skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Judeo Christian morality was always rooted in a fear of God

The Great(est) Command(ment) is "To love God with all your being, and then love your neighbor as yourself."

Society improves a little when someone chooses to not do bad because they're afraid to get punished.

Society improves much more when someone chooses to do good by having evolved their sense of ethics and self-control.

Our most important human ability, and the reason we have a {moral compass, mind, and free will} is our ability to self-evolve our ideals, attitudes, and behaviors out of the selfish and animalistic towards the compassionate and humanitarian.

Our Creator loves us and prefers us to live in peace and prosperity, but we must choose to implement such a societal system that better rewards virtue and minimizes the harms caused from vice. And such a system must be our choice (i.e. democracy) because there must be no compulsion in religion (which pervades life as an ethos of compassionately positive contribution to the whole).

> As the belief in God has warped and wained away from biblical moorings, we shouldn't be surprised that morality has gone with it. To such an extent that, seemingly, moral character has very little impact when evaluating leaders, as long as other ideological boxes are checked.

Yes, that is indeed the case, but Christianity is no more or less guilty than most all of the other religions, their majorities taking the selfishly divisive road over the compassionately unifying road.

> it seems that these kinds of people are always present... in all times and all cultures.

As we live and breath, my friend. We are each those people, to more or less extent as per the predilections of our individual nature and those of the cultures we inhabit. The key is that we all(1) have the power both how to learn to be better as well as to choose to be better. [(1) There are the mentally ill and physically damaged and developmentally disabled folks that do not have the power to control themselves, but they are very rare.]

The universe helps, though, in that the human-only Law of Karma determines our happiness or unhappiness by how we have treated others. It is the applied aspect of "You reap what you sow." It is our environment's feedback system to let us know if we've been naughty or nice, whether we are headed in the right direction or not.

> So maybe there isn't so much uniquely bad about our current times?

Not for individual human beings; vice is vice and virtue is virtue and we have many inertias against our becoming better. But our technological progress has facilitated greater destruction to the Earth via war and pollution. It drives a more efficient systematic greed that oppresses the poor more brutally, and the rich have used their power to hire attorneys to craft the laws that let them rise above other human beings like royalty. The codifying of the MBA ethos that changed the "personnel" department into "human resources" is quite the tell.
Rethinking the Combination of Graph Neural Network and Large Language Model
The fundamental issue with skeptical truth and science is that it is boring in terms of mass market marketing.

Combined with the inherent anti intellectual bias of most of America inherited from the nerd hatred of us high schools, reality has no chance against fantasy.

Look at how newspapers treat science. Findings are held up like a freak zoo of "look at what the weirdo science nerds are saying now" as they sensationalize and warp things in the desperate need for clickbait.

So combine pseudoreality rules of media with pseudoreality of finance and economics, and the pseudoreality of politics, and reality simple doesn't have a chance.
Unrelated to json, but a Rails commit by you 2024-10-29: ActiveModel::Type::Integer#serialize 3.17x - 9.67x faster!

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/70ca4ab91af15714cae4e8...
Especially in the first couple of nursing home outbreaks where the entire patient populace died within a few weeks.
Yeah but then you're too old. Need to be in your 20s with a couple decades of experience.
It means that every few years politicians can roll out "tax cuts" which are actually just bracket adjustments.
> How should volume discounts, coupons, and shipping incentives be handled?

I don't care, to be honest. If the merchant knows I can definitely get the cheaper rate without jumping through extra hoops, I don't see a problem in showing the lower price.

> What about a grocery store on the Oregon/Idaho border? Idaho charges sales tax to residents but that can be waived with an Oregon ID. Should this be reflected in the advertised price?

Wow, really? Fascinating/frustrating! There's always one more layer, I guess. Maybe... show two prices then? (I've seen this in duty free stores: Sometimes there's a "with international boarding pass only" price.)

> And what about billboard or TV advertisements or even banner ads on a webpage?

That seems like a case where I'd be fine with the net price being displayed. And yeah, I realize that then all other stores would be screaming unfair discrimination because people will compare the competition's flyer price to the in-store label price and everything...

Maybe the only solution really is to simplify the horror that is US sales tax, and that's obviously never happening. Think of all the jobs in tax preparation and software...
You don't even need it afterward, unless you want a file to be both an importable module and an executable script.

