skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would love to see kens do his usual breakdown of this vs the intel and amd equivalents. :D
From AI-generated impossible toilets and holographic vases to breakthroughs in medical AR and disease prediction, this week's tech roundup showcases the rapid advancements in AI across various fields, while also touching on the philosophical implications of time itself.
Will they ban older cars that do not support the latest protocols? Will we be forced into a 5-year upgrade cycle like we are with phones, because the manufactures stop supporting their older products?
Burger King doesn't want McDonalds finding out the secrets of why their fries taste so much better.
Is there a definite answer on what languages / paradigms LLMs tend to be better at?
I hear this quite frequently and I’d have to disagree. While it’s certainly hard to complain about getting paid to ride the bench (I’ve been there myself), garden leave inhibits one’s freedom to work on what they find interesting. Not to mention missing out on bonus.
Sorry, but someone who is averse to joins is not a non-expert in SQL, they are a total novice. The answer is like any other programming language. You simply must learn the language fundamentals in order to use it.
"It seems to me that debugging in particular is often dependent on the developer realizing some edge case or scenario where things circumstances line up to produce a bug."

I don't think that's the case if there's a test failing. If a well-written test fails, that means there's a completely scoped out requirement for how the feature should work. The candidate should know how to use a debugger, so they should be able to start diving in and figuring out how the code works and what might be going wrong. I don't think that's likely to produce gotchas.
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Appointed by trump, all of his picks should be extremely suspect given everything we know about the man now
Most of the US is undeveloped in terms of highways and suburbs.

Whats the point of having all that room if you’re going to trap yourself in a small apartment tower?
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agree! they should be banned, but the FTC was clearly (over)-reaching here. the correct way to do it is via law. even though it is the right thing to do, it's just the wrong way to do it. blocking and de-incentivizing monopolistic behavior like this is one of the most useful things a government should do.
For me the quick refresh is better as I only need to do it once (until I don't use the language/library again) and that can be done without internet (local documentation) or high power consumption (if you were using local models). And with a good editor (or IDEs) all of these can be automated (snippets, bindings to the doc browser,...) and for me, it's a better flow state than waiting for a LLM to produce output.

P.S.I type fast. So as soon as I got a solution in my head, I can write it quickly and if I got a good REPL or Edit-Compile-Run setup, I can test just as fast. Writing the specs, then waiting for the LLM's code and then review it to check feel more like being a supervisor than a creator and that's not my kind of enjoyable moment.
lol I was trying to be sarcastic, came off as bitter?

I’m not even looking for a job, I’m traveling the world and living my best life. I think my comment was more about how non-competes encourage toxic ideas of what loyalty you, as a free agent, are supposed to offer people who are fundamentally just paying you some money while they don’t reciprocate. Not that I’ve had this experience myself, just something I’ve seen others go through. I’ve had nothing but great employers for the most part.
I feel like this is hoarding on a different level. “Someday I’ll need it.”
I think the non obvious benefit is using LLMs nudge you into putting your thoughts in narrative form and training that ability, something that someone with more experience does subconsciously.
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Unfortunately what are you supposed to do when you 80% of the Sailors you're supposed to have, and that number was already 20% less than what you needed to actually fill a watch bill?
Lina Khan is the only public servant deserving the name at the high levels.

I hope she leaves them nothing.
The author isn't an expert on anything Naval. He's clearly a design guy, and his analysis ok in that respect.

7th Fleet's issues are well known, but not necessarily outside the community of those of us who lived them.
Sure, I agree that 800,000-hospital-visits number isn’t really a great picture of what’s going on. The deaths number was just so very far under what I was sure was the serious-harm figure that I thought it worth bringing in the non-death attacks, and a (probably reasonable-ish) estimate of cases that prompted treatment was first thing I saw that looked close to what I was looking for.

The 17.5k stat’s interesting—I think you’re right that it may at least be in the ballpark for an estimate of unrestrained dog attacks. Some would generate a claim, some wouldn’t, some claims wouldn’t be for unrestrained dogs… yeah, probably a good starting point. I like that one, good eye.

I’d guess most attacks of that 800k aren’t from strangers’ dogs at all, but friends and family’s dogs. Simple matter of opportunity and time exposed.
Conway Cubes - Game of Life in 3-D (or n-D): Asked once in Advent of Code (2020) https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/17
> Consider now that you are one of the two players

This assumes that when you decide to buy a lottery ticket, you get to prevent someone else from buying one. If you decide to buy a lottery ticket, now there are three players.
I made a non-serious, sarcastic and parodious comment in a serious thread. My bad guys!

