skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but if you directly use those things for your job, you probably should. For example, if you're a home inspector, you should have decent knowledge about plumbing. Even though you're not a plumber.

If you don't have at least some knowledge, you probably won't be a very good inspector. If you have more knowledge, then you'd be better.

If you require document versioning, you should know, at least a bit, how to use a Version Control Software. You don't need to know the internals, but enough to use it.
This is a problem that has been around for years, perhaps decades. One memorable example comes from "To Kill a Mockingbird", where the teacher complained about the main character Scout having learned to read before her 1st grade -- when Atticus had nothing to do with it, because she learned how to read on her own at the age of 4.

Others have given their own experiences in this thread -- some teachers are encouraging, others get frustrated.
ah really?? feel free to email us (team@usetrmnl.com). we've been granted a bunch of EC licenses lately but maybe missed a few country check boxes on our store.
It isn't cheap, though. You burn something on the order of 80k a hire to hire in-office, probably more if you're specifically looking in SF or NYC.

Those roles are going to get squeezed pretty fast as the market heats up.
And that their achievements, per se, were getting them nowhere.
> pretty clear

Pretty clear?
I discovered a major pain point while working in product and analytics: we were drowning in data but starving for insights. Everyone was hyper-focused on collecting more and more data, but when it came to making sense of it, insights always seemed to take a back seat. Most people could only reach the point of dashboarding—a collection of numbers, charts, and graphs that ultimately led to more questions than answers.

That's why I started ZylerAI.

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In general, no they can't:

https://gwern.net/gpt-3#bpes

https://paperswithcode.com/paper/most-language-models-can-be...

The appearance of improvements in that capability are due to the vocabulary of modern LLMs increasing. Still only putting lipstick on a pig.
Ask HN: Why is homework not regarded as intrusion into students' leisure time?
With the AI debate, everybody seems to be wringing their hands on how to keep up the system of homework instead of getting rid of it for the sake of students' mental health / work-life balance.

Imagine regular adult workers were given "homework" they had to do every day after work at home:
This would be considered as a severe worker's rights violation and fought tooth and nail.

Why do students not have "worker's" rights? Are they less of human beings?

IMHO once you walk out of school your "work" duties should be over, just like they are for adults.

So what's stopping schools from introducing clear separation between the work and private life of their students?

If the homework tasks are so important, why not have the students do those at school with supervision?

Then there wouldn't be any "students are using ChatGPT" problem to begin with, the supervision could just take away their smartphones, done.
i disagree, they try to be a more right-wing version of the onion but they lack the surrealism of the onion.

comparing both instagram pages, BB posts mostly political content and they're all critical of democrats/liberals. the onion's page has much more variety

https://youtu.be/8wHMaJ6AtNs?feature=shared&t=8
Right, and while the fraudulent H1-B hires (taking jobs where there are qualified unemployed Americans who would like them) are taking jobs from Americans, the illegal immigrants, about to be deported, are not (even if we taxpayers are paying $500/night to put them up in NYC hotels etc).

I don't think Trump give a crap about helping American workers, anymore than his buddy Elon does - the anti-immigrant thing was just that.
>"Why we feel overwhelmed

We live in an age of information and communication overload, with significant pressure to “do more” or “learn more.” There is a never-ending stream of requests for our attention, and email is the main source of such requests in the workplace.

As a result:

o People constantly feel they are missing out on something and need to do more, resulting in stress and unhappiness.

o Relentless interruptions prevent people from completing tasks quickly. (*)

o Instead of working on their most important task, people choose the “loudest” or the last to catch their attention. As a result, important work gets delayed or never completed.

o Believing they could’ve done more throughout the day, people feel even more miserable.

Current communication tools from email applications, like Outlook and Gmail, to chat apps, like Slack and Microsoft teams, don’t do anything to counter this natural dynamic."

(*) PDS: Or completing them at all...

...the greater the task undertaken, the greater the need for large swaths of uninterrupted time... frequently over a day, sometimes more than several days, a week, a month, a year, or even several years -- for big-time, big-league, press-the-envelope, move-the-needle, gargantuan human achievements...
It's not going anywhere without being legally banished, and of the two major parties in the US, one is fairly pro-corporate and the other is anti-regulation. I don't think there's going to be improvement here in the US in the near future. But I do think advertising should be almost entirely disallowed.
If there are qualified citizens, why are hiring h1b?
AI has made this problem even worse, too.

