skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They kinda do though. This is how FAANG retains their best. It's not professional athlete level but there's a reason talent still goes there.
Although it can be very inexpensive it can be fun?
It gets even hazier, frankly, when you realize that not every statement you make can be firmly categorized as a truth or lie. Due to cognitive dissonance our lies to others can soon become lies to ourselves, and where do you draw the line between wholly believing in a lie to yourself and being flat-out mistaken?
Someone Built an Engine Crane Out of Wood. Let's Do Math to See If It's Safe
Because companies don't adhere to the labour theory of value. Companies pay as little as they have to, to keep enough workers.
Pattern Matching in Python 3.10
Senators Offer to Let NSA Hunt Cyber Actors Inside the US
The article alludes to this but maybe doesn’t point it out clearly enough: they can only minimize cost in this way _because_ it’s hard to evaluate - otherwise the engineers in question would just work somewhere else where their value would immediately be recognized.
Is Love in the time of cholera both notorious and prosaic enough?
Yes. Geography
UBI is here (perhaps temporarily), and unevenly distributed in terms of fiscal and monetary allocation.

AI is here, and in the hands of a few tax-evasive global corporations. So far AI has been good for: addictive attention farming, polarization, and social control.

I'm a fellow techno-optimist, but the solutions Sam brings up don't feel effective, or at least sufficient. Our direction is ugly, and Sam isn't calling out the big players to change their course.

Perhaps we need Universal Basic Compute: any corporation beyond a certain compute capacity (in FLOP/s) must allocate 50% to public utility. From there, individuals can vote to determine how they algorithmically represent themselves.
Au contraire, they entered NATO to ensure they remain sovereign.
What I noticed with British expats in my country they one of the most vocal group against anything local including government policy and culture. Something that I find extremely weird considering they chose to move here but at the same time it makes sense for them to vote for brexit.
Oh, God. Whenever anyone says they'll "reach out," or they want me to do so, rather than "contact," "call," "email," "Slack," "message," etc. someone, that is the absolute worst.

Probably my second least favorite is "utilize" instead of "use." Seriously, why use a 3 syllable word when a perfectly good 1 syllable word ("use") exists and means almost literally the same thing?
After talking to people from a lot of other countries (inc. europeans who use English as their "lingua franca"), the main benefit of English is that it's incredibly fault tolerant. It's difficult to learn well enough to sound like a native speaker, but even if you are very far from it, you're still understandable.

Think about these phrases:

* I go store now

* I hungry

* I wash car later

* I cook food grill tomorrow if no rain

These all immediately sound like a "foreigner" speaking, yet are completely understandable. Many other languages, relying on conjugations and implicit subjects & objects are way more inaccessible to new learners!
The US does all kinds of terrible things but, importantly, we are all mostly[1] free to call these things out and make it clear that bullshit is happening.

The CCP is different. Their censorship is overt and draconian. Even the most wealthy and powerful citizens of China risk being taken in for questioning for speaking the truth about power.

[1] Manning, Snowden, Assange et al notwithstanding.
This reminded me of an article in Time (1966) http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,8351...

> By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that everyone in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy. With Government benefits, even nonworking families will have, by one estimate, an annual income of $30,000-$40,000 (in 1966 dollars). How to use leisure meaningfully will be a major problem...
>> Also what is the cost of storing that energy?

> Insanely high compared to the cost of producing it.

Ok, how about you share your numbers on the cost of production for 1kwh.

Your use of "insanely high" leads me to believe you are comparing the capital outlay for batteries, vs operating costs of a power station. It's important to compare like for like.
Not saying Bitcoin is worse just that its vulnerable... Since we don't know for sure who controls what hash power, it's even possible that quiet manipulation already takes place.

On brighter side blockchain projects that require memory bound hashing algorithms are less vulnerable to takeovers since massive ASIC farms don't work afaik. Ethereum is one such approach (but ofc when they decided to undo transaction history after TheDao hack, it isn't immutable either).
Thankyou, more icons released just a few mins ago.
Sure electricity gets exported a lot and Germany is a large exporter of electricity. That's a European market now. That's what we (the EU) have been doing for decades now: EU wide markets instead of country markets (or smaller). That's also a large building block fir a new electricity landscape: EU wide connected grids, in many places with high-capacity HVDC lines.

Germany was not 'panic closing' nuclear. The nuclear exit was hotly debated for decades and decided long before Fukushima.

Germany was doing a lot more than just closing 'some' of its nuclear reactors and setting a timeline for closing the rest.
Germany also removed the centralized monopoly business model around the big nuclear&coal-based electricity companies. The electricity production was in the hand of four large companies who had divided Germany into four monopolistic regions. These large companies had zero intention investing into renewable, since that already owned all the market and were free of competition. The government opened up the market and reduced the influence of the companies.

