skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried Rimworld a couple times and it always came off as just bland, flat, and uninteresting compared to Dwarf Fortress. Once you played it a bit you could see "through" the game and into the random number generation beneath it. Also I didn't like the sci-fi aspect personally as I like fantasy more.

Perhaps it's gotten better in the few intervening years since I last tried it.
This isn't new. There's been 4 industrial revolutions.

But the most obvious example is electricity. People's output in certain roles immediately compounded and the long tail of this never really stopped (it was a precursor to the internet and AI ofc)

Where fields had to be toiled there was space for little else. But now people can scale their impact in interesting new ways
I can't even think of a single advantage over a key fob. Other than being a party trick that's cool the first time you show it to your friends.
Posting this comment probably felt good, so your account should be strictly regulated for your benefit.
> What actions/behavior of his make you think he's sociopathic?

Just look at the way he's been treating Twitter employees.

For example, making a joke by bringing a "sink in" [1] the company right before making pre-announced firings. That episode right there tells you he's more concerned with making a joke for the lolz than about the emotions of his new employees, which is a pretty clear sociopathic action.

[1] https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-purchase-sink...
Yup, this isn't making the cheapest t-shirts possible. The cost of labor is nothing compared to the revenues. For a fab you want a stable government and environment, and good tax/trade situation, and reliable, quality labor.
Emotional labor is a problem, not a feature. A receptionist only needs to be polite with the guests. But unfortunately, receptionists are often subject to emotional abuse.

We've never had glorified chatbots like GPT-3 or GPT-3.5. I'm not just praising GPT; I've myself casually run through a few simulations with a hotel chain receptionist and an executive. The technology looks very competent, and aside from cost savings, there's also the customer service quality aspect (consistency particularly) and the element of removing staff from abuse.

The biggest challenge is integrating language models with live data. Making customer data accessible to them is not a problem technically (prepending prompts), but it could be a GDPR problem if a third party like OpenAI is involved (having to hand over data to a third party might make the AI receptionists unappealing to some customers -- maybe, needs to be tried). The other aspect is letting the AI make changes in a data model. But there are ways to solve that as well. When these obstacles are resolved - and there is a lot of incentive to fix them now - a lot of customer-facing reception-type work can be outsourced to AI.

By the way, some hotels are already very interested in chatbots for reception work. There has been a lot of talk about that in some chains since about 2020. Old-style NLP bots, too. But of course, GPT-3 capabilities are very appealing.
He is implying that founders can create a lot of value without employees, and that the claim that employees also create value is false.

If that's true, then what about a social experiment: If you are a solo founder, you get all your profits for yourself. But if you have employees, you have to share your profits with your employees. If employees don't produce any value, easy, fire them all, you get everything. But if they do, share your profits fairly.

I'm curious to see how many solo billionaires will appear. My estimated guess: zero.
I think we're misunderstanding each-other. My point is that prominent institutions object to surveillance mostly on grounds of discrimination (and this is reflected in the masses, such as the comment I replied to). So examples of those institutions doing exactly that absolutely backs up my point.

My evidence isn't perfect - for that, I'd have to collect an unbiased sample of anti-surveillance stories, and categorize them according to which object to surveillance universally, and which mostly object to only discriminatory surveillance. But the impression I got through casual web browsing is that the latter significantly outnumber the former.
Some of the things Musk has claimed are probably physically impossible using the device Neuralink has constructed. For example, there is indeed a treatment for depression that involves stimulating parts of the brain using electrodes. But the parts you need to reach are way in there[1]. Neuralink's device is not capable of reaching these areas in its current form.

However I'm way out of my depth on this. The best I can do is listen to skepticism and try to evaluate it on its merits vs. the things that Musk says and his track record of over-promising.

