skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the atmosphere at most big tech companies is this way. Everyone writes their emails with a plastered-on fake smile.

The worst part is when people pretend that things are difficult. You can't just suggest that someone not waste time on an obviously bad idea; you must acknowledge that the team's development strategy is a complex, multifaceted governance problem, and many quarters of sync meetings will be necessary to drive the appropriate alignment with all stakeholders and establish prioritization and scheduling on an action item to form a spot committee that will deliberate on the necessity of a course correction.

It's suffocating, it produces terrible products, but it pays really well.
Nuclear requires less red tape, engineering & construction workers, manufacturing scale among others. UK or west is worse in all these factors. Anti nuclear lobby causes lot of red tape which adds to the cost. Nuclear engineering is not cool or not even being taught in most univs in west and no workers with knowhow after nuclear industry shut down in 80s. To bring up people with knowhow and skills, it would take almost a decade of constant effort. Building first plant costs a lot, second a little less etc. India and China are building nuclear plants in fleet mode, which amortises costs and keep worker pool alive.
It's the only state in the Colorado River Compact adjacent to the ocean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact

Places like Hawaii and Florida are, for obvious reasons, not relevant to the Colorado River.
I don’t know what it is but those don’t seem enough. Maybe it fights with sleep somehow but my Xbox is supposed to keep games updated and if I haven’t played in a week I seem to have a download. Annoying.
Are you under the impression that the FBI was acting on behalf of Trump during his presidency?
Anything in particular that you feel is missing? My CI needs are fairly modest (homelab so nothing super advanced)
I think someone else has beat me to it! :) It's the right call to reach out on these forums. Behind all this bureaucracy is people who are just as flabbergasted by the system.
Dang, this did give me a panic attack. The sort of thing OP describes is my greatest fear, and I have a hard time dealing with the fact that it really happens to some people.
Because we can all read?

All these installments have done is confirm over-and-over again that this was pretty much the normal and expected kind of interaction.
What about this? https://www.ge.com/power/transform/article.transform.article...

Seems like some types can start in five minutes.
Pretty much all the apps in the Solana marketplace are operated by a small group of interconnected individuals. With so many hacks I see no way to trust the Solana ecosystem.
And now you have companies inefficiently splitting themselves up into <$10B chunks, and paying lawyers and accountants lots of dead-weight costs to ensure their degree of coordination (think “Amazon West Virginia Ltd.”) doesn’t cross some ill-defined legislative or judicial threshold.
I haven't put on the headset in months and haven't gotten an email.

Thanks to the person that raised the issue so I don't lose my content.
Experiencing inflation in my lifetime has been interesting. When I was a kid in the 80s, a quarter meant a Hershey's bar or a game of Pac-Man. I remember my dad telling me that when he was a kid, Hershey's were a nickel, and a lot larger.

Of course I didn't believe him. Then over the years candy just jumped up in price every decade. 50 cents, then 75, then it stalled at $1 for a long time it seemed, to today's $1.50.

Two responses to this comment: Wow, only 25 cents or, Wow, you eat that vomit-odor sludge?? inevitably setting off yet another chocolate thread. Not my point.
“Security in the Void”: Rereading Ernst Jünger
Or to express the headline in a less clickbaity (or metaphorical) way:

California slashes rates paid for household solar contributions back to the grid.
This reminds of the worse is better debate.

Specifically how the “better” crowd spent a lot of time trying to solve PCLSRing while the “worse” crowd just said: meh, throw an error and let the program figure it out.

Previously

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20225555
There are lots of companies that entertain this solution. There are just very few examples of it working for the simple reason that this advice generally doesn't work. We look at the one company that succeeds and "say why didn't we just do that?" without remembering that there were 10 other startups that failed. The more reliable solution is to use the same wisdom of hindsight to pick winners and just buy out the one that succeeds. Facebook bought instagram, but none of their internal efforts have produced anything so useful.
This is my philosophy and I had the same experience. We also had cable tv that I sat in front of reliably for a long time. I remember duck tales, saved by the bell etc..

Where I went to college though did not have internet access in the dorms! That was a mistake. There were schools I could have attended that did. I did spend a lot of time in the computer lab but I think I would have benefited from a direct link.
It resonates the exact same way with me. I hope our industry can start having higher standards, or at least start respecting leadership with high standards. 5% GPU usage is abysmal and it does seem to be reflective of the engineering culture (from knowing other people at Meta).
People take “game designer” to mean “anyone who worked on one of them thar computer game things”.
>This is the height of hypocrisy. Everything the "twitter files" have disclosed so far is in line with what most people expected was happening

Twitter repeatedly denied that right-wing users were being shadowbanned. That turned out to be false.

