skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>getting an offer for shares (an employee level %) where there is in fact no options pool and existing shares will be diluted for every new employee who joins the team

How's this different than if an option pool exists? The more people have options, the further the pie will be split up. Having an option pool or not doesn't change this.
There is, it is called MGTOW.
How do you know we’re not just completing the next token?

It seems eminently plausible that the way cognition works is to take in current context and select the most appropriate next action/token. In fact, it’s hard to think of a form of cognition that isnt “given past/context, predict next thing”
> Maybe the secret is to never buy bagged fruit, since it’s harder to evaluate the quality of each orange.

There's already so much food waste due to safe but blemished produce though!
my personal anecdote about stochastic parrot arguments is that the argument itself became so repetitive that its defenders sound as parrots...
Novel utterances happen all the damn time. See https://venturebeat.com/business/15-of-all-google-searches-a... for tangential evidence.

Edit: actually that looks like it's just an offhand mention of Google's initial report, but I don't really feel like spending more time tracking down details to rebut so silly a claim.
$1,000 to a charity of your choice for ANY country you list here that won’t attend if you reciprocate if wrong.
AI commenting on AI commenting on AI commenting on AI...

But yeah, X, LinkedIn, and the rest all feel like the bots and content farmers have taken over.

I believe the pay for engagement incentives make people be as controversial as possible just to earn money. Imagine you are in a low-income nation, you pretend to be from the USA, you could earn a higher daily income by posting engagement bait. It is in your interest to upset as many people as possible and then set up counter bots to argue with your fee earning bots.
This is so user-hostile that I don't believe there will be any adoption. It will have to be shoved down the throat of those who use broadcast, which are overwhelmingly older and more remote.

ATSC first generation will probably outlive this DRM-driven abomination.
What does belt tightening look like? How many more highways to nowhere can they build to pump their GDP? Can they accept a 10% drop in exports? I doubt many could, especially the country most reliant on exports.
I’ve been using more and more AI tools in my development and getting a lot of mileage. Cursor is the latest one I’ve adopted and it’s impressive even without rules.

I’ll give this a try soon. Thanks for sharing!
Will Meta survive Judge Boasberg? The drama starts Monday
Ha, I got them beat with RES and filtering out every generic subreddit that touches politics
Yeah, I get that this is a re-creation of an existing title focused on C64 (also published out of the same office as the one I worked in). What's odd to me is that there's no connection to the original magazine -- no IP rights acquired, none of the old writers or editors involved, just name-squatting on something people feel nostalgia for. But maybe it'll be great.
Tried a couple and didn't mind the concept, but agree that summing things gets tedious enough that I wouldn't continue, return or recommend it.

If the interface doesn't present an obvious way to add the current totals, it could be colour-coded in a way that experienced players possibly learn how far off they are. Use cool colours for under, and warm colours for over?
> the real issue right now is the growing "incel" supergroup of targeted "dangerous" personas

Can you elaborate on this, particularly on how we might solve that issue?
Sign language in Brazil (Libras) is different from ASL.

I am sure there are false cognate signs among them, and dual users of both sign languages can appreciate them.
I haven't read a good justification from them on this but it did seem reasonable to me that if the protocol allows auth to be added on top then it's less critical to be in the spec v1 itself.

It's not no security vs security but not standardized vs standardized.

Agree though that's it's not ideal and there will definitely be non zero harm from that decision.
Geez - well done, OP! We have been played!
Cursor for your data" (Looking for beta testers)
Yep, in the current restrictions `T` has to be a struct (no heap allocations means no reference types are supported).

Huh, interesting idea with the `Self` generic dependency for the `Create<T>`. That's an interesting angle I hadn't thought of, thanks.
All those titles are unwieldy.
That is beside the point. No lawyer will allow any "learning" on private data. Even without legal counsel, companies would be stupid to do it without compensation.
This reads like a AI response. What world do you live in?
>The situation is completely different. One action is a defensive

There's nothing defensive about embarking on a self-described colonial endeavour.
This seems untrue, especially for reddit?

Using the 1/9/90 split [0] for creators/commenters/readers, it seems farfetched to suggest that reddit accounts (which benefits readers making an account to curate subreddit subscriptions) can't follow this pattern where many legitimate human users do not comment often.

[0] "The 1% Rule", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
Only if you buy into the whole premise, which is dubious to say the least, and is a good example of begging the question.
> the enshittification cycle is just that, a predictable cycle.

We will continue not to "have nice things" until more people are willing to pay for high quality services.
If you pass Columbus, you’d also go through Indianapolis. Or you could go north and pass through Cleveland and Detroit.

