skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If your department heads are not your most skilled operators, then... maybe that's a good problem to fix.

department heads spend all their time organizing groups of people. if organizing people better is your company's competitive advantage, then sure, putting your best people in those seats is probably best. but if your company's competitive advantage is that it makes better optical instruments, produces gasoline more cheaply, demolishes buildings more safely, or makes better-tasting food—you'd better let your best operators spend a lot of their time grinding mirrors, operating refineries, annotating floor plans, or cooking. if they spend all their time organizing people, your company will lose its competitive advantage
Sigh
https://dublog.net/blog/so-many-python-package-managers/
Texas Is Arming Mexico's Gunmen
Legacy code saves us again!
Strongly recommend using Bitwarden with various collections for different types of things. When someone leaves, we rotate every single password which was in a collection they had access to. It's a massive PITA, but it works /shrug.
This article doesn't consider reusing similar components. For example, you want to use the purple button with a shitton of classes at multiple places. You don't always define the classes. Design a component (I know react, so using it's terminology), and use that. It'll be much easier to read/write and maintain that single component.

And article also says tailwind is the safest way to remain a beginner in CSS. I agree with this. But again, tailwind is not for someone who doesn't know CSS. It's not a magic UI framework. You have to know CSS. Tailwind is just a way of writing CSS without stylesheets.
> At some point these industries should be footing the bill for this infra.

I don't think these industries get power for free.

It's typical for high capacity customers to be paying a flat fee monthly for capacity in addition to the rates for usage. And when they desire things like redundant feeds from separate substations, that's likely to require payment for engineering and construction as well as extra cost for maintenance.

OTOH, large users can get discounts, sometimes substantial discounts if they participate in demand response programs. It's a benefit to the grid operator if they can have large users rapidly reduce their load if needed to maintain grid stability... it's historically been much easier to reduce demand significantly at a few large user sites than to reduce demand across a large number of households ... and the alternative to opt-in reduction is brownouts and rolling blackouts.

A sophisticated multi-region datacenter operation is a good candidate for demand response, as it's relatively simple to quickly migrate traffic away from a power constrained data center.
Probably just getting more people into treatment via the threat of jail than you normally would without the consequence.
It's pretty obvious (and research showed) that heavier trucks/cars are more dangerous/lethal to pedestrians/cyclists/other drivers, but mindblowing that IIHS only in 2023(!) started estimating the [very different] rate at which [specific makes of] cars kill drivers in other vehicles. Policymakers are starting to take notice too. “I’m concerned about the increased risk of severe injury and death for all road users from heavier curb weights,” Jennifer Homendy, NTSB chair, said in a speech last year.
I think the song TUSA, in which Ginger Baker describes the process of making Tea is also a required reference for any articles on the topic.

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DTuXBoA688Y
on facebook you are the product, though. If facebook were mastodon, and also didn't have ads, maybe.
I think "reasoning" is the best word in the English language that I know of to describe what LLMs are doing. Lots of people disagree because for about 2000 years that word always implied consciousness, and LLMs definitely don't have consciousness.
Such a mass-to-light ratio is accounted for when computing a stellar mass.
It's probably the biggest influence on my understanding of what computers are to other people.

For a maker, LLMs are the biggest thing in coding since type hints getting popular.

They completely change how I code now that my typing speed is effectively unlimited and I'm never tempted to choose less best practicesy code to save a half hour of typing.

Most of the people I work with are hackers or mathematicians/code philosophers, and it seems like to a lot of them the whole industry is stagnant, they want new ideas, not cleaner repackagings.
There is no absolute proof of how people will behave. People are just too inconsistent from moment to moment. But we can get an idea from past activities. The COVID lockdown was a small view into people's behavior when they have too much idle time. I remember riots, protests, and crimes, to name a few, and that was a small amount of time. Also, when do people start to get into trouble? When they have too much time. It does have to be everyone, not even the majority, for it to be a huge problem.

Even you talk about it as a "useless" use of time. It may be great for the individual at the given moment. A dopamine hit always feels good. But it's not great for society. How is that a plus for the future? Thousands of years of societal evolution just to have people figure out what to stream next. Boy, AI will lead to a great future. Happy and fruitful times are on their way. :-(

AI's future is all speculation. There's no way to know until it happens but I don't see it as a plus.
Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps)
The simple openlane flow just uses standard cells, but you have the ability to just tape out polygons so curvyish is possible
To clarify, this is only for Vaults, so all passwords outside of Vaults have no visibility.
Was it really that bad back in 2003?
> Do you expect the garbage man to do your dishes?

Why would the garbage man do my dishes?

