skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, the fact that we are on HN of all places supplies a lot of context and agenda and to me is a meta-filter of sorts (pardon the pun). Perhaps one relationship between our minds is that we both have found our way here. I think there is a shared motive in trying to locate truth with a hint of procrastination[0].

Let’s imagine a slightly more down-to-earth exchange and raise the stakes in a way. For example, say it is still mostly a philosophical discussion here on HN, but in which someone is pushing a position on how much potential a certain company or store of value has; would you not question (at least to yourself) whether that person is invested and seeking to profit from it in short term, which would taint the motive? Or say someone was arguing in support of a controversial policy of a particular government known for its strong control over access to information and freedom of expression; would you not wonder whether the person is in fact a citizen of that country being misled by own government (and/or motivated to support it rather than seek truth)?

Yes, the substance of what they say may or may not be true independently of that context, but if we want to function socially and exhaustively validating every claim being made is not an option we have to take shortcuts, and I think we do it all the time even without realizing it. (I’m not writing that lightly since it seems similar to profiling which is ethically icky, but it is my conclusion upon introspection.)

In these cases we can at least imagine possible motive mismatch (known unknowns); in case of a GPT3-like thing instead of a motive you get a scary abyss or much more obscured motives of its human creators. I can’t imagine it having no impact on how I participate in an exchange.

[0] Even still, you can see how elsewhere in the thread there are warranted accusations of the motive being tainted by human exceptionality bias.
Who doesn't sympathize with unionizing workers?

Anyway, what they meant was "chasing short term profit bumps unwisely at the expense of long term satisfaction due to temporary economic stress"
True. In some cases it can also mean that the team needs to limit the scope and focus on what really matters.

Sure, there's lots of startups burning the midnight oil to finish that MVP. But especially on more mature teams, it's incredibly easy to lose focus when doing software and spend several days on shitty features that don't really matter at all to customers, but are being prioritised due to inertia or capricious management.
I've encountered some Rick. For me they are pushing themselves into it, they like to be the center of things.

Now, what would the management do? How do you make him work with the team?
The main edge I see in AI today is the ability to create random ideas on a theme. I suspect this will end up being much more of a force multiplier than a replacement tool.
Math isn’t immune to error and more commonly ambiguity. That said mathematicians tend to have an admirable diligence and sky high intelligence, so yeah there’s a ton of quality work. With rigorous formality and computer checking it’s conceivable that math as a field can become virtually flawless.

As for physics, well it depends. Laboratory physics has produced the finest predictions in any science by several orders of magnitude. Quantum Electrodynamics is freakishly accurate. On the other hand it’s hard for me to see cosmology, to gently pick on an easy target, as more than extremely well researched and plausible science fiction. Then you have particle physics which has excellent laboratory equipment and produced fantastic results, but which has, in the opinion of at least one elite particle physicist personally known to me, perhaps painted itself into a corner. The Standard Model is good enough for government work, but nobody believes it’s the best possible theory.
Almost all of what is called "rocket science" is firmly in the engineering wheelhouse.

GPS relies very little on 20th century science, beyond GR corrections.

The science behind orbital mechanics is just Newton's Laws, stuff thoroughly settled centuries ago.
I thought he was going to discuss the randomization of the cube as a factor for the speed of the solving.
I don't have an opinion on whether it's a scam. But if it's able to create original art work after going through the others I'd be impressed.
If the metric is partner-reported sexual satisfaction, it seems more likely to me that women's porn consumption increases men's sex life. It stills works in that direction
> If you're in one of these orgs, you will not be more happy though. Efficiency feels good. Inefficiency feels bad.

Depending on your outlook, character and experiences, the magnitude of the results can make it worth your while; there's certain objectives that you can't hit without massive throughput (and waste). And reducing or keeping under control the amount of waste in a large scale project can also be incredibly satisfying.
Get a new manager. Seriously.
Cant be bothered seems more likely than can't figure something out. LaTeX has a huge stack exchange community and templates out the wazoo. No reason to think they can't accomplish everything they need, in a realistic context. LaTeX isn't for one time use, it's an investment that returns massively.
Really? How do you manage those servers in the first place?
Crypto Giveaway Scam with YouTube Live Stream
Ex competitive swimmer: having other people in the pool matters. It’s a race, and people do swim (run, climb, etc) faster with competition than without.
Please note the inverted commas around 'exists' in my comment. They are there for a reason.

I can imagine the layman ascribing some mystical quality to ontological anti-realism, but, ironically, the view acts to dispel the mystical quality of uncritical "existence" claims that many take for granted (much like theism, moral realism, etc.).
You can make network request in real time. You just need the right kind of network (like AFDX )
So the frauds of today are done in smarter ways.