A month ago, someone on HN patronizingly explained to me that Twitter's moderation was "primarily dictated by building an advertiser friendly platform": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33652282 The Twitter files have made it clear that this user's claim, "Twitter's moderation policies weren't primarily dictated by their political views", was false.

If Twitter's moderation was primarily about staying advertiser-friendly, they would've announced their shadowbans publicly, so advertisers would know they were safe advertising on Twitter as a platform. There wouldn't be any interesting revelations to be had.

As for doxxing, I see rules against doxxing as pro free speech. Doxxing doesn't contribute meaningfully to the public discourse. It just intimidates people into silence, interfering with speech exercise.

Free speech is a subtle concept: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/01/is-it-possible-to-have... A ban on doxxing advances free speech as I understand it. You're welcome to disagree, but I don't think my position is unreasonable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33995312

>he has doxxed critics in the past in much more damaging ways

Can you point to a case of, say, Yoel Roth's real-time location staying up on Twitter even after the recent rule change which prevents doxxing?

It appears to me, based on the article you linked, that Yoel fled his home in the wake of ordinary criticism. Not doxxing specifically. Ordinary criticism kind of has to be allowed -- it's essential for our democracy that e.g. citizens are allowed to criticize politicians. But doxxing is where I draw the line.

It seems this is why Mastodon was banned: https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-suspends-mastodo...

Elon is far from perfect. But his child was physically threatened, and he responded by implementing restrictions which I consider to be correct anyways (as I stated -- doxxing is anti-free speech IMO). I think people are making more of this than it deserves. It's good if you have a CEO who's capable of changing their mind.

In any case, whatever happened to the old "Twitter is a private company, they can do what they want" argument? Right-wingers aren't the only hypocrites here.
Many incorrectly stress the first syllable, and mispronounce the second

"PIN-chin" is common
Having read the rest of TFA I think my initial reaction is not fair. What they said about kids not being able to put the phones down for a 1hr meeting was surprising to me and made clear how bad the issue is. More power to these kids and to heck with people calling them classist; what are they obligated to have iPhones for the sake of class solidarity or something? Sounds silly.
Why does your mind instinctively go to that example?
For what it’s worth, I’d never heard of it until now – despite reading Hacker News for about nine years! Related: https://xkcd.com/1053/
I think in general parents overestimate how much what they do matters, and underestimate genetic effects. I worry that a lot of the advice here isn’t reproducible.

My advice is to look at your own life first. If you (or the other parent) have trouble with getting addicted to things, obsessive behaviours, body dysmorphism etc you might want to take a more judicious approach with your kids.

I think there are also some things that go without saying:

- Don’t let kids sacrifice sleep, so no devices in the bedroom at night.

- Be extremely careful with tween+ girls and visual social media. Restrict usage, educate and discuss a lot, and beyond that make a special effort to give them attention, do fun stuff, let them know they are special and important and valued during the vulnerable years.

- Boys and pornography. Need to talk to them about it. I don’t know how to approach this, I’ve got about a decade to work it out.
iotop?
The dirty secret is some huge percentage of meetings are useless and so zoom is a godsend because you can “pretend to be paying attention” and actually getting work done.
Or Progress and Poverty.
I fully support such communications from the government entities being made public to the full extent possible, just as with DMCA requests.

But just take a step back for a second. Are you arguing that the FBI headed by a Trump appointee strong armed a very liberal silicon valley tech company into rigging the election for Biden? What?
That depends on the request. If the request was made about something that they felt wasn't legal then they could refuse it, then the ball would be in the court of law enforcement to decide whether or not to escalate (go by a judge) or to drop the matter.

I'm pretty sure all of those have happened over the course of Twitter's life span, but obviously those do not make for sexy releases so I doubt we'll hear from them.
basic tech support how heart warming
> We had fairly regular contact with the police to ensure that our members were operating within the law, and some of them repeatedly decided to test where the line was.

Key words: "the law". That's not what was going on here.
> If you run a social media company and the government tells you, "Hey, we want these people banned", and you ban them, is the company "voluntarily" choosing to ban them?

Yes? When the CDC says "we recommend you get vaccinated against the flu", and you get vaccinated, you're acting voluntarily, despite the government recommendation.
They are charging him $75K for a transformer and three polls.

Around here, PG&E wanted to charge us $10K to remove a poll and move an existing transformer to an existing poll (and would take years to "engineer" the solution and schedule the work, despite it being a few hours of work for one crew).

No idea what a residential transformer goes for, but I guarantee it's not a significant fraction of the $75K bill.

It is also insane that they are moving polls and not burying the lines.
Yep. It’s (similarly) easy to smugly say “I told you so” to everything.
> So, if you give people the “Mary the colour scientist” thought experiment, the vast majority of people give the answer consistent with the existence of qualia.

