skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is Finance in the "in-between" category? Finance is the single biggest and most important field for thriving with B.S. If you're an influencer, or a public personality, and you can convince people you're good with money, that's it: you've won, you're rich.

You might be bad but not malicious (Jim Cramer), you might be bad and malicious (Logan Paul), you might be some other thing where you're making highly contestable claims but it doesn't matter because investors throw their money at you (Elon Musk), you might even be in that same industry and a plain old fraud who got caught (Nikola, Trevor Milton).

As that last example in particular shows, if you can BS and get away with it, great wealth lies in store for you.
A bit OT but this really goes to show how MSFT managed to fail their way to win again. They produced crap products for a decade while Balmer ran the company. They were able to do that because they had a monopoly. MSFT completely transformed under cloud and web 2.0 paradigm. And they will continue to do so by acquiring techs.

The same goes for Google and Amazon. They will continue to grow because tech innovations are naturally accruing to the big tech companies. Clearly no sign of breaking this trend.
throwaway to speak more freely. FWIW I kicked the tires on this recently and am your age. The government is also big onto "tours of duty" so I think there is little harm in trying it out for a year or two and moving on if you don't like it.

Broadly, I think of the space as 3 main categories of "influential" ways to work as a technologist in government: innovation, defense, and policy.

I'll start with policy first. You can be the technical subject matter expert for a legislator or within some government agency. Or you can go work for a private firm that attempts to influence different types of policies. I would recommend looking at TechCongress (https://www.techcongress.io) as a starting point. Travis Moore also runs a tech policy jobs newsletter you can look at in order to get a feel for things.

I consider "innovation" to be roles where you're applying modern startup methodologies to government procurement and processes. The classics here are US Digital Service/18F, although you should really consider the US Digital Corps (https://digitalcorps.gsa.gov), a brand-new program designed specifically for new college grads. If this had existed ~2 years ago, I would probably have done this. Some states (California, Colorado) and even individual cities (NYC) have similar programs.

The last aspect is defense sector. You will need a Top Secret clearance. This means no major crimes, no major debt, no excessive foreign contacts, no drugs, and potentially a polygraph. That covers both your past and your future. You also will to report all foreign travel and requests may not be approved.

You can work for a defense contractor or check out one of the newer "startups" like Anduril or one of the spin-offs like Vannevar Labs. FWIW the people I have talked to who have worked at some of the smaller, more niche contractors loved it even if they couldn't tell me why due to classification.

Obviously, you can also "join the military", although this is more complicated than it seems (determining which service, deciding between active/Guard/reserves, choosing officer/warrant/enlisted, technical/non-technical, etc.). You can pull these levers to best fit your personal situation. Be sure to do your homework as there are many pitfalls. For example, you cannot guarantee Cyber with an active-duty Army contract but you can as a part-timer. The service obligations might vary as well. I joined the Army as a reservist and am quite happy with my decision so far but I am still new so don't want to speak with certainty. The last thing to note, at least for Army Cyber, is that the branch is changing extremely quickly: new job roles, shifting cultures, etc. so don't over-index on any particular piece as it could be gone by the time you're out of training. I would not let any self-diagnosed medical conditions eliminate the military from your options if you have it on the brain.

Happy to answer more questions here if you have them or offline if you put contact info in your profile.
Yes but what to convert it to and who will store it?

There should be a UN like international effort to set up
resources for storing digital media
(books, music, film, tv, games, journals, comics etc)
for the long term.

A few hundred years for sure.

All digital media made in the entire world and all that can be digitized
stored from the beginning until the end.
A constant accumulating treasure.

Doesn't have to be streaming, but there should be a way for
a person to request a copy. (if permissible by the copyright holder)

One thing that hurts me to think about are the hundreds of thousands
of books that you cant read.

The book has a small run, never republished, and for the most part
never to be seen again.
I wish each one was submitted to the above archive,

The copyright holder is making 0 by holding is hostage from people
reading it. Allowing people to read it thus would not lead to
less of revenue.

Perhaps a system of micropayments for still copyrighted but
will never be seen again media.

I say books because I love books, but movies, etc as well.
All of it.

I have started making a tiny effort myself by scanning and typesetting
book published by members of my family a ways back.

I know that Library of Congress has a lot of good stuff, but it only
collects fromt he US (I think)
In Norway Nasjoanlbiblioteket has a lot of stuff that is Norwegian.
This isn't surprising; this is disdainful.
Oh goodness, well I was just on a two week vacation and it looks like NoodleBlossom was created last week, I feel like some kind of cave person over here! Trellis pipelines are slick!
> It just makes it impossible for the federal government to do its job.

