skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If they were really serious, they would do everything they could to make it easier for their employees to have children, but they don't.

They want the benefits of it without paying.

It's the same as hiring/training juniors/apprentices (in all kinds of jobs not just tech) etc. Companies want experienced people but don't want to pay to train them, in that case the workaround is to poach someone after they've gotten experience.

Of course when every company is poaching and nobody is hiring juniors you start to see shortage of experienced people.

edit: maybe this is why everyone is trying rush LLMs into some roles.
You could, the further into the future that it predicts the less accurate the prediction will be, but you could probably predict a few sentences of the speech correctly. The LLM can only guess from historical context and grammar though, and the speaker is unlikely to make the most likely next word choice for all words (there are some sentences where the next word is extremely likely, mostly aphorisms, but a lot of the time you don't know where it's going).

You would want to use a raw LLM which just does next token completion rather than a model like Claude or ChatGPT, and you could probably use it to display branching chains of next most likely strings.
From anecdotal evidence I agree it’s the root of the problem - why have kinds when there are more fun things to do? Among my peer group probably half of the group chose not to have kids.

Lucky enough for humankind this is self-correcting problem on both local and global level: people with partying genes will become extinct.
OP might be simplifying it, but changing values (shift towards individualism across the globe) and women's freedom of choice are one of the biggest reasons why people don't want to have kids across all researches that have been done. Cost of living, job security and etc. contribute as well, but it really just doesn't make any sense to have more than 2 kids, other than "for having a lot of kids" sake. And two children is less than replacement level.

Also, as childless/1 child families grow old and retire, they kind of show how it's ok to live a fulfilling life without going through arduous pregnancy and etc. I'm not even talking about sacrificing minimum of 6 years of your life (pregnancy + first year of the child) to raise 3 kids. Culturally it's not celebrated anymore, you lose out on career progression, and since others in your age groups aren't having kids, you feel left out.

These are very real problems that no government has been able to solve yet. The worse it gets, people will feel more guilty for prescribing their future child to a life that was worse than theirs. And the cycle continues.
1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1...

I rabbitholed with that years ago while playing around with Python, probabilities and infinity. That "thing" was discovered by a religious guy who thought it had something to do with God, as a series that created something from nothing, and harassed a famous Calculus mathematician for years to study it. I found it's related to Thomson's Lamp, and I'm convinced it hides the key to a new kind of Math, beyond quantum computing: supertasks.

The deepest I went into the problem was classifying those supertasks like Grandi's, Thomson's, the sum of all natural numbers, and there are others, but they form patterns.
I am sure it can change. Ultimately programming we be completely lost; we are going to hand-wave and command computers inside us or inside the walls of our houses. This absolutely will happen.

But my issue is with people that claim we are either at that point, or very nearly it.

...No, we are not. We are not even 10% there. I am certain LLMs will be a crucial part of such a general AI one day but it's quite funny how people mistake the brain's frontal lobe with the entire brain. :)
Want to know how I know you haven’t used an LLM?
> encourage you to take a more curious ..

But:

> Is there a single site ... ?

is asking for a tiny bit of evidence (this is gentle curiousness; the antithesis of combative). Earnestly, are you able to provide one site that 'promotes eating disorders', so I can be educated?

If the answer is 'any site with charismatic too-slim people', isn't that extremely difficult to administer, and possibly become horribly discriminatory, for example if a site has a user profile of a beautiful but illegally[1] slender person, doesn't that 'promote eating disorders'? Would a site admin be legally compelled to block that user, or at least censor their profile pic?

I literally don't know what's legal vs illegal in this sphere, and suspect 99% of others are the same, and that probably includes the legislators themselves. Those claiming to know precisely what's il/legal in this context are probably overconfident.
> there is no stopping you from implanting more than one in different locations.

Good point, although at some point you'll want to make sure your reader implements anticollision properly :)
This reads like gibberish, it just doesn’t make sense in relation to my previous comment… Are you even reading my comments?
I think the ostensibly scary subject here is mirror DNA or RNA, not anything-that-doesn't-self-replicate.

> If bacteria haven't figured out how to use mirroring

It's unclear bacteria have ever "attempted" it. The synthesis of DNA is incredibly intricate and complex, and the set of proteins that do it are believed only to have ever evolved once. In order for a bacteria to have "attempted" this, it would have to evolve an entirely new set of proteins from scratch.

Personally I think a self-replicating photosynthetic cell with mirror DNA is as scary as self-replicating photosynthetic plastic.
The charger will work, just at a low/slow power. No destruction, unless it's non-conformant (the source should only increase the volts/amps if it detects the correct signalling from the drain... and this should is defined in the USB certification specs).