The existence of qualia, and a change in it, is an assumption within the premise of the question, there is no answer to it that is not consistent with the existence of qualia: both “Mary does not gain new knowledge by direct experience of color” and “Mary does gain new knowledge by the direct experience of color” are consistent with, and depend on, qualia, to with, the direct experience of color.

It is not an unknown effect (nor one that tells anything about the existence of qualia) that framing a qestions with a concept in the premise is a good way to get people to accept the premise and focus on answering the question within it. In fact, a very important propaganda technique involves leveraging this by working to get a question incorporating a proposition you wish to get accepted as part of its premise into public debate so that, whatever position people take on the questions, your interests are advanced because merely getting the question into the debate leads people to accept its premises.
Electric rates change seasonally as well, that part of the analogy holds. However time-of-use pricing is different.
As the source of multiple such requests to Twitter I guarantee you that they would.
Zeitenwende.
In that talk he was talking about Horizon specifically and not Quest 2.
A whole chain of them.
Yeah this is definitely a good idea but I think personally I need the structure of having specific set times to check it, as opposed to it just always being an option whenever I encounter a boring or difficult task.
In Holland its 0.66€/KWh on average.
So 0.69$/KWh with the current exchange rate. Think you got a pretty sweet deal there.
>When ya'll roped us into fighting the British,

Never heard such sentiments before now from an American. That's just disgusting. Disdain for fighting for the freedom of our nation? Much of The South really is a cesspool.

The rest of this recent reply is just hilarious though. Pretending you got "tired of killing them" and surrendered? Yes, exactly. Great interpretation of an utterly and completely defeated people. I lived in Texas, they can't even defend our southern border from illegal immigration, and we're supposed to be scared? I saw nothing particularly tough or built about any of it. They're just bitter and pissed like many south of the Mason-Dixon are to this day. Hatred for real Americans (Yankees) doesn't mean a thing. Come up here and chop some wood in the winter, your balls will drop and may sprout some hair.

As noted, simply being of or from The South does not make one a traitor (nor does it make one wise or tough). Whether it's Ulysses S. Grant or the great patriot, Sam Houston, men from all parts of the US ended up in Texas.

It's everyone's choice whether you want to go the route of hiding under a woman's dress like the Jefferson Davis, or a man that history looks kindly on like Sam Houston. Some of you are built different for sure. Not very bright, and prone to treason. Apparently in both the Civil War and Revolution. That was a new one for me. Lines up well with January 6th though.
OpenMV seems to be targeting completely different use cases where the image never leaves the camera (because OpenMV doesn't have any usable I/O to get video out of the board).
He was the commander in chief. Who do you believe the FBI is acting on behalf of if not his handpicked successor to Comey?
The coding challenges are basically IQ tests that have been laundered into something tangentially relevant to the job, since actual IQ tests for employment are on shaky legal ground in the US.
How is your own attention span? I've watched old cartoon movies from the 80s and find them dull and boring but I remember them being my favorite at the time.

I also have this other observation. If you really get into classical music, jazz and to some extent blues/bluegrass... modern pop songs just sound like crap and boring.
he'd rather _risk_ being killed by a brick than wear a hard hat everywhere. same as me. you should definitely wear one and a mask and also other safety devices like a kevlar west, hard tip shoes etc
MPH is how they clocked it in the video. I should have converted it to FPS because that's the proper measurement for these sorts of things although I prefer or meters per second.
Not quite.

NFL teams are franchises of the NFL, and owners of the other teams have to agree to ownership changes of each franchise. It's also not true that he suddenly "got wind of" anything, he'd been planning to move the team for 7-8 years and had very public spats with the city for years over it. He didn't tell the city ahead of time about the move because they had been at war with each other for many years.
Prioritizing tasks using the Eisenhower matrix
Tl;dr stress concentrations such as scratches and gouges can lead to sudden failures in acrylic structures under pressure.
We can't prove that humans do actual reasoning, but we can be relatively certain that the current models don't (yes, I know there are some who claim otherwise, but it's just not particularly convincing).

The debate over whether or not "reasoning" is just an emergent process isn't necessarily a bad one. But if it is an emergent process, there's little evidence that AlphaCode has emerged it. If "reasoning" does just boil down to repetition, then humans are repeating patterns on a much deeper and more sophisticated level than these models are, and 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.

Philosophical zombies and perfect imitations of humans are interesting and useful thought experiments, but it's not necessary to prove that humans have qualia/reason in order to prove that much simpler algorithms and statistical methodologies do not, at least not at their current scale. And from a practical perspective, the distinction does matter, because we're trying to develop practical tools and it's useful to have a rough understanding of what the current models are and aren't capable of -- ie, they're not currently capable of explaining why they actually made certain decisions. That affects the way that we use them as practical tools.

