the binary will work on the CPU.

Or, as we see with Linux distros, they build packages for the lowest common denominator ISA.

(Note: it's been a while since I dealt with this, so I might be remembering a bit wrong.)
would banning noncompetes federally violate the 10th amendment?
I don't even know if I'm neurodivergent, but apps that optimistically indicate success instead of using spinners give me a ton of anxiety. I see that in my wife and other family members, too. Even looking at something that explicitly says "Your order has been placed!" leaves people in a state of nervous suspense until we find a text message or an email to verify. In the absence of that, they just don't know. Part of my techie privilege is that I know a page refresh can usually reveal the truth.
That is way too often, it makes service too slow. People have things todo and sitting on the bus is not one oi them (even if they are doing something it is rarely what they want todo.

what is right is a compromise but everx block is too much
I grew up in rural New Zealand, on a dairy farm. I agree that the needs of suburban and rural communities are very different from the needs of urban communities, but what confuses me is why Americans (and increasingly, Kiwis) need a vehicle the size of a Dodge Ram rather than one the size of a 1990 HiLux ute [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_(vehicle)#/media/File:1990...
Have people not lived in those places in the past?
I mean government gridlock is a pretty legitimate reason for something to sit abandoned. I don’t know anything about that lot, but if a developer wants to build something and the city won’t let them build what they want, then by necessity, you just have to wait it out.
wait, but why?
Yes, I agree with you, and poorly-fed dogs might do things that a privileged pet might never consider. And, a fortiori, packs of poorly-fed dogs.

But the comment I was responding to was from a commenter whose bio says they're in Philidelphia, responding to a comment that I think was probably pretty developed-country, on a story from a Brit living in America. So I think we're talking about the developed-country context.

I'm not disagreeing with the text of what you wrote, though.
I still don't understand the hype behind rag. Like yeah it's a natural language interface into whatever database is being integrated, but is that actually worth the billions being spent here? I've heard they still hallucinate even when you are using rag techniques.
> I take it you're fortunate enough to live in a very temperate area with palatable weather year-round, rather than somewhere that gets 110° F in the summer, or ice storms in the winter?

Okay, we don't get the 110°F in the summer here (only up to the 90's), but we do get the ice storms in the winter.

I still walk to get my groceries if I can, even if it's actively snowing. I just wish they'd plow the sidewalks here, I don't like having to choose between walking in the street or trying to walk on uncompacted snow in my boots while laden with groceries.
> they get a 10x productivity boost using "AI" its usually some basic tasks that either generates boilerplate code or performs a fancy autocomplete and while those are great

And that are just a tiny upgrade over what IDEs can do. When I used Android Studio, the code basically write itself due to the boilerplate surrounding your business logic. And once I got a basic structure down, I feel like I only write 5 to 10 characters each line (less for data types). And the upgrade is both positive and negative at the same time, it boils down to luck to actually get good suggestions.
Sounds like if it were two throttle handles with a "lock" lever below them they could fail exactly the same. It's a training/attention/fatigue issue, not a UI one.
Exactly, bend the knee to your corporate lords and they may show your favor.
A more perfect union?
I'm confused, you said earlier that you use it every day.
Huh? You can take a train from New York to Washington. It’s not high speed rail but it’s not even a day trip. You could go there and back in one day and still get stuff done at the other end. It’d be a bit of a long day but nothing outrageous.

In fact, the Eastern seaboard is one of the few places in the US where rail travel is a valid option much of the time.
also Microsoft owns the number 2 search engine no one is blocking Microsoft from scraping their sites else they loose all that traffic from Bing searches. I suspect the same with google thus googles deals are strictly speaking an anti competitive measure and insurance against the law deciding against them
Your product is really cool. Sometimes it makes sense to iterate in this or that repo.

Obligatory: “Victory has defeated you.”
> I now reach for it as my first tool

The manual is my first tool.