skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The productivity gains of 30% are probably overstated

I am doubtful as well.

I could imagine 30 percent among certain engineers for certain tasks, especially if you use a popular language with popular libraries and frameworks that are well-represented in the training dataset. I don’t know how typical of a codebase Salesforce has. They could also finetune a model on their own codebase or devote a small team of engineers to figuring out which prompts, models, etc. work best for their codebase and process. In theory, those advantages could boost it beyond what testing would typically show.

But a consistent increase of “more than” 30 percent across the whole engineering workforce seems less plausible, especially lacking details on how they measured that and uptake numbers. Edited to add: Are they even confident that their engineers are using it consistently? At this scale, that’s not a given.

I’d be interested to know whether Salesforce customers have noticed a change in the number or scope of features being announced. A change of this size seems like it should be noticeable from the outside. I’d like to hear from the engineers in particular.
You know your competition also has that 30% efficiency gain??? Sounds like a good time for them to catch up.
If they really wanted to back it, they'd use AI salespeople.
The thing that will create the real-life Butlerian Jihad against AI agents will be when they come for the lawyers' jobs.
What are you referring to as "this field"?
I manage university relations for our corporation and give money (though not very much) to have our corporate logo next to the Udub logo.

I'm not sure this kind of misbehaviour reflects well on our brand.

Do you have a contact at the university I can talk to?
That’s devastating, and I hope you can stay strong through the recovery process. As a nearby neighbor a couple of communities over, do you know of anything that I can do or donate to help generally that won’t be a waste/too late? Like donate masks or water or something?
Per Taibbi (https://twitterfiles.substack.com/p/1-thread-the-twitter-fil...), the files consist of "thousands of internal documents". I was replying to a single-sentence post, making a bold, politically charged assertion about their contents, without any attempt at substantiation, which disagrees with a source that would ordinarily be biased in that poster's favour.

Expecting me to "actually read them" in this context is not reasonable and constitutes a massive shift of the burden of proof.

I have seen many times before the assertion made by that comment, but never anything resembling evidence for it. It's also not something seen in Taibbi's analysis (Taibbi is a former political columnist for Rolling Stone and the author of several books that clearly show he is no friend to "conservatives").
Why is PayPal being sued by YouTubers? It's over the Honey extension
Yeah, i'm taking as base my own library of xbox games, built over many years. Most games i bought digitally for xbox.

Probably for gamepass they select games that can be used on pc and console, and the store has xbox and pc versions of many titles, but that doesn't mean that if you bought the xbox version you have rights over the pc version.

They are improving this tough.
IIPR lends money to marijuana growers that banks won't touch
As a data point, holding down the shift key + using the arrow keys at the same time also works for moving the camera viewpoint. It's not as fine grained as the right mouse button, but it works "well enough" as an alternative for setups without a right mouse button. :)
I still can’t run a rootless kubernetes installation, even though i can run rootless containers as an unprivileged user with podman.

Kubernetes assumes it can take the whole node for itself.

Storage in kubernetes is messy.

Networking in kubernetes is largely developed on the assumption that you only have a single nic.

On-pre kubernetes feels like a second-class citizen. Too many helm charts assume you’re either in aws or gcp.
If he actually said it's the same impact, that is much closer to crank than controversial without a few pieces of really strong evidence.

And the counterargument you had for calorie restriction described a situation that is not calorie restriction.

I'm not saying he's a crank for sure, but my evaluation of him is riding on whether loeg's description of his claims is accurate, not the evidence you brought, because that evidence really does not support the plausibility of those claims.
For $2B you could save a lot of lives even through the overpriced medical system. With a number this big, whatever you do with $2B has to be way better than saving those lives.
This is a little bit of a layman's question but maybe someone is interested:

When people go searching for prime numbers / bitcoin with massive compute, I assume that there are huge libraries of "shortcuts" to reduce the searching space, like prime numbers only appear with certain patterns, or there are large "holes" in the number space that do not need to be searched, etc. (see videos e.g. about how prime numbers make spirals on the polar coord. system, etc). I.e. if you know these you can accelerate/reduce your search cost by orders of magnitude.

For whatever various encryption algorithm that people choose to test or attack (like this story), is there somewhere such libraries of "shortcuts" are kept and well known? To reduce the brute force search need?

And is the state of sharing these to the point that the encryption services are designed to avoid the shortcut vulnerabilities?

