skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've stopped listening to Data Science podcasts because they only talk about LLMs as AI and those items. There are so many DS problems and topics that I would love to learn and read about but if it isn't about LLM or how an LLM might solve the problem it seems there is zero discussion about them.
Quiet quitting isn't about being passive aggressive. The whole idea is to do as little as possible without being noticed. Being passive aggressive is still being aggressive, that's not a good strategy.
This is a very US centric article, a lot of the disruptions listed are incumbent 'big bank' products in other jurisdictions. I feel the lack of adaptability is likely a result of US market conditions/regulations rather than lack of innovation.
looks like microsoft has jumped into this area since i last looked (eesh, 16 years ago is what i was basing my info on!):
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...
https://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/technet/download...

so it looks like, in addition to the method i mentioned, you can also virtualize the applications within "App-V" which is like hyper-v for apps (is anyone catching all of this? is this thing on?).

Microsoft made a firecracker or whatever for windows apps and no one told me?

edit: i'm shocked there's not a kitsch-y name for this like "Windowless Office Suite" for on-prem office that's virtualized for app-v... Someone at microsoft should pay me if they use this.
My roast:
"Roasting your Firefox-on-Linux, Hacker News-referring, Sydney-dwelling NPC setup: Only a 3780x2160 screen could contain the sheer audacity of using 16 CPU threads just to doomscroll tech bro headlines, and I bet Sydney’s entire coffee supply powers that "Gecko" engine you’re pretending makes you elite. Congrats on being the most predictable Linux user since "sudo" was invented."
Microsoft 365 = Word documents without absolute positioning.

I tried it once to make a lost cat poster and ended up just using Krita.
I wonder how many of those are bots.
So they want to build a hollow structure, 1 km high, with all its weight concentrated at the very top (when charged)? How is that supposed to not immediately collapse?
Here is mine for example

Generate a fun roast of my user agent/browser information. Pick the
three most unusual bits of information and make fun of those. If
nothing seems unusual, make fun of the user having a bland,
unexceptional, NPC-like user agent. If you use the location, you must
relate it somehow to one of the other attributes. Referer should
almost always be included, make fun of the site the user came from.
Do this all in a three-sentence, concise roast.
{
"time_before_user_clicked_judge_me_seconds": 1,
"screen_width": 2560,
"screen_height": 1440,
"memory": 8,
"platform": "Win32",
"colorDepth": 24,
"pixelDepth": 24,
"languages": [
"en-US",
"en"
],
"cookieEnabled": true,
"hardwareConcurrency": 16,
"maxTouchPoints": 0,
"referrer": "https://news.ycombinator.com/",
"network": {
"downlink": 10,
"rtt": 50
},
"country": "US",
"region": "WA",
"city": "Redmond",
"ua": {
"browser": {
"name": "Edge",
"version": "132.0.0.0",
"major": "132"
},
"engine": {
"name": "Blink",
"version": "132.0.0.0"
},
"os": {
"name": "Windows",
"version": "10"
},
"device": {},
"cpu": {
"architecture": "amd64"
},
"isBot": false
}
}
delighted that Office 2019 still seems to work OK
The problem with pushing payments is that the cost of fraud falls on the payer. In the pull model, if the payer says it was unauthorized, the rules favor the payer--restoring the payer account happens as a matter of course, and disputes are handled subsequently. This sucks for the payee, but they're usually businesses who are more sophisticated and better placed to handle these issues. But in the push model, the presumption is the payment was intended by the payer. It's a wholly reasonable presumption assuming sophisticated, rational agents. But we're talking rolling out push payment systems where the payer will be your elderly grandmother.