Anyway, if you only support building infrastructure in regions of the U.S. that are as densely populated as eastern China, you’d basically never build anything.
I'm so glad We have all Decided this Together and we can now Enjoy the Koolaid
> A relative known youtuber called the primeagen has recently done a challenge sponsored by Cursor themselves where he and some friends would "vibe code" a game in a week. The results were pretty underwhelming. They would have been much faster not using generative Ai.

I ended up watching maybe 10 minutes of these streams on two separate occasions, and he was writing code manually 90% of the time on both occasions, or yelling at LLM output.
Which side should we be on?
My personal preference only: I'm glad my current employer has no equity compensation altogether; just base salary and bonus. My former employer did have RSUs, but they have an auto-sell program that I utilized every year.

In college the computer science department had an extracurricular talk about finances for a software engineer; the invited speaker was very adamant that holding most of your net worth in a company that employs you was an unacceptable concentration risk. I remembered that to this day.
You seem to be coming with the assumption that the difference between parrots and what many would consider intelligence is math, or that math is a reliable indicator of those different groups.

What makes you believe that is the case?
For a while, some people dismissed language models as “stochastic parrots”. They said models could just memorise statistical patterns, which they would regurgitate back to users.

…

The problem with this theory, is that, alas, it isn’t true.

If a language model was just a stochastic parrot, when we looked inside to see what was going on, we’d basically find a lookup table. … But it doesn’t look like this.

But does that matter? My understanding is that, if you don’t inject randomness (“heat”) into a model while it’s running, it will always produce the same output for the same input. In effect, a lookup table. The fancy stuff happening inside that the article describes is, in effect, [de]compression of the lookup table.

Of course, maybe that’s all human intelligence is too (the whole ‘free will is an illusion in a deterministic universe’ argument is all about this) - but just because the internals are fancy and complicated doesn’t mean it’s not a lookup table.
I forgot to mention that OpenAI also invented PPO, which is the default algorithm that everyone uses for RL since 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximal_policy_optimization

DeepSeek's GRPO is also just a minor variant of PPO.
outside of having stupid money what percentage of people (excluding people living paycheck to paycheck) manage their finances well, especially in the first decade of their career? I’d ballpark that at 0.78%
As fun as those things were, I don’t think any of them were worth paying for.
You postulate it as if these two are mutually exclusive, but it's not at all clear why we can't be "completing the next token" to communicate in order to navigate social spaces. This last part is just where our "training" (as species) comes from, it doesn't really say anything about the mechanism.
I've been doing something similar for the past couple years for several different modes of working:

1) In my campervan with Starlink internet so I don't need to set up additional screens

2) Cafes and co-working spaces when I don't mind looking like a huge dork

3) Out at trailheads/crags when I don't mind looking like an even huger dork

Some notes:

- Pocketable PC or laptop works, but Samsung phone with DEX is really the move since you don't need to tether or anything, just plug in, use Termux to SSH to your dev box (my beefy home rig over Tailscale usually) and go.

- Power demands aren't insane, phone battery is good for a few hours. Wireless charger or power splitter necessary for more.

- One-handed chording keyboard (I'm up to about 50wpm on a Twiddler) makes working in a terminal pretty straightforward. You can use the phone's screen as a mouse with this setup.

- The new XReal glasses with built-in chip are great. Pros drop soon, should be better. With Vitures or other glasses where the display is fixed, terminal work is still do-able if you're proficient with tmux or similar.

- Downside of the new integrated chip glasses is outdoor usability. They got hot in direct sun, and leak more light.

- You do look really weird using these in public since you're wearing dark glasses indoors looking around. I don't let it deter me from getting my work done but yeah, just be warned.

I've done week-long bikepacking trips taking only my phone, twiddler, XReals, and small solar panel. As long as I can hit cell for a couple hours a day I can still keep things moving with my consulting clients. I usually do this just sitting up against a tree wherever I got good signal.

Starlink mini seems like it would add more freedom to this (I like remote singletrack) but it's too heavy and power-hungry for leg or bike based trips still. We're about to try a rafting trip with a couple other outdoor-oriented digital nomads and a Starlink this season though!
Sure. To solve it powerful people need to stop using younger generations as personality cannon fodder for cultural and political disputes.
It's crazy how "founder friendly" and "investor friendly" (read: "employee unfriendly") the norm has gotten. I would never work for someone else's startup these days. No way, no how. Four orders of magnitude difference between the founders' exit and the early employees' exit is totally unacceptable.
Who brought up silent movies?
Chicken and Waffles
My company is trying to force Kotlin as the default, but I just prefer modern Java tbh. Kotlin is a very nice language, and I'd be fine with writing it, but modern Java just seems like it has "caught up" and even surpassed Kotlin in some features lately.
For me Pascal was an awesome language in the 1980s. Oracle PL/SQL reminds me of it.
> Did anyone commenting realize they were trying to engage with a bot designed to monetize their empathy?

