skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a very easy middle school competition problem - https://imgur.com/a/YdFSBVY

It repeatedly got the answer wrong. I engaged in a long conversation with it (too long to post) where I tried to convince it that its answer was wrong, but it became quite rude at a certain point & alleged I was trying to trick it or something (?!) so I just gave up. Unfortunately, I was doing the whole exercise in front of my 10 year old who was initially very excited about ChatGPT. After seeing its behavior, he is now convinced that its dumb as dirt.

If you look at the problem, ChatGPT's answer is the 2nd term of the input series! Obviously an all positive series can't have one of its own terms as an answer, the answer better be bigger than each of its terms. So forget about calculation, it has no logical reasoning ability either.
If you're holding maybe you don't think you've lost money yet - but you spent a bunch of money on 0s and 1s and no one is going to buy those from you.
just checked, chatgpt can give directions...

reminds me of the old days when i used to text GOOGL for exact addresses
The minerals remain in the ashes. Other nutrients may be an issue, but for example when producing biogas, they’re essentially in the leftover parts of the plant. Biogas is mostly methane, so carbon and hydrogen.
That's not a good analogy - VAT is simply added to base price at the time of purchase. Profits are entirely different - how would you account expenses for example. Not to mention various tax benefits that differ from country to county.
I agree on the flashbacks, but they were IMO the only weak part of the series. The costumes, music, sets, cinematography, writing, and acting were all superb. And it built up into a culmination at the end that tied everything together, without wasting previous setups.

Also, the bittersweet sense of sacrifice and hope shining through a tsunami of oppression is so relevant and positive compared to so much of the pointlessly dark series out there.

Did you finish the season? It gets progressively more tense and entertaining.
thats exactly the kind of accounting trick they are trick to get rid off.

The fact that it matches the revenue exactly shows that its not a real lisencing deal
In 2020-2021 I participated in the Building Beauty Online course (the architecture side) and the Beautiful Software seminar. I wrote up as much as I could:

https://www.garethrees.co.uk/building-beauty/
as sung in 1974, on that side of the Atlantic, yes.

in my 2022 dialect, on this side, no.
> Figure 4. French and Chinese nuclear electricity production. Source BP Energy Review.

Is shown to demonstrate that nuclear isn't slow.

Yet China has added more solar, and more wind, in that same period. So it is slower than either on their own, and much slower than both, even at nuclear historical high.

Meanwhile, solar and wind get cheaper and faster each year.
Geese return twice as quickly if you try to shoo them away
Would it not be an enormous flex to just kill Twitter if it doesn't behave to his liking?
Most of the handwringing about tech is the middle-aged projecting their anxieties on their children. It's not necessarily the kids who are threatened by social media. It's them, whole fucking 40 year olds, scrolling on tiktok (wtf!) and feeling queasy about it. Kids these days yeah right.

Listen to this kid subtly rubbing it in:

> “I still long to have no phone at all,” she said. “My parents are so addicted. My mom got on Twitter, and I’ve seen it tear her apart. But I guess I also like it, because I get to feel a little superior to them.”

Anyway, that aside. The article is complete cringe though. NYT really is 95% lifestyle branding and 5% factoids. Also, these kids, I don't know if they realize, but it's always just that little skeevy (not necessarily in a sexual nature, more generically, as-in, unseemly, too familiar, think "cool teacher"), when adults - journalists, artists, ...- worm their way in kids culture, package their growing up for the entertainment of jaded, passe 50 year olds.
Can you link me to Micah complaining when the NY Post and others were banned from Twitter for posting about the Hunter Biden laptop story? I can't find it.
The planet? No, you can’t.
I too enjoy eugenics.
Labels are funny.

SRE tends to be less centralized. You have devs and SRE working together. Either 1 dev team + 1 SRE team, or an N:1 setup where one SRE team supports multiple dev teams. The SRE gatekeeping is there exactly because your company has outgrown the "move fast and break things" phase, and is now in the "move fast but please don't break things" phase. The SRE team wants to support the devs with their high-velocity feature rollouts, but the SREs also know that the service is big and important, and outages / data loss / etc will cost the company money and damage the company reputation.