The solution to the problem is trusted intermediaries that act as something of a filter against bad actors. They're just hard to establish, especially in a world where people want the other side to have their hands tied but not their own.
No, the headline makes it sound like someone paid for YouTube Premium which is repeatedly marketed as not having ads and is still being shown ads. Which is exactly what is happening.
When Facebook is showing ads for items on Facebook Marketplace based on a customer visiting AcmeShop, for Facebook it's not "remarketing". It's only "remarketing" when AcmeShop does it. For Facebook, it's just targeting based on data they obtained during providing a paid service to AcmeShop. The customer didn't express interest but then abandon their purchase from Facebook yet.

Google doing the same thing is hardly a good excuse.

In your analogy, you don't just "see". You're employed by a nearby stall because you're one of the few plumbers in the town, so you're in that shop a lot, but you're also making photos of their customers and then use those photos to find them on the street and advertise your frobulators. You really don't see anything weird about this scenario?

Besides, if a shop has only one chance ever, what are remarketing ads (marketed by Facebook to businesses) for?
It's easy to get negative about a seemingly narrow technology. It's easy to want to compensate by becoming overly optimistic. I have trouble fluctuating between these since it's also easy to make convincing arguments for both -- point to a swell of articles for progress, point to a stagnation as lack of progress -- but all technologies go through this.

IMHO it's premature to have a strong conclusion on this, and way too easy to let feelings, pro or con, influence our projections.
A very nice Welsh lady; she presents The One Show for the BBC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(Welsh_presenter)

You must got confused because she has been on Would I Lie to You.
fiber supplements may well help that and more but if you want to get all the benefits, eat actual real food. Well informed researchers will tell you there's a lot of research that shows those supplements aren't nearly as helpful as actual fruits and vegetables.
Not sure if related or not, Sam Altman, ~12hrs ago: there is no wall [1]

[1] https://x.com/sama/status/1856941766915641580
Ask HN: Emergency "Management" Software?
Folks, I seem to vaguely recall that such a thing exists and was wondering if I could... count on you all to help me locate it. I am looking for something that I would describe as an open source emergency or crisis "management" platform. Something that would enable volunteers, resources, locations to be managed efficiently in a (hopefully) single online platform that can be self-hosted with as meager resources as possible or alternatively, if such a thing exists, hosted by some third party. Something that would enable organizations also to register themselves in a CRM kind of capability, but one that ideally would have as many features as possible that would come in handy under extreme circumstances, earthquakes, floods, and the like. I am sure that somebody must have come up with some solution enabling a core set of features such as I am describing, or that at least best practices must exist for this sort of software. Any pointers are appreciated.
> No one has a right to be wealthy.

They do have a right to the wealth they earned through their own ideas and efforts. I'm guessing you're a tankie though, so you likely disagree.
But they weren't really working for free, they were working for food and housing, right?
Fidessa is pretty famous on Wall Street for paying lower salaries but being much more fun to work for. They have tons of at-work and after-work events (with and without alcohol). There are lots of people who stay at Fidessa for much less money than they could make at another firm.
One thing that wasn't really covered was: why did you sell?

Especially at a 2.4 multiple... It seems like you could have just let it keep running mostly on autopilot (assuming the team could keep working on improvements)?
I am not sockpuppeting anyone; I am using a construction from "Arrested Development."

This construction is frequently used on the internet. Is the whole of the internet sockpuppeting you?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-narrator
Also Facebook doesn’t deny what they did. They just think it is unfair to fine them.
What you could say about this fact from that times?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%E2%80%93Kongsberg_scan...
I think Meta will have upper hand soon with the release of their glasses. If they managed to make it a daily use glass, and paid users to record and share their life, then they will have data no one else has now. Mix of vision, audio, and physics.
Garbage-in was depleted.
Dual Use of Artificial Intelligence-Powered Drug Discovery (2022)
Right now an AI understands a lot about the opinions of all the programmers have about how to write good Python, and enough people wrote about it on the internet that you can ask ChatGPT questions about best practices and it can come up with a coherent answer. My worry would be that a new language would not come with this knowledge.

If Apple were to come out with Swift today and were to fine-tune an LLM or just put the docs / code samples / repos /PRs in context I don't think the LLM would understand as much about the language as it does about other widely talked about languages.
A bit late to the comment party but just wanted to say that I just upgraded from 7.2 to 8 and it was a complete walk in the park. Easiest major dependency upgrade in a long time.

Also finally upgraded from Sprockets to Propshaft and Importmaps this afternoon and it was very straightforward as well. Truly amazing.
They’ve drowned in the LLM noise, but they’re definitely still relevant.

- Generative model outputs are not always desirable, and often even undesirable

- BERT models are smaller and can run with lower latency and serve larger batches with lower vram requirements

- BERT models have bidirectional attention, which can improve performance in many applications

LLMs are “cheap” in the sense that they work well generically, without requiring fine tuning. Where they overlap with BERT models is mostly that they may work better in low training data environments due to better generalization capabilities.

