skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this code is free!?

So I can take it and reuse it exactly as is and claim it's my own and sell it on Steam for $60 a pop?

So I can take it and use your name that is surely somewhere in the code and fill it with swastikas and hate speech and say that this represents your views?

Or more reasonably since I don't see a license this is copy written reserving All Rights and anything said here is just a trap you're just waiting for me to do something cool with it then hit me with a lawsuit and take my money, right?

But more seriously head over to the open source initiative read up on a couple of licenses and pick one. Almost any license will prevent people from using your name but let other people use the code if that's a thing you want.

If you just want to protect your name and let people use the code for whatever even making money consider an MIT or BSD Style license.

If you want (to protect your name and for) other people to be able to use the code but need to share their changes consider a GPL style license. This will complicate other people making money but doesn't strictly prohibit it.

If you don't want (the previous stuff and for) other people to be able to prevent people from selling it you might want to use something like a Creative Commons non-commercial license, I won't be perfect but there are flowcharts you can follow to figure out which license works for you.
There are local politics involved where a company might have some kind of tax break or favorable leasing to offices. There are also municipalities concerned that having less workers in downtown areas would reduce economic activity with the shops and resturants in those areas.

I have also heard that productivity for remote government jobs is not as high.
Yes, those are scaling laws, but when we see vendors improving their models without increasing model size or training longer, they don't apply. There are apparently other ways to improve performance and we don't know the laws for those.

(Sometimes people track the learning curve for an industry in other ways, though.)
For what it's worth, it was 41% [1] in our sample as of a blog we posted this morning, and a good chunk of those people have been out of work for that long.

[1] https://framerusercontent.com/images/5R1ZfThrPbROdkJ8pHw8qvD...
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I don’t really follow. My focus wasn’t on the naming but the location of responsibilities.
But it's the truth, and companies that don't adapt will have to settle for the most desperate.
With bosses doing stupid shit and increasing efforts to treat engineers as replaceable cogs, I think we're in a great moment to work towards unionizing larger swathes of tech.

Unions are a way to collectively make sure that we (as workers) get what we need from our jobs, like optional remote work, lay-offs structured to minimize disruption (eg, volunteers-first, ensuring options for internal moves), and so on. Things we'll be hard pressed to argue individually, especially as the McKinsey increasingly colors us as replaceable components.
(I work on Next) The issue count includes core issues, examples, and docs. We might consider breaking that out in the future. Next has ~1.2M active devs, so we expect a certain level of issues being opened weekly that will take time to investigate. With that being said, we definitely still want to get the total # down (and have many old issues that are stale and don't have repros we need to clean up)
The article talks about 18% of jobs in the US market are now remote.
I can understand that because you are not the first college professor I've interacted with. You had one chance to say something and yet you left it as an afterthought. That is the proof of your bias as a professional academic. Instead you have made an excuse that somehow your bias is inscrutable and are covering it up with more pedantry. The neoliberalization of academia extends to the attitudes of its people who reproduce its culture and clearly you are behaving consistently with that. Bear in mind, as a professor or instructor you are much more likely to hold these unchallenged biases because people like myself who have been through the process of advanced academia at elite Western universities yet come to reject the system are not likely to be interacting with you within the system any more, so you are literally not receiving certain information.

And rather than reiterate, I shall elaborate on my original remark: you had stated "students are not used to doing the necessary work". You want a "system that prevents cheating" which is again full of backwards presuppositions and implicitly value laden dependency on a narrow-minded perspective. What you don't realize is how loaded such statements are, you had zero problem making those utterances. You might as well be a 60 year old centrist Boomer to say something like that so casually. It is completely oblivious to contemporary social problems. You surely have seen how racists and misogynists behave when they unwittingly say things that reveal their casual bigotry? So, I can know your mind, which is that of a typical professoriate who doesn't stay in their lane when their sociology, education, and related departments actually have something to truthful to offer in understanding this issue--the neoliberalizatiom of academia--while you are just talking out your prejudiced ass.

Finally, that other commenter said it a lot better than you. That's why I was replying to them and not you.
I was disappointed in that line. They could’ve mentioned it used a random forest, which is much more informative. “ML is a type of AI” isn’t even a cocktail party understanding of the topic.
> Anything that isn't in the training data set will not be produced as an output.

Thinking back to some of the examples I have seen, it feels as though this is not so. In particular, I'm thinking of a series where ChatGPT was prompted to invent a toy language with a simple grammar and then translate sentences between that language and English [1]. It seems implausible that the outputs produced here were in the training data set.