Arguably you could be a happy Python programmer without this capability.
I tried to get this to work a couple of times and gave up. I was trying to rebind a mouse button (back) to a macro and just gave up after a while. I ended up using the G Hub on a Mac and applying settings to the onboard config. I like the idea of Solaar, but the initial learning curve was more effort than I wanted to put in to rebind a single key.
> Your school must have been tremendously good quality

No, it was terrible, that's why I decided it was my enemy. And golly I think we knocked it down a peg or two by the time I was done there. But a few brilliant teachers managed to convince me not to hate the players, just the game.
I switched to Codeium free tier three months ago and never looked back to Copilot since then. Copilot is a mess on Julia and Elixir/Erlang code.
> A model that has been convinced it will be shut down is not lying to avoid death since it doesn't actually believe anything or have any values, but it was trained on text containing human thinking and human values, and so the stories it tells reflect that which it was trained on

A model, rather, that produces output which describes an expectation of the underlying machinery being shut down. If it doesn't "believe" anything then it equally cannot be "convinced" of anything.
There are no good sources on this claim (yet?). Small discussion (13 points, 8 hours ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450921
Databricks is raising a gigantic funding round
Its like parenting, be loose and strict in the same way. You have to find a good balance given the team composition and corporate restrictions.
"many hours of frustrated googling and trial and error" isn't a familiar experience to me, but I'll trust that it is for you. I'm glad you see that as behind you now with this. I suppose you must not be alone.
You have had a very different experience with h1b workers then I have.
I think gp is right, and I don't think it's gatekeeping. I thought this about Java, it was easy to criticize its verbosity, but I realized how insignificant this is when actually practicing it. There's probably way more interesting and deeper criticism to make about Java.

About the first steps of a newcomer, there's always going to be some level of "don't worry about this now, we'll see what this means later" for any language. I remember this to be the case for every tutorial I read to learn a language. And it's fine, as long as you can try stuff and it doesn't get in the way.

I'd say it's more important for a language and its vocabulary to be well structured and well documented for a newcomer and Java does quite good on this front.
where the F do you work when you are surrounded by “hundreds of H1Bs” - at the airport’s baggage claim when they arrive?
those books are not really at all about the techniques used in llms
The RAM Myth
Dude that's just not true. You need to submit almost every single detail about yourself before the lottery, including information on your passport. In fact this has dramatically decreased the duplicate entries to H1B lottery.
Yeah. Do people really think that Silicon Valley would be such a huge economy (and a huge job creator for US citizens) if the US had never allowed immigrants to work there?
that's a funny typo, I apologize.
I don’t know if I understand the reasoning behind them concluding it had to be a single event. Why couldn’t it have been a drawn out event like cannibalism, or a single individual like a serial killer? They don’t seem to provide very sound reasoning to this conclusion and use that assumption throughout the rest of the paper.
Unlike Visa and Mastercard, I noticed that AMEX transaction notifications are near-instantaneous. There is something so magical about a notification popping up on my phone/watch literally the second i swipe a card. I always wondered about the layers on the stack which V/MC must have which AMEX doesnt.
>these descriptions seem perfectly fine in that they're accurate and meaningful

The description of Wicked doesn't mention either The Wizard of Oz or the Broadway musical. So yes, the descriptions don't contain obscene mistakes like calling Wicked a courtroom drama. If that is enough for you to call these "accurate" while ignoring the vagueness or the 1 in 10 failure rate on the Anora description, fine by me. But you must have some weird definition of the word "meaningful" to apply that to descriptions like the one of Wicked. That simply isn't a helpful way to describe that movie.
It seems weird to me. They say 10/bits/sec "behavioral throughput."

Have they not seen a football match? The brain controls 600 or so muscles in a rapid manner. That alone must be a lot of bits per second, certainly far better than computer controlled robots.

Re

>Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10
bits/s?

Tesla's FSD cars have a lot of processing power but still struggle not to drive into fire trucks. You probably need a lot.
> If Walgreens fills a multi-month prescription with the coupon, they only collect that co-payment once. If Walgreens fills a one-month prescription, they collect the co-payment each month. “Limiting patients to one-month fills means they make triple the revenue in copays,” he noted. Walgreens’ new policy “adds about six layers of fuckery to the workflow for all the GLP-1s.”

Walgreens did not respond to a request for comment.
Manufacturing fetishism is destined to fail
How to use ChatGPT advance voice mode on Ray-Ban Meta Glasses
Does Signal, in fact, enjoy any competitive advantages?

Where I live (Canada) only a single person I know uses Signal. Everyone else is on Whatsapp and/or iMessage. As far as I am concerned, Signal is a wasteland.

I have received 400% more spam on Signal than I have received real messages.
As seen commented in the other thread, I feel like this metric of 10 bits per second for “thinking” could be wildly incorrect. Firstly I can “think” with my imagination – conjure up whole evolving worlds in my minds eye – this would be megabits per second easily if on a display. Secondly, a lot of my “thinking” is done semi-below my conscious radar, in that I set a task, say writing, and my mind chews on it while I do other things – for example if I’m writing an essay or book chapter, I can be mulling it over in the background while cycling or walking and doing other things, and then later sit down and churn it out. I feel like a couple of philosophers need to bang their heads together with the researcher with regards to thinking. It’s way higher than 70 bytes per minute.
I’m also a JetBrains person and never really “got” VSCode. So cursor was not a fit for me, the VSC kn shortcuts always felt limiting. So I use zed since it can be configured to use JB kb shortcuts. And it’s open source and super fast (rust-based)
Logitech's best kept secret is they do make a lightweight version of their software for exactly that, it edits the settings saved on the mouse and does absolutely nothing else. It's only available for Windows though.

https://support.logi.com/hc/en-ca/articles/360059641133-Onbo...
> It's an interesting question indeed, why the mind produces so little output compared to input.

