skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking the same, but so that I can conf-call unknown or obviously suspect numbers to it, and listen to the hilarity unfold in real-time.
Yeah. To be clear I think it's fair to be critical of the current shape of the H-1B program (personally, I think the way it's used by outsourcing companies is pretty bad).

But there's a logical fallacy in these discussions in which people criticize the current H-1B program for not being compliant with some made-up version of what the H-1B program is. If you don't like the current program, the solution is not "we need to do what the law says" because in fact the current program is 100% compliant with the law. The solution is to change the law.
This is cool when some independent hacker / artist does it as "Lemmy".

When a big telecom does it, the second thing they do with it is to fuck up the spam detection so bad that every third phone call I make gets answered by "Daisy".

And just think about it - why would a telecom need this tech? They can already drop the spam calls and stop routing calls from the bad actor telecoms who enable the spammers. They don't do that because they prefer to collect a few cents a call from them rather than serve their customers better. It's everyone else who needs this.
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Speaking personally, I've found this tech much more helpful in existing codebases than new ones.

Missing test? Great, I'll get help identifying what the code should be doing, then use AI to write a boatload of tests in service towards those goals. Then I'll use it to help refactor some of the code.

But unlike the article, this requires actively engaging with the tool rather than, as they say a "sit and wait" (i.e., lazy) approach to developing.
I see lots of people walking and scrolling on their phone. Every once and a while they look up and continue. What will happen when you control it with your eyes and you look up, will it scroll?
Next step: The Onion buys X.
Consumers win when there is continued competition. Short term, sure, consumers get a better printer, but once Amazon has taken over the market where is the drive to make anything better or cheaper? It's competition 101..

I think a lot of American's have lost trust in AT&T, Time Warner Cable, but it doesn't meant they're not forced to use them.

If you control the pipes you should not be allowed to also sell the water in those pipes. You will always be in a far greater position to take advantage and become a monopoly, which, is well documented, hurts consumers.
No. Following the letter of the law cannot be fraud. I think you don't understand the rules.
>Without people like Alex Jones and Free Speech...

Neither of those things have gone away. Jones is still himself just not under the "InfoWars" banner, and the first amendment is still very much in place. Not sure what you think is actually happening here.

>You can always tell who the liars and propagandists are...

... when they admit to lying about Sandy Hook in court. Like Jones did.
Interesting. I wonder if this is browser-dependent, or something else. I'm on Firefox with uBO with most filter lists enabled.
> So if you didn't want to upgrade all the time, you'd have been forced to use rhsso.

Or just not upgrade at all. Not the most wise strategy for security-focused software, but I'm sure many teams do that. Especially because keycloak often being heavily customized with plugins and themes, so upgrading this setup might actually be not trivial.
Louder for the people in the back. I've had this notion for quite a long time that "tech debt" is just another way to say "this code does things in ways I don't like". This is so well said, thank you!
I hired a developer who just wanted a cushy job and I offered him a cushy job.

I offered 4 day work week, no on-call, no overtime, but paid less than their previous employer (because I couldn't afford it).

I am sure lots of people value things besides salary.
According to Ilya Sutskever: "results from scaling up pre-training have plateaued".

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/o...

They're trying other techniques to improve what we already have atm.
Provided that we ignore the ridiculous waste of energy entailed by calling an online LLM every time you type a word in your editor - I agree that the utility of LLM-assisted programming as "autocomplete on steriods" can be very useful. It's awfully close to that of a good editor using the type system of a good programming language providing suggestions.

I too love functional programming, and I'm talking about Haskell-levels of programming efficiency and expressiveness here, BTW.

This is quite a different use case than those presented by the post I was replying to though.

The Go programming language has this mantra of "a little bit of copy and paste is better than a little bit of dependency on other code". I find that LLM-derived source code takes this mantra to an absurd extreme, and furthermore that it encourages a though pattern that never leads you to discover, specify, and use adequate abstractions in your code. All higher-level meaning and context is lost in the end product (your committed source code) unless you already think like a programmer _not_ being guided by an LLM ;-)

We do digress though - the original topic is that of LLM-assisted writing, not coding. But much of the same argument probably applies.
So is anyone that cooks a Chef.
The problem is less the language and more what is written with any given language

The world is complex and we have to write a lot of code to capture that complexity. LLMs are good at the first 20% but balk at the 80% effort to match reality
Correct, I did not draw a salary.
The author is missing the point. This is trademark battle, not a licensing one. OSS is not in more trouble than it ever was. Software is, but that's a different problem.

