skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really have no idea what you're on about. In this thread I have discussed: my suspicion that most teens are not as performative as those who get interviewed by the NYTimes, my preference for boots, my theory on TV shows outlasting their quality, my belief that children are better off without smartphones, and my criticism of McCandless.

Where is the roasting of teens? The closest I've come to roasting teens is saying that teens idolizing McCandless is 'odd'.
Yup, gets pretty complicated. Seems like it'd be easier to forget about corporate tax, and charge income tax on every dollar going from the company to an individual.
> First let me dispatch this "existing grid NOW and nuclear provides that" - it's a 7 year average lead time as of 2022; solar is 2.

Nuclear can certainly be made quicker if we had the political will to do so but I'm not going to try to argue that it's quick. That said, if we would have invested in this 20 years ago like we should have it wouldn't have been a problem. The argument has been "wind & solar are going to ramp up so quickly in the near future so why build nuclear?" and then it takes longer than we thought and underwhelming progress is made.

Regardless of how long it takes:

> The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

> It's also expandable and upgradable and you can start producing after the first station is done. Your 2022 nuclear reactor will still be based on 2022 technology in 2072. The solar farm, however, will be current with the times as the parts are swappable.

This argument doesn't really make sense. You can't add reactors to a nuclear plant? Or retrofit them as needed? The primary form of generating all forms of electric other than photovoltaics uses steam to spin a turbine; that's the same now as it was 100+ years ago. Who cares if it's 2022 technology in 2072 if it's producing useful electricity?

I'm sure solar panels have some runway to the technology, but that's not the point here. Solar currently does not have the ability to drop into the existing grid with large scale, on-demand energy nor will it in the foreseeable future. It's a slice of the energy pie, but to say that it's going to improve so much doesn't mean it's a wise idea to put all your eggs in that basket.
It's good to see a principled approach to business pay off.

Steam may not be utopia but things could be so much worse without it. Cheers to you Valve!
I went back to college at 28. It was a bit odd for the first couple of weeks, after that it felt normal. Graduated two years later.

In the US tuition has gotten ridiculously expensive, so I would hesitate to recommend it if you're in the US, but I'm guessing it's much more affordable where you're at, so yeah, go for it.

If it weren't so expensive to go back, I might consider going back again, honestly. I've been tempted to take a night class or two at a community college for the sake of being in that environment somewhat again, and pick up a few more skills.

Online doesn't seem to work for me, I buy access to the class but don't follow through.
> They're wearing Carhartt (an unusual choice for a metropolis like NYC),

It's not really, it's become a pretty fashionable brand in urban areas. Basically a combination of work wear and basic REI aesthetic.
You may not mind it because you're side won. But that is incredibly short-sided. What if the FBI decides to sway an election to a candidate you don't support sometime in the future? See where this is going?
Indexter
(Jira|Docs|Word) is where documentation goes to die!

Hey there!

I just soft-launched a concept for a product that boosts discoverability of your team's documentation and brings it right to you.

It's super early and before I run off and start charging people and doing all the business paperwork I'd be thrilled if y'all would like to take it for a spin!

Press release here

https://medium.com/@d-caponi1/introducing-indexter-2380000a0...?
Zero clicks is better. And less resource usage, which can help on really small instances with multiple applications.
I got diagnosed a year ago.

Best resources I've found: https://adhdjesse.com/newsletter (this taught me about rejection sensitive dysphoria, ouch) and https://www.adhddd.com/anti-planner/
> You clearly have no idea what this actually is or how it works, you’re just looking for reasons to defend Musk. Bizarrely

What? Where am I defending Musk? You seem to have an unhealthy obsession with the clown. I haven't even mentioned the guy!

Unlike you, I don't give a shit about the guy. I'm just an European aircraft owner who's not a fan of these websites.

>There is no PII in these transmissions.

>To “make a case” for something means to provide a persuasive argument for it. If I had meant pursuing a lawsuit I’d have said so.

