skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not an outlier, many people (myself included) feel the same way.

> So I think it's awesome that some people want to do this work. I hope they do it full-time, and that lets me do my thing full-time.

If you're lucky and your company lets you pick whether you want to apply for a SWE role or an SRE role (like Google), then it will work out ok. But a lot of companies just used "DevOps" as an excuse to get rid of their ops teams and dump the work onto the dev teams.

Some places take it a step further and get quite toxic, and have a culture where there's a complete lack of sympathy for engineers who have a heavy oncall load. The idea is that their code is shit so they deserve to be woken up in the middle of the night, as some sort of punishment.
SpaceX’s Starlink is in talks with ‘several’ airlines for in-flight Wi-Fi
Judging by https://github.com/Mayandev (好奇心), the user is Chinese. Wiktionary reports that the symbol (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%80%81) is used as a comma in Japenese & Chinese languages.
but it might be the most truthful.
$0. I don't trust VW after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
By "proprietary" I meant HN specifically.
I think this is a very narrow view on what’s possible with the tracking pixel. I can do basic cross device tracking with the help of this pixel as well as personalisation and marketing automation. E.g. More active newsletter readers get sent more newsletters or different marketing offers. Less active subscribers get nudged via personal sounding emails: „What did we do wrong? Do you still want to hear from us?“
Just to play devils advocate here:

>We're direct and succinct

You're loud and obnoxious.

>We focus on the 20% of the work that will get us 80% of the impact

You half-arse everything.

> We seek to improve all aspects of our company even in ways that are not explicitly part of our job

You have poorly defined roles and lack focus

>We take extraordinary measures to have exceptional people in every seat

You're delusionally egotistical and that's what you're looking for in your interview process

I'm not saying that these are 100% what is happening at coinbase, but some of these phrases just come across as a total lack of self-awareness and a bit toxic. Is taking time in your article about culture to detail just how willing you are to fire people showing positive energy? I don't think so.

It's also kind of funny because the culture at an organisation is never what the CEO thinks that the culture is. "Isn't it great I threaten to fire people!" "Yes Boss, please don't fire me"
They shall plan something like durex play ring with microfobe, camera and blood pressure monitor. This will really boost their revenue.
The layman and the AI expert have both written off the possibility of creating AGI for the entirety of this latest AI spring. In the past decade I have basically never encountered anyone who thought that AGI was going to happen in our lifetimes or even anyone who believed that it would be a problem if it did.

One time I discussed AGI with a good friend. And I gently pressured him to play through the scenario of the advent of AGI. And he made a guilty confession to me. I could tell he was embarrassed to share his opinion. He said “can’t we just unplug it?” This is a microcosm of the entire issue. It’s something a child might say. For global warming, can’t we just turn on the air conditioning? No, we can’t just unplug it.

Here is how you can understand what is happening. An AI model is just a program. A program that is written by another program.

Consider a list of programs that contains every possible program. It is infinite. Make it finite by limiting the size of the programs based on some practical consideration. It’s still a very long list.

What is in this list? Pong. StyleGAN. AGI? Almost certainly. How small might AGI be? It probably appears more than once on the list — how many are there? But let’s ask the real question here and boil this down. How many items on the list are something we will regret having discovered? A great, great many.

Every day, people are exploring the list. They are using primitive methods to sift through all these programs and find the ones that have interesting behavior. The process of program discovery is automated with things called “training algorithms.” As our computers get faster and capital allocation grows larger we mine this list more and more quickly. The problem is that we keep finding things that surprise us. And that is the core and substance of the entire issue. We have demonstrated to ourselves over and over again that our own intuition about the contents of this list is completely wrong. Despite the mind-boggling level of mental gymnastics performed in the wake of GTP-3, enough to constitute a three ring circus, the fact of the matter is that GTP-3 and soon to be 4 is not supposed to exist according to every single AI expert. Compute is only getting cheaper and capital is only getting bigger and the list is only getting shorter and it’s not going to stop surprising everyone including the “experts.” Just because we don’t know how to make something we will truly regret doesn’t mean we aren’t capable of creating it.
Honestly, I think there has been very little banning of bubbles for "wrongthink", it's mostly been banning of bubbles for "wrongbehavior".
How about 5000? This then becomes a useless discussion of where, between 0 and infinity I will deem it a dark pattern or not. I don't know, but I do consider infinity with the purpose of keeping people engaged a 'dark pattern', as do others of you look at the article I shared. Maybe you don't and that's fine.
And for most people under 70, it's way under that, FWIW.
There is a huge assumption baked into your comment and I do not agree with it.

AGI does not necessarily require for it to be conscious or throw tantrums about its creators' purpose. AGI just means that it's an intelligence that can be thrown at any problem, not just a particular game or task, similar to how humans can specialize in CS or playing the violin.
To me the most meaningful way to use self-driving is to be able to summon a car, avoiding inner city parking, making car-pooling super convenient etc. In that case it's worth much more than 8.50.

