skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never worked there, but from everything I have observed, the free lunches, full medical/dental/vision and high six figure salaries generally imbue people with a sense of well being. The nice offices and decent working hours also help. The trip is that Facebook also has some mission driven stuff about making the world a bit nicer that some people really buy into. It's a good mission too and a lot of people really do enjoy using their products so it's not all that crazy to thing for someone to associate with. Why would anyone feel bad about making the world a more connected and open place for ~$300/hr? Hence the oppressive optimism.
sustainable messaging and calling app
How do you determine where they're made? Where the employees are? The customers?
One moment of silence for our brothers and sisters still using windows. /salute

XD
I don't know what JC said exactly but I would guess that some of the issues of scaling Lisps (dynamic typing, DSL hell) don't really apply to OCaml
How much time does it take for you to run the newsletter? Say every week.
Does the fish struggle with less might if it's being brought in more slowly? My naive guess is that it doesn't struggle appreciably less if being reeled in 25% more slowly. In that case, minimizing temperature is primarily a matter of minimizing the struggle time.
If so, then they missed the games that used id Tech 4 and id Tech 5 (almost impossible given the success of Doom 3), and how Carmack continued to invent truly unthinkable performance and fidelity enhancements to real time 3D graphics until the day he left for Occulus.

Then at Occulus he translated that engineering talent into a ruthless attack on latency and other issues with VR at the time. He was even working on this before he left.

Anyone who has watched one of his QuakeCon Keynotes in the past 20 years knows just how much raw talent Carmack has as an engineer. Most of them are on YouTube, you should check them out.
>someone should write an extension that only pings you based on critical rules, like if someone writes "bump", or "hey were you able to check on that?" or if 5 DMs have piled up, then it releases the notification. Honestly slack should do this themselves
How did archive.org capture a .cgi page that randomizes random shakespeare jokes?
But the goal here in setting these prices (from Society’s perspective) is not to maximize Safeway’s profits, but rather to incentive more people taking up carrot farming!

Since we’re fairly confident we need lots of carrots to save the world!
But that’s not the gen z way. Part of being young is thinking you’d somehow do it all differently in the same circumstances.
Does it contain his stamp collection?
Instant favorite that I will probably rewatch a few times
Yeah. I feel like this a lot. I don't know if it's a bias of some kind but it feels right.

I suppose it's selection bias. I don't know how to market, but apparently the marketing people do because we have customers. I do know about my corner of the system though, and when my advice is ignored it usually turns out I was right in the end.
So, did you just not read the rest of my comment?
It is neither leftist nor shill to avoid distractions from real scandals like PRISM or Epstein. As Orwell said in 1984, his science fiction novel about big government, “If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.” The nitpickers in this thread stress out about content moderation when the FBI is getting away with the big stuff like failing to stop SBF or shutting down the Z-Library.

That’s a case where Google and Amazon aided the FBI, too!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33646513
> We can establish mental properties through ordinary physical means.

The thing is that’s doesn’t get you to qualia, because qualia is ultimately a dualistic concept. Physically demonstrable processes are the “accidents”, qualia are the non-physical “essence” (cf., the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation.) That’s why the role qualia play in the AI debate is as a rejection that observable behavior of any quality can demonstrate real understanding/consciousness, which are concepts tied, in the view of people advancing the argument, to qualia.
I wish they would charge on an hourly basis based on net contribution to the grid's carbon emissions.

They could scale the cost of emitting carbon so that PG&E's total revenue was still reasonable.

Once the grid emissions started to approach zero, this pricing scheme would collapse. I'm OK with letting future politicians replace it at that time.
Carmack addressing the leak of his internal memo, and notably, sharing his next goal of achieving AGI at Keen Technologies.

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1603931905539325955...
Tesla Stock Plunges to Two-Year Low After Musk Bans Journalists from Twitter
https://archive.ph/Lmu9g
... without considering long term consequences.
I would also be interested in a detailed analysis of Oswald's rifle. I don't know how conclusive it would be but it would be interesting. Since it was a surplus rifle there's no telling what sort of wear and tear it had. Same with any ammo recovered at his house or if any was found in the book depository.

Just something like a bottle nose bullet vs tapered is going to affect penetration and ricochets. The range from the book depository to the limo was not really that far, at the point of impact the bullets had significant amounts of energy. They could easily go through bones yet bounce off steel and repenetrate.

I think the Oliver Stone film did too good a job convincing people bullets magically stop when they hit something. Rifle bullets are often very angry and like to make it everyone else's problem.
The Twitter files are not only about that dude.
It takes a long time for any company to die, period. WeWork (or I guess now Twitter) style rapid flameouts are very rare.

