skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All that's missing is a reranking step that rewards incisive and non-obvious answers. Actually, some models are already implementing such a thing: LAmDA will prioritize contentful answers above statistical probability, the same way humans do.

GPT was only trained on "text" with no specific distribution, and specifically to predict a masked word from its surrounding context. As a result, the only questions you can use GPT to answer are of the form "sample from the most likely continuations of this text". It turns out a lot of problems can actually be posed in this form, if you understand the input distribution well. But the future probably looks less like models that operate directly on a distribution of language itself, and more like models that use their language knowledge to predict the volition of the person who gave it input, relate the input to their knowledge of the world (learned from corpus), and then use their language knowledge to convert an internal abstract representation of logical reasoning to something the user can read and understand.

I don't think the tech is extremely far off, it's probably a natural continuation of the current research.
He does. It's turtles all the way down.
This site is also another attack on Google Voice and similar numbers. The sign up mysteriously failed when I provided my Google Voice with no explanation. Suddenly worked when I provided my T-Mobile number. I expect more unblockable spam soon.
Freedom considered harmful. In olden days, you had less stupid choices in your life. Sure the idle upper class always had this problem.
> I have a theory about why it is so difficult for great IC's to make the jump to being a great manager

I find it very odd that most ICs take the path of management. This seems like an unnatural transition, like going from being a minister to playing in a death metal band.
if the start menu was just a list of programs you may want to launch, it could probably be started and killed as needed...
I think narcissism is an incredibly inaccurate description, and I think writing people off as narcissistic tends to be a crutch people lean on when they are emotionally incapable of empathy themselves.

The author comes to similar revelations in the post:
“My perspective shifts. I realize how incredibly self centered I’ve been. How irrational it is to be worrying about how everyone else perceives my decisions and apparent failures.” Reflection can take time and it’s often a natural part of growth.

I think this post is more about burnout. Your over-analysis of their “self destructive event” comes to the wrong conclusion. Not responding to emails when you are completely burnt out has nothing to do with your obsession with yourself. When you’re completely burnt out you go into self preservation mode and while that might appear like self obsession, that is a symptom of burnout, not the cause.
The obsession with "big tech" as the biggest abuser of consumer privacy frustrates the hell out of me, and must be a real delight to credit bureaus, cell carriers, data brokers, fintech parasites, and all the rest of the slimy fuckers who do far worse things every day and aren't even on the public's radar.
we ought to be able to "correct" our own data and mislead anything seeking an advantage
You do have to make sure that you’re not generating electricity and pushing that out to the grid at the same time that workers might be trying to restore power lines. Otherwise, you risk killing the people who are trying to restore your power.

So, yeah — that’s a thing.
Unmesh Joshi is the Chief Technologist at ThoughtWorks and a colleague of Martin. Martin publishes a lot of posts on behalf of many colleagues to give visibility to tech posts that interest Martin. It's more like a collaboration and acknowledging contributions.
Add some swap to your system, drastically reduces OOM killer frequency.
It's not just you -- CreditKarma checked my credit monthly for a long time in 2019-2020, until I changed addresses. I have never used a CK product. Obviously it's too late now to do anything about it but the existence of this site and the fact that Equifax is still in business makes me incredibly irritated.
Did you mean: preact
The first three digits are allocated in blocks to each state.
But nobody reads FAQ pages.
Serious question: Palladium’s other cofounder is a white nationalist neoreactionary. Is one degree of separation from white nationalism sufficient distance for HN culture?

It is very hard for me to see such dross posted and discussed seriously, earnestly, when everything I’ve been taught about critical thinking as a hacker is to be skeptical, whether of function return codes, technical documentation, or people writing and/or funding obscure online long-form magazines with strong ties to white nationalism/IDW/alt-right/neoreactionarism. As a DC resident, one year after Jan 6, it’s dismaying to see Palladium on the front page, and discussed so credulously here.
Outlook, word and I think even google keyboard does the same thing. You have to basically type it again in them and they take it to mean you don't want it autocorrected.
> Isn't it fraud to declare something as income that's not actually income?

Mortgage fraud is a thing that exists, so it's not like labeling it as a crime lets you forget about it.

> don't you have to pay tax on it?

If you're borrowing at 30x leverage like some government loans give, taxes on the down payment is a small increase in cost-of-leverage which is more than made up for by the reduced interest rates.