And if you plan to work while driving, it will also be worth much more.
This is the “all lives matter” tactic applied to colonialism.
One can publish online a pre-print for free, which is very close to the final version of the paper.
Don't worry Musk said it'll be delivered in two years tops, in 2012 or something.

Anyone still believing in fully autonomous cars as they are presented by Musk &co today (the real thing, not a cruise control that only works on California's highways on a sunny day) is 101% delusional.

We'll talk about it in 15 years as the "previous AI hype cycle".
I think you raise an important point. The youtube algorithm is pretty bad if you don't use youtube very much or only use to consume very popular content. Youtube's recommendations used to be terrible for me, too, but sometime last year I crossed a threshold and since then it has been recommending a lot of small, highly specific channels that nevertheless are great fits. My wife's recommendations are still utter garbage though.
Hiya - I don't live in a dengue hotspot country but have had it (grandparent lives in a tropical country) and would like to get Dengvaxia to make it a bit less risky to go back... do you know if your country would allow flying in to get the vaccine? May I ask which country it is?

Thanks!!
Can you elaborate more on this? This is the first time I've read such a thing.

Is it that HTTPS relies on certification, and therefore introduces one more actor that can effectively remove content that they deem "inappropriate", whatever inappropriate may be?
Who is responsible for maintenance of the car and the AI software?

If the passenger should be doing the updates to the AI, then they should own the car outright and have the right to repair it.

If it is VW, then VW should align incentives well towards software maintenance by charging either an hourly or a monthly rate.
You are conflating low-level I/O (like eyes and NeuraLink) with high-level reasoning.

Assume NeuraLink transmits an encoded signal that there's a dog in front of you. Without "representation drift" (or rather its underlying mechanism) I don't think your brain would ever notice that signal has anything to do with dogs. The wire is inserted into a random place, it is not designed to be repositioned to fire up your "dog" neurons it needs to send "dog" signal.

As for the assumption of mapping being stable, there's no such thing at all. First and foremost the brain itself must learn to interpret signals from the wire and send them back. Any mechanism on wire's side would mostly be to establish a feedback loop for the brain to be able to learn to do that (which it will do by rearranging its internal structure).
Spend a week in the lab to save an hour in the library.
I disagree wholeheartedly.

Mindless browsing will occupy my attention, keeps me distracted and on the edge, draining my energy and mental capacity, makes me jittery - even if this realization took me quite some time.

A walk in the woods is refreshing and my mind is focused, wandering maybe aimlessly, but well-paced, on its own time, makes me relaxed and open-minded.

We like distraction, our mind craves it, often we don't want to think about what bothers us. But allowing all the random itches that bother us is the only way to address them and let them go.

Also, I have zero, NIL creativity after mindless browsing, I am drained.

Alone with myself and my thoughts on a train or a walk the thoughts are no longer buzzing, they are forming, transforming, becoming real ideas.
Interesting, thanks! I'll read the paper in its entirety later, but suffice to say, me and Hans disagree about the fact that all data races are errors, or what a reasonable compiler is.

For example, take this code:

// thread 1: // thread 2:
with lock(counter_lock): with lock(counter_lock):
print(counter) atomic { counter += 1 }

There's one of two possible linear executions of this code: either you print the old value of the counter (n), or the new value (n+1). That's it.

I argue that this code is correct, and should remain legal, even if locks are elided (provided that the write to counter is actually atomic, i.e. doesn't result in a torn write / read). In fact, if the lock is implemented as a spin lock, that's exactly what happens even with locks! I also think that no compiler is "reasonable" if it breaks this code, or invalidates the whole program ("undefined behaviour means anything can happen").

Edit: He actually mentions a similar problem in the paper, and argues that it's valid for the compiler to "optimize" the code and break it. I think the original problem here is that C++ compilers implicitly assume the right to perform global optimisations. I would argue that it's better to move to a local optimisations model, because it's easy to modify the code to make it locally optimisable (just read all variables and make local copies of them, and adopt Rust-like ownership data model for structs/arrays etc. so the programmer can communicate to the compiler the fact that the block of memory is local).
Reinforcement learning without auto-growing inference engine embedded? Yeah, no chance its enough.
Indeed. I sold my car, but I am still paying for one of the subscriptions I had on it. Can't cancel, but can settle early (4 months left on it). It's a clever way to add to the cashflow for those companies.
> Some of them are obvious, e.g. the WIN32_FIND_DATA struct used by FindFirstFile/FindNextFile.

WIN32_FIND_DATA only returns a file name, not a full path, and the "\\?\" prefix does not remove any limits for individual path components.
If you like driving you save $8.5/h.