Germany has in sum now not more coal power than in had then. It has less coal capacity.
This is another good point: you can be interrogating (or interviewing) a suspect under investigation, use a withholding technique and successfully catch them in a lie, only to have them lying for a completely unrelated reason to the original inquiry.
From what I've gathered, the best lies under interrogation are the ones with the most components of the truth and minimal superfluous information. The police will do everything to get you to talk and keep talking, which is why legal representation is so key.
Chapter 20 of 'The Art of Unix Programming' discusses various issues:

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/futurechapter.ht...
The wise choice is to not choose either - both countries don't care about killing a million people, and we have a lot more leverage over the US than we have over China.

As far as comparisons, I didn't make any. You're free to quote if you disagree.
I also bookmarked as I have been learning spanish on and off.

I like that it starts with english, so that I have to try to guess what the Spanish is first. I missed the 'de' in 'de cuyo nombre' and now I don't think I'll easily forget.
Show HN: Last Time – App that helps you remember the last time you did something
For non locals, is there a summary of what Chesa Boudin did?
I’m not going to vigorously defend polygraphs, but I’ll play Devil’s advocate for a bit. From your the Salon piece you linked to, “In studies, polygraph diagnoses are often wrong, with rates hovering around 80 percent correct”

Which to some people sounds terrible. I certainly wouldn’t want to hang a murder conviction on something with a 20 percent error rate. But on the other hand, 80 percent is better than all but one of the cited results from the Atlantic article, and beats the results from all experiments using untrained people. These con artists are, at best, performing on par with specific lie detection training.

Maybe the equipment is just for show, but who’s to say that further biometric measurements, such as functional MRI, wouldn’t significantly increase the accuracy of biometric lie detection (still technically within the realm of nonverbal cues from the Atlantic article)? I don’t think it could be 100% accurate, but I can reasonably see future polygraphs being legitimate tools for lie detection.

I wouldn’t want my murder conviction to hang on the results of a current polygraph, but I would be satisfied using one to catch an office supply thief. Well, except it would probably be cheaper to just let someone keep stealing supplies than to pay $8k per employee to administer the tests.
> The beauty of Bitcoin is that my wealth will never be redistributed

I'm skeptical. That's presuming Bitcoin stays stagnant, but that stagnation could also mean its downfall.

Also "wealth" locked up in Bitcoin is only as good as your onramps and offramps into the mainstream economy, and it's quite possible that those can be legally closed off, putting you in the position of someone like a drug dealer if you want to access it.
I know you think you’re tough, but really you come across like a total coward
Romanians hate Russia as much as poles do, due to recent history.

The most damaging thing you can say about a politician in Romania is that he is pro-Russia.
"A" vs "an" depends entirely on whether you consider the glottal stop to be a consonant. "A" before a vowel is only wrong if it's elided into the following word.
During election season I saw billboards here about like: Are you new from a state of blue? Remember in November why you came to Texas
Ask HN: How is your life after FIRE?
How do you spend your time after becoming Financially Independent and retiring Early?
Sam is a pretty smart guy... How on Earth does he assume that this is a reasonable idea?
Nvidia shipped the A100 in 2019. I was using one in August.
Free internet for the poor also improves political organizing which could be a net negative for the ultra wealthy.
Keep in mind this is either a subreddit or Automoderator setting.

Subs can limit posts to users with some minimal karma or age. Typically this still permits comment, though harvesting comment karma is then incentivised.

Automoderator, a rule-driven automated moderation tool, can actively interact with posts and comments based on various criteria, including automatically holding or removing posts or comments, messaging submitters, and other actions. This is heavily used on highly-active subs, and pretty well documented.
Do you mind sharing the version of the dick conversations in Russian? I'm one of those crazy people studying Russian.
Hi everyone,

I am excited to share Last Time app with you today, a complete activity timeline manager that I made and have enjoyed using for some time now.

If at any point in your life, you've ever wondered when you did something or when something happened but couldn't remember, you know how frustrating such moments can be. Last Time app takes care of this.

Some features of the app:

- Simple, minimalistic interface, with light and dark themes.

- Group related events so you can easily find or update them at the same time if needed. Sort events by last entry, history count, or creation date.

- Store notes in each event entry. See the time between entries and since the creation of each entry. Search entries by date-range or notes.

- Schedule notifications to remind you of your events. Adaptive notifications smartly adapt to your last entry for each event and remind you at the right time. Easily add entries from the notification.

- Beautiful widgets, available in both light and dark themes to put your events on your home screen so they're always in front of you. Easily add entries from the widget.

- No advertisements, behavior tracking, or intrusive permissions. The app is free, works completely offline, and requires no internet connection.