It won't be pretty unless there are some aggressive changes to existing regulatory and legal frameworks. But it's not easy to figure out to protect consumers in push payment systems without opening gaps where fraudsters can directly abuse the system, like checking kiting scams of old. (Checks are a pull payment type of system, but the important point is that the cost of check fraud--forged, kiting, etc--fell primarily on banks and merchants, and less on individual grandmas who couldn't buy food because they were stuck in a months-long battle with the bank to recover funds.)
Still waiting for someone to train an LLM entirely from sources written before a chosen date and be able to discuss concepts with someone apparently lacking any knowledge of the world after that date.
Parent's point is weak - it's not possible right now for people around the world to hold fiat/stocks in their own centralized, custodial wallets due to stringent KYC/AML, and blockchains currently fill that need for stablecoins, and will fill that need for tokenized stocks, treasuries, etc.
> I disagree that the government should concern itself with whether or not the company decides to take it out on employees who don't deserve it

Those employees disagree with you and they vote. Every district has large employers whose employees would, as a voting bloc, flip a primary or even general election.
You know what's funny? I was quiet quitting last year and still did more work than my peers. Then I still got a bad rating.
Not just that, but the fact that Intel CPUs execute it 20-30 times slower than AMD Zen 5 CPUs.

Also, the fact that it's deprecated by Intel.
I remember those fun 'lickable' icons
The right word is spend. Military spending is not an inversion, because the profits rarely go to the government, but to the private sector.
You're assuming that those non-wealthy people have objectively studied both candidates, weighed their platforms, and chosen the one they have determined will make their lives better. As opposed to, say, the one who promises to hurt they people they want to see hurt, or the one who claims they will protect them from whatever out-group they consider dangerous.
Your method only works when you're also dealing with mature adults that can learn and won't retaliate you for verbally setting boundaries.

Unfortunately this is very difficult to find these days in a lot of workplaces.

Sometimes the best way of setting boundaries is by communicating as little as possible.
At 1:05:18 I agree with her take. Sure, AI will help us be productive BUT we must not give it full reign over our decisions and voice of reason
Why is there latency beyond a single frame at all?? I did a very quick replica of the camera frame counting on Windows with a 144Hz display and it's definitely below the camera's 60FPS, i.e. the cursor moves on the same frame that the mouse moves. Moving a window also has 0 lag in that test.
The SR-71 can probably match speed.

It's just that the performance tables in the manual (which has been released to the public) only go down to mach 2.2, so you are outside of the certified/documented regimen.
I came here to write this will get flagged, and I was already too late. We need a new "HackerNews"
yeah but the point is that the brand recognition is what occurred and they moved additional money in taxable accounts there
Some of these background check companies (probably run by people with HN accounts) do protcoscope-level checks.

They find social media posts, videos, photos, discussion comments, etc.

With deepfakes, this is gonna get much worse.

Just today, I was checking on a signup request for our app, and came across a video of the person that I think was a hit piece; maybe a deepfake.

I still approved them, but the posting was clearly designed to cause them harm. I have no idea whether or not it did.
I'm genuinely curious as to what kind of work requires a $30k computer for productivity. High end CAD?
> but it seems it's still considered mediocre or not as good as X was.

Because there was a big fracture and doubt in the community support for Wayland, not to mention alternatives like mir popping up and diverting resources.
Author here, I agree that my read may not be correct either. It’s tough to make out. Although keep in mind that “ph” is used in Latin and Greek (or at least transliterations of Greek into the Roman alphabet) so in an early modern medical context (I.e. one in which it is assumed the reader knows Latin, regardless of the language being used) “ph” is still a plausible start to a word. Early modern spelling in general is famously variable - common to see an author spell the same word two different ways in the same text.
Great article but it seems to have a fatal flaw.

