skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no "Moore's law for performance". Moore's law is a statement about the number of transistors on a chip, nothing more (Moore?). And sure enough, the Threadripper machine I built this year has about double the number of transistors as the Threadripper machine I built last year, which has about double the number of transistors to the one before that... (although this is partly a function of increasing budget; Moore's law specifies a two year doubling).

But sure, if you want to talk performance - the fastest CPU this year, the Threadripper 3990X, is over 100x faster than the fastest CPU of 2005, the Athlon 64 FX-57. That's about 7-8 doublings, or pretty much spot on.
One.
If you dont have proper moderation tools, one single malicious user can make a high trust network untenable.
In less developed societies, most people end up dying before adulthood. As modernization reaches these places, more of their children survive.

If each woman previously had five children, but only one survived, you're going to have less overall population than if she had two children, and they both survive.
"The root of the problem is that humans weren't meant to work in such large groups."

Unfortunately it's a foundational artifact in how we create and maintain civil culture.
Nah most likely Pakistani gov will deal with corporate TikTok to hire local content moderators. Cynical me even believe that this is a low hanging fruit attempts to get a deal from TikTok HQ.
They planned to kidnap the governor and then put her on "trial" which is terrorist-speak for murder.

Like most terrorist plots, this one didn't require the terrorists to take over the government.

It's about fear and media amplification of fear to (1) inspire like-minded individuals to join their cause and become terrorists, and (2) intimidate other government officials to fall in line.
You never hear about the people who do take opsec seriously.

Criminals are not dumb, the ones you hear about are.
I’m the founder of copy.ai, a GPT-3 app that generates short form marketing copy. We have paying users already who find it helpful.
The section about not sleeping being lethal should be changed. First I talks about rats, secondly it's lethal for insomnia sufferers cause it makes them extremely scared and afraid of not sleeping (I'm obviously in this group).
I’ve never understood why H1-B applications weren’t sorted by compensation (salary): higher salaries go first. Seems like a trivial way to prevent visa farming.
Of course, this also raises the uncomfortable prospect that the disaffected enlistee content is genuine, and that the propagandists don’t like it.
Your example is not analogous to the OP. You were trying to get Apple to allow you to do something within their own product, not trying to start a business and then having another business say you can't name it something.

Apple doesn't have to let anyone register a developer account. They don't need a reason if they decide to reject certain account names.
Perhaps someone can write a bookmarklet or browser plugin with the same effect.
The meat on all the other planets in the universe, possibly?
Well I guess it depends on making a distinction between what consumers think they want, versus what they actually do.

Yes, people say they don't want recommendations, because 95% of them are irrelevant.

But then the 5% (or 2% or 0.5%) turn out to be super-relevant, and they find new people to follow that they love, and learn about things they love, and the experience in the end turns out to be a net positive.

Their actions show that it's valuable in the end. Otherwise the feature wouldn't exist at all. Recommendations aren't advertisements, sites don't make money off them -- sites use them because people genuinely find things that lead them to use the sites more.
Let me Google that for you: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267606/quarterly-revenue...

Revenue is down two consecutive quarters. It is well-known that the vast majority of Google's revenue comes from ads (see eg https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/12/24/is... or https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/25/18024654/alphabet-google...)
That was bait. Don't take the bait. Only you can prevent flamewars.

edit: oh god look at all these sibling comments, abort, abort!
> I wish there was a trend towards very small companies where every employee can own a significant part and be part of decisions.

There is. Look at the growing trend of indie hacking and the growing number of indie vc funds that specifically look for small companies planning to stay small-ish.
Given that you're in a named basket with people you laugh at, don't you wish you had a more specific word to describe yourself than "conservative?"

I am genuinely curious why reasonable conservatives aren't fighting for a reasonable label, for their reasonable politics.

Discussion is easier when words have some meaning. "Conservative" certainly has lost virtually any consensus policy meaning.
Being a Muslim this is very exciting read. I didn't know Muslims from that time were able to reach these conclusions at all. It's amazing.

I once read something by another Muslim around same time discussing atoms. I believed that to be fake but now after reading this. I am going to look it up again.

Attribution to God is cultural. It's done with literally everything (even to the food someone just made for you). As acceptance of the creator, it makes it very convenient to discuss nearly any subject while maintaining it.
This is pretty much how the interview with my current position went. It felt really good to just talk about software development, private projects and other topics instead of doing tests in one form or another.
That is evil. Consumer companies (aka Apple) must work for their customers (citizens). If consumer companies are working to be betray citizens, their customers, then corporations are evil. Customers pay the bill and Apple choses to betray the very people who pay the bill.
You could use a dictation app.
Apple had a lot of work to do still with dual sims. There’s quite a number of weird quirks from apps expecting only one phone number. T-Mobile’s scam blocker only uses the physical sim. Messages get confused if someone in a group switched to your other number. Etc.