Where do I sign up?
Koko raises ethical concerns using ChatGPT in mental health experiment
Almonds are a dry, splintery Packaging Peanuts used to fill up Space in Milk, Yogurt, Trail Mix, etc...

Comparing prices of Trail Mix with/without Almonds for example, and I usually find the Almond alternative is Cheaper, because (I believe) they're basically subsidized by California's over-use of Grandfathered Water Rights.
What allowed Japan to modernize in the 1980's was a huge full society effort (with a lot of government backing) to remove the hierarchism from their work culture. All the great management innovations they started at that time are of the form of bottom-up knowledge transfer and distributed control.

If the software development is done under their "office culture", instead of the "factory culture" that was changed, it would be a very good explanation for why it's not very innovative. But I have no idea if that happens.
Not a lot of games since my daughter is only 3. But I made a game for her 3rd birthday, it was really simple platformer where the character moved forward at constant speed all she had to do is jump (smash the space bar) to collect items. She asks to play the game every so often.

I am working on a new game for her 4th birthday, this time my goal is just to get her used to using the mouse. It's going to be a "hide and seek" type of game (although as the player they will only get to seek, as hiding would be quite boring).

I am debating if I should actually release the one I am making for her 4th birthday on Steam and charge a few bucks for it. I guess I will see when I am done if I think it is good enough for a public release.

It is going to be my tradition every year to make her a game for her birthday.
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I figured it was pretty obvious that since John Deere "agreed", this is more of a "negotiated" (or attempt) compromise to retain as much value for them as possible. Basically, by getting in on the story, they get to participate in the control of the narrative.

I'd have been more encouraged if I had been reading headlines like "John Deere forced to..."
Not on the receiving side

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/receiving-email-co...
Knowledge in the Modern Workplace
Sounds a lot like my toddler, so "maybe" would be my answer.

I personally don't think human consciousness or thought is very "special" or "unique", and probably a lot of animals and complex systems have the same properties that lead to whatever consciousness is, but we humans think we're "super special", so most of us won't accept that we're really close to creating consciousness, if we haven't already.
Almost as upsetting as it is to see a Gish gallop link list rise to the top of that topic. Needless to say not one of those corroborates "history of lying about their cars' safety", and you surely know that. But you'll challenge us all to figure it out on our own anyway?

It's absolutely amazing that we have to go through this every time someone gets video of a Tesla event. There are millions of these cars on the road now, surely the fact that this happens only monthly sits as evidence against your position, no?

Edit: FWIW: my money is on this story being quietly retracted at some point anyway. FSD doesn't behave like that. It just doesn't. Almost certainly the driver got confused, panicked, or otherwise overrode the automation and then blamed it when talking to police. The police report is almost silent on the subject: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23569059-9335-2022-0...

This entire kerfuffle is based on this one sentence: "P-1 stated V-1 was in Full Self Driving mode at the time of the crash, I am unable to verify if V-1’s Full 24 Self-Driving Capability was active at the time of the crash."
dtksh did that, more or less. not with xml.

https://www.brendangregg.com/dtkshdemos.html
"we made some yellow cake, and I gotta say, it tasted very high quality."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbgk8d3Y1Q4
I think those devices could use the psk option?
> Because gold is physical it is not easy to transport, and can more easily be seized by the government

For most people, the more immediate threat is not the government seizing it, but robbers and/or scammers. Defending against robbers isn't that hard, especially if you have so much money to park somewhere; but more importantly, it's well-understood. OTOH the average level of technical literacy makes malware and scammers much more dangerous, and Bitcoin is far more exposed to both.

The usual retort is, "just learn how to secure it properly, it's as easy as this 20-point list". When it comes to mass adoption, this is kinda like pitching Vim + LaTeX to Word users. It doesn't matter that you can secure Bitcoin better than gold, if you know what you're doing, because most people do not and will not.

> It is also worse because its supply growth rate is higher, which means that if you hold gold you are losing more value every year (absent changes in demand) than if you hold Bitcoin.

You can't realistically assume "absent changes in demand" IRL, making this point completely moot.

On top of that, scarcity is not the determinant of value in and of itself. It's easy to make tokens of which there's a limited supply, but it's much harder to convince everyone else that they're worth using. But, for gold, that part is already done, and this consensus has been stable for literally millennia. Bitcoin is still in a consensus-building stage, and it's not even clear whether it'll ever be achieved at all, much less how long it'll take.

> If BTC gains mass adoption, then it will be the best store of value that we have.

So, BTC should be mass-adopted because it is the best store of value, but it can only be the best store of value if it's mass-adopted?