Furthermore, given that LLMs are probabilistic models and produce their output stochastically, it does not seem surprising that they might produce output not in their training data.

I agree that we do not have a good understanding of what reasoning, thought, or awareness is. One of the questions I have been pondering lately is whether, when a possible solution or answer to some question pops into my mind, it is the result of an unconscious LLM-like process, but that can't be all of it; for one thing, I - unlike LLMs - have a limited ability to assess my ideas for plausibility without being prompted to do so.

[1] https://maximumeffort.substack.com/p/i-taught-chatgpt-to-inv...
It's the BBC -- why don't they denote the title of a short story with quotations? It's written throughout without any quotes.
I'd go with for loop syntax:

for (string, 0..) |character, index| {
_ = character;
_ = index;
}
This sounds like something I'd want to do! Is the idea that you'd have a public domain name like "internal.thatcherc.com" resolve to an internal IP address like 10.0.10.5? I've wondered about setting this up for some local services I have but I wasn't sure if it was a commonly-done thing.
So we are rather “large” beings and not small ones.

Are these orders of magnitude scaled by 10 to go from one to the next?
oh yea because " I get to spend more time with my kids" and " I am too lonely to wfh" are equivalent .
> Hardy, a mathematical giant in his own right, is said to have quipped that his greatest contribution to mathematics was the discovery of Ramanujan.

I love the Humility and Kindness in Hardy's statement.
I'm not sure "offensive" is actually subjective. Rather, I dare say it's morally obligatory to be offensive at times, but different communities put the line in different places.

Stating the position "torture is bad" is enough to get you banned from some places (because it's offensive to people who believe that it's okay as long as the victims are less-than-human).
>Any number of systems might deliver the empirical result you measured

Like what ? What exactly would give similar empirical results over the wide number of tests LLMs have been subjected to ?

>and many of them would involve none of that.

Oh? How would you know that?

Did I miss the breakthrough Intellisense-o-meter that can measure the intelligence flowing through a system ?

I guess I'm just not sure what point you're trying to make here. Empirically assessing the result after the fact is how we determine intelligence and reasoning in.. anything humans included.

How do you determine a piece of metal is real gold ? By comparing the results of a series of tests against the properties of gold you have outlined. The metal is a black box. You don't need to understand every interaction occuring in your tests to determine whether it is gold or not.
If the team is mostly in-office, the out of office workers become second class members of the team.
[dupe]

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41889674
The original comment I responded to does, which is why I called it an astonishing statement.
I'm pretty sure few people are being forced to work remotely, it's an option.
There is a definition for hate speech though.
Covid was different because school-age kids were home too, which made a larger portion of situations untenable.
The `Hiring Process` in America is definitely BADLY broken. Maybe worldwide afaik. It's a far too difficult, time-consuming, and painful process for everyone involved.

I have a feeling AI can fix this, although I'd never allow an AI bot to interview me. I just mean other ways of using AI to help the process.

Also people are hired for all kinds of reasons having little to do with their qualifications lots of the time, and often due to demographics (race, color, age, etc), and this is another way maybe AI can help by hiding those aspects of a candidate somehow.
Little Timmy here might be Stephen Hawking:

> Professor Hawking's laidback approach to education continued during his years studying physics at the University of Oxford. ''I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours' work in the three years I was there, an average of an hour a day.''

[0]: https://www.smh.com.au/technology/at-70-hawking-confesses-he...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking#:~:text=Hawkin....
tax breaks for what though?

Not having to pay taxes for the land the building is great and all but still more expensive than just not having that building. Possibly even more expensive than a smaller building.
To me personally, working remote makes me feel like I'm working completely alone.
For me, it's hard to feel like anyone cares what I'm doing, which has made it hard to make myself put in effort. That's a recipe for a downward spiral, which is exactly what my work has been since the pandemic.

I'm not saying the office is some perfect, joyous or highly social place or anything. I just think for me, it makes a big difference to have a place (different from my house) where people come together to work on common goals, and occasionally interact face-to-face while doing it.
Excellent point!

(More broadly, a high amount of current through a wire in a vacuum tube, where the diameter of the wire is too small to carry all of the current without overheating in air, when placed in a vacuum tube, such as a lightbulb, will increase resistance with increased current (while turning part of the electricity into light/heat/radio waves/other forms of radiation, etc., etc.))

But, an excellent point!
Sure. I'm not saying it's completely unreasonable.