The SRE team is there to try and balance development velocity, reliability, and scalability without breaking the bank. Run a dev team by itself and you may not have enough expertise in reliability and scalability to make the service work the way you want--you may have a high pager load and no strategy to get out of it besides telling your devs to fix more bugs. The SRE team brings strategies and expertise to work your way out of that kind of hole if you're in it. Centralized IT slows things down and tries to get the entire company on a tech stack which is as standard as possible. Makes sense for running legacy services, but does not make sense for products with highly active development.

Sometimes what you see in rapidly growing companies is that the workload grows faster than the capacity for the company to hire skilled workers willing to do the work. This happened at some point during Facebook's growth, for example. A core responsibility of SRE teams is to provide scalability not just in terms of computational resources and capital expenditures, but in terms of human labor and operational costs. Doing this well requires working closely with the dev team and requires that the SRE team be able to make code changes or even architectural changes to the service they are supporting. This is outside the scope of centralized IT support.

You can use SRE as a buzzword but I see it as a specific role which solves a specific set of problems which are, at this point, relatively well-understood.
Of course, the classic corporate oppression of "hi we're paying you $200,000/yr to write code... could you list out your contributions for the past quarter so we can evaluate your performance?".

I find it hard to believe you have 20 years of experience but don't see the point of performance evaluations. Imo it's part of being a professional to be able to answer the question "what are you working on"

It's very simple. They pay you, you do work. If they stopped paying you, you'd probably stop working.

Why would you expect that if you stop working, they won't stop paying you?
Any techie on HN could run a one-person instance. Mastodon itself is fat, but Pleroma/Akkoma and Misskey are smaller, for instance. I know someone who's writing software for a one-person server in Rust that is intended to deploy as a single binary file.

The problem you describe is real, though, and it's the least friendly thing about Mastodon for new users.

I'd pick a large instance to start with, and move at your leisure.

I'm camped out on a friend's server right now, he said it was strictly for amusement but he's having a whale of a time being a Mastodon admin. When he says he'll definitely give us 2mo notice if he gets sick of it, I know I can trust him on that. That sort of thing.
The schadenfreude is reserved for the geniuses at A16z and other 'vibes' VCs that continue to throw money at him.
The funny part is that Wework built its valuation on the narrative that it's a "tech company", but the tech-side of the member experience has actually become worse or has been unchanged for years.
you can apply a rule only to companies with over 10 billion in revenue
‘Magic Avatar’ App Lensa Generated Nudes from My Childhood Photos
2023 Prediction Contest
Snowcrash would best be conveyed with psychedelic Anime à la Redline. Characters are huge, action scenes are over the top.
Why women are more likely to get Alzheimer’s
These days you can simply load it into a database (ClickHouse) - it will be compressed (about the same as the 7z file), and the search will take 3 ms:

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/42363
You don't get it, and you won't until you learn to enjoy literature at scale, that is reading authors by their complete works.
> Line segments are transformed into pixel segments by intersecting them with the pixel grid. We developed a simple method that performs this computation in O(1) and which is run in parallel.

What's a pixel segment exactly? Just a list of pixel coordinates that intersect?
How do you know there is no reasoning involved?
Yeah, the article makes this sound shady, but I've heard this feature touted many times as a major benefit of NFT's, as the creator can potentially revenue share in downstream transactions.
I updated Santa's personality to be stern and he's scolding my kids about being naughty this year :P
I agree. I think these business models do more harm than good for the variety of actors involved with them (employees, equity holders, real estate, naive investors, etc.) I just find a sober look at why they're injurious is a lot more instructive than sneering schadenfreude.
Is it common for those huge old plants to use pulverized coal?