BTW, I should be clear that I'm not anti-Bitcoin or anti-crypto in general - I just think that speculating on it is neither productive nor safe. Unfortunately, that's also 99% of all the economic activity in the ecosystem right now. Hopefully that bubble will burst eventually, and it'll go back to its crypto-anarchist roots.
Removal of Price Caps for .ORG and .INFO Found Improper by IRP
It felt like “bit rot” to you because that’s how you defined “rot”, but it’s not how real rot works, which has nothing to do with changing.

It’s something that just breaks down without any changes in use case. If a wooden bridge rots away, nobody means that they were unable to add extra lanes. They mean it ceased to do what it previously did.

“Code calcification” is likely a better approximation of what you’re trying to convey.

“Bit rot” would be better fitting to actual storage loss, but this industry chose poorly.
> Isn't this an effectively infinite set?

No, the thing you'd want the LLM to be learning would be the rules.

> But can they learn how to apply structured knowledge in precise ways?

I personally believe: clearly yes, already. You can already get a LLM to generate code for simple logical problems. You can ask ChatGPT to modify a solution in a particular way, showing it has some understanding of the underlying logic, rather than just regurgitating solutions it saw.

In other domains, you can already give IQ tests to GPT-N: https://lifearchitect.ai/ravens/. Others have written in more detail than I could do justice to: https://www.gwern.net/Scaling-hypothesis#scaling-hypothesis.

I'd just note that a lot of commentators make quite simple errors of either goalpost-moving or a failure to extrapolate capabilities a year or two ahead. Of course, no linear or exponential growth curve continues indefinitely. But betting against this curve, now, seems to me a good way of losing money.
I am an accountant. Can confirm that my clients would be unimpressed if I had learned the trade by tinkering on accounts.

Coding seems to be a minority career where there is expected to have an extracurricular interest in it.
Big win for Replay Chromium! Very excited about Redux devtools support!
These problems are why we are starting a new, rival theory and practice: robust altruism. We plan to

1) be less susceptible to hijacking

2) be less prone to harmful fanaticism

3) balance short- and long-term perspectives

Wish us luck.
I hope my son's first car is a Tesla. I hope I'm well off enough to support that purchase. I want him to be as safe as possible and have a cool ride :D
This is way better than what I got! When I can get an instance of ChatGPT again, I'll see if I can pull up the conversation where it refused to add profanity, it's sort of funny.

I've definitely had similar funny experiences where the bot seems to get hung up on something and refuses to perform a request that I know it will do. After the first time I played with it and had it generate all kinds of funny song lyrics, I had a subsequent session where it refused to even try generating lyrics at all, insisting that as a language model it was incapable of any creative output.
How hard would it be to build an open source tractor? Pipe-dream or would "Tux Tractors" actually be a doable thing?
I don't know if this is any better but if you prefer reading: https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=7-RgOUT3zeo
If you change "not always" to "almost never", I'd agree with you. I still think you can give your services descriptive names. Even non-trivial domains can have a name.

Anyone building a monolithic application is using packages or sub-modules to organize their code. While basically all monolithic applications have some kind of product or code name, I have never once seen anyone give a sub-module a weird cute name. But deploy that same code into a container and suddenly people want to start calling it "Skywalker" or "Cthulhu".

If you are using Domain Driven Design (or something similar, hopefully you're using some kind of methodology), naming the domain is one of the very first steps. You should be able to come up with a name for a service domain that is descriptive enough such that a major change to the name would also mean it was a different service.

What I am seeing is all the pro-cute names arguments against this seems to be describing a scenario where you're just sort of randomly adding code to services out of convenience. This is very much putting the cart before the horse and I don't really know what else to say beside that if you're doing that I think having cute names is probably the least of your problems, particularly when you're talking about long term maintenance of this software. These names do eventually have to be described to someone, and if you can give a coherent description of what the "Birdman" service does, you should be able to give it a good name.

First and foremost, services should own their own data, therefore it necessarily follows that service boundaries will follow data/domain boundaries. The second most important consideration for service boundaries is scaling points, which in turn directs service boundaries to follow specific interactions. I almost never break up services unless they cross one of these two lines, and taken together they give a scope of data and activity for any service that is enough to give it a descriptive name.
Finally there are many more poor people than millionaires.
Coming up to 37 and for the last few weeks I’ve had the same sort of realisation - reading novels seems to take more concentration than it should, and I’ve become lazy with maths.

I’ve had an eye check, a few months back a general medical. Both were fine/no significant changes. I rarely drink, no drugs. I feared a series of migraines might been response but I’ve been assured otherwise.

I so far figured it’s too much skim reading, a lot of very poor sleep, being on the edge of burn out and maybe a touch of post COVID brain fog.

Your post is encouraging me to start doing something about it.

I don’t have much to add but it’s reassuring to know that I’m not alone
Yeah, maybe.

My gut says there's something interesting in this interaction that's worth trying to understand.