But mostly companies like them because they don’t “require” ML engineers or data scientists on staff. For the lack of care given to evaluation that I see around LLM apps, I suspect that’s going to prove to be a faulty premise.
> A single HTTP service + traefik (or Apache/NGINX reverse proxy) is heavier than a single HTTPS service.

How heavy are talking, and what would be the measured impact?

I have worked on small teams (3~4 people) where we had to use our own infrastructure for regulatory reasons. I also self-host a few things as a hobby. I don't think Nginx or Caddy were ever a bottleneck, and at the human level, they saved more resources than not using them. I don't remember the last time I exposed something to a network using their bundled http server directly rather than a reverse proxy. I don't like wasting computational resources of course, but % wise, 'optimizing' them by not using containers or a reverse proxy wouldn't net any visible gains - there's usually other low hanging fruit that gives you more for your time.
I'm the other half, I use mastodon for my vanilla news and X for my trouser and sleep news.
Yeah but the EU ones are very powerful
An internal model of self does not extrapolate to sentience. By your definition, a windows desktop computer is self-aware because it has a device manager. This is literally an internal model of its "self".

We use the term self-awareness as an all encompassing reference of our cognizant nature. It's much more than just having an internal model of self.
I mostly use kickstart.nvim in Neovim. I really like using mnemonic key bindings (which do show a menu) with the functionality above. One real issue was the lack of a telescope competitor (and I noticed you did not mention one above). I really like the quick overlay for those actions is how Telescope in kickstart is programmed. I really do not like the results smushed at the bottom of the screen like how Doom handles it.

Spacemacs got me into mnemonic key bindings, but it was too buggy and development had slowed. I got some things working with Doom Emacs, but it had a lot of bugs as well. Part of that reason is projectile also seemed to no longer be worked on. They were converting over to project.el but that seems to be slow.
> No one has a right to be wealthy.

I would say everyone has right to be wealthy.
I can relate. Ages ago, before Safe Search and search result tailored to one‘s history and preferences, I was trying to figure out how to write that big union symbol (∪) in LaTeX and googled for Big Cup LaTeX.
I got _very_ different and unexpected results.
Isn't that just fraud/spam? That's a different thing that what is being discussed.
> They are also experimenting with synthetic data, but this approach has its limitations.

I was really looking forward to using "synthetic data" euphemistically during debates.
Not sure how it works in the US, but e.g. in germany only a certain portion of your wages go towards debts, they let you have a certain portion for yourself since you need it to live.
Where will the training data for coding come from now that Stack Overflow has effectively been replaced? Will the LLMs share fixes for future problems? As the world moves forward, and the amount of non-LLM generated data decreases, will LLMs actually revert their advancements and become effectively like addled brains, longing for the "good old times"?
Yeah I find that I reason about math in my head with names for symbols - the visual shape is not sufficient for the math part of my brain to manipulate it as a symbol.
I'm not sure you can call a group most noted for its "Role in 1984 bioterror attack" a success.
Jolly Roger has been doing this for a while, the example phone calls are hilarious.
https://youtube.com/@jollyrogertelephone?si=sB3Tiql0wsUlXldo
>I, personally, haven’t read onion content in a long, long while

The onion was kind of dead for a while under various shitty owners, but was bought this year by Jeff Lawson of Twilio and is now being run by former NBC reporter Ben Collins. The new stuff since the acquisition has been a bit hit or miss, but at least they're trying again.
The Haskell inlining and specialization FAQ
Every big retailer has its own house brand. There is nothing special about a big retailer using their sales data to make decisions on house branding.

No they cannot adjust their pricing to whatever they like because Amazon is not a monopoly. People can buy stuff elsewhere. If Amazon pricing is bad, people will leave and it will kill Amazon.
> Job security for HR so they themselves don't get laid off

I never thought of that, the entire HR industry needs to make it look like hiring still exists. What a dark circle.
There is a competitive pressure on public center bureaucracy it is the competition for resources between countries sometimes it is was sometimes it is not but ultimately the public sector will be punished from the outside.
Bitcoin to top $100k before year-end, according to bettors on Kalshi
My favorite so far is: “The platform [Elon Musk] wants you to call “X” for his own sexual gratification”. It’s admittedly too wordy though.

https://www.cahsuesmusk.com/
He has been getting away with moving assets for months now.
That's similar to the idea I had for combating texting spam:
- If your number is in my address book then texts are free for you
- If this is the first time you are contacting me then you pay me $1

There are probably downsides and ways this will screw up real relationships but it will certainly increase the cost of spam.
> To summarize how the OPFS differs from the user-visible file system:

> * The OPFS is subject to browser storage quota restrictions, just like any other origin-partitioned storage mechanism (for example IndexedDB API). You can access the amount of storage space the OPFS is using via navigator.storage.estimate().