Here the person was saying "once in the entirety of your ownership". If it's really once in the vehicle's life, then you really should rent something else when you need this.

I understand renting vehicles to move stuff is a PITA. I've used the hardware store's trucks several times and it adds a lot of anxiety to a project (though I've never had a really tough time with availability).
unfortunetely voice chat is currently not supported :D
Not the author of the OP, but we find nearly-identical numbers (slightly higher, in fact - see blog post in my submissions) in our data, which is self-reported by people signing up with us looking for jobs. When they enter remote-only, they're taking themselves out of contention for in-office jobs, so it's a fairly costly signal.
The evidentiary standards for Google search ranking changes is VERY different than the one used for FTC enforcement actions.

I'm pretty sure getting caught for trying to frame a company for buying reviews would bring criminal charges that are more serious than the FTC enforcement action.
Because it's not the most effective way to learn; it's the most effective way to not forget.

Here's an article by the person who discovered SR: https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulatin...

To do it effectively, you'd have to have learned everything in advance and processed the knowledge in a format suited to SR. The processing itself makes it ineffective. For many things, 30% retention is good enough. It would cost more to read a book deeply with SR than to read several books shallowly without it.

If only there was a fix for that? Well, spaced repetition was designed to work in tandem with incremental reading. Which is you jump around topics related to your topic and extract the most relevant details.

People seem to have adopted only half of the pair, which is why it feels so inefficient. Supermemo was actually very efficient with this... except that it's reliant on Internet Explorer and now breaks on all modern OSes and doesn't even run on Mac. For some reason, people were able to rewrite SR into Anki, but not the incremental reading part.

However, AI seems to be taking on this role quite well. It's capable of not only incremental reading, but also processing the data into spaced repetition format. But I'll just wait for someone to build this.
Just guessing here, but I think the name "sonnet" is the architecture, the number is the training structure / method, and the model date (not shown) is the data? So presumably with just better data they improved things significantly? Again, just a guess.
Or to the countries who go and cut these cables with their submarines
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I feel like a rather large number of individuals are missing a key detail about these questions. It was intentionally about ambiguity. It was intentionally designed to allow the test grader to decide pass or fail, regardless of what the "correct" answer was. Do you realize that these "tests" weren't graded by an impartial judge. They were graded by people who saw it as their duty to deny certain individuals the right to vote.

Too many "rational" people who think that these were just clever word games and that "they seem fair," when being unfair was the entire point. As if the law, and the test givers were going to treat the people taking these tests fairly. I guess it's nice to have so many people who seem to think that the system would treat these people rationally and fairly. But that wasn't how it was. (Also, if you do think that, I highly recommend you go read some history books.)
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How about putting it on the table? As in: talk about it in the team and come up with ways to improve the situation together?
I have a mild preference for working in an office but I'm developing a very strong preference for getting out of the Bay Area/New York/Seattle complex. And unfortunately the in-office jobs at good companies are very concentrated.
Don't think about it too much. It's wrong. Relativity of simultaneity only kicks in when you have reference frames moving at noticeably different velocities. Which is... not entirely wrong in this case due to the expansion of the universe, but would be equally true of a nearby reference frame moving away equally fast. It's nothing to do with light travel time.

Ed: I've slipped into the fallacy a bit. Reference frames don't have locations, so they can't be "nearby". Just pretend I said "reference frame of a nearby object".
India's startups look to villages to drive next leg of growth
The bad news is this "enlightened racism apologist" trend seems to be on the uptick. The good news is that they're so unfathomably ignorant of basic historical facts (as you demonstrate) that it's easy to prove they're actually mere average-intelligence racism apologists.
Lol, multiple people downvoted you for some reason. A lot of Americans have this weird love of joined up handwriting. I wonder if it's because so much of their cultural history is based around a handwritten document and the mythos of the "John Hancock"

The time would be far better spent on say personal finance lessons, which people seem to really struggle with. What's a mortgage, what's a loan, what gets taxed, that sort of thing.
will it lead to muni running more service for less money? (it won't) then they shouldn't be doing it

seltrac is fine. MBTA's green line does just fine with block signaling
I don't even think it needs to be in the open. I think the endgame for things like Windows Recall is to train on data on your local machine, and I'm sure they train on things in the cloud whether its openly available or not.
I don't know. Oversees contractors have no problem getting hired. And remotely at that.
How many people who had to Return To Office actually got their own office?
Public preview: Passkeys in brokered Microsoft applications on Android
(2023)

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35090739
Ask HN: Autodidacts, give me your book recommendations
I am an autodidact and I like to read books on subjects entirely out of my wheelhouse to get some breadth of perspective.