The assumption that you're going to make something open source and get all the benefits of open source distribution while assuming that you're going to make money on it because you deserve it, while others don't is wrong.

If you have any assumptions about how and to whom your software will make money. Put them in the license.
You're talking about demand because you won't acknowledge the supply side part of the problem!

You're not making an argument; you're being purposefully dense. Talking about demand and then straight up ignoring supply makes no sense, you gain absolutely no information from that.

I don't know why I continue to argue with dishonest people. This is exhausting. If you won't even begin to touch the core of my argument then why even bother?

There're two solutions here. One works and the other just doesn't.

We can reduce demand by getting rid of immigrants. This will be extraordinarily expensive and will backfire - this is a bad, bad non-solution.

OR we can increase supply by building more housing, which we will be required to do no matter what. We can't keep up, we need more affordable and middle housing.
Hahaha, Joel Spolsky predicted exactly that IN THE YEAR 2000:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
I actually either didn't know about that pressure thing [0], or I forgot. I suspect I read about it at some point because at some level I knew ascending could have bad effects even if you don't need decompression stops. But I didn't know why, even though it's obvious in retrospect.

So thanks for that, even though it's entirely unrelated to AI.

[0]: though I've seen videos of the exact same effect on a plastic water bottle, but my brain didn't make the connection
How is that true, if the body that nominates the European Commission _is_ elected??

By the same argument you could say UK or US or any other solidly democratic is not democratic, because some commission or organisation is not directly, by the people, elected.

(If you go for the direct election argument, the UK fares pretty badly BTW.)
Also worth remembering, the entire lawsuit wasn't about defamation.

There were several claims about things such as Alex Jones paying individuals to call the plaintiffs 24/7 and other direct forms of harassment.

Feel however you want about free speech but the lawsuit wasn't just Alex Jones said mean words.
This is a really cool execution of an idea that's been floating out there a while. Next you just need a bitcoin one in the shape of a coin!
> Alex Jones is such a big name and has other channels (x.com, Joe Rogan etc.) that he can easily build a similar site/business under a new domain name.

Maybe but the judgement was for 1B USD. So any profits would probably be garnished away.

Basically, lawfare was used to censor Alex Jones. I wonder if this is a case for the Supreme Court and First Amendment rights?
> Meta has been fined because they employed tactics to undermine competition and persistently employ anti-competitive tactics.

If you could list out the "employed tactics" that "undermine competition", that would be helpful in understanding your case. Marketplace ads seems like a natural extension of the Meta ad product, so it's not clear how this is anti-competitive. Any other marketplace can also run ads on Meta as well if they wanted.
> Your pictures weren't used to train AI models.

This is almost certainly untrue. But if it gives you a piece of mind, so be it.

> Facebook can no longer create shadow profiles for people who aren't on it.

What impact does Facebook not having a ledger with my name on it have on my life? You still have ads and tracking in Europe, except now with cookie banners.

> You can ask any company to tell you all they know about you, and delete it (with some small regulatory exceptions).

Have you ever done this?

> You don't have 50 different chargers in your home.

I don't need anyone telling me what types of devices to buy. I prefer competition and can make up my own mind about chargers. Role of the state is not de-cluttering my home.

I'd prefer Google Maps and free 2 day shipping to these. Not to mention $300k+ developer salaries compared to 55k a year. But I guess you don't have to check your emails after 5, so there's that.
> [...] the user is no better off than they would be with a manual API token, which is still (and will always be) supported.

This is good to know. I did not see related statements in of the documents linked to this discussion, though.
That is because, by definition, their models are based upon the past. And woe unto thee if that training data was not pristine. Error propagation is a feature; it's a part of the design, unless one is suuuuper careful. As some have said, "Fools rush in."
> It's probably not super realistic to mine resources in space and send the raw material down the gravity well

I wonder about it: Gravity pulling through zero drag (before the atmosphere) sounds like cheap transportation of just about any mass. We have lots of experience aiming the landing site of deorbiting objects.