Most corporate deaths look like Sears. The writing on the wall was there for over two decades.
I'm not sure I agree with that assessment. Many environmentalists (those primarily concerned with global warming) are all for nuclear, but realistically nuclear does not play very well with renewables (nuclear wants 100% output all the time, renewables need a peaker complimentary service). Arguably, many nuclear proponents are , at least from my perspective, coming from right-wing groups and the like who previously didn't care about fossil fuels and didn't like renewables. Of course that's just a faction, but IMO it's a significant factor in the renewal of calls for nuclear - muddying the waters and delaying everything (as nuclear is so good at nowadays)

At this point in time nuclear will take forever to come online, costs more than renewables, is harder to scale up than renewables, etc. Any company can toss together a factory that spits out turbines, solar panels and batteries without facing onerous regulations and massive liability risk.

Renewables are just much more friendly to private sector actors - incremental capital investment, politically safe, etc.
I can read too, what do you mean when you say that?

I’m not sure how institutions can say “no” to the FBI without feeling fear of retribution, nor do I want the FBI putting pressure on corporations to be something that’s “normal and expected”.
SideFx Houdini
Any time you feel the onset of a panic attack, tell yourself it’s just a panic attack. Make yourself think of a happy thought and stay with it. Repeat a mantra in your head “Everything will be alright in the end, if it’s not alright, it’s not the end”. Try to go up and down the alphabet, maybe skipping letters - every 2 letters at a time; a, c, e, g… And backwards. Multiply numbers, etc. And do not smoke bongs, smoke only single skin joints which aren’t packed. These are a few of my techniques.
The idea that toxoplasmosis is a contributing factor to mental illness is decades old. This paper is merely an incremental restatement of that hypothesis. The abstract says, "Instead of just alleviating symptoms with drugs, the parasite x genotype x stress model emphasizes that schizophrenia treatment should focus on detecting and treating possible underlying microbial infection(s), neuroinflammation, gut dysbiosis, and chronic stress."

Chris Palmer's treatment emphasizes reduction of inflammation and dysbiosis via dietary means. This hypothesis is not limited to treatment of schizophrenia, but also other mental illness, such as bipolar disorder. The following two recent podcasts are illuminating.

https://www.psychiatrypodcast.com/psychiatry-psychotherapy-p...

https://www.rickhanson.net/being-well-podcast-evolving-our-a...
Why doesn’t Windows use the 64-bit virtual address space below 0x7ffe0000?
The whole idea of p zombies is that they can't be distinguished from conscious entities. Same inputs as a conscious mind, same outputs as a conscious mind, same behavior etc yet not conscious.
I don’t think that was my hope. My comment, if anything, is that the dynamics of pg&e’s retail pricing make the comparison a bit of (pardon the pun) apples to carrots. Plus, there’s no analogy for energy, at scale, to refrigerated supply chains; hence need for TOU pricing to shape demand.
Turning off all notifications except for direct-to-you seems reasonable, unless you're being paid to be on-call or something and it's truly critical that you be responsive to the team notifications? Batch checking it every few hours at a specific time. I've started doing this with slack/discord/etc. anyway, although I'm still responsive to signal -- and I wish there were a better protocol for "signal by default doesn't notify, but trusted contacts can choose to notify if they want".

(My first thought: Oh wow, I would be tempted to try to get an ADHD diagnosis if it got me legally immune from Slack (and Teams, ideally), and forced everyone to use Signal, IRC, or some other less disgusting systems when interacting with me.)
Mute all but the critical channels, turn off notifications for the app, only check in predetermined times slots like every half hour. Adjust if you get pushback for not being available
>it's still worth questioning if the model's current approaches and the strategies we're using to build AI will be good enough to get to that level of mimicry on their own without a lot more innovation

Literally, and I mean Literally, nobody who is an AI practitioner, academic or philosopher (including myself) would disagree with this.

What/who is making this claim?
IMHO expecting synchronous behaviour from asynchronous tools is flawed way to operate; I'd be very comfortable taking a stand against manning these communication channels at all times.
> What is the manager’s job at such a company?

Figure out how to argue for more headcount, by expanding the scope of the team or by asking reports to narrow the breadth of their work to create headcount gaps.
Intermittent renewables displace the need for any base load. Every solar panel or wind turbine installed makes the economics of nukes worse.

Nukes are in no way are a substitute for gas turbines. That is as silly as thinking a locomotive can be used for pizza delivery.
That's an unfair comparisom to gym braggarts I'd say.

Unlike with working out, build in public provides a valuable source of engagement and feedback.

Those are real, concrete reasons, to build in public.
It feels like I've stumped it nearly completely with many variations on the following question:

"In binary, do most people have 10 legs?"

Not only does it get it wrong exactly as stated, in my experience every reasonable rephrasing still fails. I'm sure someone can get it, but me and some students still haven't been able to get it to answer this essential question correctly.
By the way, you can view and download almost all of Marx’s works for free in the Marxists Archive! (marxists.org) Probably the advent of the Internet and smartphones have increased access to these works.
But nuclear is a terrible complement to intermittent power sources. Nuclear wants to run 24/7 - not intermittently.

