skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, thanks.

It looks like over the last 20 years Japan has made a lot of progress on suicide, and the USA, sadly, has been going the wrong direction -- and they've recently crossed over.

So both USA and Japan are higher than the European average, and much higher than an (apparently) happy European country, like Italy.

I do think my broader point stands, which is maybe the things we think makes a country nice aren't necessarily the things that will make people feel happy and satisifed.
Yep, and in general more time on communication and coordination overhead -- ongoing, not just for the period of introduction -- the more people you have involved.

While I find this a very insightful and important observation -- I'm not sure I see much relevance to current tech layoffs.
Exactly. I share this opinion, and open to arguments about why it would not happen.
Kind of like the Freewrite. So there is definitely still a market for these devices today....

(I had an eMate 300 and loved it btw, along with the replaceable batteries)
i have a magic cap and an eo440. amazing artifacts from another time
> It took some time to realize that it was mostly a manipulative attempt on their part.

Then again, there’re people that manipulate their family members. So I get why it’s confusing for some.
While I use ChatGPT myself, its ability to invent true-seeming information is insidious.

One of the early popular examples was asking ChatGPT what the downsides are of generics in TypeScript, and it cited that they're not compatible with some browsers/runtimes. It's entirely believable, but entirely wrong, and actually quite hard to confirm either way with internet searches. It's the sort of thing people would readily believe and pass around, though.

Similarly, when I was trying to concatenate video in ffmpeg, it produced convincing-seeming command lines, almost none of which worked properly, but almost all of which used actual ffmpeg command line parameters with appropriate-seeming formats and names. I wasted significant time on debugging those before realising quite how wrong ChatGPT was.
IDK. Jesus supposedly also plans to be the one to decides who to cast into everlasting flames or eternal paradise.
Spoiler:
Synthetic Aperture Radar Doppler Tomography Reveals Details of Undiscovered High-Resolution Internal Structure of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/20/5231

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r67rS864WU
To me the most interesting part of this thread is the comment about someone explaining their own experience of being empathic. They describe their approach for handing it and that comment has been bouncing around karma wise for the last two hours.

My interpretation of what they saying is maybe different. There are people who are naturally more prone to mirroring the feelings they perceive through words, actions, faces, etc. In modern accepted terms, mirroring this behavious without reasoning or any boundaries in place would result in you splitting your experience. If you have no boundaries emotionally, physically, or mentally you risk being steam rolled by outside influence. This is a fairly well understood effect in psychology, even though the term “empath” or highly sensitive person isnt as widely regarded. In either case I think its strange that someones personal experience and they way they deal with it results in so many divsive comments.
Every time I read a review of this book when it came out, the review author would say something like “wow! great! So exciting, EXCEPT in this area *where I am an expert*, the authors got X, Y and Z badly wrong.”

There were reviews like that when it came out from people in a bunch of disciplines, certainly in anthropology and prehistory included.

Graeber’s prior book about Debt has been widely criticized in my own field. As a result I haven’t felt like it was worth the time to invest in this one even though the topic and the idea seem extremely interesting.

It seems like the authors have an axe to grind and a story to tell and whatever evidence they find against it is either ignored or misinterpreted.
Ah good! Glad to hear it. I had some issues when trying to install it on Mac's using the system Python. Switching to a homebrew-installed version of Python >3.7 worked for me in my testing.

But glad you got it working too!
The article seems to say that if he can't be found it's a near get-out-of-jail card for later when the war ends and he comes out of hiding. Maybe it's a fair bet that he won't be identified/noticed later, but if he is (17k followers?) it seems likely Putin/the government would find some way to punish him.
https://archive.ph/uvBUI

http://web.archive.org/web/20230122161859/https://www.nytime...
> Some movies just seem so empty, and they look "cheap" if you see it in this angle. Some big hollywood production like for example Passengers where there are barely more than three actors visible in the whole film.

Maybe that's true, but for Passengers, no extras is an integral part of the movie plot. Anything else would make 0 sense.

And they pulled it off rather well.
Relax. It's not as smart as a human, ok? It does have issues there's no denying this.

But it is impressively smarter then you thought. You didn't dig into this thing deeply enough, and you dismissed as if it was some other generic text generator. It clearly is not. This is a milestone in AI technology.

You also have to realize this AI was NOT TRAINED specifically to understand the concept of code, virtual machines or any of this. It KNOWS these things as a SIDE EFFECT. It is also a nascent technology. It is the first prototype and there will be TONS of improvements on top of it.