I thought, they are probably all bots, but then I got to your next line:

> Maybe they were also bots, spiraling endlessly into their algorithmically optimized oblivion?

Yep. It's bots all the way down.
I have a deaf friend who can read lips in two languages. As far as I am aware she can pick up humor of all kinds in both.

She knows ASL as well, but I don't think she knows any other dialect of sign language (is dialect the right term? I'm not actually sure).
No way. I have no problem paying. I don't even mind the price. When I signed up last time I chose the monthly option because thats what I was used to for nearly every subscription. I didn't do the math to notice it matched the price of the annual subscription and not once was the cancellation fee mentioned. I was totally caught off guard by the fee and was lucky it was close
to the end of the contract.

It's the same shit internet providers used to do in the US that thankfully they can no longer do. I cannot understand anyone defending Adobe on this if they actually used that plan the way they explained it. Maybe it's better now,
but it absolutely was shady as hell a few years ago.
This is a better solution. I think a lot of high speed rail enthusiasts think that if we build the passengers will come. Its really unproven, I think American cities are so different to most of the world high speed rail would be unpopular. Very few people want to go from downtown one city to another - most city centers aren't that nice and when you get to your destination you'll need a car anyway.
If you're building tools that need to be deployed to machines, Go/Rust with their static binaries make a lot of sense. But for backend web services, it's hard not to go with Java imo.

fwiw - My favorite language is Rust, but Async Rust has ruined it for me.
It’s not so unlike Charles Schultz.
We had a statewide election to decide this. Bypassing Fresno isn't what passed on the ballot. Either the system serves Fresno or the bonds don't exist.
Totally fine. Go back to paying long distance charges for dialup and munitions hitting the COs. It’s no problem at all.
One is so.so, the other is sh.it.

Ah, Somalia. Hmm "Limited to institutions and organizations in Somalia, residents of Somalia, others who have a legitimate, clear and provable connection to Somalia"

Unless you live in Somalia, seems like a non-starter.
>I'd say at least 70% of reddit "hobby" spaces are people buying something with little research, then posting the picture of the thing they bought.

A really great (awful) example of this that I saw was on the typewriters subreddit (which is already 90% people posting pictures of the same 5 or so overhyped machines):

In the 1950s, Royal used to give out gold typewriters as part of a writing contest.[0] I saw one of these come up on Goodwill’s auction site, saved screenshots for my records and followed it closely, since I knew bids would get really stupid really fast. Sure enough, winning bid was around $1500.

About two weeks after the auction ended (about the time Goodwill’s very slow shipping takes), I saw it pop up on the subreddit, exact machine, identical scratches, blemishes, and all to the one I had screenshots of. The post title? “Found this at my local thrift store for $50. How’d I do?”

That was enough to finally make my delete my account and seriously question anyone who thinks Reddit is actually good for niche hobbies.[1]

[0]https://www.antikeychop.com/gold-royal-quiet-de-luxe-typewri...

[1] Well, that and the fact that and the fact that I was probably going to lose my mind if I earnestly gave detailed advice on repairing a machine I had personally stripped and reassembled, only for someone to get upvoted to the top for posting a confident pseudo answer about some mechanism—that may or may not even exist in that machine—that they only faintly understood from a general YouTube video that they only half watched.
You clearly have some interesting and substantive points to make! but on HN, can you please do this without putting down others or their work?

It's all too easy to come across as supercilious and I'm afraid you crossed the line, no doubt inadvertently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I see three sides. Oligarchs like Musk, Thiel, Zuck, Gates. Fortunate people with a few million after 25 years of toil, and the large masses yearning to move up to a richer group.
Title is: Tech tariff exemptions are only temporary, according to Trump’s commerce secretary
> If you pass Columbus, you’d also go through Indianapolis. Or you could go north and pass through Cleveland and Detroit.

Which

1. Already exists

2. Leads to the same problem as before - the population size just does not justify those investments, nor is there any business demand when a flight will always remain faster.

> Anyway, if you only support building infrastructure in regions of the U.S. that are as densely populated as eastern China, you’d basically never build anything

I support building infrastructure that solves an actual problem - and public transit connectivity between NY and Chicago isn't one of those.

It will remain slower than flight transit (so most business and plenty of personal travel will remain flight based) and car ownership remains high in the US, so for personal travel, the independence of driving would still outcompete rail.

Those billions of dollars on such a hypothetical are better spent on plenty of other alternative programs - for example the local transit expansion grants which the Biden admin bundled as part of the IIJA, which helped expand bus and local rail transit instead.

