skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whelp, here in EU, we have certain big names, who constantly post vacancies which will never be filled but continues to be perpetually re-posted. If you send an application, they will also do some interviews and eventually find minor reasons to reject you at last stage if you are a solid candidate, or earlier steps if you have lackings.

I worked with one of the HR people from one such places, if they were correct, it is mostly the quota and budget. Basically, they get a specific budget each year and they need to spend it, so they post old vacancies to with new shine not only on their own sites, but also on various commercial places(Xing/StepStone/Indeed/Linkedin/Monster etc.) to burn that budget and hold interviews to show that they are trying to fill their hiring quota for the year. It is just a fake practice, because if the budget remains unused at the end of the year, then it'll be reduced next year and if they did not perform enough posting and interviews, then personnel in hiring department will not get promoted or will get bad reviews due to low quota coverage.

Not sure how real it is, but it can be related or one face of the story.
Can't tell you how much I love it for testing, it's basically the only thing I use it for. I now have a test suite that can rebuild my entire app from the ground up locally, and works in the cloud as well. It's a huge motivator actually to write a piece of code with the reward being the ability to send it to the LLM to create some tests and then seeing a nice stream of green checkmarks.
To put this in terms of why.

When MS rolls up, they say we are charging for your usage of the MS database, Office, Outlook, Microsoft Windows 11, and the security promises. They are explicit that developing with and on Microsoft allows you access to the ecosystem. So the total bill is high, but part of that bill is a gateway into everyone else using Office, Outlook, Excel, Visual Studio, or SharePoint. The world runs on Excel and MS enterprise sales know that. They are negotiating a contract for one-of-a-kind software and access to the world of MS.

Redhat rolls up saying we want to charge you. They don't get to say that if you don't pay, the company will lose access to the software or the ecosystem. They don't get to say they are gatekeepers to other Linux users. Redhat can't claim to be giving the database or the development environment; everyone thinks they are free. If you stop paying Redhat, you probably can find an almost package for package compatible alternative in a rolling release (source: watched that happen multiple times CentOS, et al). So instead Redhat sells a contract for service, support, and indemnity. Those are great products and Red Hat will continue for a long time. They will just have very different staying power when contracts are renewed. They will have very different revenue growth.

It's not how I want it to be, just how I see it.

Source: Worked at MS and have friends who are former Redhat.
I completely agree and have had the same experience as you with docker-compose working better than the alternatives.

Past versions of podman were flaky, but since version 4, which is now a couple of years old, I haven't had any issues whatsoever. I'd recommend anyone using containers on linux to try it out instead of installing docker out of habit.
How long until this is turned on silently across all devices and adtech folks, native mobile apps, and website operators are able to use your eye tracking data for A/B testing?

The selfie normalized surveillance. Social media normalized "transparency" (ie, posting every little dumb detail about yourself". Advertisements invading all aspects of life (tv, radio, streaming services, ads in your taskbar).
Why optimise software today, when tomorrow Intel will release CPU with 2x performance?
That and the defiance, conspiracies, deep state, freedom-fighter verbal diarrhea until the bitter end. You almost get the feeling that he actually believes it all.
Give one of the threads (thread ID 0, for instance) special privileges. Its list is the one everything else is appended to, then there's only concatenation or copying if you have more than one thread.

Or, pre-allocate the memory and let each thread write to its own subset of the final collection and avoid the combine step entirely. This works regardless of the number of threads you use so long as you know the maximum amount of memory you might need to allocate. If it has no calculable upper bound, you will need to use other techniques.
Every so often—maybe once a quarter—I wake up just feeling like a million bucks, like I can do anything, and I go through the whole day like that. I get so much done, and feel awesome the entire time.

I have wondered, at times, if other people feel like that more often (and some, maybe never!). I’m pretty sure I’d be emperor of the planet if I felt like that even one day a week.
The difference is schools dont care about students, nor do students have voices. When employers invade workers rights, they go on strike, when students go on strike they get arrested.
On the flip side of this, generally speaking I like every duet I’ve heard with Stipe. Except this one.

Campfire Song with 10,000 Maniacs. And Kid Fears with the Indigo Girls still gives me chills.
that is a surprisingly awesome phone feature
It also looks very much like what Google said about ads in their initial paper...

Also I don't see any excemption for pro users. They must be joking if they think I want to pay for a service that delivers ads too.
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If I confidently declare ahead of time the result of a coin flip, I may turn out to be correct, but my confidence was still unjustified. And furthermore, my getting it right would not necessitate a “fluke”.