How much would the ship cost - can we do it without an engine or fuel, with a little boost in the right direction from an orbital base? What would be needed for the cargo to survive reentry and 'landing' - for exampple, a heat shield? After landing, how much would recovery and transportation of the cargo cost? You don't want to be retrieving it from under 3,000 m of water.
I agree with this. But the reason is that AI does better the more constrained it is, and existing codebases come with constraints.

That said, if you are using Gen AI without a advanced rag system feeding it lots of constraints and patterns/templates I wish you luck.
This was what I thought the post would talk about before clicking through. AI adds tech debt because none of the people maintaining or operating the code wrote the code and are no longer familiar with their own implementation
Yes! Great find.

(Although, even these statistics are not as simple as they seem! E.g., when an H-1B status holder changes employer this counts as a new receipt even though the number of H-1B workers hasn't changed. In periods of time when there is lots of churn in the labor market, like in 2022, you would see higher receipt numbers just from the churn. It's complicated!)
Are there any intrinsic dis/advantages of bidirectional models over causal models for in-context learning? It seems that unidirectional model just have been explored and worked on more.
Code is not really lossy zipped text.
"Normal" online advertising is neutral with respect to companies bidding on placements. Not so much with Facebook, which is under no obligation to run a bid on every ad they serve. Some of those ads are dedicated Marketplace ads, and AcmeShop can't bid on them, or even limit access to the data that Facebook collected while performing their contractual duties to AcmeShop.
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I was recently assigned to work on a huge legacy ColdFusion backend service. I was very surprised at how useful AI was with code. It was even better, in my experience, than I've seen with python, java, or typescript. The only explanation I can come up with is there is so much legacy ColdFusion code out there that was used to train Copilot and whatever AI jetbrains uses for code completion that this is one of the languages they are most suited to assist with.
This thread is an artform in itself. Anthropology students will dig it up a thousand years from now and walk away with inadequately-paying degrees.
Instating an AI model as "Head of Scammer Relations" is hilarious. I think the point here is to collect the phone numbers of scam call centers and have Daisy call them so that scammers waste time talking to it rather than a victim.
Hi ! Thanks for ARC it's lots of fun. Did you think about expanding ARC beyond the current 32x32 relatively low dsl depth format ? Do you think there's anything to gain from it ?
I was a little surprise to read that they're using speech-to-text and text-to-speech rather than an end-to-end speech model. Won't that horrible latency? (I guess the old-person persona disguises it a little...)
Newsflash: the majority of working, paid developers do not do any programming outside of their employer's IP.

Someone who worked on successful projects that shipped and are still out there, they can point you to that. You can buy the app, or device with their embedded code, or use the website or whatever. Not always an option for everyone, or not all the time.

That's one reason why there are skill tests in interviews. And why people ask for, and contact, references.

Public code can't be trusted. If you make that the yardstick for hiring people, then everyone and his dog will spin up some phony github repo with stuff that can't be confirmed to have been written by them. Goodhart's Law and all that.

You have no idea how much help someone had with the code in their github repo, or to what extent it is cribbed from somewhere else. Enter AI into the picture now, too.
There's also no historical baseline of comparison. I know for a fact that ghost jobs have existed for a long time. I don't see any evidence they are more prevalent now than 10 or 20 years ago.
Again, what do you mean by "peers"? In the justice system, it just means a cross-section of the community that is as impartial as possible, as filtered out by the voir dire process. I don't think in any way these are his friends or family or colleagues or buddy-buddy with him. They were just what is typically called a jury of one's peers, as in fellow citizen. I do believe they were his fellow citizens that ruled on the judgement, yes.
maybe its a signal that you software should be restructured into modules that fit well-established patterns.

its like you are building website thats not using MVC and complain that LLM advice is garbage...
According to Ilya Sutskever: "results from scaling up pre-training have plateaued".
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/o...

They're trying other techniques to improve what we already have atm, but we're almost at the limit of its capabilities.
A retail store selling various kinds of retail goods and a Social Network embedding a Classified Ads service in their core offering are not remotely equivalent.
It takes a special someone to work 40-50 hrs per week, writing hard creative software, then go home and write hard creative software in a different domain, while also balancing family/life.