Was always wondering this.
I believe 100, because lower than 36% humidity is fairly common while lower than 1% is incredibly rare.
Also... do you have the whole post somewhere. I didn't get past Microsoft's registration wall. It only let me see the first couple of lines.
Microsoft plans job cuts focusing more on underperforming employees
Well, I assume so. Maybe more common with runners/trailrunners?
Seems like he knows his way around the financial system:

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/politico-uncovers-more...
Belgium's Food Agency Advises Against Eating Your Christmas Tree
I always thought that anything you create belongs to them in perpetuity. Stanford has the same rule which allowed them to own PageRank
A much more plausible take was that the matrix used human brains as coprocessors, credit to (who else?) Neil Gaiman for the idea.
Tangential, if you want to learn sound from synthesis, check out Syntorial… you’ll be able to hear a sound and approximate it via subtractive synthesis!
Most search engines use similar algorithms, so it's natural for the results to be somewhat similar. However, the key concern is whether they are prioritizing ads over content value, and as far as I’ve used lexy, they are doing pretty well, especially considering they are newly starting.
>Am I naive for thinking

Yes.
Related:

Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42619139
Why not just say what you're talking about? Are these some secret festivals or something?
The real concern is probably similar to antidepressants in that AI will generate more motivation than just googling stuff.
The stacking of either term is unnecessary, because all counter-examples are also examples, thus:

* an example supporting the counter-example is simply another counter-example, and

* an example contradicting the counter-example is, by definition, also another counter-example.

Corollary: all examples that can be opposed or contradicted by counter-examples are themselves also counter-examples.
Weird. I work a university and we love our self-service and process automation. Could be that it's a land-grant university and we don't have an unlimited endowment to blow.
Brian Clough has remained arguably the most charismatic figure in football-a manager whose incredible successes were matched only by his own personality. From a prolific striker to revolutionary manager, his journey through the 1970s and 1980s changed the face of English football, leaving an indelible mark still echoing today in the game.
That's not correct. Consider, for example, a processor that can handle 2^31 computations per second. 2^32 operations can be computed in 2 time units, whereas 2^64 operations will take 2^33 time units.

search_space(n: number_of_bits) = 2^n * k

so search_space(1024)/search_space(512)=2^512, not 2^2.

Asymptotics in GNFS are better[0], but only on the order of e^(cbrt(512 * 64/9)) times more work, not 2^2.

This would give an approximation of math.exp(math.cbrt(512 * 64/9))*$8 = $40 million for 1024 bits.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_number_field_sieve
Wow, everyone breaks the law sometimes....

Gosh. I guess we're all robber barons at heart.

I guess when PG&E legally ignores requirements to trim electrical lines and people die, well the CEO didn't get any criminal charges, so the dead can be comforted that being burned alive wasn't done by a "criminal" quote un quote.

We all cause people to die by our greed... sometimes.
From there it only follows: (camera pans to board of directors) "What would you say… ya' do here?"

We can have a funding agent provision an agent-based board as well. What's the point of a board that can't react to real-time market information 24x7x365?
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42630993
Yep, pay is directly tied to how many people are under you.

And it should be no surprise that this is how it works. The operational side is hired by the academic side which is even more crazy. It's made up mostly of people who have never had a job outside of school (they went to university and then never left) so it's high school drama all of the time.
I don’t find the claim of 30 percent improvement plausible, but it actually does track to me that you might pause hiring for a time if your employees were suddenly more productive in order to catch up in other parts of the business or figure out what markets to put your new productivity toward.
It's used by left-wing gender-critical feminists too.
I might take it one step further... AI might /better/ at mimicking the lying and hallucinations of management than at mimicking engineering.
I got a vociemail from Kaiser Permanente just yesterday, telling me I owed for a recent medical visit. The voicemail went on, citing some (probably fictional) laws that allowed them to start garnishing my wages immediately for unpaid medical debt. ... I've never been to Kaiser in my life, not even the parking lot. LOL
I was raised by a Catholic deacon, I've read the Bible front to back and maintained top marks in my religious education classes. I have a firm understanding of what kind of deity Christians worship.
The English word petty derives from the French petit (small). So that's almost tautological.
I lump those together into what I call Dependency-Driven Development.
Manage and reduce dependencies first, both external dependencies and internal dependencies within code, and better code will follow.

It's not always 100%, but in general the fewer the dependencies the better the code.
The very first computers also essentially started as programmable calculators.
There's probably space for AI secretaries to screen contacts and to drop AI sales.
Yes, I have [but I've not been to the border :-)].