[1] https://www.shockmd.com/2008/01/20/6-different-locations-for...
This is such an absurd suggestion that I'm convinced it's intended to sour public perception of UBI.
I don't know. In my experience most of my sexual partners wanted choking, forceful behaviour. Also, there's so much porn that's not violent or degrading. Maybe don't extrapolate from yourself ;)
I’m not sure about Norway but Sweden/Stockholm is in the same class as Berlin, Amsterdam, etc. I feel like Norway would be higher but I’m not certain.

Premium areas are London and Paris. But even these salaries are closer to a middle rate USA city.

Super-premium (on par with more expensive USA salaries like SF or NYC) is Switzerland. Very expensive to hire there and easily the highest salaries in Europe in my experience.

This is just based on a CoL ratings at a single place.
BTC is centralized — power lies with the miners.

ETH is centralized — power lies with the large coin holders.
Not really. Any business can now use tools that make jobs redundant. It is having its effect everywhere. Anyone whose job is to copy information between mails, spreadsheets, and some webapp will eventually be replaced.

There are more "psychological gotchas" among non-software people about what "real jobs" are and what it means to create value, but time catches up with everyone.
The debate is over Colorado law that, according to the article, "bars businesses open to the public from denying goods or services to people because of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion and certain other characteristics."

I understand wanting to make the distinction between objectionable behavior and the intrinsic characteristics of clients. But that's not a distinction the Colorado law considers. And if stuck down, SCOTUS could establish that there would be nothing baring a business to refuse service to LGBTQIA+ dog walkers.
> GPT-3 has taken away the need for programming acumen for most creators.

I strongly disagree. GPT-3 is impressive technology, but it isn't even in the same universe as a team of sharp experienced developers. It is a valuable tool for them to use in some contexts, but it won't be replacing them anytime soon (at least not at a company I would work for).
The essence of my job as an architect is commonly described as a 'professional negotiator', implying that my primary responsibility is convincing people into doing the right thing (tm). My time is typically split between two main things: meetings and research/design work.

On a typical day, I have 4-6 meetings with different groups of people. Some will be solution design discussions with engineering teams where we try to figure out how a particular challenge will be solved together. Others will be with product managers, talking about feasibility, cost and time estimation. Yet others will be with senior directors about long term strategy and infrastructure. Finally, a very important part of the meetings is mentoring. Knowing something is valuable, sharing that knowledge is invaluable.

While this may sound like a lot of meetings (and engineers typically abhor meetings) they are typically very useful and very rewarding.

The remaining time I typically spend on doing preliminary research, design, documentation and every now and then even coding, which I thoroughly enjoy.
Most of the OG's are like this, because they are more interested in decentralized technology than money. You'd probably like the writings / videos from these people:

Andreas Antonopoulos, Polynya, Erik Voorhees, Chris Burniske, Kevin Owocki, Chris Dixon
Having children is also narcissistic. They are copies of you after all.
Citation need for the claim that people dont have babies cause of refusal to have sex. Afaik, there is enough sex going on to produce babies, but people use protection to specifically avoid babies.
GP's comment is about inconsistency of the discussion regarding similar things.

The child comment states that; actually, the people complaining tend to be the same people. So they're consistent.

Which actually jives with my understanding. People that are fine with Porn are usually fine with other little rushes', in so far as they aren't harmful outside of themselves.

Gambling without the poverty is: fine.

Enjoying food without the health complications: also fine.
Well, there are more than two sexes, XX, XY, XXY, XXX, plus several other chromosome variants. So your primary school-level biology argument falls apart quickly.

But if you would have paid any attention to.. well, anything you would have known that it is not about sex, but gender, which usually correlates, but not always.
Someplace people want to live, work, and play.