Let me know if you have any thoughts or feedback for me!
was such discussion possibly a driving force behind the creation of the language server protocol LSP?

which created an interface between meta knowledge about code on one side and user interaction (ide) on the other?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Server_Protocol
Where do you see those ads?

The most prominent ads I see on amazon is when I search for literally anything, the top results are often whoever paid Amazon the most to be the top results. Sometimes I will literally search for a brand by name and some other brand will be shown before it. This kind of race to the bottom is something I've heard a lot of companies complain about, companies literally need to pay Amazon for the ads on their own terms to outbid competitors.
I'm convinced English is impossible to master. There are just too many corner cases.

That said, English is also a very abused language. Sadly these days, correcting someone leads to 'oh it's a living language and use determines definition', and more sadly, dictionaries play along with this idea.

This both makes the language harder to understand, and impossible to master IMO.
I can't speak for California, but Illinois requires these things to be public (either automatically or via a FOIA request). Most state FOIAs work in the same way, but maybe with different sets of exceptions
Professional sports salaries benefits from a game with well defined rules winners and losers systems of measurement around scoring points.

A company has a bunch of other stuff that had to be in solid alignment to "win". Engineers have to be working on the correct problems to begin with to add exponentially more value.

It's not as simple as "crushing" the sprint points assigned rather chosing the problem set ... If chosing the problem set then it's leadership or founders which can be rewarded at 50x.
I once worked with someone who used the abbreviation GMTA for “great minds think alike”. It was a particularly funny habit, seeing as how no one ever deciphered it without help.
I like when “leverage” is used instead of “use”.
Cliffhanger. His unfinished concept of comparing money to a chair leaves readers "confused, disoriented and exploitable" enough to pitch his newsletter signup at the end.

What is he selling? Just spit it out already.
https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/ covers this to some extent. There is a pretty wide distribution to SWE salaries. SWEs who really want those 10x salaries can aggressively pursue high salaries and get 10x the median SWE salary if they hit T7-9 at a FAANG: https://www.levels.fyi/

> For example, one of the top MLB pitchers, Stephen Strasburg, received $38M in 2019, while the average salary in MLB was $4.3M.

This isn't the right comparison. If Strasburg is the number #1 baseball player in the world, it makes sense for him to max 10x the median MLB player who would be the ~500th best baseball player in the world. I'm sure the #1 best paid programmer in the world easily makes 10x - 1,000,000x the median programmer when you account startup equity.

And people who aggressively jump between FAANGs at high levels can get $1M+ offers and counteroffers.
Why does it have to be zero sum?
Bigger size/more population only makes the problem harder.
More engineers than you think are making a million or two, it’s just not really talked about.
It also improves the ability to gaslight those minorities via targeted advertising. Not that newstainment doesn't do the same.
Any job that doesn't give workers time to use the bathroom when they need to is inhumane.

Any job that is too warm, and doesn't provide workers adequate water, breaks, or AC such that workers are feinting or suffer health consequences is inhumane.

If the working conditions elsewhere are worse than that, then it's not a positive mark for Amazon. It's a black mark for those workplaces.

> I feel dirty now for having defended Amazon, but the truth is the truth.

I don't know if you have condemned Amazon, so much as tarred other workplaces if they also fail to meet these standards.
Because that is a myth. If that existed, you could build an entire startup with a single developer.
My mother was a fourth- and fifth-grade teacher in California fifty years ago. She would sometimes have her students write stories, and once one girl turned in a delightful little story that stood out from the others. My mother thought she showed real talent and praised her to the skies, showed the story to other teachers, brought it home and showed it to our family, etc. A year or two later, my mother happened across exactly the same story in a children’s book in the library. It was clear that the girl had just copied her story out of the book. My mother was really sad about the whole thing for quite a while.
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Bullshit. Information economy is no substitute for economy of food and goods.

Not just that, there is a limit to bucket-sorting, which is the only thing current AI is good for.
English spelling really is terrible and needs a full writing reform.
This is basically Amazon getting sellers on its site to pay money to be ranked higher in search results, and since result ranking is so competitive, companies basically are forced to buy out the keywords for their own products/brand name to avoid other competitors outbidding them. Sometimes, searching stuff like "Dyson" or "Roomba" will give me results from cheap knockoffs before the actual brand I'm even looking for.
To be fair, I've never heard someone use the word defenestrate unironically.
Maybe, but you will not get to enjoy it either.
> Maybe the equipment is just for show

Yes, it's a con.