If you just use the car for the daily commute, there should be better ways to commute (I know there often aren't, it's just a hypothetical).
Fair enough, but that doesn’t answer my main point that history is full of really bad things, 99% of which no one has ever been held to account for (btw, why would we, no one is alive any more, so unless you believe in collective guilt it’s hard to blame anyone).

As an Eastern European who’s countries been fucked over countless times, these reparation discussions are bordering on insulting.
So, what should be done?
Is real-time worth it for your analytical use cases?
"I would like to change society"

"And yet you live in society and participate in its processes! Clearly this invalidates everything you have to say"
Ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data
> Waymo

Even they admitted fully autonomous vehicles most likely won't be a thing any time soon (maybe ever if we keep our current infrastructure)

https://www.cnet.com/news/alphabet-google-waymo-ceo-john-kra...
Plasma Mobile introduces first steps towards multiple homescreens, timers, apps
To call something a "scam" says there is no honest use-case. Pointing out competing use-cases is directly refuting that.

> In a swipe at Tesla, he said that by charging hourly fees, VW would make autonomous driving more accessible than “a car with a five-digit surcharge.”

Especially if VW isn't actually "taking a swipe at" Tesla but instead going after a different market.

It is like saying calling a bagel a counterfeit bowl of cereal.
Sorry I still think you're operating under a misunderstanding of the thread.

> We'll see if you were right or not, to question why/how/when their actions are illegal.

Why would the court's opinion change my moral opinion on whether something is or should be illegal or not? Unless there's new info.

The Salem Witches were found guilty in a court, for example. Maybe there's a parallel there? A bit of an hysterical and morally unjust witch hunt.
I'm sorry, but this makes no sense to me.

The people paying for the development of the AGI can mean many things - the Google customers/users, Alphabet as a company, the executives throwing money at the problem?

Either way, I don't really get your point. Your initial post was about how it is counterintuitive for Google to allocate funds for an AGI, since it makes money out of ads. These are not mutually exclusive, you can have both, but my point is that if you develop an AGI, then you can pretty much "conquer" the world and revenue from ads becomes irrelevant.
It's not that simple really. Higher car prices also drag up second hand car market prices.

Leasing companies can then sell their used rental cars at a higher price, which means they only have to finance the depreciation...which reduces the cost of leasing a car.

It's all swings and roundabouts
Yes it is. If you did not read MS privacy policy, you should.
Absence of evidence is evidence of absence ;)
If I could ask Apple for one thing it would be to require approval of every push notification that an app developer wants to deliver. That an app gets either cart blanche to send me notifications or nothing at all drives me crazy. I don't want to miss a notification that my delivery food arrived, but I don't want to be bombarded with daily advertising messages from foodpanda trying to get me to change my behavior. Require app developers to submit a template string (and not "\(message)") for each notification the app can deliver for approval in the App Store and let me have an on/off switch for each one.

"Notifications" across every platform drive me crazy, because they usually start out as useful, but because people tend to pay them more attention than all the other channels that have already been tuned out, companies start juicing them for engagement. I use twitter rarely, but every time I do I am perplexed why my "notifications" are full of crap about who recently tweeted. Shouldn't that just be in my timeline?
It's similar to companies offering out-of-court settlements. If they were serious/sincere about acknowledging their wrongdoing, then they'd go to court and face the consequences. It's understandable that many if not most people would just take the settlement (especially considering how expensive legal proceedings can be), but it's also fully understandable that there are people who would see it for exactly what it is: an attempt to buy their silence/forgiveness.
This is all very informative - is there a single page that documents all this?
They'd probably make it illegal for cars to drive without passenger in cities like Amsterdam without a taxi license to prevent traffic jams of cars driving around to avoid parking costs.
Because it's blockchain and distributed!
> being hackable means exactly the opposite of stability

Any computer with preinstalled Linux will "just work". Typical users will only install apps from the repositories, and those are more secure and private than App Store.
Don't forget to make your payment for having commented today.
This comment was much more accurate when it said liberal. I consider myself on the left politically and I also hate it's rigorous enforcement of liberal thought. Reddit has banned and ruined leftist subs too you know.

Or maybe it's not a political thing, maybe it's the weird elitist culture they have where they think they know better and are better then everyone else.
Those are tacky and done by non designers. The thin font thing is real though.
Psychological drug addiction feels a lot like food addiction - if you've ever dieted then thought about how amazing it would be to order pizza, you've experienced the same thing (though ofc to a far lesser magnitude)

You stop doing drugs the same way you stop eating badly, by trying to find substitutes, and by putting distance between you and it (i.e. if I don't want to eat snacks, I avoid buying it at the store, so it's more work for me to eat poorly)
IT desk pro tip:

1) Have you checked DNS? It's usually a problem with DNS.

2. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

3) Is the power cable plugged in the socket?

4) Sigh, I'll travel up to look at it.