Maybe they will be discovered with new tools developed in a few decades.
> There is such a taboo around pay cuts

One side effect of inflation being ~10% is that if you want to give your staff a pay cut all you have to do is do nothing.
You're limiting the existence of real numbers to our (human) capability of mentioning them. To me, that seems a rather arbitrary limit. Did I understand you correctly? If so, why do you accept infinity in the first place?
It's his summary of the numbered issues above that statement. Some of which do resonate with me. Though I don't agree that replacing client-side ssh with some propriety tool (zli) is the solution.
My feeling is that the only reason HN doesn't have a guideline rule forbidding cites to "Upton's Law" is that there isn't space for it. It's tired, snarky, provides no insight, and never takes the conversation in any interesting direction.

The comment you're replying to observes that a bunch of researchers say that the fraudulent paper simply isn't that important in the field. You can contest that claim! Maybe they're totally wrong! But you can't do so with Upton Sinclair, because Upton knows nothing at all about how Alzheimers research works, and when you deploy that quote, you give the strong impression that you don't either.
These are some wild estimates for professions based on products that haven't even been generally accessible for that long. Nor does it equate that writing, coding, or designing is only a small portion of most jobs. And typically the most enjoyable/easiest part for some.

What about the argument that unless the collective gets better/smarter, that AI will indeed only be as smart as the current collective? Perhaps this is the "AI will hit a ceiling", but it needs to be trained on something. If more and more gets automated in these areas, how will they ever improve?
Atari 2600 Programming with 6502 Assembly
It’s funny that the two examples used to illustrate his play (the 10 2) stories are examples of him making extremely bad reads on his opponent and bad beating them. I can only assume that’s him massaging the narrative a bit to help him win in the future, cause it isn’t great poker playing.
Your job doesn't cause you to examine enough papers to create a conclusion for all research being done around the world.
We have two combustion cars, a Corolla and an Outback. The Corolla gets everyday use, the Outback goes on long trips or if I need to haul some furniture.

An EV to replace the Corolla would be ideal. Perfect spot for this scenario.
Yea that sentence shows a bias. Very shady
I would buy one for my next vehicle (it will be a ways off), except my area will take a while to be covered, with the amount of driving I do I would not need to refill for several months, and I could still take it on cross country road trips without worrying too much about even stopping at a charge/gas station.

As it stands, I will not be buying any EV, you will have a very hard time convincing me otherwise, too many drawbacks to not enough range, ridiculously high charge times, expensive battery repairs, in addition to not being much better than a gasoline vehicle as far as ECO costs.
Because then your endpoint is the standardized kubernetes rather than ECS.

Also I don't think you can use Kubernetes logic with ECS

Finally I think with ECS you have quite the vendor lock in.
Btw, the GNU awk is also considerably faster (due to bytecode) than awk bundled with BSD & Mac (usually, "one true awk").
I disagree with the premise of the article. Archive formats are all inadequate for long-term resilience and making them adequate would be a violation of the “do one thing and do it right” principle.

To support resilience, you don’t need an alternative to xz, you need hashes and forward error correction. Specifically, compress your file using xz for high compression ratio, optionally encrypt it, then take a SHA-256 hash to be used for detecting errors, then generate parity files using PAR[1] or zfec[2] to be used for correcting errors.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Parchive

[2] https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/zfec
I found a similar problem.

Most examples failed when then trying to use them together.

Also, jumping into directly K8 can be quite a jump.

I put this together to help SA Php group.

Starts off with just deploying directly on a server.

Then takes you to a full application deployed on K8 with auto SSL and DNS generation.

It needs a bit of a refresh :(

But finally coming out of being a bit over-committed, so should be updating in the next week or two.

Still some bits missing but it should cover all your basics

https://github.com/haakco/deploying-laravel-app
I've done similar time tracking on myself back when I was freelancing.

First, I found that it dropped productivity massively. One of the documented conditions for flow is "A loss of reflective self-consciousness". When time tracked, even in 30-60 hour, non-screenshot blocks, I'd be unable to get into flow. I'd also feel secure in justifying that I was getting work done, so while the monitor was showing work, the work was not in my head.

Second, screenshots doesn't stop me from procrastinating. I have two PCs at all times and a phone. 3 min build times meant that I had plenty of excuses.

Third, nobody cares, and clients think it's kinda dumb. They don't care if you're working 1 hour or 10. Most people rather pay fixed cost over time based. When untracked, I'd effectively log about half as many hours for the same amount of work. So time tracking ended up arguing that I should be paid half my hourly rates.

I mostly tracked to get more accurate estimates and log productivity (e.g. how much sleep or diet actually affects things). But the act of logging has been so detrimental to productivity that I just avoid it now.
I haven’t noticed anyone have any overwhelming issues with it for papers, articles, and theses. I’ve seen people struggle with posters and talks but that’s a good thing because talks made with LaTeX have way too much maths or text which is almost always bad
> There's a cogent argument to be made that under capitalism, once
market saturation is reached, any further excess wealth (and
capitalism creates lots of that!) is redirected to zero-sum
competition (which is, on a societal level, waste).