Some of the existing high-rise offices should be repurposed into housing, retail, etc.
Covered really well in episode 39 of Causality, one of my favorite podcasts:

https://engineered.network/causality/episode-39-therac-25/

Each episode focuses on a root cause analysis of a major engineering disaster. Presented in a dry but engaging way - he's a good presenter, but none of the "Radio Lab" style nonsense.
The article is about erectile dysfunction and doesn't mention the dopaminergic reward system at all. That aspect is much better researched, see for example: https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articl...
Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2022
I won't let myself play until this weekend, but I hear that the new UI actually incorporates some elements of Dwarf Therapist, making e.g. assigning jobs an order of magnitude easier.
Moobot Uses a Fake Vulnerability
That's not a normal reaction to that.

You may want to see a physician. Your reaction sounds like there's a kink in your plumbing somewhere.
Going on a similar streak.
The fortune500 I worked at had Jira, but I couldnt be bothered with it.
> Those running the non-profits may do better than the workers.

I know.

I was nearly violently assaulted by the CEO of my NGO when I pointed out they justified our patltry salaries by the fact we’d make approximately the same on the GS scale while the higher ups made multiples of what POTUS did (which iirc is towards the far end of the bell curve for government salaries).

(Hacker protip: Don’t stand in a doorway, raise your voice, then police the response.)
And what if two (or one, or seven) people film porn and put it online for free, presumably disregarding your regulation.

You’re not going to jail them? How about for a fifth offense? A six-hundredth offense?

You can’t propose regulation without enforcement.
Remember all the hoopla in the news about how election polls have been repeatedly wrong because Republicans didn't want to talk to pollsters about their love of Trump, or Democrats not wanting to talk about their affiliation in red states where being openly Democrat could be bad for your health?

How much more reluctant must men be about having erectile dysfunction? This is a taboo subject and a great source of shame for many people. I'm sure plenty don't admit having it if they do, or just don't want to talk about it at all.

So all these studies consisting of people answering questionnaires on the subject are pretty suspect.

What we need to get to the bottom of this are measurements.... and, ideally, large double-blind studies. But that's obviously never going to happen.

So for the foreseeable future bloggers, pundits, psychologists, and social media users are going to be arguing about studies that are next to worthless.
AFAIK those are standards for allowing CAs to revoke certificates. Trust conditions for root stores are a completely different thing.

Or at least, I'm certainly not aware of any mechanism in the CRL standard to "partially revoke" a CA certificate based on complex conditions like "What's the notBefore date on the leaf certificate we're currently validating?".
What is your response to Ezra Klein's "Your Kids Are Not Doomed"?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/opinion/climate-change-sh...
The entire AI/ML world is just extremely boring and depressing to me... I like to make art and now places like ArtStation get flooded with AI generated images. People, obviously, don't disclose that it's AI generated. It's the commenters that point that out.

I'm generally worried that we're creating a world which is not for us anymore. Maybe we should introduce boundaries to our world, just so we don't fall into a nihilistic pit of insignificance. Humans derive a lot from process, not the final product. Now we're creating tools to jump directly to the final product. Hedonistic treadmill gets faster and faster. Grim times.
I will never again interview for Amazon unless I am about to be evicted and they are the only one left in town. Interviewed for a senior dev role, went through all the rounds, took days off of work to be available, and after the final round they just ghosted me.

I had to follow up to find out they had chosen someone else.

The amount of time I put into those interviews was absurd, reading up on all their principles, coming up with stories from my career where I met their principles etc. To then get ghosted at the end was a real slap in the face.
I did seek treatment for BPH.
Corporate hellscape mostly
In many, probably almost all US cities any downtown areas is used for "business" - i.e. commercial offices. The living pattern is you wake up, drive anywhere from 10-40 miles, 10 minutes to 2 hours, and you park your car in a parking garage and then walk a block to a skyscraper where you go up into an office area.

After World War II the US built highways that destroyed most cities. Take a look at the 1949 image and then the 1981 to get an idea [1]. The root cause of many of America's continued problems, ranging from racism and classism, to oil and car dependency are linked to what we did over the years.