I’m on Reddit a fair bit and while it’s difficult to know the overall biases of the greater community based on what I see individually, I don’t have a lot of trouble believing that there was a bias toward a particular desired result. But, I honestly didn’t see much in the way of a bias one way or the other in the expected result. I mostly saw a lot of anxiety over not knowing what result to expect.
Isn’t that equivalent to saying “just use NGINX”? Caddy isn’t a library you use in your Go server code, it’s a separate reverse proxy, isn’t it? They solve separate things.
At the time the news of the Sandy Hook shooting broke, I was a highschooler in a vo-tech school in Connecticut.

Friday in late December are usually unserious days in K-12! People had their sights set on winter break and work was thin. But I remember that day had a lot of commotion, a lot of seriousness, and then a lot of silence.

Being a vo-tech school, we had students from all over the state. Some kids left or were taken out early, some of them having had ties to the families in Newtown. Throughout the day, our school got emptier and emptier.

A lot of students didn't return to the building for the whole week or so until winter break started. Even though the seriousness weaned over the days, there was an unbreakable eeriness that just comes with the building being so sparsely populated. Our highschool was a small one (about 400 students total) which exacerbated it.

I lived with my parents at the time and I saw my mom gradually become a Sandy Hook "truther" as she fell deep down Facebook rabbitholes. It was bad. Although she eventually came around, that created distance between us that never recovered.

There's a lot of bad and mind-boggling news abound, but this is a very personally satisfying headline.
> "if list:" has been the idiomatic Python since inception

I would argue the reverse. It was a bad idea to begin with and the start of something worse.

> Plenty of languages have changed their guiding principles over time.

What would you say is the guiding principal of Python now then?
House Ethics Panel Was Set to Vote to Release Report Critical of Matt Gaetz
imagine doom scrolling with your eyes. Eye fatigue from screens. Eye fatigue from too much rolling.
Eh, I've found LinkedIn moderately useful as a way to apply for jobs and share my CV. A few application forms have a field for it too.

Still have no idea how anyone can even hope to use the news feed there though. It's just a seemingly random torrent of garbage 24/7, with the odds of you getting any traction being virtually non existent.
Why? It's a library so the more platform it supports the better. There is nothing inherently wrong with that and if the author wants to put up with the lack of modern features and syntactic sugar then why not?
They required:

- Cheap, highly accurate, low current draw accelerometers.

- Cheap, low current draw and miniaturized GPS modules.

- Cheap, low current draw wi-fi radios with excellent range.

- Cheap, low current draw, high resolution, high quality cameras.

All of these are recent advancements.

tl;dr: All of the needed ingredients became cheap and low current draw.
I just got a copy. It's really good!

Thanks alot!
Startup Hiring: Solving the Problem of Incentives and Trust
There are all sorts of valuable things to explore and build with what we have already.

But understanding how likely it is that we will (or will not) see a new models quickly and dramatically improve on what we have "because scaling" seems valuable context for everyone in ecosystem to make decisions.
> a “if you were on an elevator with Marc Andreessen” question

Were they looking for a nice local newspaper story about a misdemeanor assault?
> Question for the group here: do we honestly feel like we've exhausted the options for delivering value on top of the current generation of LLMs?

IMO we've not even exhausted the options for spreadsheets, let alone LLMs.

And the reason I'm thinking of spreadsheets is that they, like LLMs, are very hard to win big on even despite the value they bring. Not "no moat" (that gets parroted stochastically in threads like these), but the moat is elsewhere.
I call time-out, exodus, boycott, I mean, when do we stop following these companies down the garden path.

"We weren't making enough money, so we have to destroy any good in the service we were providing and hope that enough people are apathetic enough to accept that shit and that we make more profit?" -- that's not your only option!

Anyway, this is hot air, the problem stems from the structure of the internet, and the answer is in new types of networks with different rules. GNUnet, Freenet, IPFS, Autonomi, something else, there's loads of effort going into it. I hope something compelling emerges soon.
That sounds more like Artificial Emoting Intelligence. We only cherish freedom because we feel bad when we don’t have it.
You're correct, they don't. My example was a hypothetical analogy. If they did and you paid for them to stop... would you also expect them to also censor the magazine ads? I don't think you would.
And there was Rush Limbaugh
Did it really improve, though? There's evidence that Colonial/Revolutionary-Era American populace was highly educated, and that education had been gradually going downhill as the United States gradually adopted the Prussian model of education -- an education system designed to produce loyal soldiers and interchangeable worker widgets.

There is a strong tendency to recognize "market failure" as a problem -- but it is rather rare to see people discuss "regulatory failure". Yet there is this endless cycle of increasing regulation, where a politician or bureaucrat identifies a problem with the market -- real or imagined -- and then offers a solution. That solution the situation even worse, but politicians and bureaucrats will blame this on "market failure", and then insist on another solution ... and so it goes.