Anyways, my point is, there's good reason to look at the same income viewed in multiple ways. Adding an employer into the mix is at least a separate person(which is probably why they waived the requirement in OP's case), while tax returns are filed by the potential fraudster/"entrepreneur".
It says you like typing BEGIN and END over and over and over ...
I think you're missing the fact that our entire world is being slowed down by this system, and a few tweaks are not going to change that. Yes it is true that in the current system Google could ask for permission to license this one patent, but what about the broader implications of patents as I have laid out? What about the people all over the world living in worse conditions than necessary due to intellectual property restrictions? How many people could have been enjoying a worldwide free library if Project Gutenburg had been allowed to continue? How much cheaper would cars and auto repair be if manufacturers cloned and copied each other to settle on a set of standard designs, as has been done in 3D printers? How many lives would have been saved in Swaziland/Eswatini in the 1990's if the WTO had not outlawed low cost clones of effective AIDS medications? [1]

For every potential startup founder who will only work on their problem if they can get paid, there are IMO 100 people who will work on a problem because they care about solving it. I don't think we would lose much if those motivated only by profit had less incentive. And keep in mind they would still have first mover advantage. Plus huge companies often don't care about little corners of the market, and there is lots of room for companies to serve market needs the bigger companies are ignoring. But if another company wants to compete and they can actually do a better job? We are hurting society if we restrict their ability to do that.

[1] https://www.mmegi.bw/features/the-neoliberal-plague-aids-and...
What system do you use for task tracking/prioritisation?
I mean maybe, but hn has a primary tech audience. I bet 70% of us here could quit our job, take some risks,go bankrupt, get a new job, all with only mild consequences.

Yes that's privilege and it doesn't apply to everyone but its not an obscure level of privilege. You don't need to be a multimillionaire to have it.
Oh hey, that's a picture of my life.

Anyone have coping mechanisms they can suggest? This is really getting out of hand.

So far the best I've been able to do is intake massive portions of caffeine and use the resultant high/numbing of emotion to allow myself to push through. Not the healthiest or most sustainable option.
Which are the most devalued currencies?
I wonder if they could implemented some sort of logging where people could submit cases where it's failed for them.
It's not even OPs direct boss - that meeting just screams inappropriate to me.
Needs a (2015)
> Why do capable individual contributors always have to be roped into leadership?

Training your replacement is how the cogs in the machine reproduce.
I have to commit to something within the context of an interpersonal relationship of intense, nigh existential importance to me, fight to get it done, and to admit with as much dispassion as possible when I can't do it for some reason or another. That's what seems to work.

We tend to be attached but uncommitted, when we need to committed but detached. Otherwise the emotional angst of failure eats away at efforts we know to be weak.
I loath sites that 'block voip' category services; as if Google Voice hasn't been proven MORE SECURE than T-mobile already.
"Definitely" -- how do you know this? Citation please.

I actually don't know for certain and I was in Google Patent Litigation (as tech advisor). I never had a case before the ITC so I can't say 100%, but AFAIK only the PTO or a regular Federal court can declare a patent invalid.

But maybe they can say "well, this will probably be declared invalid, so we're going to stay the order." Like a German court can do. So please tell us one way or the other.
How Do Geologists Think?
At least in my case, the number/email they were willing to send a one-time passcode to were the ones I gave to my employer, not the ones I had entered earlier in the form.
> The fact that employers want employees to stay quiet about their compensation so they don't have to start handing out raises doesn't seem like a good reason to be concerned about this to me. From an employers perspective, that taboo makes sense to push

In the US, pushing that taboo can be illegal if employers prevent workers from engaging in legally protected acts, like discussing their compensation while at work, or if employers retaliate against workers for doing so. Congress enshrined those rights into law nearly a century ago, and the National Labor Relations Board exists to protect those rights for workers.
There could be any number of reasons why you were the outlet of his frustration that day. It could be entirely you that was the catalyst, or not, it could be something that has nothing to do with you.

People have bad days and it’s entirely possible your boss may also be making a mental note not to come down on you like that again.

If either of you don’t given each other a chance from that moment to possibly walk back from the edge and let cooler heads prevail, then this simple bad moment cannot be forgiven and will act as a butterfly effect for an inevitability.

Brush it off and lay low, unless push comes to shove.

Signed Yours truly,

I’ve worked in corporate forever, and know the ups and downs.
Imagine that your new employer knows your past salary. They can offer you 10% above it and this might be sufficient in enough cases. However, if they don't know it, they will be in the fog of war and they will have to guess much more and be ready for a wider salary range. In such scenarios the new offer might not be 10% but something like 30%. Now, imagine the accumulated effect over 2-3 employers over time.
Meanwhile in Norway, every citizen can check the income, wealth, and taxes statements of other citizens and companies.

https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/forms/search-the-tax-lists/
This further reinforces why I've fortunately never had to --- and don't ever want to --- use UWP apps. It seems like one horrible design decision after another.

On the other hand, explorer.exe seemingly wants to crash or hang semi-regularly, especially when accessing network drives, and needs to be killed and restarted to regain control.
The people who looted the country and kept the wealth for themselves.