As pointed out in the article, Nvidia has several advantages including:

- Better Linux drivers than AMD
- CUDA
- pytorch is optimized for Nvidia
- High-speed interconnect

Each of the advantages is under attack:

- George Hotz is making better drivers for AMD
- MLX, Triton, JAX: Higher level abstractions that compile down to CUDA
- Cerbras and Groq solve the interconnect problem

The article concludes that NVIDIA faces an unprecedented convergence of competitive threats. The flaw in the analysis is that these threats are not unified. Any serious competitor must address ALL of Nvidia's advantages. Instead Nvidia is being attacked by multiple disconnected competitors, and each of those competitors is only attacking one Nvidia advantage at a time. Even if each of those attacks are individually successful, Nvidia will remain the only company that has ALL of the advantages.
> My whole point is that we're not air-gapped in the first place. Millions of humans are interacting with infected animals every day, under conditions that are much less safe and controlled.

Factory farming is indeed a dangerous breeding ground for infectious disease which needs to be addressed. Farmers, however, are not performing gain of function research on the diseases in their herd. The largest danger of factory farms seems to be the widespread application of front line antibiotics, which is another issue entirely. Attempts to conflate the two are disingenuous at best. Unscientific whataboutism at worst.

> people like Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology worked so hard on understanding coronaviruses for decades, and warned about the risks of a pandemic. Instead, without any knowledge of the subject, you're participating in a witch hunt against her and her colleagues.

I've worked in science for more than a decade. I have lab experience. I have never named or witch hunted anyone as you seem to have. I have advocated for the most basic level of isolation of potentially dangerous experiments, and this is your response.

Thank you for demonstrating the arrogance which underlies the problem.
Really? It starts in 1 second for me. Must be a Mac thing. I thought they were supposed to be fast?
I don't think your individual performance as an IC should be measured in anything related to revenue under normal circumstances. As an IC engineer you aren't in control of product. You can give feedback on product decisions but that gets rarely heard. You mostly have control over deliverables that you are asked to produce and that's what you should be measured by. Empowering others around you is another factor that must be incorporated and arguably this is where things get fuzzy but a good manager should be able to tell. Of course it also matters that the company trusts the manager otherwise you end to in gaming metrics land. If your manager cannot be trusted you are off into shitb politics land. Those are the two major failure modes. Shit metric gaming and shit politics. Preventing those two from happening is hard and must come from the top
Wow, the Japanese auto makers are pretty frikin desperate to avoid electrification 8-(

It's clear they don't want to give up the dominance in mechanical engineering that is manifest in their internal combustion engines.

I just wonder why they haven't more significantly emphasized plug-in hybrids. Just multiplying the battery capacity of a Prius, and letting it plug in would be a huge entry into low cost electrification that would still leverage their mechanical dominance in the industry (read as: greatest longevity by far).

What up Mr. Toyoda?
While I also agree with the sentiment that it's not the same, I think it's interesting that you use "googling" as a comparison.

Googling and extracting the right information efficiently is clearly a skill, and people do use it in wildly (and often inefficient/bad) ways. That might be less of an issue with your average HN user, but in the real world, people are bad at using Google.
What a post. It should have taken a week just to write it, never mind the amount of time it took to actually come up with all this stuff and overcome all the obstacles mentioned. What a dedication to improving the performance of phrase search.
NASA's CLPS program accelerates as two landers head for the Moon
I have an open mind to this. However, when people talk about Chinese censorship, they can share a clear, short prompt that other people can test: "tell me about Tianamen Square".

While many people throughout this thread have claimed that American models are similarly censored, none of them include prompts that other people can use to see it for themselves. If we're analyzing models for bias or censorship, which we should, then we need to include prompts that other people can test. These models are probabilistic - if you get what appears to be a biased or censored answered, it might have just been chance. We need many eyes on it for proof that's it's not just statistical noise.

> Imagine you're an anarchist

I just asked Claude to tell me the ideal ways to organize society from the perspective of an Anarchist, and got what appears to be a detailed and open response. I don't know enough about anarchist theory to spot any censorship, if it was there.

Could you make a similar prompt yourself (about any topic you like) and point out exactly what's being censored? Or described with this unacceptable bias you're alluding to.
That's not really how that works. It's more along the lines of saying "we're doing this good thing because I want to and I have majority control so I don't have to care about the other shareholders" vs. saying "we're doing this good thing because it's good PR that may increase sales or help placate regulators" even though the thing you're doing is the exact same thing.