Are you kidding? Mere pictures of license plates associated with timestamps have been found to be covered by GDPR, perfectly analogous to what's being discussed here.

http://enforcementtracker.com/ETid-851

Instead of car license plates, we have tail numbers and ICAO addresses. That's the only difference.
Women's Ways of Knowing
Yes, that's what the historical data from the last 50 years supports.

There's giant periods without any movement. Batteries have been around for centuries for instance.

These model can be a bit imaginative at times and nuclear may start its journey on it any day but so far it doesn't look like it has.

I'd love something absurdly cheap like a working Ponz-Fleischman bubble fusion to come around but if I was advising say a $100 million fund I'd say "solar + wind + chemical batteries" is the foreseeable future. It's just the reality.
Is there any way to get introduced to people who cannot afford $30 per month?
They didn't crash but they may have murdered their ad revenue and brand based on external reporting. The hasty Twitter Blue launch was a disaster.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitters-advertising-truth-hurt...
I'm not losing track of the conversation - free speech is a legal concept, and you haven't written that you're talking about the ideal of free speech. Please do not mistake your inability to express yourself with my ability to follow a conversation.

In case of free speech as an ideal, it's still a bullshit argument. You cannot suppress speech with speech alone. Go on any anonymous internet forum and try to suppress someone's speech by e.g. threatening to doxx/harm them - you will be laughed at, because on the internet there is no real threat of harm. It's always the threat of harm that actually suppresses speech, not speech itself.

That fact that you use speech to deliver the threat doesn't in itself create a paradox.

In context of freedom of movement, that argument would be akin to "free movement is a paradox because you can suppress someone's movement by holding them down". Yes, you use free movement to walk up to a person, but it's not your movement that holds them down.
Damn near pure FUD with any remotely, remotely mainstream laptop. The Linux ecosystem is so wildly more consistent and predictable than Win10.

I mean, my laptop doesn't overheat daily in my bag when its booted to Linux, but yeah, Windows is so easy. /s
Modern AI software lacks a body, exempting it from a wide variety of suffering. But also of any notion of selfhood that we might share. If modern software said "Help, I'm suffering" we'd rightly be skeptical of the claim. Unless suffering is an emergent property (dubious) then the statement is, at best, a simulation of suffering and at worst noise or a lie.

That said, things change once you get a body. If you put ChatGPT into a simulated body in a simulated world, and allowed it to move and act, perhaps giving it a motivation, then the combination of ChatGPT and the state of that body, would become something very close to a "self", that might even qualify for personhood. It is scary, by the way, that such a weighty decision be left to us, mere mortals. It seems to me that we should err on the side of granting too much personhood rather than too little, since the cost of treating an object like a person is far less than treating a person like an object.
These threads are getting tiring.
Yes, ChatGPT is shitty at math. It's not supposed to be good at it.
It's really good at what 99% of the population throws at it, but of course the internet dorks are huffing and puffing that it can't do advanced math or doesn't know some obscure theorem.
No one cares and it's not the point.
AlphaCode doesn't need to by perfect, or even particularly good. The question is when AlphaCode, or an equivalent, is good enough for a sufficient number of problems. Like C code can always be made faster than Python, Python performance is good enough (often 30x slower than C) for a very wide set of problems while being much easier to use.

In Norvig's example, the code is much slower than ideal (50x slower), it adds unnecessary code, and yet, it generated correct code many times faster than anyone could ever hope to. An easy to use black box that produces correct results can be good enough.
In the meantime, we've macroexpanded that acronym in the title above.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849267
Man, the source I listed is literally from a guy with a Ph.D on the topic. Where exactly am I "falling for the narrative of the nuclear industry?" An industry which, by the way, hardly exists in the US anymore.

> Denying the basic problems with recycling, TRANSPORTATION and storage is not helping.

Do you care to elaborate on what any of these supposed basic problems actually are?
Democrats plan to return over $1M from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried
Running millions of simulations and builds to develop and evaluate autopilot
It looks like we will not have an operational W3C on Jan 1
Brandon Sanderson wrote about his process of writing Mistborn and putting it through focus groups.