Or rather the country should tell the creditors to get bent, and the private 'owners' of all the public infrastructure and resources that were stolen along with anyone surviving from the ford/carter administration (and anyone who inhereted it) should have all their assets seized and split up between the various countries they looted.

Your grandparents didn't vote for mussolini or almiranti and argentineans didn't vote for pinochet. The debt you 'owe' is likely being collected by the same groups of people as well as some in the UK and the rest of Europe.

If someone colludes with your corrupt government to steal something from you then rent it back to you, don't say 'oh well it's my fault, better pay up'. Take it back and lock them in a cell.

If I beat your parents to death, take your house, then claim you owe me for cleanup and have to be my indentured servant to pay the interest my government should give it back to you along with anything I own to pay for therapy and lock me in a cell. Countries should be no different, and we shouldn't let the murderers off scott free because they signed a piece of paper saying they were collectively 'Shell' or 'The US Government'
Why shouldn’t they kill processes? If the OS didn’t want third party apps to be able to kill random processes it wouldn’t provide APIs for it to do so.
That’s not how the phrase is used colloquially. You’re not even wrong, but your prescriptivism is at odds with common parlance.
For some reason I am having a very hard time resisting the urge to try walking down a flight of stairs backwards with my eyes closed. How hard can it be?
I'm sure this would help, but I have 64GB of RAM. Linux should be able to figure out how to save some of that massive amount of memory so that it can save itself.
This is a very natural phenomenon. I can definitely relate.
In fact, almost none of them. It's not required, although it ought to be.
"Addiction" as you call it would only a problem if you think it's a problem. Does it or will it interfere with your ability to do something else that you want more? Do you actually want to spend more time cooking for yourself or spend more time with family etc? IMO no one else can tell you how balanced your life ought to be. "Health" is a means to an end.
Or, take the opportunity to teach them the real phrase and explain that because of people's verbal speech patterns it confuses younger generations...
The author makes the mistake of projecting their modern attitude towards free time towards those living in preindustrial societies to conclude that people were better off as peasants that overworked factory workers. Every example of industrialization in history proves this wrong, however. Poor farmers that move to cities aren't idiots. They move to terrible factory jobs because it's what benefits them are their families the most. Any moderate illness, accident, or natural disaster spark disaster for a poor farmer's family, so they'd prefer to work a shitty factory job for 80 hours a day for the sake of the small amount of security.
"Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885. His father was a prominent doctor in Sauk Centre, a town of about 2,800 — read all about it in “Main Street.” Fred, the oldest of the doctor’s three sons, became a miller and was never of much consequence within the ambitious Lewis clan. Claude, next oldest, was of considerable consequence: He became a distinguished surgeon, admired and sought after well beyond the city of St. Cloud, where he spent his adult life."

Guy is born into a well-off family, spends his youth doing odd jobs because he can afford to, goes to Yale, hangs out among the wealthy and elite becomes a writer. Basically upper class, who thinks he's not upper class, trying to show the middle class how foolish they are.

Fits the NYTimes perfectly.
California is one of those states, yet as a state employee, my compensation history is a public record. Anyone who wants my info can find it with a simple search online. I can understand the good in disclosing this info for public figures, but for everyone? It seems a little hypocritical.
you need to craft your own diodes from thin wire and silicon carbide etc etc
Wowwww. I was really reticent to give them the info to log in, and still not sure it was a good idea (although they have it anyway...), but it's interesting -- they have my current TC exact, RSUs and everything...and that little instruction line about how to garnish wages really gives you the feels...

Even better, the mystery of why a mortgage lender randomly asked me about my employment history from over two decades ago (i.e., working for my Mom!) is now solved! I was like, "How do you know I worked for my Mom in the 90s? And of all the jobs to ask about, why this?" Turns out only three employers show up over multiple decades of employment.

Happy to see that the payroll processor I used for awhile for our personal companies until I started doing it myself didn't share our data, but am now really worried about future control of it.
A lot of consumer banking products have CreditKarma integration by default as a perk or for your "convenience". Digging through one of my checking account's apps shows that there are credit score previews with a button to activate CreditKarma and receive detailed credit breakdowns. I'm guessing that credit preview is provided by CK and not my bank, given the CK branding.
Another story of JS devs who make sure they wouldn’t have to learn anything new.
I think a lot of tech workers thought they were an elite of irreplaceable specialists that would never experience power imbalance. That's how my peers were thinking (out loud) about 10 years ago in San Francisco, and loudly opposing the mere idea we needed unions.

They then started having kids, running into HR issues and all of a sudden everyone got a real harsh wake up call and understood what their real place in life is.

The kind of "told you so" that doesn't feel particularly satisfying.
I wish so.
Preact uses a virtual DOM still.
Actually I think that is exactly the spirit. How can you do something new if you travel the same path as everyone else?
Does anyone else find approach #3 to be wildly unintuitive? Like how does an infinite loop terminate? There's a lot of magic going on.