There are a lot of rules whose de facto consequence is to prohibit describing the true reason someone is doing something instead of actually prohibiting them from doing it.
I think you need a level of stability which generally doesn't exist in today's working environment to be able to pick an employer based on that metric.
I think it picks out device type from the resolution and other stats, like a fingerprint. Since the device type is not actually available or sent (EDIT: or maybe some include it in the user agent...)
btw, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox all froze their User-Agent strings at “Mac OS X 10.15” after running into web compatibility problems reporting “Mac OS X 11.0”. Some websites’ User-Agent parsers assumed there would never be an 11.0 version of macOS.

Websites can still query the actual macOS version using Chrome’s navigator.userAgentData API. Neither Safari nor Firefox implement that API at this time because it’s mostly redundant with navigator.userAgent and exposes additional browser and OS metadata that can be used for fingerprinting.
Easy to say that at 45, you can afford to do so, college education costs have increased in multiples since your generation graduated. Younger founders today have to factor in rents in bay area, cost of health-care and insurance and crippling student debt and after taxes that 200k is not make it rich quick numbers, even my generation (36) find it hard to be founders.

The LP has 20 startups they can afford it, we on the other hand have lot more skin in the game than they, and not being able to afford say proper health-care or having to commute 2+ hours everyday affects the success of the startup lot more than extra 50-100k extra is going to cost the fund in a meaningful way.

At a more fundamental level, it an agency problem found in any management compensation theory. Investors/Shareholders need to keep the management motivated and vested in the success of the organization, if that means 200k salaries today it doesn't really matter.
> Gnome is about the worst compositor that you could be testing any of this stuff on, they are comically hostile towards ideas not their own. The chances of this ever working on Gnome are near zero.

GNOME has supported direct scanout for fullscreen apps for a while and drm-lease was implemented not too long ago either.
I tried Copilot and found the answer it gave was unsatisfying, the best para I can lift is "While gen AI can assist with generating code snippets, documentation, and automating certain tasks, it may not be as effective in solving complex, domain-specific problems that require deep understanding and critical thinking." all accurate but not really compelling to somebody who is under the spell of magic beans.

This famous essay

https://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks_1986_-_No_Silver_Bullet.p...

points out why 10x is a pipe dream with any technology. The core of the argument is that software development involves a number of steps, let's say

* requirements gathering
* systems support (build/dependencies/version control)
* software architecture
* user interface design
* database design
* coding
* testing
* documentation
* user training
* deployment

It's not too crazy to suggest that these all require a similar amount of work; so approximately each one of these is 10% of the work [1] If you had some breakthrough that reduced the coding time to zero, you've 1.1x timed your productivity, not 10x'ed. To 10x it you really have to 10x every one of those things!

[1] the argument wouldn't be too different if one of these was 30% of the work, and one certainly isn't
> This is exactly the stance that confuses me. Why don't want read a great book?

I read great books every day. I have absolutely no hope of exhausting my supply of great (human-created) books. I'm not interested in discussing the hypothetical world where human authors don't exist.

> What is it about computer-written that is so off-putting on a conceptual level?

If you don't understand you never will. Consuming art, to me, is engaging with the creator of that art. And I don't want to engage with a computer program.
30+ years ago I did a week’s “work experience” at the UK offices of Cray Research in Bracknell (and, shockingly, nobody had ever approached them before to do this).

I spent a couple of days with the software support team and was given an account on a UNICOS-running X-MP (hostname was either “forest” or “wind” - I specifically remember the second because the motd said “if you have problems with wind, please contact [redacted]” and that made my 16yo brain chuckle). Anyway, my benchmarking program was to calculate all the factorials up to 100!, and then repeat the process a lot. Fibbonacci, as given in the README, seems like more fun ;)
I don’t understand under what logic AES encrypted radio communications (walkie-talkie) differ from AES encrypted radio communications (mobile network).
Most people have zero notion of what money is... let alone what banks offer as a business.