There were apparently several rounds of female readers complaining that he wasn't doing enough description of ballgowns.
Fiction: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Non-Fiction: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
Vonnegut's _Player_Piano_. In particular, I keep thinking back to this 1950s view of a computer driven society, based on 1950s computers. "He was convicted by the court computer, and we even replaced all the vacuum tubes to make sure it was an accurate verdict". Mind boggling to think about how many transistors would be involved in modern day society and what replacement of them would involve (time, cost, landfill).

I also really enjoyed _Project_Hail_Mary_.
A lazy ineffective person is preferable over a prodigious idiot.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/workspaces/latest/adminguide/enc...
Redundant Water Heater – Never be without hot water
NIEO: The New International Economic Order
Postgres and Tailscale
Beautiful response, thank you!

I briefly looked at LADD, very interesting mechanism for restricting data by filtering it from feeds. From the rest of your response, it seems like it’s perfectly legal to crowdsource this data.

I don’t really have an opinion about Musk etc, but know plenty of people do and will continue to argue.

To your point of a distributed network of license plate readers, this to me seems akin to what passive wifi/bluetooth scanning is doing, as well as the SDKs that beam your location to other entities. (there was a post on HN a year or so ago but i’m blanking on the name.)

I wonder if there is any legislation in the US for these operations.
Someone's never seen a WP white screen of death because of some esoteric MySQL error the average person will have no idea how to debug.
Referencing my previous request on the other thread for push notifications:

You did it! The crazy sunoffabeach, you did it!

BRB, friendship ended with Firebase, Supabase is my new best friend.
SEC Charges Two in $47M Front-Running Scheme
Depending on how long you wait to have kids, it may not be social media apps, but literal digital drugs, depending on how far along brain/computer IO has gotten by that point.

If you're interested, read the books "the pleasure shock" and "towards a psycho-civilized society"
Looks like the author has been writing Scheme code on the weekends..
Can you get used to just not checking things? disable the counter and notification icon on slack? I would have 20k unread emails just because the vast majority are not important at all. People lost their minds when they saw that and I reealized that it wasn't normal. I just did good work so I got away with a lot and my manager definitely gave me cover and reminded me of very important things. ofc that depends on having a solid manager

Same with slack messages. If it's not super important I learned to just not pay attention to it or get to it when I have nothing going on.

I know you already did this but I aggressively leave slack channels, especially the "fun" ones. I can see plenty of cats and boomer memes on the open internet, and showing up in the office once in a while pays way more social interaction dividends than the cheap virtual interactions on fun slack channels.
A pixel segment is a line segment that fits inside of a pixel's square box. It can start and end anywhere inside of this 1x1 square box and it has a 64bit compact representation.
Home and the birdsong
The problem was that it was entirely one way. This was not about dangerous misinformation. Many of the accounts they wanted suppressed were low-follower accounts making jokes. A ton of FBI agents paid to sway an election. Even if you are comfortable with the outcome of the election, what about future elections when they decide to back a candidate you do not support?
Plenty of routers (especially on Broadcom chipset).
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
So we should make body armor out of Prince Rupert drops?
This is at least a decade overdue. I've moved my personal site to Pico CMS (flat-file) for precisely this reason.
Chimps have killed or injured dozens of children in Uganda [video]
Its fascinating what EU can accomplish, but in my mind drivers licenses and "national IDs" (that are usable when travelling in EU) should be merged and unified over the union. Imagine how much simpler things would be! And this tech used in Germany sounds like a very nice base for it.

I mean I would also make them passports but I think that is impossible.
> Or make small changes, Berkshire Hathaway style.

Berkshire wouldn't have the same person running five companies.
Inbound = something that requires a response/action. Could be an automated alert that creates a ticket, could be a slack message from someone asking for something.

If you're not great with it every message can feel like an inbound and you're compelled to go cycle through all the channels and read everything whether it's immediately relevant or not.
I ran into what I think is a fascinating example of a current limitation of it to "understand" (whatever you want that to mean for an AI).