IMO, gas is going to be around for quite a while as a peaker for renewables - and the more renewables come online, the less necessary it is as a peaker, but it will still be needed.
If you just want a working camera, there are tons of industrial USB cameras on the market but probably all of them are proprietary.

If you want an open source and open hardware camera there's nothing on the market AFAIK. Of course when people discover that open source costs 10x more than proprietary they are usually no longer interested.
Why would you want to live off the grid? Battery solar is more expensive than utility power.
Ask HN: How should I spend my annual prof. dev budget?
I’ve got a few hundred or so in professional development budget that goes away at the end of the year.

I work in machine learning, search, recommender systems. I frankly get more value “doing” (and failing a lot) than books, courses, and the like. Though of course there are notable exceptions. Usually they are the top 1-5% of books in terms of quality to hold my attention.

I’m a principal engineer. Leadership is another area I could spend money in as professional dev.

I’m at a loss.

So I thought I’d ask the Internet. Don’t stress about whether it’s going to don’t into the letter of the law, I’m just interested in some unique ideas folks may have.
That's how their revenue recognition works. Buying gold with USD isn't profit till the gold is gone.

https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/accounting-for-saas-and-sw...
Ah ok, thanks
>> At that price-point, are there other devices on the market that already fulfill the need?

> No there aren't.

There are tons of cameras that meet this need. They're "machine vision" or "scientific" cameras, google for those. Edmund Scientific has a good selection. They're ridiculously expensive for what you get if you're comparing against a webcam or a surveillance camera since they're very similar to those for >10x the price. That's the price of low volume assembly, proper support, et cetera.
Can you outline a scheme that would satisfy your needs for transparency while at the same time not result in compromising active investigations, tipping off the perps that they are under surveillance and so on? Because I don't see a practical way to achieve that ideal that would still work.

Having been on the receiving end of such requests I was pretty happy all of them were made in a confidential manner, it saved everybody a ton of headaches and reduce the amount of grip the various miscreants had on our community. Doing that in the open would have caused massive issues, some of these people were downright dangerous and others simply needed help, keeping their data and our interaction around that data confidential was - in my opinion - a good thing all around.
PSE isn't charging 30 cents per kWh either.

Redmond can probably get redundancy, but a lot of the Sound area really doesn't have multiple routes available. If a line goes down in Gorst, it impacts a lot of people. Undergrounding is very expensive, and unless it's absolutely required, the utility comission doesn't let PSE do it unilaterally and charge to all ratepayers, it has to be approved and paid for by the affected ratepayers, but most people aren't willing to pay for it. It also isn't a panacea; underground wiring still breaks from time to time, and time to resolution is much longer; plus there's a bigger disruption during installation and new connections to underground utilities are way more expensive than connecting to above ground utilities. There's a lot of new connections as there's lots of new housing, so that's a bigger factor than a more established area.
Can't say the same about LEGOs. The LEGO company just raised prices 10-25% across the board. Glad to see Hot Wheels resisting the temptation to gouge customers and stay timeless.

Top-selling LEGO sets (those between $20 - $70) got hit the hardest with inflation this year. Looking at the newly released sets coming out Jan 1st, there are several new sets priced at $30 that would have previously been $20, so you could argue a 50% inflation on those sets.

The UCS sets fared the best behind the $10 sets. The UCS's averaged less than 5-7.5% increase. But these sets are usually $500 - $800, so it still accounts for $35-50 increase per set.
Tbh I got myself a bit mixed up. Desalination and hydrogen electrolysis have similar problems.

Brine waste is still a problem with electrolysis. Everything that isn't water is left behind, and must be disposed of. Some of the dissolved gases and ions also get liberated, but in fairly small quantities.

The article in question is about seawater electrolysis, and my understanding is that the dissolved ions in the water should improve efficiency (though I'm no expert).

As far as corrosion, you're vastly overestimating the problem. We've been dealing with salt water corrosion for at least the last century. It isn't that bad if you keep up with maintenance.

I used to work in the marine coatings industry, and the technology today is incredible. With a properly maintained coating and sacrificial anodes maintained regularly, corrosion damage is minimal. After all, we have countless steel cargo ships and oil rigs on the water today. A quick Google suggests that the lifespan of a cargo ship is on the order of 15-40 years. USS Olympia is a steel hull ship that's been in the water since 1945, and she seems to be doing fine.

Salt water corrosion is a problem we know how to deal with, all it requires is regular maintenance.

The cost of a good marine coating for something the size of an oil rig would be a couple hundred thousand dollars, and will last many years with regular maintenance.