> but who’s to say that further biometric measurements, such as functional MRI, wouldn’t significantly increase the accuracy of biometric lie detection

That isn't what they're doing. The "who" that will say it is actual, statistically significant evidence that it works.
One Night Ultimate Werewolf has the additional wrinkle that initially most (or all) players don't even know whether they should be lying or not.
Because that’s going beyond the idea of nonverbal cues. It’s easier to tell is someone is lying about a murder when you found the murder weapon with their fingerprints on it. If you have evidence you don’t really need to worry about spotting the lies.
Here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/narcissism/comments/mde5fh/biweekly...

It's my post/sub. You're free to dig in my history and/or DM me.

And of course there are plenty more self aware narcissists to hang out with as well.
You still need a court to enforce your contract... and the men with guns own the courts.
In sports in a game the better team will win and the worse team will lose. In economy the better company will win and the worse company will also win, just a little bit less.
What's the difference - to humanity overall - if these 100 billion transistors are doing scrypt hashes, or "machine learning"?
Didn’t BillG suggest the labor of robots and other artificial beings be taxed? In a way, we might not have any other choice if we want to avoid total societal collapse or communism.
English is a Germanic language, but about 60% of words used by English speakers today were imported from French and Latin, mostly after the Norman conquest of England. So by this standard, it stopped being English hundreds of years ago.
I don't have a solution for this in general, but I do have a specific company that is looking for that level of funding -- feel free to reach out if you're interested to hear more!
There's another reason, too -- which is that a "50x engineer" will very rarely be 50x on most development tasks.

Your 50x engineer may be able to build a highly performant and complex algorithm by themselves, truly in a week where other engineers might take a year.

But 99% of programming isn't that. It's CRUD apps and configuration files and debugging browser quirks and hunting down race conditions etc.

Your "50x engineer" probably isn't going to be all that faster solving a CSS bug or putting together an online order form or configuring Apache.

So even if companies could identify programming geniuses... they mostly don't have genius-level work to give them, so there's no use in paying 50x anyways.
> It seems there are verbal and physical cues when we lie.

Yes. Not being able to detect lies is a social construction, part of culture. (And so the results reported in TFA are technically useless because everyone involved is operating as part of the unconscious "conspiracy" and so would naturally "discover" that it's hard to detect lies.)

You can tap into this with hypnosis, but it's unpleasant, like being an alien. Imagine being the only person in the room that can tell when someone, anyone, is lying. It would be pretty creepy, eh? Like Twilight Zone creepy. People would shun you. You'd have to hide the ability, eh? And so we come full circle: we all can tell but we're taught not to as children.
I have to question whether you're trying to prove GPs point, as this is hilariously incorrect. Unless you're using very unlikely values for easy and/or small.
Tech companies avoid paying taxes today.

And you think they are going to redistribute profits, when they don't even pay taxes?

I have an NFT to sell you then.
This is a really good point. It reminds me of exactly how my daughter spoke English as she was learning. It always amazed me how she put words together to make a sentence that was at face value wrong, but intent was understood. I think my two favorites were 'i scary' and 'that makes me funny'(after laughing, I guess context matters too)
Sometimes that does happen, though...
No, they're implying that the person who owns the futuristic ultra intelligent AI and receives the benefits of its output will leave scraps.
It’s Indian English? As an American, I have mostly heard it used by people in England (where I have more contacts than in India). Is it not originally from England? (If not, funny how it has reverted back from India.)
>Won’t someone please think of the white people

IMAX-level projection. All you can do is neurotically "think of the white people" all day.

Remember, soyboy self-loathing is a real, measurable phenomenon, and they're the only group who do it: https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/284875/am...
Reddit famously had a team of four for a surprising number of years.

I myself am the sole developer for a B2B software company with $5M ARR.

I'm not 50x (or even 10x) and don't think those designations are based in reality, but your second sentence doesn't follow from the first.
Unions are anti-free market. They are monopoly cartels protected by the federal government. If people who sell peanut butter joined together to sell their products at a higher price, the DOJ would bust them up. If people who sell labor join together to do the same type of rent seeking, congress sets up the NLRB to protect them.
Yup, many of the "signs someone is lying".

Are actually signs someone is uncomfortable/insecure.

And while you might be such because you lie, you might also be such without lying and you might not be such when lying.
... where half the proceeds were going to an independent non-profit organization implicated in a Federal corruption probe involving city officials.
No sorry
I’ve thought, for years, about improving my English. But I don’t know how to go about doing so. I already speak, read, and write English without effort. But I want to improve further. There seem to be a lack of options for someone in this situation, all English learning resources seem to be aimed at beginners.
You kind of can, up to like seed level anyways.

I think the real 50x engineer is a person who is a strong engineer, also does design, innovates, and can build a business like a CEO. That person could actually bring 50x value to a small org.
Paul Graham wrote an long essay decades ago that basically says if you want to be paid what you're worth, then work in the context of a small company. http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Light colored human skin changes color a lot. As a dark skinned person, almost none of the skin color indications work for me.
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