> * Clearing storage data for the site deletes the OPFS.

> * Permission prompts and security checks are not required to access files in the OPFS.

> * Browsers persist the contents of the OPFS to disk somewhere, but you cannot expect to find the created files matched one-to-one. The OPFS is not intended to be visible to the user.

> * It also has a set of synchronous calls available (other File System API calls are asynchronous) that can be run inside web workers only so as not to block the main thread.
We should put all those corporate interviewer experts to work by having a government immigration commission that holds H1B arbitration interviews, where a visa applicant competes with an unemployed citizen.
If you have already sorted the world between people you want to take calls from and people you don't, why wouldn't you just block the people you don't want instead of charging them money?
Original title was

ANIL(A Nice Intermediate Language) Python & C++ inspired programming language that transpiles to C and can be embedded within C source files

Current title is confusing since it truncates the "ANIL(A Nice Intermediate Language)" part, but maybe that was done by HN and not by the person who submitted the article. A better title would be just that first part.
At least you can send claude or openai images now of the math symbol.
Facebook already has ads, this is just another kind of ad.

See how it comes entirely down to interpretation?
It's 0 cost to post a job. You might get lucky and hire someone below market, so why not always be trying?
Gradient descent usually get stuck in local minimum, it depends on the shape of the energy landscape, that's expected behavior.

The current wisdom is that by optimizing for multiple tasks simultaneously, it makes the energy landscape smoother. One task allow to discover features which can be used to solve other tasks.

Useful features that are used by many tasks can more easily emerge from the sea of useless features. If you don't have sufficiently many distinct tasks the signal doesn't get above the noise and is much harder to observe.

That the whole point of "Generalist" intelligence in the scaling hypothesis.

For problems where you can write a solution manually you can also help the training procedure by regularising your problem by adding the auxiliary task of predicting some custom feature. Alternatively you can "Generatively Pretrain" to obtain useful feature, replacing custom loss function by custom data.

The paper is a useful characterisation of the energy landscape of various formal tasks in isolation, but doesn't investigate the more general simpler problem that occur in practice.
My take was they sort of dug in said "Docker isn't made right for Linux, we're reinventing it"

On Fedora w/ SELinux that led to quite a bit of compatibility issues for a while with lots of quirky things that didn't behave the same.

I think their implementations have gotten pretty stable and improved in compatibility since then
Because the most powerful solution to that is to have intelligence; a model that can reason. People should not get hung up on the task; it's the model(s) that generates the prediction that matters.
Google DeepMind has a new way to look inside an AI's "mind"
One of the (internal) roles I applied for got "hundreds" of applications according to the HR rep. But I was given a first round interview despite never having pressed the "apply" button. My manager had reached out to the HR rep directly with my previous resume and that allowed me to bypass the pre-screen. I never even provided my latest resume until just before the first round (the one holding all my current position's new experience at the time).

That was more enlightening than I asked for. Those hundreds of other candidates A) never stood a chance against HR picking a candidate recommended by someone with more political power, B) will never realize that that was the reason they were passed upon, until maybe they reach their moment of realization first-hand like me, and C) were passed upon in favor of a candidate with a resume almost a year out of date. It illustrated to me the sheer futility of cold applying to random open positions and hoping for the best.
Wow, I am genuinely shocked by this post. I had no idea. Honestly, I assumed that most central European countries have reasonably strong labour laws that make it difficult to fire employees. Let us assume that your post is (mostly) true. How does Austria have such a large, robust, stable middle class without strong labour protections, or a wide/deep social safety net? Or does Austria have the equivalent of "Flexcurity" from Denmark (easy to fire, but wide/deep social safety net for a moderate period of time)?
I have not heard your definition of AGI before. However, I suspect AIs are already self-aware: if I asked an LLM on my machine to look at the output of `top` it could probably pick out which process was itself.

Or did you mean consciousness? How would one demonstrate that an AGI is conscious? Why would we even want to build one?

My understanding is an AGI is at least as smart as a typical human in every category. That is what would be useful in any case.
> You're implying that nobody should have any right to criticize or share their opinions about your decisions because you/the company have the legal right to make them.

You hallucinated that, bud. I am implying no such thing. Life may get easier for you if you respond to what people actually say instead of what you imagine they say.
>That's a myth. How is it hard to fire someone?

Maybe the statement isn't true for EU as a whole, but some member countries have far higher bar than what you describe. For instance in Spain the company must provide justification to the government before firing someone.

https://www.rippling.com/blog/termination-in-spain