Done! :)
The SEC apparently killed this blockchain project but its alive and kicking
What happens if one gets Dengue for the first time after only one dose of Dengvaxia.. not the complete scheme? Will it be as bad (complications-wise) as having the complete vaccination scheme?
Does anyone know if this can be used for effective performance testing? It’s not clear from the Playwright documentation, but I know Selenium (a similar tool) does not recommend performance testing.
OpenGeoFiction is a collaborative platform for creating fictional maps
What a great read.

I wish more people were aware of the value of anonymity.

Exposing yourself to the world comes with its pros and cons.

Attaining celebrity status may make you rich, but at what cost?

Maybe many will turn into paying fans, what about the stalkers, the bullies? What about the mentally disturbed with a knife?
One thing I always look for in companies in the block chain space is the About section. I want to see real names and faces on these projects. The more information the better. Sometimes they just might have a front-man like a professor that wrote a white paper, but I want to see the people actually involved. This site has no about.

To confuse things further, there is another company called edge.app which is an app to buy and sell crypto. I don't think they're affiliated
ADHD isn't a documentation deficiency disorder.

As a programmer with ADHD, I'm actually the documenter more often than not: my memory is very volatile, and I don't want people to interrupt me, so I prevent it by giving them the information beforehand.
When you have hundreds of teams of people whose promotions are driven by what gets deployed and seen by the user, it is almost inevitable that we reach this situation.
So, a regressive tax that hurts the poor and would end up only benefiting the special interests and creating more do-nothing gov’t bloat?

If you’re already playing with other peoples’ money and trying to change behavior I would suggest less stick, more carrot.
> How often do you use YouTube?

Every day, averaging 2-3 hours. It's background for working and foreground for evening viewing.
We are digging ever deeper for life that we can extinct.
This is the most comforting thing I ever have read (and right now, I needed that).
The average reaction speed of a human to unanticipated situations can be ~3 seconds. Any connection within 1000KMs is generally going to be under 0.1s - an order of magnitude less than a human's.
Nice - I've been thinking stuff should work like this for a decade+
Or just copy your TOTP codes to a second device without going via the internet.

I'm annoyed Google Authenticator makes it so easy to transfer accounts to a new phone, how will you know if someone's cloned your TOTP private key while you were sleeping?
How does anything you said contradict the idea that the descendants of the survivors of Germany's genocide in Namibia should at least receive a genuine apology if Germany wants to account for past crimes its legal predecessor committed and benefited from?

We can talk about other incidents you think are similar in nature and how we should deal with those. Multiple things can be bad at the same time. Can you be any more precise than "the Mongols" and "the Soviets"? Which incidents would you like to talk about, who were the victims, what was done to them, who did it and who today do you think benefits/suffers from what happened?
Stack Overflow: How We Do App Caching (2019)
WAVM: A WebAssembly Virtual Machine
Yes I have found that Rust's ownership system works really well for single-threaded cases, especially when you can get away with a functional-ish programming style, but when you have large amounts of data which has to be shared between different parts of the program it starts to get tricky.

As you mentioned game programming, one common approach there is to have large arenas of structured memory which you use thread-pools to dispatch work over. I know there are some libraries which do this in Rust, but it seems like there's room for some language innovation here to figure out a memory model which would make this style of programming simple and ergonomic while maintaining safety
Well, Cypress is going to use playwright for their Webkit integration.

Cypress is more limited compared to Playwright such as multi-domains aren't supported, multiple tabs, or popup windows. For my tests that require that I am using Playwright and for the rest I am currently using Cypress. But I do think the test writing experience is better with Cypress :)

I am considering to move to Playwright for everything now with the new Trace Viewer (https://playwright.dev/docs/debug#playwright-trace-viewer); and contribute to that.
And, if instead of a dedicated server you rent some combination of AWS services, you suddenly don't need admin or need a cheaper one?
I would play extra for a dumb car.
And there's always Open Source.
Yup. It is a simple equation and that's why it is so surprising so many people fall for this.

500k EUR for 20 developers is basically nothing. This means burning through your cash reserves before those developers even become productive.

And think you are one of these developers. All the other guys are completely new, nobody knows what we are doing because the owner has no time to explain because he is constantly hiring and talking to investors to get next funding.

With 500k EUR I would not dare to hire more than 2-3 people. This would give them enough time to hopefully get acquainted with the problem and start producing something. And you as owner of the company to think about your actual business rather than be overloaded by hiring and setting for next funding round.
Ah the F6 has dual ADC and it uses that to cover a larger recording range - best explained here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTuJ1fk3PsY

Also nicely explained by Sound Devices here for their offerings: https://www.sounddevices.com/how-is-a-32-bit-float-file-reco...

Still pondering the F2, does it have dual ADC to capture that input range or is this why they sell it with a lavier mic included (hmmm).