Yes, it's true that some regulation is necessary. But how much effort is put into place to make sure that the regulations put in place do what they are supposed to do? What effort is put into place to identify the nasty side effects of otherwise good regulations? The assumption that all regulations exist because the alternative is worse is deeply flawed.

And that's even before we get into the fact that regulations have their limits: people can handle only so many rules, particularly if they are onerous, and will start ignoring regulations when it's the only way to get things done. An example of this is a report from the FAA, where they identified around 2,000 pilots who didn't report disqualifying health conditions. Why? Because the conditions were quickly resolved, and their livelihoods depended on flying, so they didn't want to go through the hassle of waiting three months for their license to fly to be cleared again. What's worse, of the 2,000 or so pilots who did this, only 4 or so had serious-enough conditions that they shouldn't have been flying!
Honestly this is a really good update.
Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge
"Eureka"!?

At the very early phase of the boom I was among a very few who knew and predicted this (usually most free and deep thinking/knowledgeable). Then my prediction got reinforced by the results. One of the best examples was with one of my experiments that all today's AI's failed to solve tree serialization and de-serialization in each of the DFS(pre-order/in-order/post-order) or BFS(level-order) which is 8 algorithms (2x4) and the result was only 3 correct! Reason is "limited training inputs" since internet and open source does not have other solutions :-) .

So, I spent "some" time and implemented all 8, which took me few days. By the way this proves/demonstrates that ~15-30min pointless leetcode-like interviews are requiring to regurgitate/memorize/not-think. So, as a logical hard consequence there will.has-to be a "crash/cleanup" in the area of leetcode-like interviews as they will just be suddenly proclaimed as "pointless/stupid"). However, I decided not to publish the rest of the 5 solutions :-)

This (and other experiments) confirms hard limits of the LLM approach (even when used with chain-of-thought). Increasing the compute on the problem will produce increasingly smaller and smaller results (inverse exponential/logarithmic/diminishing-returns) = new AGI approach/design is needed and to my knowledge majority of the inve$tment (~99%) is in LLM, so "buckle up" at-some-point/soon?

Impacts and realities; LLM shall "run it's course" (produce some products/results/$$$, get reviewed/$corrected) and whoever survives after that pruning shall earn money on those products while investing in the new research to find new AGI design/approach (which could take quite a long time,... or not). NVDA is at the center of thi$ and time-wise this peak/turn/crash/correction is hard to predict (although I see it on the horizon and min/max time can be estimated). Be aware and alert. I'll stop here and hold my other number of thoughts/opinions/ideas for much deeper discussion. (BTW I am still "full in on NVDA" until,....)
My team and I also develop with these models every day, and I completely agree. If models stall at current levels, it will take 10 (or more) years for us to capture most of the value they offer. There's so much work out there to automate and so many workflows to enhance with these "not quite AGI-level" models. And if peak model performance remains the same but cost continues to drop, that opens up vastly more applications as well.
Non-Paywall Link: https://archive.is/HFnFK
"In times of great uncertainty, the relative value of "playing it safe" is reduced, since - for better or for worse - no option can now reduce risk to truly safe levels. And so, paradoxically, in times of risk and uncertainty, it can actually become more rational to think and act more boldly - or more precisely, to bring one's personal risk tolerance to match the amount of external risk present in the system."
I didn't know that either. That's absolutely hilarious! This could be straight out of a South Park episode.
as it is in "swimming"
> Here is an example of a task that I do not believe this generation of LLMs can ever do but that is possible for a human

That’s possible for a highly intelligent, extensively trained, very small subset of humans.
Every company I've seen that has tried Holacracy abandoned it shortly after.
I wonder if the next step in the battle[0] would be for LLM hosts to prep their instances with a decoy or simulated "underlying" environment.

[0] Which shouldn't even be fightable in the first place except people cut lots of corners.
I pay and I don't see an excemption for pro accounts.

I am already pretty pissed at them for pushing the election widget so hard - you could click on the X, but it would come back on every new search I opened.
Alex Jones haters always fixate on that law suit, because it's a win for them. However in my view 99% of what Alex Jones says is important for people to hear, and about 90% of his claims (even the ones that sounded wild and crazy) ended up being proven true. So I think Alex Jones was a net/net benefit to America, by uncovering facts the Deep State Blob doesn't want people to know. Jones is very performative and an entertainer too, so he's not perfect. Nobody is.