You may want to charge without a data-wire, or use a cable with a correct power-negotiation chip if you don't know/trust the source (eg a charging nook in a library/school/bar/airport.. anywhere public). Some devices are very trusting of power sources, or have been (security is improving, modern phones require unlock before they even acknowledge they accept/send data).
Cool to see them headed to a city that drives on the left hand side of the road, and glad to see them beginning to grow internationally
Ditto for most academic biomedical research: we desperately need more high quality customized code. Instead we have either nothing or Python/R code written by a grad student or postdoc—code that dies a quick death.
> In case you haven't seen it before...
> Shares amazing link there was a 0% chance I'd ever see in my life if not for this comment
LLMs can be prompted to write code that considers these things.

You can write good code or bad code with LLMs.
2024 Lichess Recap
There isn't any official page for this that I can find, but I thought HN might enjoy the 2024 Lichess recap, it's a really nicely done recap of the year on Lichess. I'll post a link to a video I found in a search and a couple forum posts in the comments.
Original source (4 points, 2 days ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42423508
Activating the venv only changes some environment variables. You can, as explained before, use the environment's Python executable directly instead. Activation does allow other tools to use the venv without having to know anything about it. The point is that you aren't then putting `uv run` in front of every command, because you don't need to have an integrator program that's aware of the venv being there.

If you had a bad experience with a different locking tool, sorry to hear it, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the venv itself nor its activation script.
Sounds like you’re working in react. The models are orders of magnitude worse at less common frameworks and/or languages. React is so boilerplate-heavy that it’s almost a perfect match for LLMs. That said, every large react codebase I’ve worked in inevitably became really complex and had a ton of little quirks and tweaks to deal with unexpected re-renders and such. I avoid the FE when I can these days, but I’d be fairly surprised if LLMs generated anything other than typical performance-footgun-heavy react
The issue with your argument is that all your examples predate LLMs.
Be exceptionally skilled in areas that can’t yet be automated.

Focus on soft skills: communication, problem-solving, social intelligence, collaboration, connecting ideas, and other "less technical" abilities. Kind of management and interpersonal stuff that machines can’t replicate (yet).

It's real. Subscribing LLM provider for $20/month feels like better deal than hiring average-skilled software engineer.

It's even funnier when we realize that people we hire are just going to end up prompting the LLM anyway. So, why bother hiring?

We really need next-level skills.
Beyond what LLM can handle.
> OS knows this is containers process and this is control plane process and treat them differently, I think no one does that

cgroups on Linux does exactly this, and are a standard part of ensuring that containers don't exceed their allocated resources.
Example recap (not me, some other player): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCa9Yj89lPg

Forum post: https://lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/yearly-recap-feed...

Another forum post: https://lichess.org/forum/off-topic-discussion/how-were-your...
I wrote a tool to handle micro blobs specifically because we were being heavily rate limited by S3 for both writes and reads. We got about 3k/s per bucket before S3 rate limiting started kicking in hard.

Granted we also used said tool to bundle objects together in a way that required sezo state to track so that we could fetch them as needed cheaply and efficiently so it wasn't a pure S3 issue.
You're assuming the point of these laws is what they say on the tin and the people writing these laws are ignorant. A huge amount of legislation is written by think tanks and lobbyists.

Authoritarians don't want people to be able to talk (and organize) in private. What better way to discourage them than some "think of the children" nonsense? That's how they attacked (repeatedly) encryption.

Google, Facebook, and Twitter all could have lobbied against this stuff and shut it down, hard. They didn't.

That speaks volumes, and my theory is that they feel shutting down these forums will push people onto their centralized platforms, increasing ad revenues - and the government is happy because it's much easier to find out all the things someone is discussing online.
> There are numerous sites and social media pages on all the major platforms that literally promote anorexia.

Although probably a just cause I'd say that the western world does have an obesity problem though, not an anorexia one. So a better example would be all the sites encouraging people being lazy and fat and eating junk while labelling anything criticizing the unhealthiness of obesity as supposedly engaging in "fat shaming".

I mean: even using the term "fat shaming" is encouraging fat people to stay fat. And that's promoting eating disorders IMO.

So: fighting anorexia, sure. But we got bigger fishes (literally) to deal with if the (laudable) goal is to fight eating disorders.
Subway's really the only one of those I have any personal experience with. But from my perspective it's pretty much long been awful.
V-Shaped Skillset
We tried voting...

