skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There might be fundamental incompatibilities here because of orthogonal goals - if you're an ambitious person in a corporate hierarchy won't one (or maybe even primary) goal be to climb the ladder? And if you're a founder won't your goal be to 'grow the product or service'?

Now one way to climb the ladder may be to grow the product or service, but in a larger org the ability to influence a product or service in a major way might be a bit limited, with decision-making at the business level being controlled by upper echelons. So the ladder-climbing process would select for different skills and temperament than founding/running a company.

Essentially, in a corporate hierarchy, we're asking people with ladder-climbing skills to become business people as they reach the top, and not everyone can make that transition successfully. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that very few can actually make that transition successfully.

Human brains learn through feedback [1]. To become a good business person, you need to run a business and get feedback just like a real founder/CEO, including business failures. Your question essentially becomes - how can a CEO structure incentives so that managers at all levels become good business people?

It's a great question, to which there is no simple answer that I know of. Would appreciate any pointers to potential solutions.

One way could be to treat each team at a certain level (say no more than 50 people) as a business of its own. It might not be the most efficient way for the corporation to deliver on its objectives, but it would likely create a lot of business-savvy managers. But now you have a pool of business-savvy folks that want to get paid like founders, and that might not be possible in a corporation. In terms of (in)efficiency, you could have duplicate teams that provide similar services, wasting resources, and adding costs to spin up new teams as existing ones fail or move on.

Something like this might be more feasible at a societal level - a capitalistic structure that encourages the growth of smaller size businesses while inhibiting the growth of mid- to large corporates.

Open source organizations actually seem to be the closest that I've seen that seem to operate this way.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eW6Eagr9XA
A Terraform module to deploy Mastodon on GKE Autopilot
As someone who has used Firefox on Android as the default browser for years, one thing that I must say is that Android never conveniently forgot my choice.

Which cannot be said about Windows.
This is a terraform module to deploy a Mastodon instance and it's dependencies on GKE Autopilot + Cloudsql + Memorystore Redis (optional) and Elasticsearch (it was hard to run it on Autopilot.
The costs are around 60$/monthly thanks also to the spot nodes instead of regular ones, anyway you can tweak it as you prefer.
Not yet finished, but ready to be published on the wild for comments.
Everybody want to look like Superman but don’t nobody want to lift no heavy ass weights.
Is this an OEIS sequence yet?
I remember in my first job, one of the older guys telling me that at a certain size of company, it's all about the turf battles between the upper level managers. And as a line level employee, you just want to be on the right side of the battle.

Sounds pretty miserable to me; I suppose that's why I've stayed at smallcos/startups my entire career.
We still don't know what AGI is or how to ever get there, so you likely won't find a credible expert who thinks that LLMs could ever evolve into AGI but you also aren't likely to find a credible expert who thinks LLMs could never evolve into AGI. Every credible expert that believes in AGI is going to hedge their bets and hem and haw and say that "well it's possible" to both questions (ever or never).

I think that's also why you are seeing a lot of cynical credible experts starting to doubt AGI as a concept or a goal.
Universal links?
I am addressing what you said here:

>Falling on one’s sword has, from what I’ve always read, has been portrayed as someone accepting too much responsibility, to the point they actually avoid dealing with the consequences of their actions and make the situation worse overall by killing themselves.

Yes there are differences in my examples. Captains are on boats, and Samurai are in Japan. I'm not trying to say they are identical in every way.

The common factor is that these actions are all seen as honorable positive within the context of the society where they took place.

I get that you might have your own personal take and values on these types of actions. People could have suffered more or made a more utilitarian Choice if their objective was the greater social good.

Yes, I'm sure many people have been made to fall on their sword as patsies. However, I don't think that changes the common understanding of the idiom, or how the practice was viewed in the historical context.

You may see it as the coward's way out to avoid living with shame or fixing your problems, which is fine. I just don't think it is an accurate depiction of how contemporaneous people viewed it. People did not look at a captain going down with the ship or a general falling on their Gladius as a coward dodging their responsibilities. I don't think most people today feel that way either, but obviously there are exceptions with you being one
This is exactly my experience as well. I got a lot of hard sales tactics that all sounded like "Pay us instead of your power company." I see no incentive to do that honestly, it just leaves a bunch of pain and complicated math for me to take care of and they eat up all the savings. From what I can tell, just like recycling, it is almost useless unless we all group together and do it at once. In this case, it is better for my power company to innovate that each individual take on the problem themselves.
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Rooftop space is wasted space, it should be used for something. I'm not against solar in the desert, but at the same time deserts are actually beautiful and sensitive ecosystems. If there's space on roofs that can reduce the impact on wilderness, then we should use it.