One other one I think Apple has resolved recently is sometimes mobile data will stop working until you disable one of the lines.
Completely and totally agree. The price of a new construction house in Redmond WA is around $1,400,000 USD and involves lots of paperwork and rules to be able to qualify to buy.

The price of a similarly specified house in Iowa or West Virginia in a very affluent zip code is less than $600,000, some closer to $400,000. It is conceivable that a married couple with 10 years of savings could buy this house cash and continue working remote as they please!
I think skocznymroczny is punning on the term "honey trap" with honey == HoNey == HN.
Can someone who has done work for OpenAI sue them for not sticking with their charter?
OpenAI: This technology can be misused hence we'll not release it to the public.

Also OpenAI: Exclusive access to Microsoft which eventually will release it to public but after paying to OpenAI.

Elon is noone more than a typical corporate who slips away from his ethical commitments at the first opportunity of making money.
Artificial geographical lines segregating people artificially. Remove our set of welfare programs and let anyone that can make it here, live here.
There's a few of these, thanks for posting my favorite version.
pg has never actually run a large workforce, so I take all of his advice on this subject with a (huge) grain of salt.
Yup. I'd love to live inside my own bubble filter.

Does anyone do personalization well?

I worked on team that was trying to transition from recommendations to personalization (fashion retailer with ecommerce, think Macys Nordstrom etc).

Our imagined gold standard was the expert sales person, the personalized shopper. So somehow figure out how to make a digital sales person. Like StitchFix or Trunk Club. Curation at scale.

But I couldn't even figure out how to solve my own ultimate shopping challenge: recommend a quality white t-shirt that fits.

Though I doubt it, maybe StitchFix has cracked this nut. If they (or someone) has, we need to distill their magic and apply it more generally.

(I haven't tried Spotify or Apple Music. I've heard their personalization efforts are pretty good, so I'm semi-curious.)

--

Oh, and a post script, while I'm chewing on this topic.

I have a theory why quality personalization isn't likely to become the norm. I can't yet imagine how it'd displace today's biz models. Targeted advertising has sucked up all the oxygen.

It's hard to articulate the difference between personalization and targeted advertising (recommenders). One of those torturous endless discussions our teams couldn't escape.

"Personalization" is needs fulfillment whereas targeting is attention stealing. Personalization is much harder to monetize, because it relies on conversions. Whereas with targeting, the money changes hands before hand and is easier to pretend it's working.
Why the Unix newgrp command exists (sort of)
oh right, though that can happen with anything on ebay. i thought you were thinking of something specific to phones, like reading /cloning the memory/disk of the phone or something along those lines.
Totally! I had the same experience maintaining an iOS app (eventually abandoned), which is why I was curious and asked the question. Every new version of Xcode produces more warnings, deprecates more APIs, removes previously deprecated ones, and "strongly encourages" changing your code in all sorts of ways. Yuck! I was wondering if the same was true on Android.

Contrast that to Microsoft, who (at least used to) really get backwards compatibility. I bet I could dig out a Win32 program I wrote 20 years ago for NT4 and compile it today, and it would run on Windows 10.
Those are very good points, thanks for the clarification.
Do you have any links for more info?
In this context it kind of is. It helps protesters organize and protect themselves.
PG is a big boy and can defend himself from deserved criticism, but this is just a silly characterization. He profits from his contribution in helping people start their own companies.
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Did any evade capture for a decent period of time?

At least one person has escaped using tools dropped from a drone -

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/escaped-prisoner-w...
How did you get signed agreement? Did you contact Lucasfilm or did they contact you?
Most of the learning curve on Arch is front-loaded. Once you have a system how you like it, the odds that a broken package will make it unbootable are small.

That being said it probably took me 3-4 evenings to set up an encrypted disk and boot loader correctly, and another few weeks to tweak the window manager and various configs to be exactly how I like them.

The best part, however, is that once you’ve got it there, the system really feel like yours.
My job for the past 30 years has been designing ASICs, so all the analog stuff is not my concern. Prior to that I designed at the TTL level. I'd spend months working on some project, thinking in terms of logic an timing, and eventually we'd have boards made. We'd stuff a few prototypes and set them up on the lab bench to commence debugging.

Every time at this phase I'd suffer the existential horror the first time put an oscilloscope to the circuit -- the clock wasn't square! Signals would ring, and other signals which hadn't transitioned would sometimes bounce a bit. Setup and hold times could be pretty well estimated, but it was still an estimate. Then there were phantoms that might appear on the scope or real issues that would not show up on the scope because the probe lead was enough to make what was measured not the same as what was actually going on.
Is Reason even actively developed these days? Isn't it sort of a dead project, or have I misunderstood something?
I remember reading the article a few years ago (unfortunately down right now) and being struck at both how erudite and impractical it is. These days I find it even more of the later.