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I guess if it helps, sub out "actual reasoning" for "pattern matching to such an advanced degree that it can generate consistent responses that look like reasoning, and that are useful in the real-world as real-world explanations for why a choice was made, and that (importantly) can be communicated to humans, built upon, affirmed, or corrected in real-time." In other words, if non-pattern-matching logic/reason doesn't exist, fine, it could very well be an abstraction or an emergent property. But the machine isn't good enough at pretending to have that, and that limits its usefulness to scenarios where you don't care about it being able to imitate "actual reasoning".

As an analogy: folders don't exist on your computer; it's all ultimately just bits on the drive and lookup tables. But there is still a really big practical difference between an operating system that has a hierarchical filesystem and an operating system that doesn't. In other words, abstractions can be purely imaginary, and it can still be useful to distinguish between things that adhere to those abstractions and things that don't.

Similarly, even if "actual reasoning" is a made-up abstraction, there's still a big difference between an AI that can explain why a decision was reached and an AI that can't -- even if both AIs ultimately end up working the same way under the hood. As far as I can tell, AlphaCode is a fairly long ways away from hitting that point where we can even pretend to ourselves that it's thinking about what it's doing.
By that logic a parrot should be doing calculus within 10-20 years of its first word. Unlikely...

I don't know about parrots, but if you could take a corvid and grant it the same rate of improvement in brain size and training input that these models are receiving, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see it doing calculus within 10-20 years.
Yes, I remember these self-proclaimed experts' timeline for failure being continually pushed out. First it was currently imploding, then a few days, then weeks, then some vague unfalsifiable time in the future, and then they just gave up talking about it.

Makes you wonder if maybe they're the dead weight in their organizations, and therefore are unable to see how much of it is around.
Very fascinated by this topic. Plenty of examples of failures and their cause, but nothing about how to inspect, detect and prevent. Any followup links?
> I guess I don't understand your distinction here on purely logical terms, why the uneven burden of proof?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

It's possible that "yep, it was a conspiracy" will be confirmed if new data is found/released. That's something it's possible to prove.

It's not possible to prove there wasn't a conspiracy.
Disingenuous was not the goal. I was in a hurry and didn't convert the last unit FPS after looking up the specifics.
And hoping this winter will be a wet one. Which, hey maybe.

But nah.

Sounds about right! If the little guy gets screwed too, SNAFU.
Watch the movie. I just did and what you are saying is not accurate at all.

Reality matters, go familiarize yourself with it before being so authoritative.
I wouldn’t say that’s universal or inevitable.
Specifically policing misinformation around elections?
this is the single best thing i have ever discovered on hn

i just finished watching it and i urge anyone reading this comment to do the same
It's bad that it wasn't transparent to the public. I don't like the idea of the government actively playing a role in moderating content that isn't illegal unless it's transparent and there's oversight by voters.

Twitter as a private company can moderate content as it sees fit. But the government is supposed to be constrained by the First Amendment. And here, they technically are, because they're not forcing Twitter to take action. But there's always the background threat of regulation if Twitter doesn't play nice, so it's not as black and white as this.
Bout time. This stuff, and the demonization of sharks in general, is super sad. I've been fortunate enough to go diving and see sharks and can only imagine how different things looked 50+ years ago before major population declines started.
Those who say they were leaked with absolutely no evidence: Trump Campaign, Wikileaks

Those who say they were hacked and who have provided evidence of such: FBI, CIA, NSA Crowdstrike, Mandiant, Secureworks, Mueller Report, Republican Senate Report, Democratic Senate Report, Dutch Security Services, UK Security Services, the Russians themselves, Donald Trump himself.

Your inability to be persuaded isn’t an asset here. Seriously, read the Muller report and Crowdstrikes attribution. It’s persuasive beyond a reasonable doubt if you’re moderately technical.
Yeah the article mentions that they outperformed Codex, but was Codex specifically trained on code contests?
Consumer webcams aren't the only class of device that you can plug into computers to capture images/videos.
Or even worse, not even paid attention by a bot!
it is a factor - you calculate the amortized cost of calculating the hashes (using the total access count as the amortization count).
Project National Glory
But utilities shouldn't be billing that grid cost to an individual all at once. If no one moves there for 10 years, let them pay it back over that period. If N people move there, divide remainder by N.

For non-metro, utilities should allow micro grids if they are using mostly renewable power. Microgrids can be significantly more reliable when the grid alternative requires long HV lines without redundancy. And from a fire perspective, distributed generation is a huge win -- ever with a grid interconnection for winter, you can de-energize during peak fire risk and run off PV and batteries.
Carmack was the one who was pushing for mobile.
Nice, freed 2 hours later