Look, I throw away my trash because it's super convenient and the city provides a wonderfully helpful service of hauling my garbage off for me. But if the city comes to me and says "Hey, we want you to come out here and help us dig the landfill, because it's actually easier if you do it" -- then I'd probably just light my garbage on fire or toss it in a river.
>We'd have to do a point by point comparison to know for sure if you had it worse than me (I'm leaning towards yes), but otherwise all of this is very familiar!

It's not a contest; all child abuse is a tragedy.
ah, so one should ensure that the account is duplicated in some way. "shared", if you will.
Depends on what the responsibilities of your lowest managers are.
Or simply ... qualified?
>"How many Rs in strawberry?" is not a trick question.

To a system that sees letters and words, sure. To a system that doesn't, you're just asking a blind man to count how many apples are on the table and patting yourself on the back for his failure. It just doesn't make any sense to begin with.

And this is before the fact that human intelligence is rife with absurd seeming failure modes and cognitive biases.

It's frankly very telling that these token related questions are the most popular kind of questions for these discussions.

This is no testable definition of reasoning or intelligence that will cleanly separate LLMs and Humans. That is the reality today. And it should make anybody pause.
These people you propose are renters, not buyers. I don't entirely discount the impact of CoL differences (moving to California is pretty annoying from that perspective, and I've done it twice), but it's not the barrier you're suggesting.
I don't think transport costs are a large factor for young adults moving in the same city.
In my experience most people have someone in their social network that has a van or truck. And people usually don't own much at that age so it's basically free.

Between counties or states? Yeah, transport is for sure costly then. But apparently that's not where the decrease is (and may even be increasing). [1]

[1] https://i0.wp.com/www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/...
Many people do not know this, but police has no duty to protect you. At all. I’m not joking: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columb....
My point is not that they fundamentally need it, but more that they are over-reacting to the current hype cycle. 5 years ago no one considered Photoshop's generative fill to be problematic, and I would have expected it to be on the long term roadmap of any similar piece of software. It was a widely appreciated feature that no one really felt was changing art.

Even if the whole current generative AI trend disappears entirely, that's still a feature customers wanted before, and there's no reason to think they wouldn't still want it.

And that's assuming nothing comes of the current trend. I would imagine the opposite, that at least one or two limited use-cases will be found for things similar to generative fill, that in years time will be regarded as normal, not as problematic.

Now if Procreate wants to position themselves as "low tech", that's a different thing, and they're free to do so, but looking at their product it doesn't seem that they're going for "low tech" in any other way.
Eh, you really want per unit of economic productivity or similar, since driving is not in and of itself productive. For instance, you could get the numbers to look better simply by having people circle the block in their neighborhood (presumably a very safe form of driving).
Bat(h)rooms.
To be fair, I think this is acknowledged by Paul in this essay. He treats Founder mode as something that isn't well studied, isn't well defined, but has a vibe to it that people familiar with it would recognize immediately. The essay struck me as more of a call to action to study this style of company running and to acknowledge the "manager mode" as a possibly destructive model if relied on as the sole mode a company is run by.
My personal theory: Americans feel less and less as if there is a common American culture/identity, such that culture shock becomes a serious hindrance.
The Universe Is Not a Fairy Tale
I appreciate your input, but I don't think that's accurate for me.
But driving is inherently dangerous, that's the whole point. America shouldn't be let off the hook for partaking in more of a dangerous activity, as if that makes it less dangerous. If Americans don't want to die in cars they should drive less. (Trains would help.)
Always good to be reminded how much of the world was connected by trade, a long time ago. The romans had "taprobrane" as a source of Pearls: it's Sri Lanka. They'd probably (possibly?) never been there, but they knew people who knew people who traded along the silk road, who got pearls from Sri Lanka.

Trade surpasses religious barriers oftentimes. Vikings had offered service to the Byzantine courts presumably sailing down the rivers from the north, or round the coast. Maybe one of them brought something back north, and it wound up moving around in north europe. Walrus ivory would have been a valuable counter-trade going south, or Amber.
> Then IEEE asks A review the work of B and B review the work of A for free. If the work is good, IEEE will ask you to transfer your rights to your intellectual property to IEEE, and sometimes pay on top of that too.

The article is talking about maintaining an IEEE membership. Is all this what's required to be a member of IEEE? From what I can tell, all that's required is paying the $229 annual membership fee. The IEEE president wants you to pay that fee - that's all it's about.

The ACM is the same way - I was a member as a student, but when I saw the fee to remain a member and what you got for it, I couldn't believe anyone would pay. These organizations must make their money from people whose employees pay the dues because having an acm.org email and maybe getting to go to some networking events just isn't worth it.
I wondered why a custom kernel came so late. If you want to optimize, wouldn't you start with LFS or some source-based distribution? Autonomous software updates don't seem to be a necessity anyway on such a device.