Lack of air conditioning and low respect for tech employee (feudal style treatment of owner/worker) compared to Silicon Valley was obvious (although they are propagandized to think they have "better working conditions" due to more mandated vacation days and not being easily fired, but the order of magnitude lower salary is almost never brought up and if you bring up 500k salaries being a routine thing for upper-middle-range of a run-of-the-mill Senior SWE, they think you are exaggerating; to cope, immediately the subject of socialized health care comes up!) But good historic landmarks, for sure.
It's great but especially on mobile it's very difficult to center the view on a planet, zoom on it and follow it around the sun. On a desktop I eventually manage to click on it, then zoom and it stays in the center of the screen.
Makes sense because the planets are so far away that a different viewpoint on earth won't make a noticeable difference. Unlike for the moon. This is why lunar eclipses are the ones that are only visible in certain places.
https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/real+numbers+object you can definitely have real numbers without the infinitesimals in constructive math, however.
>And for the record, you absolutely are allowed to criticize the establishment views. When it comes to important topics like medical science, however, you may just have additional context added saying that this is a contrarian view which (statistically) is more likely to be false than the consensus.

This does not match the experience of several people I have followed through all of this, including some I know personally.

>Everybody likes to complain loudly about being censored, but the reality is that their views are just being disputed and information provided that they are going against the mainstream view.

Systems which deliberately restrict access to your work on the basis of its content are ipso facto engaging in censorship. It is not about "getting community noted". Free speech advocates are in favour of Facebook's change; it reflects more speech from more directions. The problem is when state-like authority comes in and assumes the right to judge truth for hoi polloi.
It's wild to see the ad copy promote the high cost of Camels ("costlier tobacco".) I grew up fairly poor, but my dad always had money for cigarettes and was a 2-3 pack a day smoker. Almost always Camels. Occasionally Marlboros. In any case, I don't remember them being marketed as a cigarette for people who wanted to light more money on fire than their neighbors, but perhaps I just didn't pick up on it as a kid.

During the early 90s, RJ Reynolds had a promotion called "Camel Cash", where each pack of cigarettes came with a coupon that could be redeemed for Camel merch (tshirts, beach towels, etc.) Our car was covered in cigarette ash, a vaguely sticky layer of tar, and stacks and stacks of Camel Cash. Most of the instrument cluster was obscured by Camel Cash stacked in front of it. We were Camel Cash millionaires.
Looks like they are culling so they can bring in more Indians through the H1B program. Good bye American employees, have a nice life.
Again, you think 1000s of companies would go out of business if one key person quit? Unless you are talking about something like a private practice one or two man shops

NOT at all what I am saying… what I am saying is that there is a path in this industry where you are not a slave to “FAANG” where no one knows your name. there are (tens of) thousands of companies where you can set your career such that you are more valuable to them than they are to you. and once you get that money is no object no more… and you get to stay decade (or two) in the same place vs doing the leetcode-change-jobs-like-socks dance.

actionable/repeatable advice:
- find a company which is at least two decades in the business they are in - preferrably some niche thing but not required
- make sure books look good (the barometer here is whether you would invest part of your 401k in the company)
- less than 100 dev/qa combined preferrably

when you start look for patterns, specifically things that no one wants to do. there will always be that. if you hear “don’t touch this code” spend months studying it and understanding it (on your own time). make sure to understand FULLY every aspect of the business your company is doing, suck up all the domain knowledge… every production issue, no matter how big or small you will volunteer to help and go through all post-mortems… on this path things will become clearer and clearer what you need to get done as time passes.

soon enough it will be YOU that is a go-to person for everything, most important customers will know you by name and will call you on your cell instead of creating ServiceDesk ticket…

above all - never look at your career as an employee - you are a corporation and your relationship with your “employer” is partnership between two business entities. no one bats an eye if company X pays 7-figure yearly to company Y for its services… and yet compensation for an “employee” in those figures would be like “huh? no way.” and yet just how Jira might bring enough value to company X to justify 7-figure compensation, so can your services as well if you position yourself appropriately. no one will teach this in America as America needs obedient employees…
They couldn't just add a community note?
Half-Life 3 confirmed! :)
Except China is working damn hard on climate initiatives.
React Native constructs only single UIView by default and draw actual UI using poorly man browser engine using JS. This UI does not "feel native" to user, because it has wrong animation timings, scroll speed, border elevation, missing "native" gestures, etc.
Anyone have a link to "Purcell’s million-dollar animation" of the grail scene? I'm really curious to see it now.
I’m engineering adjacent (analytics / data sci) but my experience has been the best engineers pitch and pick their own projects rather than being assigned out weeks in advance.

Just recently an engineering manager told me “I trust [IC7 engineer] to go where he is most impactful”

So this isn’t the only model, and successfully identifying and pitching working on high impact projects is a seniority marker that will lead to rapid promotion. In any organization. The pitch may look different in different places but I promise you - if an engineer is successfully pitching and delivering high impact projects promotion WILL follow.