[1] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/06/24/7-photos-show-how-det...
Did you notice any benefits, though?
It’s context for people like myself who aren’t sure of the modern state of animal research.
> An the government is now considering to open a reflection on reintegrating thousands of people that were laid off (not fired but no longer paid) as they didn’t consent to be vaccinated.

And health workers don't want them back in.
Or it might be American conservatives giving massive hand-outs to the rich so they can get their second (or third!) yacht while fighting tooth and nail against any government subsidies that might primarily benefit young people.
I would argue that "context" is intentional misdirection. Most people don't know that synchron is marketing an electrified stent that gives maybe one channel of data I/O whereas Neuralink has a robot that implants thousands of electrodes in multiple regions of the brain and spinal cord. They are different by orders of magnitude in complexity and potential utility.
A homework question in someone’s 11th grade statistics class
> It's the automation that's making it possible to be successful, not the engineers doing the automation.

That's like saying anyone who thinks hammers are a good idea is really saying a hammer makes a builder successful, not the builder. It's just a tool, and he's saying tools mean one person can do more. You don't need to straw man a philosophy on to it to then have something to argue against.

> employees do the automation, not the founders

Founders normally are employees. For the phase or type of company pg is talking about, they may be the only employees.
By first hand I mean you're the executive paying the bill and understand the motives behind hiring a consulting firm and the incentives such a firm is working under for the client. I'm doubtful most here have that experience (I certainly never did in 20 years of industry before joining a consulting firm). Having McKinsey or BCG walking around your office and telling you what to do is not first hand experience in my opinion.

I'm trying to offer a unique opinion of a software engineer who spent a short time working in this industry. If you're not buying it then no problem.

Personally, I would never invite McKinsey or any of these companies into my own company. But then again I don't run a 100k person company.
Currently gortex bibs and a gortex patagonia ski jacket. If it's very cold, I wear a down vest over the fleece.

Underneath I usually wear a wool singley and wool long sleeve shirt.

This keeps me very warm and comfortable all day.
The US has no such fear about Taiwan. Taiwan has a fear that they will be invaded by China if they do not have industry that is too important to China to be interrupted by war.
Haha that made me smile. Was Churchill known for his tact?

(Never met him :))
This entire post is people talking about not wanting children. Not wanting and not having children has been a way to signal group membership in the PMC class for decades now. Social media is full of people complaining about kids on airplanes, in restaurants etc.

I'm over it, and I'm over the PMC signaling in general. The happiest people I know enjoy things without irony, love their kids, and aren't afraid to look stupid. The most miserable detest children and only care about trends.
Most progress has come from universities, defense and government funding. These losers build an app and proclaim themselves gurus on the future. It's insane that people fall for it.
If you’re trying to equate communism stuff with Stalin or something then of course there will be reasonable push back. You’ll find a lot less if talking specifics like Lenin or Cuba. Otherwise communism and politics are a lot more complicated and nuanced than the simplicity that is cryptocurrency.
A couple things:

1/ Managers particularly for SDE roles don’t usually have >10-12 people. In reality the URA (Unregretted Attrition) goal is mostly managed at the L8+ level where organization sizes are usually hundreds. Far more likely you have some underperformers in an overall organization of 300, even if an individual team is all awesome.

2/ Interviews at Amazon involve a Bar Raiser who almost certainly won’t work in the Hiring Managers span of control, and the debrief attempts to answer “Is this a bar raising hire?”, meaning is this applicant better than 50% of people in the role/level.