I just think non-competes are bad for employees though - if someone sells trade secrets, that can be somewhat obvious, and can be pursued legally without non-competes. It just creates an environment that keeps people down at the benefit of the powerful.
Take a remote job with a California wage but live in a better-run state.
You are not the only one, which is an interesting commentary on how far the Arsenal of democracy has fallen.
First time hearing this too. IIUC, it's preventing changes to text strings in the product that would require translation from the various language teams (per: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Software_String_Freeze_Policy).

I don't understand why they stagger the freezes for the translation and the binary development, I assume it's to still allow for last-minute big fixes to make it in before the final release cut?
Legal academic scholarships is much small and less relevant than science scholarship. The legal publishing that matters is done by the government -- courts and legislatures.
Agree. Should not ever happen, but we all know it does.
"Part of its text had been inscribed on cliffs in Armenia, but these were destroyed in modern conflicts. "

Who would be so despicable?
I have never seen the UI of YouTube as shown in the article (information panel on the right). How did the author get that?

For me it's always on the bottom.
That might be fine if you are getting 100% salary + benefits, but some of these agreements can be too broad. It could say that the amount of salary can be an arbitrary amount determined at the end of employment. What if they decide they only want to pay something like 50 or 75% base salary? Also once you are on a family plan, paying COBRA can be a substantial expense. My plan is nearly $1,600 a month if I had to pay the full amount.
So are modals
https://youtu.be/A98vqgBsoxQ?si=eSpyeyrg8f4bkLrC
"saying the regulator lacked the authority to stop agreements that bar employees from getting new jobs at rival firms."

Who said that employers had the authority to tell ex employees what to do to begin with ?
Why not both? What do you see wrong with having gpt spit out a complicated ffmpeg filter chain and explaining every step of the output, which you can then look up in the docs and unit test before implementing? I find verifying the gpt output is still quicker than consulting giant wall of text man pages
From a different article:

>"A sweeping prohibition of noncompete agreements by the FTC was an unlawful extension of power that would have put American workers, businesses, and our economy at a competitive disadvantage," U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Suzanne Clark said in a statement.

If you ever wondered what kind of moron would get this completely backwards and think that non-compete agreements give Americans a competitive advantage, now you know.
That trend has changed: CA now has a slight incoming migration, like it used to.

And yes, it's more expensive. But that's the price you pay for reaping the benefits of living in CA.
I’m in the middle. I use paid models. It’s great for scripts, reminding me of commands, and surprisingly good at debugging error messages. But if I’m working in our main code base I’m basically never able to just use the code it spits out. It can get me in the ballpark of what I want, but it often does weird convoluted shit on the first pass. I can keep prompting to refine the code down to something closer to what I want, but at that point it would have just been faster to write the thing myself.

I kind of like LLMs for learning new languages. Claude or ChatGPT are good for asking questions. But copilot really stunts learning for me. I find nothing really sticks in my brain when I have copilot running. I feel like I just turn my brain off, which seems kind of dangerous to me in the long run.
That's how I learned. I'm a self taught dev so I pretty much just took the same approach. Read documentation, try it out, read more docs, try it out, read some examples, search for how other people do it, etc. At a certain point, you just know it and can solve 90% of your needs without looking at docs. Although, tbh, I haven't written a very complicated regex in probably a decade and would need to do some warm up reps if I needed to today.
I already do that. This isn't career motivated. Had a kid and wife wants to live closer to grandparents. It falls to me to run the numbers, and boy are they ugly.
I built an extension for internal company use, using WXT. Fantastic dev experience, great docs, comprehensive examples. Exactly what a framework should do.
I would much prefer to see Congress regulate this under interstate commerce

Just because Congress is gridlocked on dumb stuff doesnt mean I want agencies doing it. I’m glad those agencies got handicapped ensuring this wont survive on appeal. There are consensus bridging Americans that can be elected to Congress, I don’t think its so absurd to prefer the people take that route instead of trying to shove through conveniences or ideological things by any means.
Does anybody have insight into how this compares to Brave? In their own comparison Brave is not even considerd.
The overall design of "controls" for something as complicated as a ship (or submarine) is of course going to be complex, and would not be expected to cater to the intuitions of a naive user.

But if you're talking about the basic ship handling controls--rudder and throttles--which were the controls involved in this case, those should be as simple and intuitive as possible, and should be designed in a way that makes it obvious what the rudder and engines are doing, obvious to the point that even a naive user would have a good shot at being able to figure it out. That's because those controls are not only the most basic ones, but the most important ones for ship safety. You don't want them to be complicated or hard to learn.