I imagine all the new ones use it, and thus all the new ones can change their outputs in a matter of minutes, instead of hours. But that still makes coal one of the slowest sources to react to grid volatility, and sill basically useless to compensate wind oscillations, only useful for the solar cycle.
I wonder how soon can the daughter cut her mother out of her life.
How is it engage or die?
If I was surrounded by falling bricks I’d definitely consider it!

For me the costs aren’t just wearing a mask or getting sick. I also have vulnerable people in my life. My partner, their partners, my elderly parents, friends with unknown connections.

If I walked around the grocery store without a mask I could at any time pick up the virus and even if I don’t get very sick I could give it to friends or loved ones. So then there is a mental load of worrying if I’m feeling fatigue due to poor sleep or onset of the virus (which is how it happened when I actually had it), and wondering if I should cancel social plans when I’m not feeling 100% normal.

If I am always wearing masks in public I can relax about it more when seeing friends. I’m being responsible and while accidents do happen I’m at least not being negligent.

I notice a lot of people not masking are only talking about themselves. It’s like they don’t think about how transmitting the illness affects others.
I don't know. But that's the point - we can only guess, but I'm sure there would be plenty of very interesting things found. You know how a lot of prominent people say that FED is a private entity, right?
Uber has never been profitable
Is that why iPhone is design in US, Built in china but the taxes are paid in bermuda? Totally legitimate?
The protagonist is basically an aspergers teen under a great deal of pressure, including multiple murder attempts against himself and his family and friends. He also happens to have visions of the future. Before he gets marooned into a planet made out of psychedelic dust.

Considering that, I think the interactions were too articulate. Trainspotting was Dune with less drugs and internal conflict.
gah, I knew I should have pushed out doing mine one more day so I could have read this first. I guess there's always next year!
It doesn't have to be that dichotomous though. I don't wear a mask at work (which is well ventilated and people are pretty responsible about staying home when sick) but I do in higher risk situations (E.g. a plane flight)
VirtualDOM is why.

vanilla.js is better
I know, right? Why build a solar farm in 6 months or a wind farm in a year when you can spend five times as much and have a nuclear plant ready in 10-15 years?
Charles Schwab Pledged Asset Line [0]? equities as collateral, gain a line of credit.

Fidelity Fully Paid Lending Program [1]? not quite what you're looking for, but still generate cashflow from owned equities.

[0]: https://www.schwab.com/pledged-asset-line
[1]: https://www.fidelity.com/trading/fully-paid-lending

Disclaimer: i am not a fiduciary, nor a financial professional. this is not financial advice.
Hear from Journalists Elon Musk Just Banned from Twitter
Exploit is a really, really strong word. The way oracle refuses to acknowledge any software processor boundaries other than their own is more exploitative.

It's been several years, but if I remember correctly if you wanted to run an Oracle DB on a 2vcpu VM you couldn't just license 2 cores, you had to license every core on every hypervisor the VM could run on.

It basically means you have to get off oracle or buy oracle hardware. For large enterprises with old hardware running decades worth of business logic captured in stored procedures it's becomes a rock and a hard place situation.
It's made up of three arcs and the first arc is bad. No way around that. It doesn't set up any themes or have any payoffs, it's just a boring slog. However, the spycraft and prison stuff was the most engaging thing Disney's ever put on a screen.
Can Parag Agrawal (Ex-CEO Twitter) join Meta breaching competitive agreement?
Recently, we heard news Parag Agrawal, Ex-CEO of Twitter joining Meta.

So, I was curious to know, whether Twitter never had Competitive protection agreement from their employees where they can not launch or join any company which are direct or indirect competitor to their product.
Who decides what's bigger? Those taxes are going to make almost zero changes since customers and workers are going to pay for it, same ol' story about the triangle company-worker-customer.
I still don't understand why they can't be settled overnight or something.
> while building businesses that couldn't have possibly been profitable

All of these businesse can easily be profitable. Shared offices have been a thing forever and easily turn handsome profits. As do cab companies, courier companies, restaurants...