And as far as ferrying crew to the rig, the ferry from Seattle to Southworth costs about a million dollars a year, running 8 hours a day, ferrying up to 2400 people a day across 9 miles [0]. Extrapolate that to two or three round trips a day and you're down to a few hundred thousand dollars a year. Since the ferry is going to what is effectively a power station, it could even be powered electrically, which would further drive down the cost.

Realistically, we've been building and manning offshore platforms for a very long time. Oil rigs don't rust out and collapse into the ocean. Cargo ships don't fall apart unexpectedly. We have a lot of steel floating in the ocean with no problems, as long as they are maintained.

Yes, there are problems building structures in hostile environments. But we've been doing it for a very long time, and most of these problems have solutions.

[0] https://leg.wa.gov/JTC/Documents/POFCostAnalysis.pdf
Building USD1400 Mini PC that plays everything
The Crying of Lot 49 is my favorite of Pynchon's works; I've given many a copy to friends as gifts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_s...
I still get distracted when the tab text or icon changes.
I did the glasgow Haskell course one year with mine to learn something outside my comfort area. On the assumption you have a comfort area no matter what it is, try learning something outside it, and refresh the learning-is-hard muscle.
If it swims like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, then it is good enough to be a Duck.
Well you can argue, ducks lay egg too, then we need to solve and code that too.
Its always better than previous. No body is creating life here, but its an attempt to derive intelligence, and seeing it come to this point seems we are so far right on track and quite far from where it started.
It's interesting to note how optimizing in this way achieves its gains by trading away flexibility, and possibly becoming self-reinforcing.

"Household power usage peaks at dusk and dawn" is true for households on average, during average (normal) conditions. If your energy production is optimized for the average case, you'll face problems when your household schedule changes. Say you take a week of leave to do some home improvements, or everyone in your house is down with a flu, etc. - suddenly, your power usage might become flat, or have more and bigger peaks during the day. It's not a big deal if you're just selling to the grid, but if you're relying on your own solar power, it's now something to plan around - you lose lifestyle flexibility.

At larger scale, if everyone has their solar installation built based on this "working household" assumption the transition from fossil fuels towards renewables turns the "two peaks" phenomenon from something that sort of happened on its own, into something people are being forced to follow, because of energy availability. Optimizing solar panels for morning and evening load suddenly stops following a preexisting pattern, and becomes the cause of it.

For both of those reasons, it's best to overprovision panels or batteries (or both), or, where possible, install the kind that follows the Sun.
Musk may be forced to choose if he wants to be a businessman or a political operative. It is hard to be both at once.
macOS has it built in, as does windows. There’s a mention of yabai upthread which takes it to the next level.
So far this whole Twitter Files thing seems underwhelming, but not exactly a "nothing burger". I feel like it's a good thing that they got published, but the details aren't big news, more like a whole bunch of mildly unsatisfactory situations that probably should be addressed by people directly involved.

For example FBI trawling through social media and flagging accounts for review doesn't seem like a strict constitutional violation unless you can prove some coercion; but it does seem like a questionable use of the FBI to be doing content moderation for Twitter absent a criminal investigation.

Maybe this sort of stuff (i.e. government/law enforcement communications with social media companies) should be automatically in the public domain if it isn't part of a criminal investigation.
It is all about MTBKB (Mean time between KaBoom). If there hasn't been one in a while, everyone is okay with nuclear. If there has been one recently, everyone comes up with reasons for why they are bad. This will never change.
"The Crying of Lot 49" is the only Pynchon novel I was able to complete (bailed on "Gravity's Rainbow" and "V").

I think it was an easy enough introduction to Pynchon for this lightweight so I can certainly recommend it as well. Paranoia and conspiracy are on parade mixed in with perhaps an international secret society? But I don't want to give anything away....

Even from reading the one book, you will start to see references to Pynchon in other nooks of popular culture (W.A.S.T.E., Radiohead's fan club, comes to mind).
Is there really a nexus? Frankly, I'd pay more for Tesla on an expectation of an upside with less of his shenanigans if his eye is on other targets.
At least give us a retrospective 2 years later on the accounts that were requested to be taken down and why. There are ways around this dilemma.
I want to write about this topic in more depth, but in a nutshell I found that the more innovative and valuable your idea is, the harder it is to sell (because it's very value comes from the fact that it's a distance from bow people are thinking today)

People are busy and attention is scarce so knowing how to genuinely push and sell your idea in such environments is a rare ability and one that needs curation.

You'll find that people who rise are ones who can do this.
The FBI acts on behalf of the state, and the FBI. Trump picked an FBI guy to run the FBI. I don't know why he did it, either.
If you find yourself constantly searching for highlights, I highly recommend the SponsorBlock extension (https://sponsor.ajay.app/), which crowdsources this job effectively (as well as targeting sponsored regions, credits, etc.)

Using the extension I could hit "return" to jump to results at 5:28.
Unrelated - did you go from management back to IC? Or a quieter management role.