This wasn't GPT-3. This is different. I hope you realize this and investigate further because a lot of people just skimmed the headlines and dismissed it as another GPT-3.
Cyclic hyperventilation with retention is the same as wim hof breathing https://youtu.be/tybOi4hjZFQ as I understood from Andrew Huberman
I think people saying that just don't understand what GPT is. It's not a database of knowledge that sometimes invents stuff. It's a statistical model that ALWAYS invents stuff, which sometimes happens to match reality. It will never be able to evaluate sources, because it doesn't use sources.
You should become a therapist dude, I didn't know it was that easy!

Next up: homeless people should just start doing research on the property market and buy a house.
This sounds good, or maybe having a land-value tax mixed in as well, I've heard different ways that might look, but this would definitely help more with making home prices attainable, even without paying for UBI, this would be a win because more houses would become residential and less investments (via airbnb, etc). I also think airbnb should require some sort of hospitality license or something, or require the landlord live within a block of the property or have a main house on the acreage they own, etc.
Vagrant or Hashicorp's Terraform?
You're thinking of the server side, not clients.
That much we can agree on. Answers to where we are now and how we get there vary
Credit card shouldn’t need to be shared with all and sundry. The concept is very old fashioned. We wouldn’t share out side project github keys like this!
No, the first major game to use it and push it was Skullgirls.

An exemplary example of how to make a great game. Unfortunately it has been though a series of unfortunate events and never gets the recognition it deserves
I've been trying to use this technique to alert banks (in Belgium where I live) of online fraud for a while but failed.

We are getting lots of phishing by text, email and hacked IMs. They use a bunch of redirections to get you to "login to your bank" with our security devices. In reality, they'll use MITM it and transfer money to some mules.

If we could have people fill in some canary bank account that would trigger a fraud alert at the banks, we could stop those payments a lot more easily.

The banks don't really seem to care because the payments are signed with the card and PIN of the owner, so they refuse to refund it. No loss to the bank, no action. :(
Google Research, 2022 and Beyond
Large language models may not need human input for fine-tuning and RLHF
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34475784.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, I definitely remember that. Whole cities were carved out from the ground. And didn’t the bubbles also appear to be weightless? Or massless? And would float? I remember thinking at the time that they kinda reflect everything, including gravity, though the book probably had a better explanation that I don’t remember.
Why Utreon?
If you extend the range by 1px to be 87x30 to 88x32 you double the amount of results and get those images that are off by 1px: http://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?family=image&widthMin...
> Similar capability is scheduled for new consumer routers in 2024 via Wi-Fi 7 Sensing / IEEE 802.11bf.

Reminds me somewhat of a joke I recently saw posted somewhere in social media by a greybeard Unix sysadmin. In a discussion related new consumer grade IOT technology.

"The newest piece of technology I have in my house is an HP Laserjet 4, and I keep a revolver ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise"

On a more serious note, however, I see a real serious problem with having consumer/residential wifi routers that can attempt to track people or movement around a house and have the default-on, built in capability to make themselves centrally manageable by some form of persistent internet-based connection-over-TLS link to their manufacturer. Same general ideas as Meraki or other.

Who wants to bet that the manufacturers of these things leave this capability turned on by default AND submitting data through its "cloud management" feature persistently for as long as the device is powered on and has a viable default route/gateway to the internet?

Who wants to bet that in 5-7 years we're seeing problems with these things submitting data sets of peoples' movement around a house into some database run by a vendor that then suffers a major data breach?
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/RCU/whatisRCU.html

Had never heard of "rcutorture" before

or dracut

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracut_(software)
I feel for you. With an almost 20-year-long career in software engineering, it often feels like I am moving into a similar place. A few years ago I was lucky to join a now-healthy start up, but I surely do wonder what's next. So, I wonder if becoming a consultant is one answer. At least, as a consultant you ARE expected to be (over?)qualified.
Japan somehow has an unemployment rate of 2.5% and barely any wage inflation. They do everything right, it's clean and safe, and yet they're time and money poor and earn less than the UK.

Also I don't think the Shinkansen is doing that well atm… it's mostly for business trips, since it's pretty expensive to use, and those are down a lot since we all discovered Zoom calls.
Why? Employees are paid to do a job. Unless they're actual owners, why should a company be accountable to the employees? I'm not sure where a corporation owes anything to employees beyond payment for agreed-upon services. If the company goes out of business, should employees also share in the debt and obligations?
Everytime I talk with other non-Americans about traveling in the US one of the main fears that comes up all the time is fear of the police. So I can't imagine the Japanese police being nearly as much a cause of concern and or fear.
The Wikipedia article on it is informative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid-onset_gender_dysphoria_c.... In short, it's a hypothesis that gender transition is a social contagion that has been rejected by basicly every organization that knows anything about trans people and is mainly a way to dismiss the agency of transgender youth.

The evidence that's supposed to support it can be better explained by the alternative hypothesis I've seen called "ROPKAI", or "Rapid Onset Parents Knowing About It".