The key here is that he got ChatGPT to ask him questions. I was like, wait, how does that happen? And his solution was ingenious. He asked it to play a game and taught it the rules. I think it's more than a passing coincidence here that human children also rely on play for learning (they're hardwired for it!).

Is it thinking, probably not. But it sure does look like it's self-directed reasoning, which is a huge step in the right direction.

It's not AGI, but maybe points us in the direction of a cognitive subsystem that we need to investigate/map/theorize/design/implement/iterate that can automate the decision process that the author was prompting the AI to follow.

Essentially, make it so the AI doesn't need a human to follow that line of reasoning, in a general sense. Find a way to let it ask it's own questions, and seek answers. Probably a later phase involves the AI asking humans for help along the way when it's reasoning gets stumped.

So much to learn. :)
Thats a really good point. In a similar way the number of available technologies gets bigger and bigger as we age, more choices, more to know and more things to fiddle with.

Decades ago the whole MSDOS machine was mine and my tools were an editor, C compiler and linker. Now you need to know a much larger number tools, frameworks and environments before you write a single line of code.
It's rather simple, just messy to look at. It's a timer that triggers a cluster that processes raw data files and uploads the JSON to a server with a reliable file system. Then a Lambda function processes API requests to read that JSON and serve a response.

"Lock-in" is just a trade-off like any other engineering decision, same as what programming language or API schema you choose. AWS is massive and reliable, and these services are cheap and widely available so I don't see much of an issue here.
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That's very generous of you, airstrike. Thank you and cheers!
Isn't the concept of remotely running graphic applications more important now than ever before? Everything runs through WSL, and different containers and virtual machines and emulators now.
Right when the basic product can not change much it makes sense to improve it and the process to manufacture it gradually. Really Japanese quality movement was much about process quality. You produce the same thing but with a gradually improving process that brings in better quality and better efficiency of production.

But because software is "virtual" it can change-shape in whatever way as long as it does something useful. The software products change rapidly whereas we are still in the beginning of trying to understand what are the best processes for producing it, why because process depends a lot on the product. So if the product changes fast process must change too. And when it changes fast it is difficult to improve it gradually.
Yes, even the little CGI model of your car in the UI even shows your brake lights illuminate. AFAIK the the CGI representation of the car accurately shows tire position, blinkers, headlights, doors, etc.

In comparison, my 2015 Leaf doesn't illuminate the brake lights during regen but it's regen is significantly less than my Model 3.
Also a cloud engineer. I use a similar setup professionally and for various personal projects.

For someone who isn't familiar with standing up cloud resources the diagram can look overwhelming but once you play around with AWS for a bit, most of the resources you see are fairly boilerplate.

VPC is essentially just setting up a virtual LAN for your resources. S3 is being used as an API mediator to NOAA. CloudFront is a CDN for your API Gateway. Lambdas run your logic. API Gateway triages api requests to lambdas, and a couple other services act as mediators.

There is some vender lock-in in that everything here is built on AWS, but all the major cloud providers have similar/equivalent services. If you decided to move to GCP or Azure you could probably move the entire stack in a few days (maybe more depending on how much your lambdas use AWS specific internal APIs).

If vendor lock-in is a really big concern for you, you can run everything on an EC2 instance running Ubuntu instead. That way you can just spin up your service on another Ubuntu instance in another datacenter, or locally, or whatever.

Soooo, yes. There is some vendor lock-in here, but not much.

To answer your cost question. I run a very similar setup for personal projects and I rarely exceed AWS's free tier for most services. On a high-usage month it's around $85. It isn't super optimized. I could make it cheaper and nearly free if I put in the work.

That said, cost for a service like this scales very proportionally to usage. For example, AWS API Gateway can process 1 million requests for free before they start asking you for money. If the service becomes super popular we'd likely see the "Buy me a coffee" button promoted a little more and eventually you may see a paid tier as an option, but as it is, it's probably pretty affordable to run.
MathML always seemed like a waste of time. It was/is objectively worse on every axis (at least from a user perspective) compared to the long-established LaTeX notation.
yeah but they are comparing auditing rates per 1000
this seems an entirely plausible practice for checking/guiding/reviewing ones thinking. Will try it.
> Also auditing regular employees is trivial if not fully automatable, so you would expect a larger proportion of them to be audited.

Because nickel and diming the poor using automation helps hit audit metrics easier than actually unraveling the complex tax law on multi-millionaire filings.
I tried this prompt

>I want you to play a game of 20 questions with me. You will ask me questions, one at a time, to try and determine which animal I am thinking of. You will use my answers to inform your next question. You can guess the animal I am thinking of at any time, but you must make a guess after your twentieth question.

It appeared to break at question 7, but it might be experiencing high usage at the moment.