skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's usually a combination of both. When the local currency is unreliable, as a result of bad government policies, the locals will try get hold of a stronger foreign currency. They will sell the local currency to buy the foreign currency, which will contribute to the depreciation of the local currency, which in turn will make it even less attractive, prompting more people to sell, and so on so forth.
Complete disagreement. Toddlers were completely uninteresting to me, nothing but hassle and pain and sorrow. Around 6 years old they get much more interesting and less awful to deal with.

My wife feels the same way.
A place where people live.
Friction against an area of skin tends to cause that area to lose hair, so if anything I'd expect this to be a treatment for hairy palm, not a cause.
I find this view fascinating, and somewhat dishonest. For a start the Biden campaign were not the government at this point and the tweets they asked to be removed were Hunter Biden dick pics so I’m told… it’s not likely these would have spread but they are embarrassing. They didn’t tell Twitter to remove the story.

It is very easy with hindsight here to be absolutely certain of things such as the authenticity of the laptop; Twitter cannot have known that at the time and they were simply scared to promote information that was being leaked to smear political opponents. I would probably have made similar decisions if I was Facebook, Google and Bing etc. and as it turned out they also made the same call. To make this into a conspiracy, one Trump using to try to have the constitution changed (let me guess, term limits will be removed), is proven to be completely fabricated in my opinion.
Absolutely. In the case I mentioned, interviewers did more talking than asking and listening, interviews were far too easy (I’m glad you like me but if you can’t really discern whether I’m good at my job, you’ve probably hired other people who are bad at theirs), and bad answers to questions about their business model (when stock options were part of the compensation package).

It just didn’t feel like a fit.
This is the same pope of climate change who wanted to build concrete tunnels underneath cities to transmit a single brand of car and wants to build gigantic rockets to go to Mars in a billionaire pissing contest?

The likelihood of EVs and Tesla in particular impacting climate change is minuscule and much overhyped and oversold.
.. or engaged in beastly activities like remote working.
>we

Who are these we?

HN is very anti regulation of drugs see the countless posts about micro dosing, LSD, marijuana etc.
It's not for everyone, and not everyone can (physically, financially, etc), and few that do will consistently feel 'successful' at parenting. No fidelity of a priori information will determine if it's for you. It's a leap. People shouldn't pressure others into or away from it. Governments worried about population growth should invest in social programs to aid early childcare and education; and generally improve social/medical safety nets for everyone. Under no circumstances disrupt the adoption apparatus, controls, standards therein - provide appropriate additional support around transracial adoption. The only certainty is that having a(nother) kid definitely won't repair a strained relationship.
> so the economic incentive is to be a free-rider...

I'm reminded of societies in which families have more children than they want because there is no social safety net. Children are the safety net. Talk about harvesting human beings. Children suffer immense pressure and even abuse in such places.
If everyone had a basic income, nobody would need to work. Jobs would be obsolete. Just think how nice the country would be.
My mistake, I misread “Removal/distrust” in the timeline of https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Symantec_Issues as meaning removal from the trust store.

I can’t edit my comment now, but hopefully your correction here gets upvoted and is visible to people.
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He'll likely get fired once they figure it out but by that time he might be able to retire early.
It’s likely induced bias as a result of the alignment training, not the web data. The reason people are up in arms about AI safety to begin with is that they reproduce humanity as it is, containing racism, sexism, etc.
AFAIK it's quite the contrary. It's a muscle and the more you use it the more it will function even in old age.

EDIT: Yup, it's not a muscle ^^, but I am still certain that I read in some medical journal that a lot of masturbation does not cause ED and that it can actually help to prevent ED.
Synchron was also started 4 years earlier, so it's not necessarily because they are doing a better job. Neuralink is playing catch up in a sense.
Great:

How do you now define genius?

What is the old saying? Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

I think we would have to first prove that the genius is going to provide something for us in some way, even if it is just research, it can not be frivolous research with no end in sight that does not produce.

Uh-oh, how do I show that we are doing research that will eventually produce something? Einstein noted that if we knew what we were doing, we would not call it research. So many great discoveries were accidental, but then how do I prevent the scammers from gaming the system?
I see a LOT of people moving to NYC for this reason. Not Midtown or the Financial District, mind you - the UES, UWS, Williamsburg, etc. I did it. I don't commute but am so much happier here than with more space in suburbia.
> I'm currently mentoring a trainee, and I have to do a lot of hand-holding for them to get things right. ChatGPT can perform on that level.

It definitely can - I have a blog post written about playing with it where I describe it as "pairing with a smart junior dev who's absurdly good at remembering APIs and syntax."

