skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
depends on location. and on greed of the telco. i used to live within 100m of dslam. in cities with dense construction/etc it's achievable. also, with g.fast it's 1000 aggregated at 100m. for longer distances numbers are 200 m 600mbit, 300m-300mbit, 500m - 100mbit. numbers are not too bad even for suburb. For comparison, high speed mm wave 5g needs to be deployed any 100-200m in order to get proper speed/penetration.

admittedly, even g.gast it's not as good/scalable as DOCSIS or Fiber, but it could be used and deployed "back in a day" as perfectly good solution. and even today it's not that bad for majority of population, if properly deployed

as anecdote , i saw like 20 years ago privately deployed/managed DSL systems in kibbuz. wonder what they have now
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Good starter tips for using Chat GPT for helping you figure out if a business idea is viable.
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I think you'll see increasing numbers of Canadians working for US companies (that's already happening). Of course that's little different than hiring from areas in the US outside the major hubs. Somewhat lower average salaries, but similar skills and work habits, same time zones, etc.

Expanding further, it's already the case that if you're looking for an international employee with similar skills and capabilities to a domestic one, you're going to end up paying similar to what you would domestically. You're rarely going to find someone that you can pay meaningfully less than you'd pay someone in the US (again, outside of places like the Bay area) who has a similar level of skill and ability.

You might find someone with 80% of the ability for 60% of the price, or 50% for 25%, and in some cases companies could save a lot that way. But obviously two 50% developers != one 100% developer in output. And just to reiterate, I'm not saying excellent developers don't exist in other countries; they of course do, but you can't generally expect to get them for a fraction of the price. Maybe a slight discount, which would obviously be worth companies pursuing, but not enough to suddenly put US developers out of work en masse. That's already mostly true, and will become entirely true as remote work becomes more the norm. So it will be somewhat good for developers outside the US, and for US companies; I just don't think the change there will be as massive as it might appear.

I also expect on net it will be great for most domestic US developers as well; there may be added competition, but there will also be more flexibility. The one group that I guess will likely lose out are those who really want to live somewhere like San Francisco, as you'll still have the disadvantage of cost of living, but lose the advantage of privileged access to high-paying companies. (Though as a result, those property values will probably come down over time.)
you're individualizing it. it's not about the individual, even though to you professionally it is.

individuals can't by definition engage in collective bargaining. but building awareness of the disparity, especially in domains like tech, is where this process starts.
> the only immediate winners of the explosions were people in Moscow

Come on now. I get the desire for people to believe their own government could just never possibly engage in this kind of skullduggery (at least, not until they're comfortably removed from the incident in question by many decades and can safely file it under "well we don't do that kind of thing anymore"), but the idea that the Russians were the only ones with motive?!
> There's no way to know for sure that anyone other than yourself experiences consciousness.

- Do you see how the fish are coming to the surface and swimming around as they please? That's what fish really enjoy.

- You're not a fish, replied Hui Tzu, so how can you say you know what fish really enjoy?

- You are not me, said Zhuangzi, so how can you know I don't know what fish enjoy.
Or I could be using two floats (adding or multiplying). Or three.
"written in Rust"
Elon's response to this comment: "Hold my beer"
Travelling Just for the People
Big Debate: Naming layers in Figma – What engineers expect from designers
From my own experience being single with that wage range I would say it was enough that i didn't have to think about how much money I used on everyday activities while still having something left over to add to my savings. Not enough to like travel all the time or buying crazy luxury items, but enough that money wasn't something I had to think about.

It's obviously difficult to try to compare actual numbers, but I think I had 5-10K DKK (670-1340 EUR) in surplus at the end of every month at that time. Obviously things are different when you have a partner and/or kids - or you might just get less lucky with how cheap you can rent or buy an apartment.
The Airline Industry’s Problem with Ancient IT – Wendover Productions
What are 3 things you love about it?
No; I'm pointing the unfortunate reality of today's rental properties.

I love my EV, and I have zero regrets the purchase. But I don't think it'd be practical for me to buy it if I was renting, and that sucks.
The article leaves out the fact that PA law doesn't allow paying or otherwise providing any compensation to striking public employees which these grad students are.
A lot of AI (not a huge amount but more than you'd think) people can't code in any sense that would get them a job at a normal software company, Python is easy and fast enough to last until the model is obsolete.
you could also have the console on our own machine with 1+GHz that passes code to the embedded box to execute, or one of a million other variations on this theme. but nooo we gotta LARP about how well we support legacy systems which is why are systems are so broken after doing this for 50 years. oh yeah and embedded is dead, it's just high end boxes with ubuntu on them now. and last but not least i hope to god i never have unix on something that actually needs to be embedded for all of performance, stability and security reasons.
I feel like yes, you would get options in your contract. But it doesn’t matter. The legality of this isn’t why it’s stupid. It’s the immense bad will from a class of poor students that are already doing a ton of work for very little. They would effectively now be asking students to pay to work.