My biggest pet peeve is that it ignores the role technology (in the form of artificial light and comfortable indoor space) completely subverts our natural sleep cycle. It's a lost battle.

Better to accept that we're in an artificial state our whole lives and do our best to adapt to it. What I'm trying right now is a good melatonin supplement every night to counteract the unnantural stimulus, plus a magnesium supplement, and a lot of daytime exercise. This routine has gotten me from 6 hours of anxious sleep to 8-9 hours per night plus the occasional nap. And I feel great.
I agree that the more stuff the language lets you do - the more people will abuse it. But there is also a productivity of higher level languages.
He does not have a fiduciary duty to kowtow to Belarus.
Please explain to me why it's beneficial to society to people to work 30 years, paying all sort of interest and fees to middle men and excluding the median citizen from home ownership?

Dare I remind you that a single income family could afford a new construction home with just 4 years of salary in the 1950s and 1960s.

Build more houses, make everyone that can go remote, remove the needless fake money bidding wars that come from easy leverage for those who qualify.

It is scientifically proven that when a human owns something instead of rents it, they take much better care of their property and their community (source: google). Mortgages and renting just bring despair and trigger apocalyptic emotions in humans, which is why the Bronx looks like the Bronx, and Bellevue looks like Bellevue.
The first amendment doesn’t apply to foreigners outside the US.
I both agree and disagree at the same time. And as you can see from the other comments here, it's not a clear cut issue. For me _some_ math functionality would be welcome, and some would not. But equally, if a feature is present, I fully expect it to be abused and make things worse rather than better, as with any feature. So, e.g., I'd much rather have code like Γ(α, β) than Gamma(alpha, beta), and N(μ, σ²) over normpdf( mu, sigmasquared ), but I would not like it if people started choosing obscure single-letter names instead of self-documenting code that "reads like English". But arguably that is a question of promoting good style and programming standards, not one of "limiting the freedom of users by design because some may not follow good style".
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Only 1x liq pref in this case.
How do you feel about those who are excluded from home ownership due to not qualifying for a mortgage because of arbitrary rules and supply constrictive zoning laws?
When our employer plan had a higher cap on monthly compensation for phones for those of us required to be on call and check mail I would just bury the upgrade cost into the monthly billing. They have since reduced the amount by a third so it covers the average phone bill and it really does make me think more than once about whether an upgrade nets me anything

fwiw, I am quite happy with the 8+ and I am not even sure what it would take me to upgrade. phones would have to become super light, fold-able, or even perhaps translucent or such to pique my interest at this point.
In what way is their meat analogous with our meat, if theirs isn't conscious?
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I’m curious as to what type of content you refer to as being indecent. Is this adult/risqué content? I’m unclear about the connection to strategy of bombarding the west then, I feel like there are plenty of other places to find such content.
This survey almost certainly wrong. 9 out of 10 people when given a leading question will probably say they think buying the latest smartphone is a waste of money, but the whole point of marketing shows that's not the case.

Average upgrade cycle is 24-36 months now. 75-85% of that is a "current" model. The caveat here is that "latest" device and flagship devices are not the same thing. For example, the latest oneplus can be either the flagship 8T or the new mid-range Nord.
3/4 of all H1Bs are going to Indians. Having some level of diversity from other countries doesn’t sound like a bad idea. On top of it, most of those H1bs are from Indian body shops gaming the system which is how they get so many H1Bs in the first place. So I’m okay with these changes.
I see. That makes sense. Now that I think about it maybe if its in front of some database or storage that only handles strings it would work well as well.
Ah... I think you misspelled NSA and the American Empire*

No worries, easy mistake
That's what i've learned... #!/bin/sh is generally what I use and it survives porting.

If I need more power I usually switch to python. (Probably not relevant to a bash discussion though, sorry)
You can speed read supermemo by scrolling and stopping at the yellow sections. It's worth even just getting the highlights.
Yes because the entire history of software industry shows what the problems are with Vendor Lock-in and how it will be abused

Oracle is a case book study if it, that is their entire business model
The issue is not the authenticity of the claim.

It's easy to find anyone to have any opinion you want.

The issues is the legitimacy of the popularity, targets, the censorship of opposing claims etc. etc..

It's easy to see how many press outlets bend the truth to suit their narrative, now imagine how far that could be bent by a foreign actor.

'Media' in it's classical forms is effectively a protected industry, it's less evident in the US, but it's de-facto true.

TikTok content is all over the place - some of it is surely going to be problematic and those things can spike. Most things that are 'taboo' attract considerable attention, and are likely to be promoted by attention-based algorithms.