Regarding totalitarianism: Democrats have been fighting against Free Speech in countless ways, but thus far keep getting defeated in their efforts, by conservatives with more wise minds. Take Britain as an example. People over there are now being JAILED over non-violent political speech, and even speech that is merely "impolite" to protected groups. So to think totalitarianism can't happen to Western Countries is wrong. It can. It is. Currently in the USA however, the good guys have just won an election, and a clean sweep and a mandate to restore Freedom and Common Sense.
right, I was reading their comments, I cannot believe it. But hey, if you view the world like that, guys like Alex will always prosper and have a crowd.
And what would company A do at that point?

> Or companies in, say, SF could let people work remotely from Pittsburgh.

Hold up, didn’t you say it was “clearly unethical” if local devs are available?
21 hours ago | 151 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42130881
It felt like coming home here.
Also it took hundreds of millions of years to get here. We're basically living in an atomic sliver on the fabric of history. Expecting AGI with 5 of years of scraping at most 30 years of online data and the minuscule fraction of what has been written over the past couple of thousand years was always a pie-in-the-sky dream to raise obscene amounts of money.
Well, here we go. Will be interesting to see how "enshittification" of AI products plays out compared to Web 2.0.
What about return on investment? You can pick more startups, but your avg return on investment might be lower.
Third request for proof that CNN badgered conservatives by calling them Nazis to the same degree that Alex Jones badgered Sandy Hook families under the auspices of "it's a hoax".
There is an obvious difference on the openai side. gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct is the only remaining decent model with raw text completion API access (RIP text-davinci-003 and code-davinci-002). All the others are only available in an abstract fashion through the wrapper that is the "system/role" API.

I still use gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct a lot because the raw text completion is so much more powerful than the system/role abstraction. With the system/role abstraction you literally cannot present the text you want to the model and have it go. It's always wrapped in openai-junk prompt you can't see or know about (and one that allows openai to cache their static pre-prompts internally to better share resources versus just allowing users to decide what the model sees).
Yeah on Libera (former Freenode).

I'm not gonna say that people there don't think that hbd is real, but it's not an everyday discussion topic. Mostly because it's kind of boring.

(Do spend five minutes on #lesswrong! We don't bite! (Generally! If you come in like "I heard this was the HBD channel", there may be biting, er, banning.))
Good on them!

> and one in five (22%) experiencing a fraud attempt every single week

That seems low. I guess they mean phone calls only.

I get -no exaggeration- several hundred spam mails a day (and these are the ones that made it past the first line defense). I also get 10 or more scam texts.

Some of the phising emails that I get, are frighteningly realistic (but invariably seem to have at least one speling eror in them).

If folks live in a normal suburban development, they are highly unlikely to get several hundred crooks, knocking on their door, every day, but being on the Internet, means exactly that.

The crooks only need to land you once, you have to have a perfect record, avoiding them.
FreeCAD 1.0 Release Candidate 4 is out
I think you're playing a different game than the Sam Altmans of the world. The level of investment and profit they are looking for can only be justified by creating AGI.

The > 100 P/E ratios we are already seeing can't be justified by something as quotidian as the exceptionally good productivity tools you're talking about.
Obviously adding more data is a game of diminishing returns.

Going from 10% to 50% (500% more) complete coverage of common sense knowledge and reasoning is going to feel like a significant advance. Going from 90% to 95% (5% more) coverage is not going to feel the same.

Regardless of what Altman says, its been two years since OpenAI released GPT-4, and still no GPT-5 in sight, and they are now touting Q-star/strawberry/GPT-o1 as the next big thing instead. Sutskever, who saw what they're cooking before leaving, says that traditional scaling has plateaeud.
I don't know about the situation in Spain, but what a lot of people in Austria mix up is that there are different types of terminating contracts.

In Austria, the employer can terminate a contract immediately if the employee behaves in a manner that would harm the employer.

If the employee does nothing wrong, the contract can still be terminated, but you have to give notice 6 weeks ahead (or longer if the employee has worked at your company for a long time).

People get these things confused and think employees generally can't be fired without a reason, but that's not true. They just can't be fired on the spot without a reason.
Similar post (different source): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136259
I'm going to talk with my wife tonight about buying a gun.
> The core idea of satire

I've never read this definition from any historical author or famous literary critic. I think you made this up yourself from first principles-- am I right on that?

In any case, this definition would make a special case out of Animal Farm which is probably the most famous satire. I cringe imagining Orwell have one of the animals "dismiss" his preferred theoretical vision of good governance as a wink to the audience. I don't even think Orwell presumed to know what that would look like.
They exist, though few in number. They’re the ones loudly complaining that you can’t tell a (racist) “joke” any more.