Organized labor is coming for grad students.
The NLRA governs what actions companies can and cannot take in response to protected labor bargaining actions such as a strike. It's currently unclear whether TU, as a "state-related" semi-public school is covered under the NLRA like any private school or business would be. If it's not, it would be subject to regulation under Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act, which covers public employees in Pennsylvania and seems to follow the national law closely.

In this case, withholding tuition remission for the entire semester simply for participating in a strike action for a small part of that semester would almost certainly count as unfair retaliation, since it goes well above and beyond withholding payroll for work missed during the strike.
"please drink verification can"
If you had been issued options to buy shares that had already vested it'd be pretty insane for a company to try and claw those back. Pausing the vesting schedule might be a bit more understandable but is honestly pretty damn petty for what you're getting unless the strike lasted a good chunk of the year.
Unless it is matter of national security. Then, you put masks on, sit home, let your locations transferred to CIA/NSA, update your device, have a full body scan and go some other country to be killed at war.
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I'm confused by that. When my health care ends by termination (of any flavor), I can continue to use that policy number and card for some time. I can then sign up for COBRA and continue my coverage using the same cards. Perhaps there's something else at play, but very strange to suddenly not be able to fill prescriptions.
I know HN frowns upon this but location really matters, and op's response is valid and non-laughing in many places. "Certification matters" cannot be resolved as a statement without location / situation.

If I reported such a situation in Canada, it may or may not have satisfactory official resolution before heat death of the universe. One can hope.

If I reported such a situation where I was born, at best nothing would happen ; more likely I would get laughed at. (At worst, electrician and their 3 buddies would teach me a valuable lesson about how things work around these here parts).
This is a fun list, but obviously far from objective. Like a lot of online reviews, it seems these are victims to negativity bias - the only people bothering to write reviews are the people who hate this dish.

I am disappointed how few comments were left with the reviews. For some of these dishes I would really like to understand where the hate comes from (grandma always made us eat it vs I'm a tourist and this is weird). Or, conversely, what the appeal is.
> The price of solar panels has dropped ~90% since 2004, and price is fairly well correlated with carbon footprint.

Part of that low price was China flooding the market with cheap subsidized cells in other to take the competition out of business. Similar to the way Amazon puts the prices (of products and prime) up in markets where they've already eliminated most of the competition.

I don't think actual energy footprint has reduced by that much, I'm sure it has a bit though.
The entire cohort of labour post war was fascinating. Soldier citizens, mixing with professional parliamentarians, social activists, renegade upper classes, soviet supports/opponents.. gays, you name it.

At one point, MI5 was bugging some of them (illegally) and they started using Yiddish as an attempted code to avoid being understood. I think their assumption this was "Navaho code-talker smart" was misplaced, there would be plenty of Yiddish speakers in the espiocrat community.

When I say "was a gossip columnist" I'm playing him down. He was the man behind the Daily Express's "William Hickey". He kind-of defined that decades voice.

This was the cohort who built the welfare state. Jokes aside, it was amazing what they achieved against the reaction from Churchill and his followers.
good point. interesting if there are any estimations "out there" about age of POTS wiring.
Honestly it is - when an employer starts pulling crap like this it's a pretty clear sign that the labor action is necessary.
> I find it an elegant way to diffuse this proof-of-burden.

I can see why.

OK, let’s assume you’re right and they’re equally productive.

But who actually cares about productivity? Many individuals and individuals who speak for organizations say they do but their actions don’t match that.

And OK, let’s say people actually care about productivity. Remote work isn’t automatically better because you guessed that the pollution savings are large.
Now, you can just kind of handwave that away and say of course it’s large.

But aren’t there other changes that result from remote work? How do you rank those vs. pollution and commuting time?

It will be quite easy for you to win this argument when you assert that all your assumptions are correct.
Complete opposite experience for me. Worked for a startup a couple of years as a young dev, made some amazing friends including my wife. 12 years later we're all quite a bit older and still meet up every couple of months (and now our kids are best friends).
Right but they’re not suspending the benefit they’re cancelling it. If they pro-rated a portion of the tuition assistance as owed that would be defensible. But this is a rug-pull.
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I agree. We've [potentially] given the grounding assimilation step a boost already, since language is already organized.

Imagine that a language model is fully integrated with sense-data that exceeds human first-hand experience. Perhaps they are trained on and can generate realistic 3D models of objects, and derive estimates of their internal construction, weight, etc. Perhaps they recall infrared emissions or opacity to EM wavelengths. Would we truly "know" what we're talking about by that standard?