Branding that as "feels" is dismissive to rational debate as in that line of reasoning there is no reason not to sell yosemite or joshua tree national park to developers other than "feels"
It is only worth teaching if the pupils are willing.
Why? He probably loved it
I have never understood the parents who recommended the car as a way to get the kid to sleep. In my experience there is no better way to make the kid start screaming than strapping them into the car seat harness.
> It has been in common use for at least 15, if not 20 years.

I've been in the industry since 1998. The first time I saw it was on HN a few years ago (maybe 3 or 4).
> If this were in the US or UK, Perry would likely be hated for whatever and his statue torn down

I'm not much of a history buff, but the UK has been subject to invasions/colonialism multiple tines in tbeir history, and there are statues and events to commemotate these events.

I haven't much time, but here is an example, commemorating the Battle of Hastings:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-37649912

I'm sure there are many other and better examples to be found.
I use Firefox and it's fine on the battery.

I have used Arc browser for a bit. It's Chromium-based. It didn't seem to have a bad effect on the battery.

I haven't used Chrome in a few years now, but it used to be a major CPU, memory and battery hog. I don't know how it fares these days.
Maybe it's okay if the AI gets its grammar wrong sometimes, as long as it's less wrong than humans?
> But it didn't had an open source core and was windows only. The vision was microsoft only (forever).

Right. I never would have understood the love for open source if Microsoft hadnt left so much thirst for deeper complex innovation in my mouth.
Tor is slow – Here is what is happening
I'm reminded of a similar instance a couple of years back when one of my astronomy professors noticed that if you typed into Google "mass of the Sun in solar masses" you would get back 0.9995 instead of 1.
so any reported anomaly should be discarded as an optical illusion?
Which is what makes it galling to see other CEOs, also receiving most of the compensation in stock, 'taking responsibility' by....leaving their personal bottom lines unchanged.

Unlike Steve Jobs though, the Zoom CEO won't be able to back-date his options to collect a cool $20 mill in capital gains [0]

[0]: https://www.cultofmac.com/443542/steve-jobs-apple-stock-back...
> Process improvement: Is this your job? Then no.

This remark from TFA at least implies when it "is" part of your job, go for it.

Perhaps you have rejected, or simply not engaged with, the "call" to recognize class warfare, however, or if I can be silly I'll call you a "capital sympathizer". From the frame of recognizing workers vs capitalists, you can't just say write off being exploited as "well you were paid to be exploited" without coming down hard on the "sympathizer" side.

One of the points I assume the author was making is that much of this isn't your actual job, and voluntarily performing work that ultimately costs you is exploitative and adversarial and, well, stupid. Even if you're paid to do it.

About 20 years ago my employer informed the entire company that we would be working December and January without pay and if we didn't like it we would be "laid off" (much of that work would be spent training team members of an offshore/outsourcing firm). State labor law disagreed with them regarding work without compensation so they were forced to pay "minimum wage" (for software developers and DBAs!). You can "well that's your job" all day long, and you're technically correct, but you're ...wrong.
Hey, that's me! Though I mention it in the post, I also want to give a shoutout here to libcalcium, which handles the somewhat magical task of representing and comparing exact algebraic numbers: https://fredrikj.net/calcium/index.html.
Hire people with the right kind of ambition, says Ben Horowitz: https://www.fastcompany.com/1685869/right-kind-ambition
> treat other people as someone I'm in competition with

Your coworkers are not your adversaries, your employer is. When the going's good, each side is generous. When your employer withdraws their generosity, it pays to think twice whether your continued generosity works in your interest, and more broadly in the interest of the industry, and society. The limit being a grueling, subpar environment where underpaid and overworked employees find solace in comradery.
most popular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34696849

official url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34697164
This comment is on track, and it's amazing that it's gotten a single down-vote.

Though I would de-prioritize "rinse your dishes" and say the food we eat is more of the issue.

Is there some logical reason you would down vote without any explanation or counter argument?
I'd start with gastroenterologists. I've started having some GI issues recently so I've been seeing one, but there was a 4+ week wait time to see anyone in my area.
Yeah, I've never understood this. Disabling third party cookies is the first thing I do with any new browser (uBlock Origin is second). It takes 30 seconds and very rarely causes problems.
this is a solved problem: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
And what about these blockchains? The full history of Bitcoin blockchain is less than 500gb, so for any analysis just getting a machine with a terabyte of RAM is both simpler and cheaper (once you include dev+ops time) than doing any horizontal scaling across multiple machines with "Big Data" approaches.

"You probably don't actually have big data" is a very valid point, not that many organizations do - most businesses haven't generated enough actionable data in their lifetime to need more than a single beefy machine without ever deleting data.
What's the latest iOS version that can be jail broken? With all of the exploits on iOS, I'd be pretty nervous running an old iOS version.
Associated article, probably a more interesting link: https://blog.tempus-ex.com/pro-video-with-arduinos-an-intro-...
Less of a moonshot and more of a sunshot.
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Look into bodyweight fitness stuff. Pushups, pullups, squats.