It's interesting how often green accounts appear in the comments of these articles to say stuff like what's in the GP.
Explain why? Most misery comes from expectations.
I learnt unity and then added a websocket server to the game, build a virtual lab, and then wrote a simple JSON api so I could create geometry, materials and lighting to the scene.

Then I modified my quantum chemistry simulation platform (https://atomictessellator.com) so that it would use this Python/websocket interface to a running 3D engine to visualise the molecular simulations

Why? It’s fun and I wanted to see if it would work.
$25B is 1/2 the revenue of Apple "wearables and accessories or 1/3 the revenue of Apple "services".

$25B is also less than what Amazon now makes on ads, which should especially given Google pause. Consider that Amazon started as simply an online retailer and has successfully spun up other business lines that now account for 50% of revenue across online fulfillment / 3rd party services, physical stores, subscription services, ads, cloud, etc. 4 of these are bigger than "google other".

Sure, big absolute number, but trivial as a percent of a FAANG scale company revenue.

Apple & Amazon have no one product category making up more than 50% of revenue. Meaning they can take some serious pain on any product category and it not be fatal. This also means that they have staff distributed across a wide variety of product lines.

Google has 7x the staff they did in 2009. This seems like a precarious position to be in during this part of the cycle. I can imagine them coming under serious scrutiny to allocate resources appropriately if say, only 20% of staff are responsible for 90% of revenue. If you can't grow the top line, you can certainly grow the bottom line..
John Giannandrea
Cox Orange is a mythical cultivar. In part because the marketing but yep, is known as royalty. Sadly is known also to pick any fungus disease in the list. There are probably best new varieties. As a rule, the better taste a variety, the faster it spoils (unless you cheat).
A lead dev isn't necessarily a team lead. They could be a technical lead, or an architect, or simply a senior dev with deep knowledge of one specific project. They may not have the interest, skill, or authority to deal with the situation. Even if they can do it you may be pushing them towards quitting or burnout; or creating a feedback loop where their technical contributions drop because they need to coordinate more people because quality is dropping because your top dev's technical contributions dropped.
> For almost 2 years, many, many workers proved they could be as productive, if not MORE productive than pre-pandemic times. They got creative on how to be collaborative; it worked.

Mandatory office work is not about productivity. It is about social aspect of it. The high level manager feels lonely and does not feel in control. Mandatory in office work fixes both.

It is same with long hours - they are not effective, but they feel good. They feel like effort and they feel like being in control. In home long hours don't feel the same to management.
I wonder if that inspires new platforms or types of tech that verify someone was typing it in vs pasting. But then do bots get better at typing it into the input boxes? Ugh.
Really putting the router in an aluminum enclosure/Faraday cage if you can is the only way to prevent this. Then just use the lan ports on the device, but also make sure the LAN cables are shielded because it could be using them as antennas given how compromised wifi router firmwares usually are.
> In 2018, "everyone" was saying perfect self-driving was only a few years away.

Yes. Having been involved in the DARPA Grand Challenge 20 years ago, I didn't think it would take this long. I thought we'd at least have automated rental car pick-up and return at airports by now. At least lots of automated shuttle buses on campuses and at airports.

Waymo is getting close.[1] It's worth looking at the accident reports and news stories with complaints about Waymo. People complain about Waymo cars clogging their street, which is happening because SF marked a few nearby streets as "slow streets", and Waymo's planner is optimizing routes around them. There's a recent news story where a Waymo car reached a construction trench in a street and stopped. Didn't go into the trench. Someone had to intervene remotely to back it out of the construction area.
There was a collision on Geary Boulevard where a Waymo vehicle detected a speeding car during a left turn and stopped, rather than accelerating to escape. That's their worse accident so far, and the other driver was at fault. There are not stories about Waymo cars making sudden lane changes and causing multi-car collisions.
[1] https://waymo.com/sf/

[2] https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/self-driving-car-stops-a...
The 'tech stack' is very available to the average person right now.

You can use most of the tools that everyone else can do.

Yes, it is the select few that can make these tools, but that was always the case was it not? The operating system of your computer was made by a very small amount of possible companies for example, i don't see the difference.
A lot of breath work is very specific to the individual. Guides, how-tos, videos can often make people more anxious because their body is behaving slightly differently than their "source".

Surprisingly, you don't need to learn it as much as you just need to do it and think about how your body feels as you do it.

When you exhale, just exhale like you were just relieved of something horrible... or like you're saying "whewwwwwwwwww" as in "whewww, that's a relief".

Don't worry about how many seconds it was, don't really count unless you like to, just breath and feel the feelings.

When you do that a few times, especially after a slow inhale... it starts to feel really good, really natural, and in a weird way when you think it's going to work and think it's going to feel good, it actually ends up feeling good and relieving stress.
I've resigned myself to accepting git because I have to use it. But JFC, I've hated it from the first time I tried it.