I'm not actually sure why we don't consider generative image models to be grounded already. They seem to be able to modify, transform and rotate imagery. That indicates spatial understanding to me, and I'm not sure how much more we must require of them without having to exclude blind or otherwise disabled humans from our definition of comprehension.
Nobody is surprised by this. The only difference is that nobody expected more from Bing so they had everything to gain and nothing to lose. At least they're known for something more than porn now, right? This is second mover advantage right here.
2 reasons: the first is to show myself how I'm now "serious" about this; I've always have half-assed projects I mentally considered to be hobbies, but these experiments will be different. The second reason is related - I want to have a clear separation between my personal finances and the new venture in order to track my losses.

It is aspirational, but I needed to take the step for self-accountability and self-motivation
That feels like a very US thing to assume. EU layoffs have different contexts.
> financial aid / regulatory / internal budgeting reasons the college can't say they attend for free, so they instead set extremely high tuition numbers and then "pay" that tuition for the students, from one hand of the college to the other hand.

It's not just internal budgeting, it also allows them to accurately charge faculty grants for that tuition. Faculty are given grants by various organizations, but they don't get that money up front, they have to identify a cost relevant to the grant that was paid, then the grantor reimburses. In the case of tuition, the grantors generally require some documentation that the charges are reasonable and allocable, so they are charged whatever tuition would be charged to a student with no TAship or Research Assistant position.

> taking away tens of thousands of dollars for the entire semester simply for participating in a strike action during a tiny piece of it is absolutely beyond the pale.

Temple is also pushing this way down the calendar. The tuition demanded does not have to be paid until March, and even if not paid then, it only blocks registration for the next semester (presumably Fall). They seem to be minimizing the impact to the degree possible. Hopefully the strike will be over long before then, and this will all be moot.
I think that is just the reality of non-mass manufacturing. In the 50's those engines were going into production cars in the tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands. Now they are produced in numbers of hundreds, maybe thousands, and as such they are hand-built specialty engines, even as primitive as they are.
What's it like when you learn your employer is being acquired by PE? For me that would be a clear, "Get out! Get out now!" signal.
This (see below) seems to be the problem - students are being forced to pay for something that was originally gratis (punished) because they are protesting about something.

That is not normally how a liberal democracy works. We don't punish requests for comments, we engage ...

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Dear Temple Student:

As a result of your participation in the TUGSA strike, your tuition remission has been removed for the Spring semester. You now owe the full balance listed in TUpay, which is due by Thursday, March 9.

If your balance is not paid in full by the due date, you will be assessed a $100 late payment fee and a financial hold will be placed on your student account. This hold will prevent future registration.
This is really interesting because I couldn't reach the NLRB website: If you query cloudflare's dns server 1.1.1.1#53 for nlrb.gov it returns ABANDONED. This prevented me from finding relevant regulations until I diagnosed the issue and disabled Cloudflare DNS. If you're currently unable to reach nlrb.gov, that might be why.
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Have to admit, I read this:

> assumes all companies are run by saturday morning cartoon villains

Then took a moment to do a quick mental check, recall faces and dress codes and behaviours, and I could hardly disagree, they are run by cartoon villains!

Both ex bosses of mine and pop CEOs fit the bill to such a degree that it's scary.
i've eaten the turkish version kokorec as street food in istiklal. it was served in bread with a bunch of spices. only tried it one but i thought it was good.
Basically the "rosetta stone" theory, right?
I'd hardly call a 30 year professional career in various fields and collars as "survivor bias." The network of people I've been exposed to over that period of time alone puts a hole in that argument. Tossing out that term to try and justify a terribly flawed argument is as silly as the unsubstantiated statistic provided as emotional evidence.
eg. ~./bashrc has existed there for 30+ years, changing stuff just because someone doesn't like seeing a file in a folder is imho stupid.
To be honest, I think your question is the other side of the conceptual coin here -- either the article is wrong and GPT3 isn't "sentient," or the article is right and we need to radically upend our concept of sentience, probably via an eliminativist materialism that ends in at least epiphenomenalism if not full-bore illusionism, removing either free will or consciousness itself from our worldview.

To be honest, I find that approach compelling if not comforting -- at a minimum, it implies that our consciousness is just along for the ride in a deterministic meat machine; at worst, it means that what we consider "sentience" is just an illusion of an illusion. It's entirely possible to me that eventually AI will reach a point where it'll falsify many of our assumptions about what "mind" is, even if I'm sure that LLMs don't, at a minimum, satisfy our folk conceptions of consciousness.
Yep. I recall that the pricing was such that buying Arrogant Bastard from Stone wasn’t that bad a deal.

https://www.pacificsurfliner.com/globalassets/pdfs/2019_mark...
> suggested usage

> alias aws="boxxy aws" (repeat for other tools)

If you could find a way to somehow intercept without requiring aliasing, this would be amazing.