I asked it to make a Python generator that yielded primes. It did so and explained how it worked. It was a very inefficient approach but worked fine and was clean.

"Okay, now instead of printing the output, can you write it to a sqlite database?" And it modified the code in a pretty good way.

"Great, can you modify it so that it only return primes greater than 2?" It did so fastidiously, adding a check at the end.

"Can a prime number ever be even?" It explained that 2 is the only even prime.

"Can you modify the function so that it only returns even primes greater than 2?" And so it added a conditional check at the end which guaranteed that the function would never return again.

As a bonus, I just asked it again:

"No, prime numbers are defined as positive integers that have exactly two positive integer factors: 1 and themselves. Since even numbers are defined as integers that are divisible by 2, prime numbers can never be even. The first few prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, and 19. All of these numbers are odd."
Ask HN: What are you looking forward to in the next year?
Title is intentionally left a little opened ended.

What are you looking forward to in your personal life?
What are you looking forward to in the software industry?
What are you looking forward to in the world?

I am excited about starting to journal more in the new year. Based on my math, I only recorded entries in Obsidian for about 20% of the year so far. This is a fantastic improvement over my previous 0% when I didn't journal, but I am excited to get this number up to >=80% in 2023!
It seems anything that could hurt pfizer or Moderna stock is "misinformation".

"In fact, Furness likens the immune system to a collection of photographs. When people take photos and put them away in an album, the photos don’t fade over time just because they aren’t being looked at regularly."

By that logic I must not need my yearly flu shot because my flu "photo" hasn't faded. Clearly if I wasn't exposed to rsv (and it's most recent variants) my immune system can fight it just as strongly because I have that photo from two years ago.

Also, tetanus vaccines every 10 years, that must be bs.
If you like Adams there's a good chance you'll appreciate some of Robert Sheckley - I recommend Mindswap in particular.

FWIW, my own favourite humorous sci-fi short is R.A. Lafferty's Been a Long Long Time which can be read online: https://www.gwern.net/docs/fiction/humor/1970-lafferty.pdf
https://archive.ph/HmJZh

http://web.archive.org/web/20221216221543/https://www.latime...
VSCode is impressive, but to keep it in perspective, consider that an editor with a bug might corrupt a file, an OS with a bug might corrupt an entire file system and at worst a bad OS could actually damage hardware. Windows, MacOS, and Linux or BSDs are incredibly impressive software.

Emacs has around 6000 packages available from the most common repositories. Nine years ago Emacs had over 1.6 Million lines of code. It would be much larger now. How many lines of code in VSCode? I don't know.

However, consider really large projects in lines of code (see [1]):

Average iPhone app: .... 40,000

Space Shuttle: ........ 400,000

Windows 3.1: ........ 2,300,000

World of Warcraft: .. 5,250,000

Android OS: ........ 11,800,000

F35: ............... 24,700,000

Windows 7: ......... 39,300,000

Facebook: .......... 61,000,000

Google: ......... 2,000,000,000

Where does VSCode fit in this list.

[1] https://thenextweb.com/news/google-requires-5000-times-code-...
great idea! building one now :)
> For the love of god just get off of thece ancient systems pls,

Is anyone actually writing exploits for these ancient systems? I wouldn't be surprised if it is actually safer from non-targeted attacks.
For anyone who doesn't want to watch an 8 minute video, the glass / bullet race is at 2:40.

Maybe it's low fluff relative to other YouTube videos, for me it could have been a 5 second GIF without any real loss.
AMD accused of treating consumers as 'guinea pigs' by shipping unfinished GPUs
Windows 7 also had the best customization/theming, followed by XP. Both 7 and XP had some amazing looking community-made .msstyle themes but 7's theme engine allowed for things like full transparency while XP was limited to 1-bit transparency. This was nice in that it offered UI looks that were more modern than the classic theme yet more understated than the gaudy Luna/Aero.