This incident was a good example of what happens when this basic principle is not followed. Of course that wasn't the only factor involved, crew training and proficiency comes into play too, but since even the Captain and the Officer of the Deck couldn't tell what the rudder and throttles were doing, there was obviously a huge problem with the way those controls were designed.
How is this different than them being an employee (and the employer deciding that they don't have to work on anything)?

Also, I thought this was a British-ism, because over there employers can't fire at will and instead once the employee (or employer) has given notice then the employer must keep paying them until the end of the notice period.
Looks like a dog's tail and hindquarters maybe
A garden leave isn't a non-compete, as you are employed during that time, even if your job is doing nothing.

Techincally, garden leaves are longer, mandatory termination period, not banned under the FTC rules.
Yeah but does that require any expertise to solve? It’s a bunch of meaningless arcana, for which the other party pays well. Seems like a fair deal. Someday you might get big enough where it’s minions talking to minions, or so big that people simply accept no customer service as the status quo.
They don't have the right to tell ex-employees what to do, but current employees can make agreements that extend past employment.
FastAI course for 1, the Little Book of Deep Learning [0] / Deep Learning (Goodfellow et al) / the entire set of Kevin Murphy textbooks for 2 (in order of detail)

[0] https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html
Money helps, but doesn’t guarantee breakthroughs.
Video to CSS
There is virtually no chance that she thinks that. What she thinks is that she is funded by businesses that like to suppress wages, and non-competes are one tool to do that with. The quote is called "public relations", which is bizspeak for lying.
Yeah I'm not discounting it. My vanilla N100 box measures about 7W at the wall idling on the KDE Neon desktop. No modifications done to reduce power draw, and it includes the wall-wart that came with it.
Texan here. My experience has been quite different.

I lived in Austin for 7 years and I had no idea about this fact.

Whenever the whole "everything is bigger in Texas" comes up, everyone smiles and rolls their eyes. I now live in Houston and its the same. People here think its kind of a joke. Though Texans definitely do take pride in Texas. I just don't think they take themselves as seriously as your comment suggests.
Has anything good ever come from the Chamber of Commerce? They did whatever they could do kill Obamacare, they are constantly against environmental regulation and now this. Such a terrible organization.
Setting aside the shocking myopia of this comment (it turns out most of your food that magically appears in grocery stores comes from those useless rural yokels that use these roads)

A major driver of the interstate highway project was military in consideration because of the importance of logistics in being able to move troops around the country.
Congress has been working under the assumption that Chevron was the law of the land for decades. That let them produce laws that delegated technical rulemaking to experts with relevant experience. The idea is that the law would be more responsive to changing times, and that it could be simpler, since it wouldn't need to encode obscure technical standards.

However, the Supreme Court decided to legislate from the bench and transfer that authority to unelected judges. Now, the federal government is all screwed up because none of the laws work as intended, and, so far, the judges wielding this newfound authority have demonstrated some mixture of incompetence and corruption.

I'd like to think they're all taking night school engineering and economics classes to bridge the newly-created skills shortage, but, somehow, I doubt it.

For example: In this case, the courts have come to the nonsensical conclusion that (quoting the article) "The FTC, which enforces antitrust laws and regulates competition", doesn't have the authority to regulate non-compete clauses, and further claims there's no evidence that the proposed regulation would do anything beneficial (despite 80+ years of case studies from California, which happens to have the largest economy in the US.)
That's not exactly it, either. Right to work means unions and companies can't negotiate union security agreements. These are agreements that non-union workers have to pay to support the union, since they are benefitting from the union. Essentially they allow the union to coordinate individuals in a prisoner's dilemma.

Where your comment misses the mark is that workers in non-rtw states don't have to join or even pay for unions. They can work for companies that do not have union security agreements. There is no coercion in any step in the chain.
I used it for some troubleshooting in my job. Linux Sys Admin. I like how I can just ask it a question and explain the situation and it goes thru everything with me, like a Person.
Source? The best data I've seen comes from the Census Bureau, and their numbers haven't been updated for 2023. In 2022, it was net negative.