In addition, I wonder if it would be possible to optimize the EFI/BIOS on such a device. At least on my standard Arch Linux desktop, it takes a significant amount of boot time:

$ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 10.076s (firmware) + 1.339s (loader) + 1.569s (kernel) + 2.974s (initrd) + 3.894s (userspace) = 19.854s
the rise of remote working might be one reason. The commute to work is one less thing remote workers and hybrid-workers have to worry about.

personally, the amount of quality and human-friendly housing is getting more rare than I'd like. Newer apartments feel cold and unnatural, it almost feels like paying a lot of money to rent a prison cell. Renovated or flipped houses also seem to use the same material: lots of grey and white, and that infamous grey-ish/black-ish vinyl faux-wood flooring. No trees. What vegetation I see is well kept grass.

Housing in general, while it maybe a good investment if you own it. To live in a rented or owned house alike feels like entering into a long term contract with low return on investment.

I fear this would get only worse, because the government will build lots of new apartments and incentivize builders to build lots of cookie-cutter houses.

If you have safe and secure housing and you're ok with your commute and job-search situation, there isn't much reason to move unless you're building a house or you're lucky enough to find an HOA-free community.
Not OP. But:

1. Reasoning is ability to at least carry out proofs in FOL (first-order logic). FOL can simulate Turing Mach

2. LLMs are formally equivalent to only a subset of FOL.

Why is this important? To model human mathematics, you need at least first-order logic.

These arguments have been around for decades, e.g., Penrose. I am tired of people bringing up strawmen arguments ("Not intelligent because not human!")
I don't do much crawling or scraping either, but when I have, I go to the opposite extreme. There's no reason why I need the data right that second, so I set it up to pause for some random amount of seconds between requests.

*Except YouTube, I'll yt-dl an entire playlist, no probs*
Here’s a good page to read on that:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/#AbdVerBayConTh...
dobbies automated looms before that
It didn't really survive though, in the end. In January 2006 the company was bought out. Per Wikipedia: "The old Kongō Construction remained only in the real estate division and changed its name to KJ Construction Co., Ltd. The over-1,400-year-old Kongō family's management structure essentially closed its doors. In July 2006, KJ Construction filed for bankruptcy due to insufficient funds." Nevertheless, very impressive track record!
I think you're referring to the Vivid app, which I find works very well for this purpose with recent Macbook Pros: www.getvivid.app
I know it's unlikely but it would be great if this talk could be shared on YouTube (if it isn't already. I couldn't find it when I checked earlier). There are the occasional talks from founders that turn out to be timeless. Would love for ycombinator to take a bet on this one and see how it pans out.
If Python users weren't comfortable living in that reality already, they wouldn't still be Python users.
In theory that sounds awesome and I love the idea of ZKP. However, they have quite some overhead that defeats such applications, I think.
> that makes java look well thought out and sane

That's not hard. Java's package management is well thought out and sane.
Oh, so payments are handled offline mostly?
Reverse Polish notation, or RPN, removes the need for operator precedence.

This is true of prefix or "Lisp notation" as well. I would show you an operator precedence table for Common Lisp or Clojure, but we don't need such a table. With that said, one does need to keep in mind how function evaluation and macro evaluation differ. e.g. Consider (f (g (h x))). If f, g, h are functions, then (h x) is evaluated first. If they are all macros, then f is macroexpanded first with the body (g (h x)).

... with postfix operators, the only data structure you need is a stack.

This also applies to prefix. I wonder what the motivation was to introduce postfix notation and prefer it over prefix.
Humans have many well-documented cognitive shortcomings and failure modes. Does that mean we don't reason either?
Unfortunately it was not recorded. We were all wishing it were recorded. PG asked me to write down everything I could remember before I forgot.
Money will survive. We humans don't just use it for physical goods. Think about all the monetary exchanges where no physical or virtual goods are exchanged. In Japan, you can rent a friend. An example of an out-of-the-ordinary transaction. Yea, you may be able to have an AI but I'm sure there will be stuff it won't be able to fulfill.

People will have use for money.
Define consciousness before making that claim either.
The article gives a simple reason: some things support it. If you want nice snippets in google search, Instagram, zotero etc.. you can use it.

The real reason was always "so you can publish data people can use programmatically" but turns out this doesn't work cause the interest of publishers ("visit my site") and the interest of consumers ("I want an answer") are not aligned.
Elitism is efficient and often effective, if perhaps unfairly skewed to people who know how to work the system. The DRI concept was new to me, that at least short circuits a lot of bad blame conversations: If you aren't a Janitor, and you're the DRI, no amount of finger pointing is going to get you off the hook so pay attention.