Even China has stopped financing these kinds of mega-projects becuase of tightening financial due dilligence, and tries to tie investments with an actual business case [0]. Heck, now prices are roughly the same between a domestic flight and HSR on the major lines in China.

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/business/china-bullet-tra...

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The only network that could even justify a high speed rail is the DC-Philadelphia-NYC-Boston corridor (so an extended Acela Line), but are you also fine with the federal government expropriating land to speed up development OR spending decades democratically building consensus.

And even then DCA to JFK or Logan will remain time competitive for business travel
Pretty sure they were talking about tourists/fans from other countries, not athletes representing countries.
Oranges in Orange Bags == Rotten Oranges, in my experience. Do Not Buy.
Also for acquisitions, often you'll have to work at the acquiring company for some time to get money from your options. Or might get options in the acquiring company instead (which again are worth nothing until some future possible equity event which hopefully translates into cash).
What exactly is dubious about faking an AI with a giant lookup table and fooling would-be Turing Test judges with it? Or did you mean the Turing Test is dubious? Because that’s what the Chinese Room showed (back in 1980).
This struck me as a strawman argument against the "stochastic parrot" interpretation. I really disagree with this premise in particular: "if a language model was just a stochastic parrot, when we looked inside to see what was going on, we’d basically find a lookup table." I'm not sure how the latter follows from the former at all.

As someone else pointed out, I think there's deep philosophical issues about intelligence and consciousness underlying all this and I'm not sure it can be resolved this way. In some sense, we all might be stochastic parrots — or rather, I don't think the problem can be waved away without deeper and more sophisticated treatments on the topic.
>Testifying that they have unstoppable power

Who is doing that?

The only way to stop them is to vote.
You don't have to pay tax if your RSUs aren't liquid.
/jk

They are just excited to see you, too.
It's almost like the cloud isn't just "someone else's computer" but perhaps a dedicated setup that allows for shared compute and storage managed by a dedicated team of people.
Solving hard math problems requires understanding the structure of complex mathematical reasoning. No animal is known to be capable of that.

Most definitions and measurements of intelligence by most laypeople and psychologists include the ability to reason, with mathematical reasoning widely accepted as part of or a proxy for it. They are imperfect but “intelligence” does not have a universally accepted definition.

Do you have a better measurement or definition?
This argument isn't particularly compelling in my opinion.

I don't actually like the stochastic parrot argument either to be fair.

I feel like the author is ignoring the various knobs (randomization factors may be a better term) applied to the models during inference that are tuned specifically to make the output more believable or appealing.

Turn the knobs too far and the output is unintelligible garbage. Don't then them far enough and the output feels very robotic or mathematical, its obvious that the output isn't human. The other risk of not turning the knobs far enough would be copyright infringement, but I don't know if that happens often in practice.

Claiming that LLMs aren't stochastic parrots without dealing with the fact that we forced randomization factors into the mix misses a huge potential argument that they are just cleverly disguised stochastic parrots.
I believe the game in the article is no longer offered. I think it was a regional game with 3 numbers like lucky 7s or whatever.
20 years ago I backpacked around Europe on a Eurail pass for all of April and part of May. I even paid the supplement for the high speed trains.

Most of the time, the trains were all but empty.

I think eventually Boston-NYC type routes will be handled by quad-copter type drones that land right in the city center. That type of passenger rail will be obsolete
datetime handling can absolutely be a hot spot, especially if you're parsing or formatting them. Even for relatively simple things like "parse a huge csv file with dates into dataclasses".

In particular, default implementation of datetime in cpython is a C module (with a fallback to pure python one) https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Modules/_datetim...

Not saying it's necessarily justified in case of this library, but if they want to compete with stdlib datetime in terms of performance, some parts will need to be compiled.
I've always thought the word 'bricked' as more akin to 'turning the phone into a useless brick'.
What does this mean, especially in reference to this story
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Chrome extension to conquer more projects focussing on one task per day
The best stuff I’ve seen lately has all been in person unrecorded. The room gets slap happy over anything and so there are no filters unlike stuff packaged for streaming
> You don't have to pay tax if your RSUs aren't liquid

Sure. You also don’t get to turn them into cash the way shareholders can. Consider that it’s been VCs most vocally singing their praises.
Why is that a sign of astroturfing? More likely, there are more people who read (and upvote) posts on the default subs, than niche local subs.
Founders will almost always have common stock too, so they're in the same boat - it's only investors who will have preferred stock. If you don't spend 10 minutes to understand liquidation preferences before accepting a startup offer, that's kind of your problem.
MySQL also has https://github.com/vitessio/vitess which is alive and well.