Also, unless you are in CA many companies have extensive IP assignment clauses, which makes moonlighting on other projects potentially questionable.(especially if they are assholes)

My previous job made it hard to even submit bugs/fixes to open source projects we used internally. Often we just forked b/c bureaucracy (there's a reason it was my previous job)

Not saying your wrong, seeing someone's code is nice. As long as you are aware that you are leaving alot on the table by excluding those that do not have a presence. (Particularly older with kids)
curious how the human intervention worked?

is there a risk of bias? when VCs make decisions, there is no hindsight. but when you ask humans to evaluate predictions, you necessarily are using past (training) data and the humans may recognize general successful patterns or even the examples themselves.

For example: the model outputs that it's considering an investment in a company that lets drivers pick up passengers on the way to their destination and earn some money as well. a person may think, "Duh, this is uber! invest!" Thus inflating "success" rate.
The title gives the impression that it's pushing back against privately held models. The model isn't openly available?
This is only partly true. AI works really well on very legacy codebases like cobol and mainframe, and it's very good at converting that to modern languages and architectures. It's all the stuff from like 2001-2015 that it gets weird on.
I have a comparison table here: https://github.com/lastlogin-net/obligator?tab=readme-ov-fil...
You might want to update this image on your homepage:

https://usetrmnl.com/assets/section2-3-d6887b41db12ad0659992...

as the first character, タ (ta), is missing from the display, making it read "(a)minaru".
Well I don't agree with your premise on what University is supposed to be. There's a lot one has to learn about how things have been done before one can even conceive of whether or not an idea is new.

Today we stand on the shoulders of giants to create things previous generations could not, but we still have to climb up to their shoulders in order to see where to go. Without that perspective, people spend a lot of cycles doing things that have already been done, making mistakes that have already been made. There's value in gaining that knowledge yourself through trial and error but it takes much longer than a 4 year program if that's the way you want to learn.

My role is that of a ladder. People are free to do whatever they want, create whatever they want once they get to the top.

And anyway, we graduate students who go on to create new things every year. So proof is in the puddin.
Interesting. Waveshare makes this recommendation across their product line, and from what I can glean from google, their displays really do develop permanent artifacts if they're not refreshed. I've never seen another epaper company say this, and anecdotally I've seen ereaders that held the same image for months or years work perfectly fine, even with no power for refreshes. I don't know why there would be a difference.
Sure, but you're creating a new goal post, which is entirely different than the stated justification.
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Can one not run a VPN locally instead of using the service?
Saw your comments in the MomBoard post. This is exactly what I've been looking for. Ordered a dev edition in white :)
Wait am I understanding this right?

- Collins buys InfoWars

- Auction money ends up going to SH victims

- SH victims have an anti-gun organization set up

- This org enters into a long term ad deal with Collins

- Some of the money therefore flows back to Collins, effectively helping with the auction buy
More "endless pains" then "endless gains" in all honesty. The point of software is to abstract complexity, not present it to users (or worse, create it).

LaTex is just ugly and surprising. People want to write and see what they've written, not type and then render. It's a backwards development workflow from the instant feedback of wysiwyg (which is why wysiwyg was so revolutionary, and became the de facto standard for the task).
Why are cassette and CD players so bulky now?
Since Musk's acquisition of Twitter, it has increasingly become a right wing echo chamber and place to promote conspiracy theories. And Alex Jones' InfoWars and Elon Musk's Twitter are both likely to show you advertisements for supplements of dubious effectiveness and other generally scammy products.

So yeah, Jones fits right in there.
1. According to you

2. Bleach was debunked: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-inject-bleach-covid-...

It's not playing stupid, you're just not getting a free pass with this sort of rhetoric.
You find issues when they surface during your actual use case (and by "smoke testing" around your real-world use case). You can often "fix" issues in the base model with additional training (supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning w/ DPO, etc).

There's a lot of tooling out there making this accessible to someone with a solid full-stack engineering background.

Training an LLM from scratch is a different beast, but that knowledge honestly isn't too practical for everyday engineers given even if you had the knowledge you wouldn't necessarily have the resources necessary to train a competitive model. Of course you could command a high salary working for the orgs who do have these resources! One caveat is there are orgs doing serious post-training even with unsupervised techniques to take a base model and reeaaaaaally bake in domain-specific knowledge/context. Honestly I wonder if even that is unaccessible to pull off. You get a lot of wiggle-room and margin for error when post-training a well-built base model because of transfer learning.