I think that's a strong take and agree somewhat. It's not at odds with
the fact that capitalism has created more innovation, wealth and
raised standards of living more than any other period in history. The
problem is not capitalism, it's that capitalism is over.

In the long tail of diminishing returns all that's really left for
people holding obscene sums of money to do amidst shocking inequality
is to lie, cheat, steal and rat-fuck one another over the remaining
opportunities to die on the biggest pile of ostentatious wealth.

Capitalism was a great system that ran out of fuel. I don't think we
expected it to stall so soon, but it's hit some internal limit. We
should be as worried about that as climate. These problems are bound
up together. If we are going to preserve the liberty, opportunity,
and democracy that have naturally ridden along with it we had better
figure out a way to creatively re-invent the industrious ethic
underpinning capitalism because, frankly, the Chinese model of
consumer-communism is nothing to celebrate or hope for.
I'm not very familiar with how "nudging" is defined in the behavioral economics, and perhaps someone can enlighten me, but personally I find it hard to believe that it can be disproven that the way a choice is presented doesn't play any role in one's decision. The Goldilock principle is well-known. Most people instinctively choose the middle option, when given a three things to choose from.

Does this study imply that choice architecture plays no role in our decisions? Or am I mis-understanding it?
They're just standard features of the Chinese language
Long-distance transmission is at least as slow to build as nuclear, at least in the US. There are projects that have foundered for decades.
Goodness. The number of products which explicitly discriminate against divorced families (or foreigners, for that matter) is astronomical. It's like pouring salt on a wound.
With the way driving automation is going, let’s just say I’m not worried any time soon.
How do you deal with cloud anxiety? I've been always using bare metal servers, because I am afraid that when I set something up wrong on AWS I'll become bankrupt.
When I had a few services running on AWS I often would wake up at night having a nightmare that my keys got stolen and someone run thousands on my account.

After a few weeks like that I deleted everything from AWS.
I have an account on GCP as I had to learn few things for my work assignment and I forgot to delete the setup - anyway a few months later I got an email that Google can't bill my account. I almost got a heart attack and then I noticed they couldn't bill $0 and my card simply expired - imagine the relief.

When I wrote this I can see that maybe sounds stupid, but I have genuine fear of running anything on AWS, GCP or Azure etc.

Another fear I have is that if I put a website online, someone could run a script to fetch content forever and make me pay huge bandwidth costs.
When I last checked, there is no way to put any sort of caps e.g. when bandwidth cost exceeds certain amount it would deactivate the buckets etc.
So what would you do?
Nowadays very much every job lists knowledge of AWS as a requirement, but I can't get myself past the fear.
See related :

"Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (2019)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31828509

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225

(also see dang's comment who lists 2 more thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32213973)

Parent comment is downvoted but it seems like most alzheimer's researchers have vested interest in amyloid hypothesis one way or the other.
The system RUNS on lies. Audio, legal, constitution discussion
Ask HN: How to Securely Share a Document?
I am creating a shared document with my spouse. The purpose of the document is to document all of our critical accounts, our life insurance, business logins, etc.

The purpose is to have a document they can reference when I die (assuming I go first).

I considered doing a paper copy and storing in a safe, but that seems like a single point of failure (someone could steal the safe, house could burn and safe/contents not survive, etc). An encrypted digital document seems more viable.

Any ideas or thoughts on this?
> At some point along the continuum, there will simply not be enough new work to make up for the efficiency gains by the AI models.

I don't buy that devs are going to run out of things to do. Instead I see this increasing the leverage of engineers (who are really just creative problem solvers) such that an exponentially increasing number of lower value problems will make financial sense to solve with engineers.

I think we'll see the same thing with designers and all different kinds of tech workers.

Pay will increase, not decrease (at least globally) because business people don't have the training to work these levers or judge the quality of the output.
So once we reach 90% of the population we can rightfully claim the land? That's how it works? Let me take note for the future then.
As a Devops engineer I'm staying away from Kubernetes at home. It would require too much constant maintenance.

I use docker only.

I get to play with kubernetes enough at work.
Ask HN: As an AI expert, where to work to help humanity?
I’m currently wondering which opportunities/companies are out there for doing truly humanitarian work as an AI expert.
I don’t believe in the kool-aid that “connecting people” on some (current) platforms is helping humanity, as well as serving ads or by having a speaker talk to you asking whether you would like to know more about todays Pokémon.
I’m thinking more about things like WHO, UNHCR, UNICEF, etc.
I checked the homepages but didn’t find anything about them
Searching for people with AI background or investment in this area.
Any ideas where to start?
We need another "No Silver Bullet" [1] for these modern times of ridiculous hype. Contain your ego and all these Matrices Statistical manipulations you decide to call AI...Somebody please volunteer.