As I am coming into these topics with a completely open mind, it can be exhausting trying to find good content to learn from, but good learning content is soooooo rewarding.

I have had a lot of success talking to some people (IRL) and sourcing book recommendations that way, but my wells are running dry.

I tried (strategically) asking strangers in person, and that has not been successful either.

So, what better place to ask than HN?

Please share your oft-unsolicited book recommendations.

I specifically love self help and business/organizational health books lately.
They are. They're arbitrary wants/desires that have nothing to do with the job
Not sure why this was flagged - it echoes my experience pretty accurately!
> Anything that sets it apart from the dozens of other open-source/free/pay upscalers?

This needs a very compelling answer since it's asking for a Netflix* subscription to do 50 images in a month.

* Or whatever streaming service that's providing decades worth of content for $15 a month.
I feel some nuance is needed here.

Handheld calculators that calculate logs require a human to hit buttons; that's the rate limiting process.

Both the calculator and slide rule are fast at the actual table lookup. The hairline mark on the slide rule's cursor performs a fast lookup; it instantaneously links the input value with its logarithm.

It's the button punching on the calculator, or sliding of the cursor of the slide rule, and the reading of the result, that are slow.

The limitations of slide rules compared to calculators are:

- precision: you can't get anywhere near a six figure logarithm or product. In engineering, you usually don't need this; but you do need intuition for being in the right ballpark. Forget slide rules for accounting/finance though.

- variety of functions: there are only so many tables you can fit on a slide rule before it becomes unwieldy.

- lack of registers for recalling prior values, such as frequently reused intermediaries. Even the cheapest, simples calculators usually have an accumulator register you can add to or subtract from, recall and clear. The user can have several slide rules to have multiple cursors left at different values.

The actual speed of calculating what is available, with the available precision, is not bad. The game-changing speed difference comes with programmable calculators.
There was a point in my life where I craved working in the office also and seeing people who also wanted to be there. And now I can't imagine going back to one.

I miss nice offices though. Before the whole let's stack people side by side on desks, rather than give them some nicer spaces with lots of room for deep thought. When I was working for HARC, we had a nice former industrial space near UCLA. I totally could go for that, but when the only way to get something semi-nice and private is to work at home, well, that is going to bias people.
If I had to choose between thousands lines in models and thousands lines in controllers I'd definitely take "fat" models over "fat" controllers.
Hmm actually yes you can!

https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/mobility-divis...
What wild times we live in that a regional court can block access globally to a website.
Animals, small children, and random objects dropped on the road will never "adapt" to self-driving. Good enough solutions will eventually be found for those scenarios but it's exactly those millions of different edge cases which make the problem so hard. A step ladder that falls off a work truck (like I saw on the freeway yesterday) isn't exactly "adversarial" but it will sure ruin your car if you run over it.
Use of /tmp on regular file system has almost the same behavior because the kernel has a file system cache… if you’re using the file, it will remain available in RAM. There’s some subtle differences, but I’ve seen enough benchmarks around this to have realized that tmpfs doesn’t really have an impact.
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Lets upscale the grassy knoll and see if we can see Ryan Gosling

https://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-a...
Airbnb's business model in a nutshell :)
Missing the word exciting in the title.
Agreed. Given that most people are not exceptional at anything it makes more sense to give them a well rounded education by exposing them to a lot of subjects to see what takes. And all the exceptional people, well, they're just gonna have to use their gifts to push through the monotony of the things they don't like while still pursing their passion.

Unless they are born wealthy or find a benefactor so they can go to private school or a gifted person school, that caters to their specific needs, it's the best we can do to serve everyone.
except you can work on your loneliness and try to have social interactions outside work.

I guess you can say " you can try not to have kids so you can work from an office" . I have no answer to that.
Even the VCs will tell you that is the case.
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All languages as long as a translator could be found and hired by the government. Of course the cost of hiring the translator and doing the translation should be borne by the government.

A multi-language literacy test also forces the test writer to write questions that are language agnostic. No more things like "spell this word" or "circle the longest word" as seen in the article.
This is 100% the problem.

Suddenly we now have a ton of "new" issues cropping up everywhere. Suddenly being last 20-ish years. These aren't "new". They're just difficult to automate with a computer program, and every company is cheapo now and tries to automate everything with a computer program.

This problem doesn't exist at, say, Walmart. Presumably they physically vet products to at least some degree.