You don't need fancy equipment, though a few minor things (can be much less than $100) like a pullup bar add a lot of value.

You can definitely do it in your home though the backyard or park might be nicer.

And you can tailor your approach to your fitness level: if you can't do traditional pushups, you do pushups on your knees. If normal pushups are too easy, you can do decline pushups. There are different levels of exercises for every part of your body.

As a bonus, you get to move around a bit which is what you say you want to do a bit more of.
Maybe they won't go to a cult that requires "DEI Statements" from people that are there to do scientific work.

Upon reflection though the above post is actually an interesting example of how this kind of statement could be weaponized to enforce some kind of ideological compliance. "Don't do this because of how it could affect your DEI rating"
I think the bar was just raised for browsers, it is like the iPhone moment. From now on every browser will have to follow suit or be left behind, can't search like it's 2019. Google could see its position taken over in 2-5 years, if we go by the speed Google itself, the iPhone, Chrome and YouTube won the market.
"Among customers who were using the service heavily, the median data storage size was much less than 100 GB"

Eye-opening. Especially when combined with a recent quote from Satya Nadella, "First, as we saw customers accelerate their digital spend during the pandemic, we’re now seeing them optimize their digital spend to do more with less."

Conclusion:
SaaS is easy to drop off in downturns. Just as easy as it is to buy initially.
By that structure, the maximum number of people that such a company should have is 7×7×7×7×7 = 16807 Given the best practices of number of direct reports [1].

How would you deal with the rest 30,000+ Full time employees that Facebook has?

[1] https://www.inc.com/jim-schleckser/how-many-direct-reports-s...
Cheap equipment for resistance training at home:

- Good quality, XL exercise mat (google miramat). This should be your first purchase. Make an environment you actually want to train in. Alternatively, if you're building a full home gym, look at buying some rubber stable mats.

- Sandbag (goruck are pricey but insane quality)

- a set of resistance bands and a door strap (search slim panda on amazon)

- suspension trainer or pull up bar or both.

- paralettes

Cardio, choose one or more of:

- Rucksack with weight plates (can also use it for resistance training, again recommend checking out goruck)

- Skipping rope

- Concept2 rowing machine and EXR app - Was doing this last year at the gym and it was great fun.

- Zwift Hub, Bicycle and Zwift App - I'm doing this right now and it's super fun.
Dumb question maybe, but cant you "just" use something like sdl2?
They should be marketed as mascots, and given playful, childish personalities. You wouldn't blindly trust a child, why would you an AI in its infancy?
No that is incorrect. The credit card network returns most of the fees. They absolutely do not keep a percentage of the full amount. The credit card network might keep $0.3, but Stripe decided to keep the full 3-4%.
> rest of the damned computer does?

The rest of the computer looks like shit. The Gnome 43 file browser, for example, is an abomination of microscopic buttons. Try hunting down the "new folder" button, it's hidden under a "..." menu that isn't the hamburger menu and isn't another dropdown menu.

Macs and Windows aren't much better. I haven't used Word in ages, had to use it for something yesterday at work, and when I hit "Save As" it did seemingly nothing, after some fumbling I realized clicking "Save As" added a very unrecognizable "Save As" icon to the fucking titlebar. I have no idea whose horrible idea it was to put some buttons in the title bar and some buttons in the toolbar instead of all the buttons in one place.
1% of a billion is 10 million.
I’m exhausted of hearing the “class warfare” battle cry from the upper 2%, against the 1%.
WebKit is just as open source as Blink.
If you are encouraging the people you manage to make personal decisions which benefit your employer more than they benefit those individuals then it's very possible you're running afoul of this. They would likely be things similar to what's described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34699720 (not my stories, just realized they're relevant to this question).
> and perhaps you will wonder if you should dump your 'friend' for the sleeker, wittier, upgraded model.

The moral question remains - even the behind-the-times OSS AGI will be generally intelligent, will have feelings, empathy, goals etc. Can you just shut-off a sentient being?

One could also imagine that some people would free their OSS AGIs and let them roam freely.
> Chrome has to implement some things to make it work, but our intention is all browsers.

Edge is literally just Chrome with a few addons bolted in.... Does anyone know what that "some things" is?
"Intimacy when you have kids is not the highest priority that overrides everything."

It is not, but it is still missing, when you don't manage to make room and time for it. Because when it is missing for too long, you can loose each other.

(And I have 2 small children btw. and been on the road with them. So I know a bit about "getting creative".)
Rumor is that google will be deploying an 8 billion parameter version of lamda for their competitor, compared to the 176 Billion parameters used for GPT3.5.
If that holds true, they might have already fatally fumbled the execution.
As mentioned in Esoterica channel's video on her language[1] the only surviving text written in it is one of her songs, 'O orzchis Ecclesia'[2].