If I had to predict one game-changing result of this thing, it's that it just became a lot harder to be a good junior dev. I can think of plenty of things I did very early in my career that took me days which ChatGPT could have done in 30 seconds. But at the same time, this tool is available to them as well, and it does more than just spit out code - it usually does a pretty decent job explaining the logic of its output. Maybe it will accelerate junior learning. Who knows?!

The future is wild!
Agreed. I got offered an interview at Google years ago and passed on it hard. On the one hand I feel like I should regret the money they I may have made, but honestly I regret nothing... Sometimes the fit matters more than the money and I would've hated my life there.
That's not our experience. It's pretty hard to do an instantaneous transfer of very large sums of money, with atomic transactions of some complexity, using any other system we are aware of.
I love "deinforce" as an antonym to "reinforce". The standard way to say it would maybe be "deemphasised", but it lacks the symmetry of "deinforced".
I'm not from the US - what is downtown used for today?
It's a very advanced parrot.

You can ask it to say things it's already heard, but it has no context of what those things mean and no internal consistency or logic.
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His whole point is: There is a lot of great free open source software being exploited by small technical teams to run faster. This means the people doing the integration deserve less $$ because they can do the same amount with less. Founders deserve all the money, everybody else should be happy to be employed.

1920s robber baron bs.

Ignore the ethics that every single startup would be impossible without standing on the heads of those who have dedicated many hours of their lives building this free software.
Many companies also do things that are a lot worse, like taking massive profits and then laying off the people that gave up time with their families and other opportunities to create those profits. I heard they also do things like give executives that don't do a great job millions while stiffing the individual contributors. Unions can help companies run better by forcing them to take a "longer than 2 year" view on decisions.
the left stance extrapolates from current understanding

the right stance extrapolates from current understanding plus history

one has faith in the modern prosperous progressive society, the other has seen them fall to brutality and chaos countless times.

but surely this time it will be different, we are after all educated civilized people.

No seriously, this is the main thrust of conservatism. It perceives the thinness of the veil of polite society and does the only thing that has been seen working consistently so far.
More roads, sewer pipes, power lines, distribution networks, more cars, more power for bigger homes.

I think you have this reversed.
This is a misunderstanding of AI (Stable Diffusion etc.), IMHO. The relation of AI-generated art, trained on human-generated art, to human creativity, is almost the same relation as human-generated art and history of human art and creativity to the nature/world/universe itself, as the ultimate source of all inspiration and creativity. The underlying neural networks (in humans [getting inspiration from nature] and in AI [getting "inspiration" from human-art]) work is (somewhat) similar ways.

AI (generated art) is just another derived layer on top of that and which is still in its infancy.
>but Munich, Berlin, Hamburg... you have to talk 140k for 15 years real experience.

Outside of FANGS & MANGAS, German companies would start laughing if you ask for that much for IC positions, even senior ones.

That kind of cheese is usually reserved for management/corporate bootlickers high up the command chain.
More interesting are the potential social effects of pornography, in terms of relationship expectations.

In many Western nations, we have a plummeting birth rate, and this may well be because women are increasingly refusing to have sex on men's terms. Immersed in violent, degrading pornography, the expectations of many men regarding sex are now incompatible with women who want a loving relationship in which to raise a family.
Love Balsamiq.
As someone going through a horrible divorce, replete with custody fights and the whole nine yards, I’d still say that you’re thinking about this wrong.

I am the father of a three-year-old girl. I would go through my marriage a thousand times, complete with abuse and emotional trauma, if it meant I could get my daughter in the end.

I’ve found that happiness has never been found by endeavoring to avoid any and all potential suffering. I cannot control how my wife behaves. I can only control my reaction.

Find a partner that is emotionally resilient, calm under pressure, and has a desire to continually better themselves, then go for it. It may still end in divorce, but I promise you it will be worth it.
There are a lot of theorems on sampling so though I’m no longer current in that area I presume the authors knew what they were doing. Especially as they had the maths chops to apply that factoring algorithm.

But you can also consider a qualitative analysis. A standard assumption is that the Big Bang should be largely isotopic (else why not, which is the main point of the article). So where you look shouldn’t matter. Even if orientation were uniform in average (impossible to tell), non-uniform regions tell an interesting story.

Now in reality we know the universe isn’t smoothly uniform: parts of it have curdled into galaxies, stars systems etc. Also there’s the puzzling imbalance between matter and antimatter. Why? This article points out another asymmetry, which could provide a clue.
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They do not want us to think that Gmail reads our messages?
In fact, there's a need to roll with every change and use the opportunity to improve. We can repurpose old office towers for housing - Houston does it all the time. We can narrow streets that don't see daily commuter crushes - we can use this opportunity to build a better world.
Where is the inference that the animals could have survived? I think it's pretty clearly outlined in the article that the animals end up dead regardless.