We now have a large selection of tools that allow you to visualize what's going on (I use git-kraken), as well as google for help on doing something that isn't in muscle memory.

But, really, SO MUCH pain and suffering could have been resolved by refactoring the damn commands to something more coherent and consistent. Git people sometimes call this "porcelain"-- which I guess is an apt name because it makes one think of a toilet (but an improvement to a hole in the ground).
Ahahhaha wtf? Whilst automation may have increased production, choosing what is done w the profits and whether or not it's distributed equally throughout society is wholly a human choice and not the machines.

Lol ideology is the sole cause. What caused the ideology to come into play may be a driver but it's not the cause. The choices made by the bosses and owners and company boards has been the sole cause and is wholly responsible for income inequality. They could have everytime a machine replaced someone retrained that individual for something else. They could have distributed the wages more fairly down the ranks of the businesses employees but they sure as shit did not.

Article reads like a joke by someone failing to place the blame on machines that squarely lies on humans. It'd make me laugh if it wasn't so wrong and if the repercussions of it haven't been so damning for the global community (it's 2023 and we still have people globally going hungry, without healthcare, without food, without shelter and living perpetually in fear and in slavery). What a monumental failure of humans, all because we turn a blind eye to the greed of individuals.
> I don't know all the photography lingo,

It's called "shutter angle," see e.g. [https://www.red.com/red-101/shutter-angle-tutorial]. The angle, as a fraction of a full circle, is the fraction of the shutter time that the frame is exposed to light. Larger shutter angles give more motion blur, and smaller angles give a more stroboscopic effect.

When shooting on real film, an obvious complication is that the set lighting has to be well-balanced for the chosen shutter angle. A dim scene can't easily be shot with a small shutter angle, and a bright daylight would overexpose a large angle.

Special effects, including postprocessing trickery, are almost the opposite. The default state of a render is to be perfectly sharp and to exist outside the flow of real time, and both focal and motion blur are deliberate additions.

Digital sensors are in theory compatible with arbitrary "shutter angle" equivalents, but your phone's video camera is more likely to set the shutter speed as necessary for auto-exposure.
I give it a one-in-three chance of nuclear war within two years. (I see the US is still sending lots of those new nukes to Europe, instead of holding them at home.)

I give it an almost complete certainty that we'll have a nuclear exchange within about 5 years.

If, perchance, we manage to get five years down the track without that Armageddon then I think we'll manage to get through it without wiping out humanity. Though I doubt very much we'd ever be that lucky.
A hacker stumbled upon TSA's no-fly list via unsecured airline server
> Does it have the will? If not, why?

Because of corruption of politics by vested interests that will vote out politicians that actually try to change things (e.g. by allowing insulin to be imported, or by allowing home construction).

A UBI is more widely palatable because it isn't threatening to stop anyone's unjust gravy train.
The more unexpected discoveries we find, the more I think how many more capabilities of everyday devices are "hiding" in plainsight that would surprise us.
This can be done, and has been done since early cinema, by making the film essentially a stage play. This definitely can make for some excellent films! It focuses the production on the story, and most of the time of evocation of out-of-scene activity.

But your point highlights the opposite: merely having fewer people in the scene to save money without considering what it actually takes to make it work. Even Blum gets this right; these bigger productions have no excuse except laziness.

And in my case it's led to me simply watching less video, because it's boring.
This isn't quite the same, but "I thought he was going to do good things. He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting" is a quote from this Vox article

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/tr...
> they had everybody take a 10% wage cut except for senior management, which took a larger cut.

The problem (to me) is...

senior management is almost universally involved in making these types of decisions, basically in a vacuum with no outside input (aka, no democracy/voting)

how often do a collective group of senior managers decide to give themselves paycuts? almost never?...

everybody thinks they work hard, overcame a ton of adversity, and deserve "theirs"

reminds me of the goodfellas scene where billy batts is drunk at the bar talking to jimmy

CONWAY: It's changed, now. You've been away for six years, everything is different.

BATTS: I did my time, Jimmy. I did my fuckin' time, I come home, and I want what I wanna get. I got fuckin' mouths to feed. You understand?

CONWAY: (acquiescing) You're gonna get it. You're gonna get it.
Very well said! Your comment reminded me of this video I saw a few years ago, "Understanding the Monkey Mind" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-JiQubfMPg

When you stop fighting your monkey mind, your monkey mind becomes your friend and ally instead of your opponent or enemy.
Lottery allocation surely is about creating a randomised trial, no? (Edit - got access to the article now, doesn't seem like it? Lotteries have been done before because it gives a good trial design)

And income requirements just make it a UBI with an adjusted tax code.