I like approach #1 the best. Sure, there are some bugs, but a state diagram would help make it clearer instead of introducing magic.
Is there a single-word descriptor for languages that depend on so much syntax just to get going? Pascal, C, ALGOL, D, etc.

Verbose, maybe, but that's not as fun as some of the catchy words there are to insult languages that aren't.
You said what I wanted to say better than I could. Thanks.

I also want to add, to the GP, it's inappropriate and insensitive to say that the authors problem is easily fixed. And even assuming the authors main problem is narcissism, which I doubt, your methods would be laughably ineffective.
In EU companies have to appoint a medical expert that checks worker's health (for free) upon joining the company, and routinely (1-2 times a year, depends on country I guess). Edit: Could be something that only companies whose workers have to do physical labour ("blue collar" jerbs)

If you call in sick for more than three days you usually go through your own doctor, so that you get a certification that you're taking X days off in order to cure yourself
A good number of people will state that Michelle Obama is a male. I had no idea this was started by an AI misclassification (if indeed it was)
> I think nowadays it's much less common for games to run at a different resolution than you've already set your display to.

I would guess the opposite? 4k monitors are fairly cheap while GFX cards which can run games at that resolution with a decent FPS are expensive. Maybe hardware has gotten cheaper or way more performant in the last years though.
This is rather dramatic for what it is. I identify with the geeks and empathize with the situation.

However, we don’t have it nearly as bad as the artists who design coca-cola ads.
> I just don't think Svelte does that much.

Not to be pithy, but I believe that was Rich’s intention.
Thanks for the hint, I used PLUCK for wordle 202 and got a very good start
“Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents”
> Schumpeter said something in the lines of “it’s ironic that in democratic free-market countries most economic activity happens under hierarchical top-down organizations”.

It’s only even slightly ironic if you ignore that “free-market” is the capitalist euphemism for a society whose structure is top-to-bottom regulated (largely, through the exact shape of the imposed definition of “property rights”) around principals engineered and fought for tooth-and-nail over centuries by the capitalist (née mercantile) class to allow their heirarchical top-down organizations to replace those of the feudal aristocracy as the main driving force in society.
There's a bunch of them I'm sure, but solidjs is a really good example.

It has syntax very familiar to react, but works differently under the hood.
$200/hr as a full time ML consultant.

Contracting is interesting. You make more, but there’s more downside. No sick days.

Though the last 3 month contract was kind enough to calculate the start and end dates to be exactly 12 work weeks (60 work days, skipping holidays) which was a nice Jedi mind trick. I still don’t get paid for Christmas, but somehow it doesn’t feel like I’m losing a day since the end date was extended by a day to compensate. But of course that only makes sense if you don’t think too carefully about it. :)

I dunno. It’s stressful but I like the freedom. But you live with a sword over your head; salaried employees don’t.

Plus now my salary isn’t in a database somewhere since it’s not salary. blows raspberry
Yeah, this explains a lot of it. Lots of people think it's unfair that Jim or Pam makes more than they do, but noone ever is blunt with them that "you're making less because you're not as good as them". Even worse are where they've never been told "you're lucky you still even have a job because I was close to firing you for poor performance".

To be fair, there are also the interesting niche cases where someone is equally capable as Jim/Pam, but they're just not as good at selling themselves. Both cases usually more applicable to larger companies.
No, I was referring specifically to classical musicians who typically don't improvise.

Improvising musicians will almost certainly not sustain high note counts except in repetitive patterns. If you have an example that proves this wrong I would very much like to hear it ;)
I've noticed myself doing things like this, and I think the root cause more than anything is an inability to say no.

If you're getting other things done but not some particular task you've agreed to, then that's probably a good indication that the various subconscious processes in your mind have come together and deemed it unviable. These processes evolved for a reason and shouldn't necessarily be ignored (at least, not usually!).

Rather than tyrannising yourself into completing every single task asked of you, I think a much healthier way to approach this is to simply stop and ask yourself whether or not it actually makes sense for you to do something before you agree to do it.
Which is fine. The problem is asymmetric information. Employers have access to this data, but employees don't.
If you have poor negotiating skills, hiding your salary history isn't going to help any. What is going to help is making an effort to learn how to do it. A relatively small effort can yield lifetime benefits.
All the recipient's carrier knows is they see a spam or phishing message originating from Twilio, and (profess to) have a zero tolerance for spam/phishing. They have no idea about context of the "forward to consenting employee" use case or any way of validating it.

If there is any possibility that those messages could be interpreted as spam, that doesn't seem to be a valid use case for Twilio (any more). You could forward the message over some channel other than SMS to the employee (like email, or a custom solution).