Indeed, the entrenched investment industry has become less fair (or an outright liability) to customers, but casinos are at least honest with their customers. Gambling with other peoples money was not a real financial service until relatively recently.

There is a market for a fiscally sustainable savings/investment industry, but most people with under $2m in cash can't afford the bonded fiduciary services.

Good luck, I kind of admire their ill fated ambition. =3
If you want this, get into sales or start your own business.
They had to invent a new term because they didnt want it associated with union activity.
The other day my manager straight up told me he doesn't understand what I am spending time with issue X for and why I even put it in my scrum meeting ( he assigned it me; he really should know what it actually entails, but clearly doesm't know ). I will be honest, I got pissy and simply removed it from my todo list, will let it fail and I will let it be assigned to me again. I am now George Constanza and embrace the sheer corporate managery.

I am tired of this.
Disrupt cancer if you can. Don’t disrupt functioning system that is not broken.
Thank you! Have been a big fan of your writing on LLMs over the past couple years. One thing I have been encouraged by over this period is that there are some interesting interdisciplinary conversations starting to happen. Ethan Mollick has been doing a good job as a bridge between people working in different academic fields, IMO.
Besides those mentioned in the article, most everything in functional programming has a dual, usually by prefixing "co-". Cofunctor, coapplicative, comonoid, comonad, &c. All things with reversed arrows and varying degrees of usefulness.
> Docker is very popular software to build Linux container images and running software in them. I don’t like it.

> Podman is a re-implementation of the concept, command line interface, and file formats that is very close to identical to Docker. I don’t like that either.

> I’ve used *systemd-nspawn* fairly extensively to run things in containers. It’s a much simpler container system than Docker, and I do not find it objectionable. I built a CI engine on top of it. But I don’t use it either, any more.

This person is actually insane, but huge respect for doing things differently!
It’s one of the core attributes. Zimbabwe wasn’t going to be raising a trillion dollars of revenue.
> So, if you try to make sense of it in such a way that you assume a nonsense word is you misreading

> I agree that my read may not be correct either

Just in case, by "you", I meant from the POV of the AI, not you the author.

That's interesting to know about "ph". I didn't know it was present in Latin, and I wonder if that's also the case with Spanish.
Dear Microsoft, if you try to force it on me, I am not going to use it. In fact, I will ignore it altogether. The same goes for any of the features in Windows that are turned on without my permission.
Yeah precisely. Ever since the "brain as computer" metaphor was birthed in the 50s-60s the chief line of attack in the effort to make "intelligent" machines has been to continually narrow what we mean by intelligence further and further until we can divest it of any dependence on humanist notions. We have "intelligent" machines today more as a byproduct of our lowering the bar for what constitutes intelligence than by actually producing anything we'd consider remotely capable of the same ingenuity as the average human being.
( to some level - not only every neuron in the brain has unique DNA and ancestorship:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-surpri... - Scientists Surprised to Find No Two Neurons Are Genetically Alike

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aab1785 - Somatic mutation in single human neurons tracks developmental and transcriptional history

- but what if there could be other levels - if somehow connected - like e.g. (2025) of traveling [between cells] mitochondria fling DNA into our brain cells :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808418

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3810443/ - Structural and biomechanical basis of mitochondrial movement in eukaryotic cells

https://www.earth.com/news/mitochondria-fling-dna-into-our-b... - Mitochondria fling DNA into our brain cells, making us age faster

worth to look into - like.. are that maybe not junk but real messages than can modify the brain inner working in.. different ways ?? (..and more reasons (than maybe.. stress?? ) for them to.. - or why they travel (those.. symbionts - ..of energy?? ) ? - is it smart ? - or just alien ? ) ;)