Identifying and pitching high impact projects is a combo of technical and soft skills though, and the way this happens depends on the org.
https://archive.is/5iNRY

> “It’s not a tradition to eat your Christmas tree in Scandinavia.”
Software engineering, or at least the Silicon Valley style tech sector
uses brep
I guess an LLM probably can legally own things or be legally responsible for decisions. We’ll need one person at the top as a money-holder/sin-eater.
Wonderful. And another Ginsberg Berkeley poem, maybe my favorite:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49304/sunflower-sutra
I bet it's working as intended. The $ symbol is probably a special feature of the console and is not intended to be a property of window. Inside setInterval, the function is no longer being executed in the special console environment, which has access to that symbol.
bloat, feature creep, insistence upon itself, are all tantamount to this economic system. Without them, there isn't enough for everyone to do.
True innovation is rare or prohibitively expensive these day since most of the low hanging fruit has already been picked.

Currently many efforts are driven by some level of leadership trying to justify their continued employment. This isn't just a salesforce problem.
We've all used builder patterns. And though they're elegant, debugging them can be frustrating. I discovered this while working with a large struct – missing a field only surfaced during runtime, which wasn't ideal. That got me thinking: since we're using Rust, why not leverage the compiler to catch these issues for us?

That's why I created buco. It's a simple yet powerful crate that gives you all the benefits of the builder pattern, but moves all the checks to compile time. If you miss a field, the compiler won't even let you call the build method.
If something is "removed", that logically implies that it was there at some point in the past. Technology exists which can archive the state of webpages at the current point in time. If someone is believed to do something habitually, and others wish to gather evidence of that conduct, they might prepare in advance. I assume I don't need to connect the dots here.
This ^^^ I often thought of creating my own Twitter clone, but the biggest problem/obstacle I keep envisioning in content moderation. At the very least it's required for legal reasons - no CSAM! However, if you want to have a platform that isn't a cesspool, but still respects diverse content - well, that's just not easy, even in offline gatherings.
This is surprising close to how SerenityOS started. The first piece Andreas wrote was the desktop environment with it rendering to a SDL window
“microcircuits” (wires and passive components etched onto a ceramic substrate into which active components, like transistors, could be connected)

That eventually became a common construction technique for automotive electronics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thick-film_technology
I’m curious how this compares to playwrights already built in codegen:

https://playwright.dev/docs/codegen-intro

Is a chat bot easier to reiterate a test?
Observationally, there's a fairly tight correlation between "making lots of money" and total bullshit.
TIL that the likeness of Einstein was licensed. Proceeds go to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which is fitting considering his support and investment:

"Albert Einstein is one of the founders of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. To him, the university represented a combination of the commitment to his Jewish identity and his belief in the universal values of the pursuit of truth and respect for every human being."

No paywall link:
https://archive.is/2024.03.27-141124/https://www.bloomberg.c...
In this age of big data, are there any stats on snow tire purchases that show what percentage of people purchase them for 2WD vehicles vs. 4WD/AWD vehicles?

Also, I'd guess that most people consider AWD vehicles a form of insurance against unpredictable traction conditions.
Worse, upon release, none of them will be able to gain employment as a firefighter; you need a clean record for that.
Great demo! This is going to happen outside games too. A glimpse of how AI is going to blend in everyday life.
The second sentence of the 2-sentence post I replied to.
Thinking some more, I suppose I am excited about never-ending editing and curation (1) and hypertext (2), and the 1990s were excited too, but a bit distracted by these revolutionary concepts by flashy hypermedia.

What is being conveyed, edited, linked (text vs media) is not so interesting to me --- in the same way that the cool thing about container data structures is that they are parameterized over their contents. And I have a bias for text because it is "sober" and less likely to rot my only-so-non-fragile mind than other flashier things.
So, basically, everyone grew up.
Sounds like this guy did not even publish or finish the project, but only communicated his intent. The university is clearly persecuting him and he should absolutely talk to a lawyer.
UW used to cultivate this kind of thing. Pretty sad that administrators choke the life out of everything. I suppose it’s the story of America.
React allows you to write custom renderer and React Native is a quick and dirty example of that custom renderer. The only reason it does not "feel native" is because Meta does not invest much into it and only subset of the "native" features is implemented in "native way".
How does a fake site, with fake classes, that had nothing to do with actual registration, violate that?
The downside is that you may be unable to sell it and actually have to take a course that you don’t want
Where I live we routinely do prescribed (planned) burns and aim to mosaic the landscape | fuel load regions to break up high load buildups.

See (for example): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKsLRNbczJY

Cool burning's been going on for several thousand years (geolocked?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM72NtXxyLs
I don't read Musk's tweets, or really any tweets that aren't directly linked to me by friends.

That's completely irrelevant to the discussion, however. GP asserts that Musk takes actions to protect "...the misinfo he posts". The burden of proof is on GP to establish that Musk posts "misinfo[rmation]", a word which I understand in context to mean "content which is provably untrue". If you think it should mean something different, please explain why.