"OpenAI estimates that OpenAI Codex (what powers Github’s Copilot) can already complete 37% of coding tasks."

And who decides the task is done, complete and works? The Meat does [2]...The Meat and nobody else.

[1] "No Silver Bullet": http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf

[2] "They're Made Out of Meat": https://youtu.be/7tScAyNaRdQ
Yes all companies seek profits. All employees want more money. But all else being equally I support businesses that talk about what they can do for me, not what I can do for them. Same goes for employees I want to hire. I will happily pay money for someone to enthusiastically provide me a service. I will not be happy when that service declines and they respond by trying to nickel and dime me.

The two pieces of news I’ve heard about Netflix this year are stranger things season 4 is coming out and this. Why do I want to support a business who’s major contribution to the media landscape for 2022 is a new customer-hostile billing model?
Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

If it makes no sense, ask a question or ignore it if it's not interesting. But you can't just one-liner shit on other people's Show HN, whatever you expect.
To further support your point, AI is 90% efficient/good at driving. But the last 10% is so hard that some think it's impossible to have 100% self-driving cars.
Hundreds of thousands if not millions.
It's not disrespectful to point out conflicts of interest. Recusing yourself is standard practice for good reason.
I'm not asking for people to turn off skepticism or blindly trust researchers. It's not disrespectful to be skeptical.

What is disrespectful is not bothering to read what people have to say before dismissing them as liars who are too vested in "the current research direction" and/or money for their perspectives to matter. It only takes reading a few comments to see that's not happening - for starters, people were skeptical of this group's work for a while now.
A lot of very smart people have also looked at the growth prospects of cloud and urged more investment, but I am not sure if their claims have panned out. The reality is that after a decade of heavy investment Google Cloud is still a distance 3rd. To make matters worse, the Cloud division's growth is mostly on the cost side of the balance sheet. GCP has a larger more expensive staff than its two leading competitors and a very unfavorable cost structure on a unit basis. (Perhaps this problem is a consequence of people advocating for more investment in Cloud). Given that Cloud a much bigger cost center than Search and somehow grows more year over year I would actually think that Cloud is what ultimately destroys the company.
The overlap was through culture like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL
> You'd expect some people to miss that news

Lots of them did

You're assuming coordination on the part of the sellers, but another possibility is that the Amazon search engine penalized that text
Solving for battery chemistry is cheaper and faster than rebuilding all of America (outside of a few metros where cars aren’t needed) around mass transit and walkability.

Personally, I would love if urban planning was structured in a way so that all new development was anti-car, and redevelopment slowly transitioned away from prioritizing automobiles, but that doesn’t appear to be in the cards.
That comes out to foreign debt consisting of something like 2-3% of GDP. In the US, in the present day, foreign debt is like 6% of GDP.

By contrast, for what it's worth, France's payment to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War was about 22% of GDP. Paid over 3 years, so the payments themselves would have constituted like 7% of GDP.
Nietzschean or Christian? Marc Andreessen on Breaking Bad and Saul
To be news. I can understand if you missed that, it's not very obvious from visiting the home page.
There is a promising electrolysis route as well now, zero emissions:

https://newatlas.com/energy/hysata-efficient-hydrogen-electr...
how did that chinese dry wall work out during the 2000s housing boom?
Ford bought New Holland back in the 80s. New Holland was very vertically integrated and Ford, after taking the reins, declared that they were going to teach New Holland how to become recession proof by outsourcing as much as possible and pushing the risk onto the suppliers. Yes, there is some logic in that plan, but on the other hand, it comes with a whole other set of risks.
Yeah, I tend to peak at Docker Compose and dare not tread further. I might actually learn systemd management of services and stop there.

I've worked in orgs where k8s worked great but most of the time it just made everyone curse their lives.
Wife and I are in an open relationship, this is anecdotal: number of men she's hooked up with who get performance anxiety is massive like it's at least 60 to 70 percent of men who have a hard time getting and maintaining an erection.
I've learned that to some people "capitalism" is just shorthand for the dark force behind all evil, and functions a bit like "the devil" in Christian tradition.
This has to be one of the best produced videos I've ever seen regarding a data driven subject. The visualization, explanations, pace, and approach was outstanding.

While I agree its worth changing the competition approach to count inspection time into the overall result, the fact that inspection time DOESN'T count in addition to solve time taints the results in the data. We don't know how any of the top 100 would have performed if they knew inspection time counted towards their overall record time.
This seems like an amazing idea.

I feel the website needs better structure and depth.