Edit: State of California Department of Finance also estimates this, but states that 2023 saw "Domestic out-migration slowed in 2022-23, to a net domestic migration loss of 260,400 people." [1]

https://dof.ca.gov/forecasting/demographics/estimates/e-2/
This judge did actually rule that it was "arbitrary and capricious". Which is rich considering the FTC published a 500+ page document explaining their exact reasoning, including analysis of public comments, their legal authority, alternatives, and studies about the effects of non-compete bans in specific states.
Yeah I think there's an empty marketing driven hype that will die off, but I think we're going to start to see it continue to integrate into peoples real life workflows and competition's going to heat up in delivering more consistently reliable results.

with regard to art AI, I think the debates are going to die off and the artists and people making stuff are going to just keep doing that, and some of them will use AI in ways that will challenge people in ways good art often does.
I know that you are getting some push-back because of your exuberance regarding your use of LLMs in development, but let me just say I respect that when someone told you to "put up or shut up" you did. Good on you!
That's because programming isn't just about syntax. The real difficulty lies in the problem solving. Sure AI can help with that, but the problem still largely rests on the programmer, as AI won't do anything unless prompted to.
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I don't agree, from the perspective of someone who has driven ships, stood console watches on complex combat direction systems, and regularly flies flight simulators for fun.

The UI for driving a vehicle needs to be simple and intuitive. Full Stop.

There is absolutely a place for complex displays. There were 14 people on the bridge the day the McCain had its collision. Any number of them can monitor complex screens with tons of information.

The young Sailor driving the ship needs to know where his rudder sits and what RPM his engines are turning. In fact, there are two of them, and the traditional method is that one drives and monitors the rudder, and one runs the engines. They don't need to worry about complex situations, the helm needs to know the conning officer ordered 5 degrees right rudder, they ordered 5 degrees right rudder with the wheel in front of them, and the screen or indicator in front of them indicates the rudder is right 5 degrees. Similarly, Lee Helm needs to know the conning officer ordered turns for all ahead full, they shifted the great big throttle handles to the all ahead full position, and both engines indicate all head full.

They don't need to know about engine temperatures, synchro and servo status, set and drift, winds, etc. They need to drive the damn ship in the manner they are directed to drive the ship. There were 12 other people on that bridge who could handle all of those things that matter to them. Helm and Lee Helm need to drive the ship.
I don't disagree — but it takes two to tango!
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> if you haven't been hired yet, don't start underleveled with a promise of a promotion except in dire circumstances

I had this happen to me before, I was interviewing for a senior position and everything went well except the CTO decided I wasn’t senior enough for him. He said I could get there in a year or so if I met a few goals, got a few certs, etc. They even went as far as pulling the original job requisition off the website and downgrading it to a non-senior role. This (and a few other things) left a bad taste in my mouth and I politely declined the offer.
This design dates to the 90s at least. I went to school on this system in 1997 and it wasn't new then, it was new to our class of ships but had been in service for a number of years prior.

If it went through an HMI review it wasn't by anyone qualified to do it.
Started Llama 3.1 8B Locally
$500k buys a very nice house in many part of the country.

Health insurance can be purchased from healthcare.gov in largely the same way home insurance works.

$1.5M would get you $60k/year without ever touching your principal.

That being said, waiting even a few years drastically changes the math into your favor. 5 years of a job, plus interest on your retirement fund could easily double it.
Question for anyone who knows:

Imagine you are cofounder of a startup that raised significant VC capital. But your base salary is less than 151k. Can you leave and start a competing firm?
Tried that. It's been a while, but when I last did it, ChatGPT hallucinated non-existent books.
Perhaps, but the kitchen employees don't know. All they know is "dump the frozen fries in the basket, put the basket in the fryer, and hit the button to start the timer."
IMO, Pragtical (and Lite XL) is closer to Atom ideologically where almost everything is a plugin. But compared to Atom, they ship the bare minimum of plugin in their release and let user install the rest as they need. Pragtical is better in this regards than Lite XL where they ship better UI improvement and default plugin, for example the setting page must be installed as a plugin in Lite XL but already shipped as part of Pragtical release.
I agree with you that they should add some plugin as part of their core app to increase user's experience out of the box though.
If you are asking for examples: everywhere on Earth, for all of human history.

If you are questioning whether or not prosperity is increasing, especially in peaceful areas, I cannot help you. Not being able to tell that we are currently in the most prosperous and peaceful era of human history, and it isn't even close, is like not being able to tell if it is raining or not whilst standing in the middle of a downpour. I would first have to explain what water is, the water cycle, what the sensation of wetness is, other sensory perceptions of rainfall, and a basic understanding of what objective facts are and I don't have time for that.
Just don't use weakmaps. Clean up your maps instead.
Murder is wrong. War is wrong.
> Do most people really need to learn college level writing?

It's about the ability to demonstrate you have a coherent mental model of a topic. Use of LLMs doesn't help students who can't do that on their own.