What isn't possible is turning in enough profits to justify the mammoth valuations.
Generally for side projects I start with a simple PoC and then iterate into a better fit for the projects needs. Most projects start out with the following PoC stack.

PoC: Python + file system as a database

If I actually use it a lot or performance is bad then I tweak the stack. Usually persistence is the first thing upgraded to SQLite. Then, if it's an HTTP project, I usually throw in jinja2 templates to make editing the layout is easier. Finally, if it's something I expect to always be up I'll rewrite it in Rust.

PoC w/ web front end: Python + file system as a database + fastAPI/Flask + HTML/JS/CSS as python strings

Rust doesn't have everything under the sun, so sometimes I'll split the service into two: one which handles requests over a named pipe or unix socket in python and the front end in rust.

Rust Services w/ web front end: Rust + axum + askama + SQLite via tokio-rusqlite
Python Services: Python + asyncio using asyncio.loop.add_reader and file descriptors to attach to the named pipe or unix socket.
No, you make a perfectly valid point. Not too many corn stalks are going to fall on power lines in Indiana. Though one year there was an ice storm so bad, the accumulated ice pulled the high tension towers/pylons to the ground in crumpled heaps. That took a little while to restore power.
Twitter is now blocking links to pixelfed
Diseases are inevitable. It's not all that useful to be testing for every random disease that comes up. Testing doesn't help. Lockdowns don't help. Even mRNA treatments don't help. You WILL get Covid. You WILL get the flu. And your immune system will get stronger as you get exposed.

Covid used to be novel. Now it's endemic and mutates multiple times per year. It's looking more and more like Covid will be with us for decades if not forever, just like the flu and the common cold.
Would have been cool if this article had something beyond just words that pad out the title.
Solid W3C Working Group will advance Solid specifications
That is weird.

The archived version is the same
Elon Musk’s Twitter journalist purge has begun
Retool: the $82M ARR internal app builder
A slippery slope argument is not fallacious if the slope is, in fact, slippery.

Additionally, “centrally managed, and cryptographically-backed state identification cards, complete with RFID” is not a “small first step”.

That’s a huge step that centralizes a great deal of power that can be readily leveraged through small subsequent steps.
> it means they wanted a break

My point exactly. We tire of the familiar.

> 4 out of the top 10 movies were Marvel movies

Disney operates at a scale none of their peers can match. They have the most well tuned pipeline of any production company. I'd expect this.

Nevertheless, metrics point to declining interest. If I had time to write a longer comment, I'd be able to cite sources and offer more than just a suggestion to google "marvel fatigue".
Instant landing page – Killing a startup idea quickly
> Imo it's part of being a professional to be able to answer the question "what are you working on".

If they need an end-of-year self review to determine that, something has gone horribly wrong. They already know what I'm working on: they're the ones that assigned me to it, and I report on it regularly in standups. So what's the point of the review? If they don't already know what value I'm bringing, that's a red flag.
Founder here,

Having strong friendships is one of the most important things for happiness and wellbeing. It's been especially hard to be social since the pandemic hit, and people in developing countries have become increasingly isolated.

Junto is an attempt at solving some of these huge problems - but starting small and in my own community.
> How long before tweets and tweeters critical of Tesla start getting shadow-banned or outright banned?

Lots of people have gotten “hate-speech” violations requiring deleting tweets to avoid suspension for fairly mild criticism of Musk; that started happening within nor more than a couple weeks of the acquisition. It’s not particularly consistent (for any given style, or even specific wording, of criticism, its not possible to predict whether someone will get a violation for it), so its probably not an automated filter but something insiders (possibly including Musk; he’s definitely active enough on the site for it to be plausible, but it could just be underlings) are doing manually.

> So far, Musk has been benevolent.