What the article is saying though, because of tight deadlines, sloppy procedures and chaotic environment, the trials are rife with mistakes that could have been prevented if they were more careful, so they don't have to repeat the same trial over and over because they fucked up the previous times.

So the suggestion is to instead of running a trial bad 4 times killing 4N pigs, run one good and proper trial so you only end up killing 1N pigs for the same output research data.
In many cities, high-rises office towers pay multi million dollar tax bills. It's nearly free revenue that doesn't really cost the city any more effort to serve. Taxing office space is the only mechanism cities typically have to tax the business community to help pay for the services is it provides to its residents. That revenue evaporates, and will have to be balanced by increased residential assessment or fed/state government bailout.
Isn’t it the same authoritarians who want to jail people for drugs and pornography? And while I wouldn’t want to disparage the Amish, aren’t those authoritarian urges largely rooted in Christian theocratic doctrine?
1. What's the point of using a public blockchain[0] if this decentralized NFT can actually be rendered moot by the legal system and a new one replace it at will?

2. Atomicity is a common property of database transactions, not something unique to Ethereum, so I'm not sure I follow the blockchain requirement for this.

You mention e-commerce style purchases but the legal side of things seem to imply that it's still more complicated than buying something on Amazon: the NFT only has the meaning you're willing to give it; if someone sends me an NFT you issued, I still need to check that you didn't revoke it and that it represents what the seller says.

Your website also mentions a "Mattereum Asset Passport" which indicates that the NFT doesn't stand on its own. Overall I find it hard to see what the NFT actually brings, especially given your other comment mentioning legal disputes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33879695).

I don't see why you couldn't replace all of that with:

* a database you control

* certificates you issue yourself, signed with your own key

* provide an interface (web or API) facilitating the transaction of these certificates between users

[0]: public blockchain as defined there: https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2019/02/theres_no_g...
That's describing something different. In the 80s the US was worried that Japan would dominate the US economically. The dynamic here is that Taiwan is worried that China will dominate Taiwan militarily. The assimilation being referenced above is not between the US and Taiwan, but between the Taiwan and China.
It's shame there is not much commercial pull in more of "local hub" model.

Just have everything talk (via MQTT or whatever) to local hub (that could double down as internet router, or whatever else) running a container with queue server.

Then you can just spin up second "app" (another container) with local controller, or connect that queue to vendor's cloud and their own app. Or have failover between one and other. Hell, integrate the two where you have one place to add all of your rules, but what is possible to do locally would be done.

The vendor could charge monthly for their cloud toys but not have to run all automation in the cloud (cost savings) and the user would get a box that can be configured from anywhere, but do vast majority of tasks locally and not be dependent on internet for basics.
Western nations implemented UBI in 2020 and 2021 in the form of checks and loans and we are now living through the disastrous effects of UBI as the economy sputters and inflation and high prices lower our standard of living and make all of our lives worse. In short, UBI has been a complete disaster and is not a viable solution to any problem.
Capitalist: "without enough babies, economy will collapsed"

Employer: "Employees spend too much time on raising child, my business will fail"

Didn't they see who cause the problem?
I mean you’re calling attention to the word you’re ignoring: “whenever.” You’re basically saying some suffering is fine as long as it’s suffering you’re fine with.

Don’t get me wrong, that is a 100% valid attitude to have. But don’t pretend like you’re trying to avoid animal suffering whenever possible — because you’re clearly not.

> The slaughtering is not really the problem to me

Also lol at this. Makes it easy to avoid animal suffering if being slaughtered doesn’t count as suffering to you.
I assume the OP means bootstrapped companies because there are countless VC backed and/or existing enterprise companies in this space.

Some bootstrap companies that come to mind include:

- Mailchimp

- Zoho

- Atlassian (before IPO'ing)

- Qualtrics (before being acquired by SAP)

These are all billion dollar businesses.

IndieHackers is also quite good for smaller companies. They have a podcast and blog articles. Nathan Latka has a great podcast as well.
> everybody continued to buy gas, oil, electricity, fertilizer, aluminium and titanium

not to mention nuclear fuel (https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Framatome-and-Ro...)
I had a long talk with a Chicago born cab driver when visiting a few years back. He explained to me that Chicago used to be a conventional city where the businesses were downtown and residential was a donut around that. Traffic was congested into downtown in the mornings and out of downtown in the evenings. As the city grew and commutes into downtown from the suburbs worsened, the businesses started moving out of downtown into the suburbs to be closer to their employees. This left downtown with low occupancy. A few people eventually got wise to the situation and started turning a lot of the unused downtown commercial space into residential space. Fast forward to today and the traffic patterns have reversed, with congestion out of downtown in the morning as people commute out towards the ring of businesses and into downtown in the evening where people now live.