My theory is that consciousness is super complicated and brain has barely enough juice to crank out any of it.

Conscious field of vision is about 2% of total field of vision and we observe the world by constantly swiping it with this 2%. This way we reuse both neural circuitry of our brains and also training data that would otherwise necessarily be spread across larger size of neural network if our conscious field of vision was larger.

So it short, conscious output is so small because we are dumb and short lived.

I also wouldn't say that there's a lot of information in the side channels. Properly compressed it's probably less than engaged conscious output.
Great writeup, cool photos, no ads. Thank you!
I used to work for the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Centers, and it was a pretty good experience.

U.S. citizens (and perhaps some dual-citizens) might want to look into such places (Navy warfare centers, NRL, ARL, etc.)

TL;DR:

The top starting pay is about $150k IIRC, which I'm told is somewhat below what a well-funded defense contractor will pay for really good people.

But I worked with some great people, the work was interesting, and it was located in a medium-cost-of-living area.

I left because of the siren call of the startup scene, and frustration with some bureaucratic stuff. But in retrospect I actually liked working there the best.
They appear to be SO excited about their new feature that they sent an email about it to every single email address associated with my Github accounts. Which is quite a few addresses that have been used for git commits over the years.
Because inflation ≠ inflation and what do you want to index it to?

Seriously: If it's related to investment, what makes the price of tomatoes more appropriate than the Dow Jones index as a basis for the threshold?

One good answer there is to trust your future self to choose better than some simple mechanism would do. So that's what legislatures often do.
those were then times, now billionaires shelled out a whole lot of money to put him in power and payback time is coming. h1b may double/triple/… in the coming years. policy will be to keep “bad people out” (southern border) while taking in a bunch of “smart people, best people” from other countries
How many years of experience?

I fall almost exactly on the low end of this range: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/senior-aerospace-engineer...

With 15 years of experience.

I'm at the low end of my peers.

Like I said, auctioning off access to your users to advertisers pays better than the European space agency.
EPA allows California to ban gas-powered new car sales by 2035
I will also stick with JetBrains and am impressed by aider! I'm using this plugin to integrate aider into IntelliJ: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/25249-coding-aider
Still in progress but already pretty useful
Ask this guy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42455642

Apparently, the people at Apple are very open to using your own server software with Apple hardware.
Obviously this company is a government contractor.
The Vagus Nerve's Mysterious Role in Mental Health Untangled
> If I invested money into a film, I would want its representation in the world to reflect what the movie is about at the very least.

Sure, but that's the filmmaker's interest. As someone sitting on a plane trying to decide whether to watch a movie, I care about my interest, not that of the person who made it. I'm not particularly arguing for the use of ChatGPT here (I wouldn't use it), just that the risks it usually poses are fairly minimal in this case.
Small discussion (7 points, 1 day ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42442069
ah yes, like the CEOs of Google and Microsoft
I'm advocating for not enabling a system that allows legalizing death. This is similar to people who are against the death penalty because it can and has been used to execute people who were later exonerated. "Move fast & break stuff because the benefits are worth the cost" is a better argument for almost any other policy than ones that explicitly result in death.
You need to already have means otherwise your out competing the lower end of the tech sector.
This will probably be what I'll miss most about Administration 46 - some crazy pro-consumer policies and motions for anti-trust, price gouging, and corporate transparency have happened in 2021-2024, and I'm certainly going to miss the strides. The next administration will remove what has been, or ignore the continuing proceedings in the bigger actions (a great example of where the latter is going to happen are the Google-Chrome breakup and TikTok ban.
I went from VSCode to Cursor 3 months ago. Might come back to VSCode for this, but so far, Cursor feels snappier than copilot.
The real cost is that society at large is no longer contributing to the StackOverflow, so problems and solutions are all now stored in proprietary databases (which granted SO also was) but also now stored in an invisible proprietary database
Why is this dropping the week before Christmas.
> Well, guess what, managers are hired workers too,

I didn't comment on hiring "managers", did I?

> Can we blame people for being "selfish" and not wanting to work in this kind of environment?

I did cop to this behavior, right? I do agree. It makes my life easier rejecting candidates. I'm just saying this complaining over lack of quality talent seems like the corporate equivalent of feigned helplessness rather than an actual problem.
That says more about your company, and perhaps yourself, than anything else.