Bill Clinton had campaigned heavily on health care in the 1992 United States presidential election...On September 26, 1994, the final compromise Democratic bill was declared dead by Senate majority leader George J. Mitchell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_19...
> Individuals should be aware that scammers may use this media release to falsely claim to help them get payments. If you receive a call…

I can just imagine the heavy sigh that accompanied the decision to put this at the end of the media release.
The "breakthrough" was in 2012: https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.1409

The recent updates were 2 months ago (3 points, no comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41861543
I knew a bunch of them. Most of them moved on: retired or started over in new careers. It hit them hard. Maybe not so hard because trading was a lucrative career, but most of us don't have that kind of dough to fall back on.
Powerful argument for profit sharing:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/h...
This forum site for example actively encourages and supports people who want to commit suicide: https://sanctioned-suicide.net/

Many of their members have died after encouraging each other to take the next step. They used to be on Reddit but got banned there a few years ago.

Would you want your children or young adults spending time there?
I think people are just fundamentally not willing to attribute intelligence to things that can't have conversations. This is why the incredible belief was possible that babies or dogs don't feel pain. Once the AI is given some long term memory all of these ideas that AI is just a parrot will suddenly be gone and I personally think that it will probably be pretty easy to give robots memories and their own personal motivations. All you have to achieve is to train them in realtime and the rest is an optimization, you want the training to make sense and have it not store/believe every single thing that it is being told etc.
I was at university in Munich in ‘89 when the wall came down. My roommate was from Berlin. We didn’t make it to the evening when the wall came down, but went there a few days later. We got to use a pick-axe to get our own chunks of wall and a few for other classmates. I still have my chunk all these years later. Sadly my chunk is about 85% white paint with a couple other colors around the edges. I have photos of the wall before it came down from visits as even though I am American my dad was in the Army, and I was born in Augsburg and lived in a few other cities over the years.
I just spent a wonderful hour reading the whole thing and playing with all the demonstrations. Thanks for sharing.
Training doesn't require inference. It uses back-propagation, a different algorithm.
Is the tool public? We are looking for a solid text to sql tool that works with Athena.
I’m fairly OK financially at this point so my strategy is to make the money I can, while I can, and then when I become unemployable or replaced by LLMs, just retire.
I'm not telling you it isn't happening - I linked to the current UK summaries of all the cases referred by police to the CPS for prosocution.

The 7 cases a day to which you referred to above will be in there and quite likly flagged as Hate Crime related.

> I believe the 3000 a year number was banded about for speech offences.

( Bandied ? ) Sure, I dare say it was, the real question was that a reliable bit of infomation or something spread about?

If you're interested in pursuing the matter then I dare say you can contact the civil servents that maintain the UK CPS stats pages and ask them for speech prosecution numbers.

My stance on such things is that almost all figures "bandied about" with respect to contraversial subjects ( crime, immigration, free speech, climate, et al ) are forms of iterative improv by vested parties. *

I'm genuinely interested in actual figures from authorative sources for all manner of things in the world.

* https://theconversation.com/how-right-wing-media-is-like-imp...
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hey, thats fair. I have mentioned that I work at Turso in my blog's about page, but I don't expect everyone to check that. I have updated the post to include a disclosure, thanks!
You are assuming I am arrogant because I don't view the current LLMs as good coders. That's a faulty assumption so your argument starts with a logical mistake.

Also I never said that I "have no equal". I am saying that the death of my career has been predicted for no less than 10 years now and it still has not happened, and I see no signs of it happening; LLMs produce terrible code very often.

This gives me the right to be skeptical from where I am standing. And a bit snarky about it, too.

I asked for a measurable proof, not for your annoyed accusations that I am arrogant.

You are not making an argument. You are doing an ad hominem attack that weakens any other argument you may be making. Still, let's see some of them.

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RE: choices, my choice has been made long time ago and it's this one: "I will become quite good so as to be mostly safe. If 'AI' displaces me then I'll be happy to work something else until my retirement". Nothing more, nothing less.

RE: "startup universe", that's a very skewed perspective. 99.99999% of all USA startups mean absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things out there, they are but a tiny bubble in one country in a big planet. Trends change, sometimes drastically and quickly so. What a bunch of guys in comfy positions think about their bubble bears zero relevance to what's actually going on.

> I can't find it now, but there's at least one company that is doing enterprise-scale refactoring with LLM's, AST's, rules etc.

If you find it, let me know. That I would view as an interesting proof and a worthy discussion to have on it after.
Senior developer here, it is challenging. It's designed to be. I'm to the point now though that im a bit burnt out on it. I miss a weekend and then don't have a desire to catch up.
> that sort of thing must happen frequently in nature

Individual chiral molecules can happen naturally, sure, but not entire organisms. From the report: In a mirror bacterium, all of the chiral molecules of existing bacteria—proteins, nucleic acids, and metabolites—are replaced by their mirror images.