I see this same trend happening in Houston where I live now and I suspect it is happening in other large car-centric cities as well.
Well, you aren't supposed to destroy the fabric of society! /s

How do you think society would work if there was no restriction on the size of the group that is allowed to break the laws for their own benefit?! Imagine the horror if all plebs were allowed to do that! Could everyone live in Monaco or what?
Most Founders are interchangeable. The entire business of YC is paying for a ton of people to found a ton of companies and hoping one hits. Luck is a huge factor. The issue is the 1 guy that does hit has an outsize impact on society. Sometimes it's positive but often it's not.
Ask HN: How does your company plan work?
My original approach to this was work doesn't needed to be planned, it needs to be done, BUT in an org approaching 1000 people who need to be kept busy shuffling papers some amount planning to attempt to coordinate people is needed.

What I would like is project driven teams, who form to solve a problem, deliver a solution, then disband. This doesn't support empire building though.

Current situation at my employer which is starting to transition to a more matrixed organisation:

Ahead of each quarter the Product Development department opens the window for submitting new objectives

These should be tied to the company strategy and are mostly driven by the Product Management function

Each objective will detail the outcomes, teams required and a guess at how many quarters it will take

Then all the teams that are suspected to be involved will consult the objective and estimate how much of their time is needed to deliver the requirements that aren't yet known

Each team then aggregates this in a rough % of their capacity of the projected quarter (like Objective Pickled Giraffe : Team Ostrich 50% Capacity in Q1 required)

Then the submission window closes and all the objectives go to the exec team who pick which ones will be done and which ones need more info to make a decision.

Then we kick off the quarter and start work on the objectives.

This then doesn't fit with any other part of the company who have their own planning cycles and then we fight to pull people in when needed. Hence why we're becoming a 'matrixed org' to solve this.
Reading a book might typically take more time total than watching a movie, but books are often read in shorter increments, whereas a movie is usually watched straight-through in one sitting.
Not to mention the 42% paid in taxes every year, assuming the €100k is gross, not net. €58,000 seems like a low take-home, even with all the caveats you gave.
Apologies, "in my opinion and limited experience" it sounds like a conspiracy theory.

I'm not legally literate enough to understand the court opinion you attached. Regardless, of course there will be cases of bad players in any large company - that goes without saying. But its tiresome always hearing the same "McKinsey is the root of all evil and secretly influences governments and companies".

The opinion that most engineers have of MBB is often based on conjecture as they typically have only ever hard arms length exposure to such consulting firms. As a software engineer myself, working at both startups and FAANG before McKinsey, I was of the exact same opinion about McKinsey and these types of companies. The truth is much more mundane and boring though.
I have friends who have worked and currently work at Neuralink, and I agree with much of the sentiment I see in the comments about Musk. I also am confused about the long term viability of the company. BUT, I hate to see this sort of animal rights hack-job amplified on HN. You can recognize it as such by the radical animal rights orgs quoted and the minimal contextualization or detailing.

It seems like the main criticisms are (1) in 2 procedures out of 1500 , there were surgical targeting errors, and (2) many procedures are done in parallel rather than sequentially.

With regard to (1), if that were really the case, 0.1% errors would be much better than human surgeons. I'm sure that the mistake rate is higher, but that still doesn't mean anyone is behaving unethically?

With regard to (2), there's a huge problem in medtech around small sample sizes. It's always easy when you have N=4 to say "Oh, we should have understood this at N=1." But the reality is that a host of N=1 conclusions have been subsequently debunked. If the team wants to replicate failures to understand them, that should be applauded.

There's also some discussion of wound glue - translating, it sounds like some sutures opened up, which caused an infection, and they found a vet who was happy to blame the brand of vetbond they used.

There are many things wrong with Neuralink, but personally, one might that the major tragedy here is that I'm sure that the pigs that ended up with the wrong spinal implants didn't subsequently get turned into pork chops and bacon. And the reason for that life-wastage is the frustrating ability of animal rights groups to get their message amplified.
we would mean the average member of the Anglosphere, since we are on hackernews, to which the average HN user has not so much in common.
I'd argue that the trend continued past the 1960s. While yes, there is certainly more acceptance of homosexual men, there is also a continuing trend towards an exaggerated extreme masculinity that would have felt out of place in the 1960s.

Maybe it's more accurate to say Western (and in particular American) culture has fragmented, and one of those cultures has increasingly put stricter and stricter norms around acceptable heterosexual male behaviour to the point where it's nearly parody.
Look at all the failed runs, over and over, figuring out how to get it to work to that first green checkmark.