I wouldn't even have made the bottom 100 invite list for lunch so this is all theoretical.
The article isn’t 100% clear, but it sounds like these are people with private insurance. So if they’re not directly employed, they are likely married to someone who is. This doesn’t sound like they’re targeting indigents.
Since no individual exists standalone, we must see the individual not only as such, but also part of the larger organism/society. It is easy to see the many ways of how suicide of an individual may well be adaptive, at least historically, for the larger organism/society of which that individual is part.

It may be possible to speculatively frame it such that survival of the larger system would also benefit microbes that coexist with it (by way of colonising the bodies of its members), but I would warn against literally attributing suicide to microbes—the causal relationship is far from clear (over-simplifying, a person who feels unnecessary could incur stress manifesting as impaired immune response and over-representation of particular microbes).
However, my coworker still seems pretty normal.
Esperanto: The International Language
There are some old Jacquard card stacks which are literally the oldest machine readable datasets in existence, a century before Hollerith.
Intelligence is a vast spectrum of capabilities. There are people who function normally but cant't recognize faces. There are people who can't see or understand anything on their left side. Even savantism is an example where some brains have nearly superhuman capabilities in one area, but are almost mentally retarded in other areas, like common sense, and yes even letter counting. All the letter counting failure shows is that maybe all LLMs lean a bit more towards autistic brains than towards the actual average human brain.
I was tempted to go with the "some device on the path to speaker with a lifetime timer and a warning buzzer" idea but you reminded me of a job a long time ago where we wired pre-cat5 serial up to a Dec-10 replacing a board, and phantom ascii started to appear on the input terminals. Sometimes, RFI just makes the right shape to fool things and you have valid bitstream from .. nothing.

So if there is an element on the path to the speaker which is the right tuned antenna to something either periodic on the ISS, or periodic as the ISS moves in orbit, you could get something from .. nothing.
I've got a G3 iMac running macOS 9.2 that I recently restored sitting on my desk. Of course it's a lot of fun to play the old games but even browsing through applications, sifting through menus, and playing with the old UI patterns is just so refreshing. It's technically slow but latency feels so much better than modern machines.

Sure, the OS is technically inferior, and an infinite loop can freeze the entire machine, and my goodness that filesystem with all the goofy metadata is infuriating. There are all sorts of hidden resource metadata on each file that makes even program to file association bonkers. But otherwise there's a lot I like about it and a lot it gets right compared to modern operating systems. Older operating systems are just such a thin layer on top of the machine, compared to the mountains of abstractions and complexities of modern operating systems.
And yet:

> "Now thats the way to send a message. Now if only you guys could get a full power competitor to [Photoshop] on desktop with plugin support. Until someone can build a real competitor to high level [Photoshop] use, I'm stuck with it."

I think Photoshop will do just fine.
Actually as I recall back in the day ‘dc <dir>’ would actually do something. Nothing good, but something. Like it was trying to do math on a raw directory entry.
"Gaze not into the abyss, lest you become recognized as an abyss domain expert, and they expect you keep gazing into the damn thing." —@nickm_tor@mastodon.lol
I don't see how it could be correct to say that I'm recommending that students pip install into the system Python.

On macOS, there hasn't been a system Python since 12.3 came out in Jan of 2022. And as far as I know, there was never a system Python on Windows.
Depends on what platform you are using. Most Linux distros? Only a bc. FreeBSD and macOS? The bc. [1]

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/02/my-code-conquered-another-os...
Five of the biggest canal construction projects in the world
I think on this one he's wearing it on his sleeve and I take his motivation at face value. If you want to know why, he tells you why on his twitter all the time.
Hiring is so scary.

If you get the wrong people in the beginning, it can throw you into a wrong trajectory that's almost impossible to correct later.
If we purport that human labor has no economic value, people being useless in their idleness has no bearing on the future. Also, the COVID pandemic was not people having free time, it was people being ordered to stay at home, many people being excluded from this due to being "essential workers", society doing damn near nothing to adjust to this state of affairs and thus keeping people in the "normal", stressful state of having to labor to live, and also in fear of a deadly disease, and often socially isolated and prevented from pursuing many of their interests. This seems like a poor comparison. If your experience of the global pandemic was just "I had a bunch more free time" it seems like you're already of the subset of the population experiencing something closer to the post-scarcity reality that all possible valuable human labor being cheaper to automate could be, and I assume you weren't doing crimes or whatever, right?
Some people like contributing to successful projects though, and stay engaged even while maintaining work-life balance.
You could, and I do think that the more ways they have to get input the more "alive" they will be, but my point in freezing the model in time and then just running inference on it still stands.
We can now watch Grace Hopper's famed 1982 lecture on YouTube
but is the polyvagal theory backed up by concrete scientific evidence? i’ve heard tons about it but practitioners never seem to have real statistics about it all. i thought that the polyvagal theory has never been actually proven?
Python developers agree. See PEP 668 – Marking Python base environments as “externally managed” – https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/