In the fitness landscape there is an absolutely enormous gulf between standard and mirror bacteria, large enough that no amount of incremental evolutionary pressure could flip the ~billion chiral bonds in a given bacterium simultaneously.
>The issue which I think confuses people is the conflation between the python environment of the packaging tool and the environment you should use for your code.

This is primarily Pip's fault, because it spent many years championing a model where it would be copied into each new "environment you should use for your code".

Most of the benefits people attribute to Python tools because they're "written in a language other than Python", are really just benefits owing to the tool being isolated from the dev environment. And for about the last two years, this has been reasonable with Pip (possible but unreasonably complicated before; now it uses a weird hack, but the experience is pretty smooth). People just don't know about it, in part because they aren't forcefully confronted with it (because copying Pip is still the default for the `venv` standard library module).

It's noteworthy that the standard library does contain `venv` - but not more complex things; technically not even Pip. This rhymes strongly with the philosophy that designed the rest of the standard library. It's the same reason we don't have Requests in there, or, say, `python-dateutil`. (Actually, boto3 gets more than twice as many downloads as Requests, but it's hard to understand why. Working with AWS is surely far more niche than making HTTP connections.)
If you and only you (and maybe some allies) also make an antidote or vaccine, it is targeted at everyone who doesn't. And that is a huge blackmail opportunity.

OFC, if any leader worth their salt will respond with "Hell NO, if you threaten us again with that, or we find any sign it is released, we'll nule everything in your land and anywhere it is found. Even if a vaccine/antidote works for humans, destroying the animal & plant populations would just result in the surving humans to die slower of starvation.

Thinking about this for a few seconds, it is really pointless, and maybe one of the most serious examples of "Just because you can do it, think hard about whether you should do it". The answer is Fck NO. (And I'm almost always in favor of tech advances.)
I hadn't seen this site but will check it out. Thank you for providing some evidence! (really dislike the idea of boogymen! - so seeing a real site is refreshing).

> Would you want your children or young adults spending time there?

Suicide is a difficult topic. I'd never want anyone (related or otherwise) to be in a position where ending their life is their best option, but then I support euthanasia (a subset of suicide), so I certainly support people obtaining information that could help their situation, even if their situation is difficult, dire and worthy of enormous compassion.

Thanks again for sharing.
I'd still be interested in that!
Revising our understanding of the aging process
Sounds like a pulp song. *

But seriously, can we stop trying to over-simplify everything into neat little black and white boxes because grey areas annoy us, and contradictions scare us half to death.

Can we just be at peace with the fundamental interconnectedness of things, and understand that causality can run in two (or many) directions at once.

Though you or I may act individually according to our instincts or beliefs or morals, a group including you or I may act according to systemic patterns and drivers. More than one thing can be true at once!

Once you understand that, perhaps the question can shift from who is responsible for this thing I don't like, to how can we influence change and should we even? and why? and how congruous is this want or need with the multiple levels of truth, cause, and effect acting on each other?

* op comment changed after I wrote this. it said people just want to have fun and drink and travel (and.. because there's nothing else to do).
Conflict of interest perhaps
True, we absolutely couldn’t allow a place that people can voluntarily participate in to say things to exist without a governing body deciding what is and isn’t allowed to be said
I don't see anything like that in a quick scrub through the live stream, do you have a timestamp or are you talking about a different event? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOx3xufEAoM
World's largest iceberg has broken free after being trapped in vortex
“which means that instead of requiring 5 Senior or Staff you will only need two”

What company ever feels they have “enough” engineers? There’s always a massive backlog of work to do. So unless you are just maintaining some frozen legacy system, why would you cut your team size down rather than doubling or tripling your output for the same cost? Especially considering all your competitors have a similar productivity boost available. If your reaction is to cut the team rather than make your product better at a much faster rate (or build more products), you will likely be outcompeted by others willing to make that investment.
This is adorable.

If only I knew what steps to follow on those 4 precious nights...
I don't think so. It seems to just lower the ram needed for the context window. Not for loading the model on the vram.
Blockly?

I've been using it BlockSCAD:

https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/

and apparently it can be used in Jupyter notebooks?

https://jupyterlab-blockly.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Or perhaps a node programming system such as:

https://nodezator.com/

https://ryven.org/

or

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor
There's always the option of, you know, not strangling itself.
Introduction to Wait-free Algorithms in C++ Programming [video]