In particular, I've seen a lot of young girls advertising their personal porn pages. I don't so much have a problem with that legally ... but I certainly have concerns about normalizing sex work among our 18 year olds. We actually do curate content out of social concerns etc. - it's why you don't see 'porn' on CNN, but if you want to get it, of course you can in a free society.
Not including headers in header files can be confusing.

Say you maintain a library (lib1.h) that exports an API that takes in an argument defined in lib2.h.

If you do not include lib2.h in lib1.h, then the users of your API need to include lib2.h before lib1.h in every source file and header. With a larger number of dependencies, this can become unwieldy for users.

In addition, future maintainers of your library may also find it confusing why things break when includes are reordered.
Any such excerpt/quote from a CEO figure is just meaningless cant.
Every time H1b comes on HN, I see people making the same arguments over and over again.

It’s a topic that never fails to provoke. I also wonder if it’s a different set of commenters each time..
The other case is they didn’t want to deal with going through an IPO, got a great offer for their business and a major liquidity event for their employees.

Going public, despite profits made, really sucks the soul out of a company.

Twilio and Segment’s visions align pretty well so I think that played a role as well. Outside of golden handcuffs, a large portion of their employees are liquid immediately as opposed to an IPO with a 6-12 month lockup for employees plus the rise/fall of a stock price during that time.

All in all, I think they made the right choice to sell instead of going for an IPO.
Readable without using their app or so?
> Elon is noone more than a typical corporate who slips away from his ethical commitments at the first opportunity of making money.

What does it have to do with Elon Musk? The article does not mention him as the cause of OpenAI's actions, and he himself has said that he does not have control of the company: "I have no control & only very limited insight into OpenAI."[1]

1. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1229546206948462597
I just discovered that the BuckleScript team started a rebranding to ReScript a few months ago: https://rescript-lang.org/
Elon is not involved with OpenAI anymore: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1229546206948462597?s=21
“I am hearing from many constituents, who have been waiting over ten years, for a green card“ -

Constituent - “ any of the voters who elect a person to represent them.”

H1B are not US citizens, and politicians considering them their “constituents” are misrepresenting their true constituents interests.
Sometimes the only reason is backwards compatibility.
That only proves there's propaganda on all sides. No one said anyone is a good guy, only that the interest is in keeping adversarial propaganda at bay.
can you recommend anything in particular by Robert Sheckley? I'd be interested to check out his style.
Wait, so I am not the only one who almost never read articles, but spend 30 minutes on reading their comments?
The TCJA changes to personal deductions expire at the end of 2025, so the tax benefits of a mortgage will return.
Won't that unfairly benefit big companies?
Probably a form of 'acquired taste', where the kind you become accustomed to tends to be very narrow. One person's absurd is another's nonsense, in a way?
Arch as main desktop and daily driver for 7 years or so. It’s still my main preference and I have no intention of switching. Wouldn’t run it on servers though, there it’s Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS. Apart from the systemd transition way back, which was a bit disruptive, the only breakages are the occasional kernel bug or window manager whatever which is typically solved by rolling back (pacman -U on your pkg cache) and waiting for a fix until upgrading that package again.

Also I’d recommend getting familiar with and picking a tool for PKGBUILDs and AUR. I like aur-sync and friends but there are options.
MEAT YOURSELF!

WTF this guy takes himself for what? :Ð

BTW the only things he probed is his stupidity...
he even invented a fictional interlocutor even more cunt...

No Idea what this all means to you... but this is total arrogance to me... FUCK IT...
Even if big company is going to lose, that is nothing for them and they can play the game forever and drag the courts while you are trying everything to pay for court costs, even if you are almost sure you will get them back
HN didn't have a significant increase in traffic due to covid compared to other sites, hence the more submissions didn't lead to more traffic. OP dropped also submissions that didn't hit the frontpage by removing those with less than 10 comments. So the 19% more submissions couldn't influence the result. And even if, you'd still have 19% vs 40%.
And yet they buy new ones anyway.
Or possibly poking fun at meat that is equally incredulous at the notion of AI.
Somehow the government doesn't want to fund landowners in California. You'd bet that take-home pay for the same work after taxes and rent is higher in Dallas than in San Jose. I think Facebook is demonstrating this like now.
News about the recent study seems fairly balanced IMO

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53753458

I don't expect major public health shifts to happen within a month of a paper being published, especially during a pandemic.
Has been posted here many times. For some reason it never gets any discussion, maybe because enough people are familiar with it now.
You are creating a false dichotomy.
It's horribly more complex than just that, the person you're replying to is "more correct" because of the rules of `set -e` which is critical in this thread; a singular command followed by && is treated differently than a compound command. Pull up `man bash` and search `/set.*abef` to read the rather long and involved paragraph for the `-e` option, running in a subshell is only part of it.