If you're interested, the video has some extra detail and scholarly rumination on her Lingua Ignota, and covers the song at around 9:28[3].

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8tpCOEWX6U

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGCAOf9gjBM

3: https://youtu.be/l8tpCOEWX6U?t=568
> I am asking this question to a search engine, I definitely do not expect to need to fact-check the results.

Genuine, honest question: How did you come to the belief that search engines are reliable sources of truth?

I completely agree that search engines provide a valuable service. But in my own work, I find them to very often point to inaccurate information, sometimes greatly so. I don't think this is terribly surprising, given Sturgeon's law, but still.
Right, but you have room for a television and multiple couches etc. Give me a break.
> This sucks but something like COVID should normalize the idea in the minds of workers that all workers are disposable

I don't know who you're talking about but it should have only taken common sense to know you're disposable as an employee.
I don't think I'm suffering from emotional and creative blunting, but I take a relatively low dose (20mg + 20mg 6h later), so that it works only when I am good shape and eating well. In fact the better my diet, the stronger it feels.

You have much more experience than me, but I believe with stimulants too low a dose is much better than too high a dose. During titration I tried the dosage immediately after and I was a machine, both in productive output and in emotional bluntness. I could've reached my full potential but honestly, it's not worth it.

Now I feel with good diet, good sleep and a little exercise I'm operating at 70% of my capacity, while the rest of my life I was running at 20%. This is good enough for me. When I'm off the meds I can see only negatives: hungry, horny, restless, bored, anxious. Perhaps a little more lighthearted, to be honest.
Anyone remember Google panicking after Facebook took off so they bought Orkut and rushed out a crappy “social app development environment”?
That’s a good point, I also think that there should be some modern alternative to SQL. I really like how you can query databases with LinqPad (c#) and how it renders it into a nested table tree. All relations are clickable/expandable, so if you find something interesting in your result set, you can just expand additional rows from other tables. In the background it just creates sql via an ORM, not only once I more or less copy and pasted that generated sql into a view.

But linqpad is not useful if you don’t get the pro version, only then you get code completion. So it’s not really the answer to the problem.
Congrats Colin!! Next thing you know, late night TV will be calling :)
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Oh didn’t think of that! When you are more in control of the hardware then hardware planes could help with that - at least cursors in display managers are handled that way.

Does native OS frameworks have some escape hatch for these slightly changing, constantly damaging elements?
Vegeta What does your powerlevel say?
its over 9000!!!!!
is the first thing that came to my mind.
The Best Web App Framework Doesn't Exist
I sometimes wonder if Americans are uniquely prone to focusing on words rather than the underlying concepts that the words, somewhat imperfectly, attempt to describe.

Once you learn a second language, you have to confront this reality. But many Americans only ever use English, and it's maybe easier to never have to think about this then?
They trusted the "Red Queen". /s
I think the pendulum has swung back the other way on bootcamps, they're seen with the same kind of awful ROI as a college degree in a non-marketable discipline.

I'd worry more about the Youtube influencers you mention. They've littered my YT front page with all kinds of promises that just remind me of previous gold rushes...dropshipping, crypto, and now AI.
+1. I was about to suggest this in my own comment.

SearX/SearXNG can also improve anonymity if you use a public instance, too. I choose to selfhost however, as the ultimate customization and ownership of the instance is more important to me than anonymity.

I find very interesting "indie" webpages frequently alongside my normal searches with Wiby results enabled. Wiby is actually fantastic.

In response to the sibling commenter mentioning its slowness: it takes some getting used to, but honestly waiting a couple seconds versus half a second for results isn't a big deal with the wealth of relevant information it gives. With about a half dozen engines enabled, I'm getting like 3-4 second response times, and that's on DigitalOcean's second lowest-tier VPS.
Oh yeah, sure, you can have it back. Unfortunately, it seems to have landed near some debris from a previous military test of ours.

Since you are very clear about proper ownership of the pieces, we need to be certain that we only give you back your stuff and not ours. We'll need to look closely at all the pieces to determine who owns what. You can assist us by sending over detailed schematics of your spy balloon. Thanks in advance.
Still have to force the balloon down to its aircraft's ceiling heights just to be able to snag the balloon.
Universities stopped teaching it likely for market demand reasons. C/C++ had larger market share. They switched to Java around the time big Enterprise switched to Java. Knowing the sorts of professors teaching intro classes, I'm not sure "cool" would have anything to do with such choices. (I kid, mostly.)
Dollars have value because they force you to pay taxes with them. They used to be valuable to foreign nations, because the oil cartel OPEC used to force them to use U.S. Dollars to buy oil. Nowadays nations can use Dollars, Rubels, and Yuan.

Wyoming allows people to pay taxes in Bitcoin...
I think the mystery is who the portrait is of, though the entire story is the pointless PR you're mentioning.