Also, as it is, isn't it problematic that programs might call others (outside of your shell, not respecting its aliasing).

A neat semi-solution (still worse than transparent interception if somehow possible) would be to have a boxxy-run script sym-linkable from ~/whatever/bin/aws (say) that basically just executes `boxxy "$(basename "$0")"`. So you could just symlink the same script with the name of whatever command you wanted to 'boxx'.
(The slightly longer answer is it's a cottage industry. Small shops, small quantities. Car buyers are spoiled, general aviation is more like buying a built motor from a tuning shop.)
What’s really frustrating are the number of first-party Microsoft products which do this.
Certainly a garbage administration. This is a huge signal to prospective graduate students not to apply to Temple University, a clear signal that they care more about money than your education. Grad students being at the bottom of the administrative priorities is nothing new, but threatening to prevent them from taking classes is a new low.
The AI is fast, not smart.
> Very high risk operation

I'm not sure what would make it so high risk. The truth could easily be castigated and maligned as "conspiracy theory," a dismissal that most people in the Western countries will readily accept. The only people with the resources to investigate and find hard evidence would either be in on it (Western/NATO allies) or easily written off as pushing lies and propaganda (the Russians).
On this one particular point (DEI and outcome-based metrics), one extreme has captured virtually all of the institutional power.
Perhaps the UK is different (Im making assumptions obvs) but I’ve kept in touch with quite a few from each job I’ve worked in - potentially 50% of my friends are people Ive worked with.

I also see “acquaintances” keeping in touch with ex-colleagues on some social media sites, so I know Im not an exception.

I appreciate “most” isnt all, but your comment is very different to my decade of experience. Work is a great place to form friendships.
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> than you would expect from an algorithm that just predicts the next word.

I think there is common mistake in this concept of just predicting the next word. While it is true that just the next word is predicted, a good way to do that is to internally imagine more than the next word and then just spit out the next word. Of course with the word after that the process repeats with a new imagination.

One may say that this is not what it does and I would say, show me that this is not exactly what the learned state does. Even if the following words are never constructed anywhere, they can be implied in the computation.

The say this differently, what we think is just the next word is actually the continuation that then manifests as a single word. This would remain true even if, in fact, the task is to only predict the next word. Which is to say that the next word is actually more than what it sounds.
What do you mean? The university is trying to teach a lesson by inflicting pain on those who stood against it. I thought that was clear.

Do you maybe mean "what makes them think that this is legal?" I doubt they do. But they likely decided that value of sending a "don't fuck with us" message was higher than the cost of the likely mild consequences.
getting up in the morning to do a hard work out.

Except you're dragging with you hundreds of people still in bed.

There's no question cold calling is a negative-sum game. But people gotta eat, even the ones without skills, myself included.
Seems more like a solid incremental improvement than case of world changing to me
SVD is used more for mathematical elegance than practicality (like ordinary least squares)

In data science most traditional usecases for SVD are superceded by other algorithms (UMAP is especially popular these days).
The thing with pick up trucks is that they're actually really fucking practical. For people who want to be self reliant and can afford one, they're a no brainer. You've got one vehicle that can function as a car, a van, a camper van (with a demountable pod) or tow a trailer. They can go off road, and they've got enough power to help other people out if they've got into a sticky situation.

Environmentalists can protest all they want but people, particularly outside of cities, do need them for very valid reasons. Inside of cities, yes you're not taking it off-road regularly, but you could well need one if you do lots of DIY projects, spend time out in the country regularly on weekends, or just don't want to be reliant on other people or renting a van every time you want to move something large or buy furniture. Smaller versions, because they really are too big for UK parking spaces, are catching on this side of the pond but primarily because of tax advantages rather than practicality reasons.
They were also 100% cost driven and not value driven. A lot of companies have opened offices in other countries and hired great people, but they focused exclusively on value.

Most companies just looked at the direct cost and went with it. Of course they picked the absolute worst workers and so the whole scheme collapsed.
There aren't that many common solvents in which every human body part is soluble. I understand a very strong NaOH solution may be workable, however.
Ask HN: How do you setup benefits/HR/accounting functions for seed stage startup
I'm looking for some options resources for a seed stage startup that is about to be funded (~6-10 people working full time after closing the raise)

What are startups using to manage benefits (healthcare/401k), HR functions and accounting elements.

I'm looking at Gusto, but I'm not sure that fits the need.