Then Windows 8 came along and decided flat squares were the only option anybody could use, removing theme transparency support altogether.
do you have examples?
I think you are overstating your case. The eyes are the important thing. You can cover someone's mouth without affecting recognition performance, but you can't cover their eyes. Lots of research available on this, starting with https://www.jstor.org/stable/1421414

Secondly, your primate brain also wants to look at the genital area, but, again: pants.
All of these links are about autism, not ADHD. Am I missing something?
I think the meaning of inbound here refers to work that is defined or asked of you or a team via Slack instead of via more thought-out and defined work.
So don’t build more solar in those locations. That’s not an excuse for other places where this is not the case.
> We can do this once, and then binary search a safety interval around that position. Alas, this only gets rid of the fast jumps at the beginning of the binary search, and for some reason, it ends up being slightly slower than binary search alone.

I don't get why you can't do this at each step.
He previously said the safety risk was ok as banning it would violate free speech.

And Musk has been fine with accounts that use their freedom of speech even if they resulted is safety risks. For example @libsoftiktok is an account Musk unbanned, and has likes their tweets, who post misleading information resulting in direct threats against people and organisations (e.g. children's hospitals).

For example they just recently tweeted a video* that was purposefully edited in a way to make it seem someone was pro-pedophilia, when they weren't.

*https://twitter.com/RobertLouisr/status/1603422570665201664?...
I'm reading Bleeding Edge right now. I seem to remember it not being too well received when it came out and it certainly didn't get the kind of attention that was given to Inherent Vice. Wondering if folks here paid any attention to it.

But my god, Pynchon has an astounding mind. The breadth of his cultural interests is vast. His wit is seemingly unending, almost to a fault. Bleeding Edge is good - I don't think tech folks are his primary audience, but it's great to read it with some software background because you can parse a little bit more of the BS, of which there is a lot. Pynchon is really interested in the line between reality and conspiracy and if you have a tech background and are interested in his work more broadly I think that reading Bleeding Edge could help make his more challenging works more approachable. At least that's what I'm hoping for myself.
> Can't you just use something like a bloom filter?

If I had the ability to download a massive file I’d try it out on a hextree I toy around with occasionally.

If you’re making an index file may as well just throw it into a tree structure where a lookup is anywhere from 1 to 20 pointer dereferences (assuming the checksum is 20 hex digits) as it optimizes storage so tree depth is variable. Plus it can retain the counts as well.

Now I really want to try this out, the last article I read along these lines I used it as a comparison and it was equally as efficient as their conclusion.
How is this outside of politics? He was dealing with the royal family.
I’m happy to “leave the door open,” i.e., I’d love to be shown evidence to the contrary, but:

If the entity doing the cognition didn’t evolve said cognition to navigate a threat-filled world in a vulnerable body, then I have no reason at all to suspect that its experience is anything like my own.

edit: JavaJosh fleshed this idea out a bit more. I’m not sure if putting ChatGPT into a body would help, but my intuitive sympathies in this field are in the direction of embodied cognition [1], to be sure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition
> Combined with misaligned intensives to sell drugs, I'm highly sceptical of the majority of diagnoses.

ADHD and executive disfunction are under-diagnosed rather than over-diagnosed (I have so many friends who have obvious undiagnosed adhd), mostly because of parents who think like you, or the classic "it does not exist, you're just a slacker, pharma is just trying to sell you some drugs". Most physicians who diagnose you don't make any significant additional money from selling you drugs.

> It's completely possible to exhibit "ADHD" symptoms from an unhealthy work life

Or maybe OP really has severe ADHD?
The question in my mind is will he use his own money to keep Twitter afloat. He drove the advertisers away and threatened to sue them even though Twitter isn't profitable.
Those who paid for a Cybertruck pre-order, or a Tesla Semi pre-order, aren't enjoying them.

EDIT: Quick google says Tesla took 1.5M Cybertruck pre-orders. Assuming each costs $100k, how much is that? People get riled up with SBF, but this guy is on another league.