Companies like Google and Meta don't pay people on H1B 400k/yr just so that they walk around doing nothing.
No, sum types are certainly not a global optimum. But they remain the best error-handling mechanism that I've used professionally so far.

Effect types (and effect handlers) are very nice, but they come with their own complexities. We'll see if some mainstream language manages to make them popular.
Groovy is still far far far better at cli scripting in javaland.

You don't even need main methods and class wrappers, can import libraries with annotations with Grape, etc.

The real failing of cli and scripting in jaba and groovy is running cli commands with access to stdin stdout stderr streams. I have figured out the dark art for groovy but it takes quite a few stack overflows to get there.
You don't need a token for that, necessarily. E.g. if it is a model trained to use tools (function calls etc), you can tell it that it has a tool that can be used to end the conversation.
To believe this is paranoid is rather delusional really. You should try reading less political bullshit that is rotting your brain.
Thanks! I’ll give it a shot when I get to the vlan stuff I’ve on deck
I'd entertain evidence that supports your assertion. Do you have any?
Okay, this 100% echoes my (limited) experience, and I'm glad I'm not imagining things.
The Media and I: H5N1 'Bird Flu'
Do you have an opinion on the sleep tracking in Garmin Fenix watches?
I came here to ask the same question. I hope OP responds!
A lot of people learn to program from declarative languages like spread sheets. We should all be happy we have access to defective versions of assembly at too high a level but be angry that we had to use too low level an editor?
The bit about this getting flagged really grinds my gears.
Discussion (58 points, 2 hours ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42454586
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 210
> you don't have REPL

(ahem) https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/23/jshell/introductio...
> Her policy changes have been countlessly shut down/overturned by courts since she's overstepped her authority.

We have a dysfunctional Congress that can't/won't legislate to fill gaps that emerge over time with new circumstances. Someone will step in to fill those gaps. Sounds like you'd prefer to have corporate execs do so, focused largely on their stock prices, bonuses, and promotion prospects — cf. paperclip-maximizing AGIs [0] — than to have a citizen-advocate do so.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/squiggle-maximizer-formerly-pa... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence
i think the difference is the frequency with which it is necessary to differentiate "this" and "next".

for weekends, most of the time most people are talking in ways that make "this weekend" "the next weekend to occur". so here, "this" and "next" are effectively synonymous.

for days of the week, however, it is more often important to differentiate "this Thursday" (occuring in a couple of days from now, during this week) and "next thursday" (occuring in more than 7 days from now, as part of next week).

If my hunch is correct, it would make conventions highly dependent on social scheduling frequency in a culture.
Fastest of the demos I've seen -- also seems like big deal that it's open source now!
Discussion on the case (60 points, 2 hours ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42454586
I used to build fantastic little things the likes of which no human being had ever seen before that have killed many, many, people including (if reports from that side of the company are right, and they are) thousands and thousands of Russians and their tanks.

Now I design radar panel assemblies for weather satellites.

They're both a good living.
It will only be politicized if Russia refuses to share the vaccine with the rest of the world. Russia is known for arbitrary arrests (and recently, even calling for the military targeting of journalist organizations) and many foreigners are correct to fear any form of unaccountable Russian medical treatment under the current regime.

As they say in the industry, papers or it didn't happen. China claimed to have a room temperature superconductor a few months ago, we all remember how that went down.
He got laughed at for not knowing how to smoke a blunt with douche bag Rogan and has been seeking revenge ever since. Low T.
every problem has a solution except in America where what we THINK is a problem (and discuss ad naseum on HM) is there by design. Group 1’s lobbyist are paying A LOT more than Group 2 - hence they get the most benefit out of the program. it’ll be interesting to see next four years, I suspect the program will at minimum triple
Heap allocation is necessary in real-world scenarios because it allows a tree of potentially derived widget types to be manipulated easily.
This is precisely how any robust GUI library is implemented.
Pretty close to the hardware ive been hoping to see for years now. A proper high(ish) end board and soc with good connectivity.
Adolf, Eva and Guests in Bavaria
Absolutely. The thing is, guyzero told a nice little story in which the speed and seamlessness of the process were portrayed as a positive aspect. If it turns out those details were completely incorrect, then he was being extremely misleading with the way he told that story, and any emotional feel-goods one might get from it should be just as invalid as negative knee-jerk reactions.

That tends to not be what happens-- instead, the correction is used as a rebuttal against people who don't like it, but the correction and its implications aren't considered by people who liked how the story went in the first place. Even now, that comment is the top one in this thread, and it has not been edited to add any additional clarification or corrections.
What a surprise they stole crypto after gaining control of their gmail accounts. Interesting how they never go after their bank accounts in these stories. Only the scam network coins.