I can really only speak for AWS and Engineering roles, but I never saw any “Hire to Fire” behavior at Amazon, and most every Bar Raiser that I saw took the role seriously and was not a “rubber stamper”.
Fail if someone checks the signature, but chatGPT would definitely pass the xkcd test: https://m.xkcd.com/1181/
Cerebras Andromeda looks really cool. I'd like to have one in my basement. Just missing $30 millions and a 500 kW power supply.
It's not a muscle.
I've put hundreds of hours into Rimworld and tried to get back into it recently. The DLC are pretty good and the mod community is just superb. But after putting a few hours into any colony, what ends up killing the vibe for me is the inevitable realization that the game is basically just a random challenge generator — e.g. as your colony becomes prosperous, a bunch of seeming arbitrary disasters are thrown your way. I wish there were a way to have the game be more like an emergent simulation, but maybe it requires the complexity of DF for it to feel right.
> any critique towards pornography and you're treated like you're Amish.

> Pornography should be strictly regulated, for the benefit of both the users and the "actors"

Can we at least admit that calling for something to be "strictly regulated" is a stronger, more extreme position than "any critique"?
Here is a Boston Consulting Group report which suggests that tokenised real assets - various kinds of equity, mostly - transacted on chain will amount to $16 trillion a year of transactions by 2030.

https://web-assets.bcg.com/1e/a2/5b5f2b7e42dfad2cb3113a29122...

Recognition of on-chain tokenization by monetary authorities: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)22 recently launched Project Guardian, a blockchain-based asset tokenization pilot, in collaboration with financial institutions like JP Morgan Chase, DBS Bank and Marketnode (SGX joint venture for bonds). The project will involve MAS investigating DeFi applications in wholesale funding markets by creating a liquidity pool of tokenized bonds and deposits to execute borrowing and lending on a public blockchain- based network. In wholesale banking activities, DBS and JP Morgan have both developed digital assets and blockchain technology. Lessons from this project would serve as foundation for informing policy markets on the regulatory guardrails required to use DeFi while also limiting its risks.

(quote ends)
Where does he mention open source? And using open source software is not standing on anyone's head.
> If there’s a persistent bias in the galaxies that are in our data set or there’s a bias in the person of the local portion of the universe we can observe, then the sample isn’t random.

The Copernican principle is the default, unless we have some reason to doubt it in a particular case.
If you’re referring to abortion in the us, I’ve always viewed that as anti-enjoyment rather than pro-child. It’s certainly not pro-mother and it has nothing that helps children once born. Carlin did a riff on this.
"Rural Flight Is Gutting Country Towns. Will Cost Local Areas $7T Over Next Century" - 1885
So you spent roughly a quarter of your career not working? That's likely a red flag for a hiring manager. Why would they risk hiring you and you quit when they can hire someone with no gaps in their history? Should they care about this? No, but that's just the way it is and employment gaps are not a protected class.
I would imagine that population growth follows something like a sigmoid growth curve. Having birth rates slow down is to be expected once humans reaches carrying capacity.

I wouldn't worry about humanity fading out - I mean, reaching a stable plateau would be great! The worry is that we'll overshoot that by too big a margin and suffer a big collapse.
Yes, it's extremely obvious what the unpleasant things are, like a screaming toddler in the supermarket. But you can't explain the joy in simply watching some DuckTales with your kid and laughing together. I try to describe it like it's like when you're in love with a girl, the honey moon, except the honey moon never passes. Just like you can't stop looking at your crush you can't stop looking at your child, you find everything they do and learn extremely interesting. May not be the experience for everyone but if it were not like this it would be very difficult to get through the rough parts!

The interesting thing is I care more about others kids as well now. Before kids I didn't have many interactions with them, not really a kids person, but now I feel more paternal for all kids. While there's an obvious confounding variable here, my friends with kids care about mine and want to meet them while those without pretend like they don't exist.
not really a muscle, but a lot of muscles are indeed involved in erection. Use it or lose it may not be wrong in this case
Google switching to continuous scrolling for desktop Search results
That view is as universal on the left as the view that blacks are an inferior race is on the right.
Automation always reminds of this quote from Jurassic Park:

"
John Hammond: You're right. You're absolutely right. Hiring Nedry was a mistake, that's obvious. We're over-dependent on automation. I can see that now. Now, the next time, everything is correctible...
"