Not really.
I would happily review my performance if my employer lent me the money and time to continuously improve my skills. At the moment that budget is nonexistent, so I don't really owe them this kind of thing.
Now with custom IPN and name validations, supplier pack sizes: InvenTree 0.9.0
Pretty fun for the adults too. Talking to the D&D game master. https://inworld.ai/arcade/eVGEBwKb7iBoks8z
I want to offer contrarian take. I can't count number of founders who found refuge at WeWork, thrived there, met their co-founders, customers and first employees. We Work was an essential ingredient of gig culture and founding of countless new companies. Neumann's original vision was, and, in fact continues to be seductive and revolutionary. The incumbent players in these business were simply way too behind in meeting needs of modern startups.

Neumann used age-old strategy to ignite this business: throw VC money to create foundation for business while doing that at loss. When he signed the over the top leases, no one - and I repeat no one - ever thought we were going to be off of 0% interest rates. No one thought real estate will plunge. It made sense at the time and VCs threw even more money as everyone held same view. In alternate universe, COVID would have never happened, QEs would have continued for another decade and WeWork would have been highly profitable monopoly.

This is not to say Neumann acted in unethical manner. He used WeWork cash and assets as his personal property. But keep in mind VCs always thought of WeWork as his "family business" just like how they thought of Facebook as Zuck's family business.
"Users can get a Pod from a handful of providers, hosted by web services such as Amazon (AMZN)"

I get that the next thing says "or self-host" but... reclaim our data from tech giants so we can give it back to tech giants?
They're a communication tool, and as such, can be used for good or bad purposes. If you already distrust your manager and organization to a large degree, yeah you won't ever see any value on them, but the problem is the inherent distrust and antagonism.

I've had plenty of good career dev chats with my manager (and my reports once I became a manager) following a review. This should be happening all around in 1:1s, but the semester or yearly review is a larger retrospective summary of the work we do, what we're proud of and what we feel could have gone better. If there's no trust however, this exercise is moot.

Even if my manager did not read it, writing about it has been valuable to me and makes me realize more clearly what I've done, whether I feel I'm being valued or not, and if it's time for me to move on.
This is not universally true, and if you're somewhere like this, you can and probably should move if you value being valued.

As someone who's in the room when we go over these, if you write "stop doing performance reviews" the whole room rolls their eyes, and is not very kind.

Maybe stop shooting yourself in the foot? Give it a shot, for like 5 years, see how it goes. It's about an hour of your time annually, so if even at a 20% chance of success that feels like a wise investment.
There are some eye witness accounts about corrosion around the base of the tank. One way in which that could have caused this is because corroded metal takes up more space than the original and this could put point stresses on the acrylic. I haven't seen any engineering drawings (I did try to find some but there are only pretty pictures) so I'm not sure how much effect that would have but keeping the base corrosion free would seem to be an absolute requirement regardless of whether or not it would have a disastrous effect like this. So I will have to wait until the investigators have gone all over this, given the amount of money involved there is bound to be a very thorough investigation and after having seen a couple of aircraft accident investigations conclude with entirely different findings than the first 24 hours of speculation I've learned that to be patient usually pays off.
There has been plenty of noteworthy pushback against renewable energy has been significant, even for offshore wind farms that would have minimal view impact.

Pushback against new infrastructure is high in general, causing society to lean on inefficient and dirty sources of energy.

We need more modern nuclear reactors, renewables and storage since neither can load follow like hydroelectric dams or combined cycle natural gas can.
And, while FOMO is often presented as an anti-pattern, another way of framing the same thing is that if everyone else thinks X is the hottest thing since sliced bread and I'm skeptical... Who am I to be so certain that I'm the smartest guy in the room?

Add the complexities of timing. In fact, even if you thought crypto (or various stocks) was bullocks, you could have made a whole lot of money if you got in and out at the right time.
As an aside, we don't need fusion to go anywhere on the inner Solar System. Fission is more than sufficient for that.

(Fission looks like enough for interstellar travel too, but it's way harder to refuel.)