skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bonds are a "promise" because they can fail - the issuer can fail and the bonds can become worthless. So there may be a reasonable expectation of return, but still risk. Staking is not the same, because it is the algorithmic inflation of the currency itself, and can't "fail" the same way.
It's the wrong pricing model, in my opinion.

consider the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwXlo9gy_k4 & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWZbWzAyHAE
There's a reason it can't be opt-in: Google intends collect information about politically sensitive software and give that information to governments who wish to punish developers.
> supposed to find the ceiling

Oh duh. I somehow forgot that over the span of a few sentences. Thanks.
Let's agree to disagree, I think in the end it comes down to priorities and pain threshold for having to tinker with stuff.
When I first looked at Mastodon, I had to choose between applying for an account, or choosing open enrollment to a server that had moderation issues. We created verified.coop for people that wanted to start using Mastodon right away and wanted to interact with other people using their real names. You can find me https://verified.coop/@DickHardt
I use Thunderbird and I like it, but I keep wondering: shouldn't there be a way to store all email in Postgres locally, instead of on the filesystem? It just seems like it would be a great idea. I can see lots of pros and cons, but I feel like the pros would easily outweigh the cons for someone who uses Postgres often.
Yeah terracotta tiles last over 100 years so it’s well worth factoring in.
Miatas are not girly cars
With the caveat that you don't literally follow Lisp by having a #. reader macro.
Family has extra members so keep thinking about an A36, currently fly a Mooney. Seems to be better than paying Baron upkeep.

Any advice welcome.
There’s a presumption in this conversation that taking time off work from burnout isn’t going to be solved by becoming homeless. If you were going to go that route then you could just claim it would only be a few hundred in supplies for you to live in the woods off foraged game and plants.

On top of that it’s illegal to live out of your car in many jurisdictions in the US.
It says from $73 per vial or pen on the site for me?
It's actually deflation. Everyone calls it inflation though presumably because in the beginning someone didn't understand economics terms.
> ’90s nostalgia... it’s referred to as “Y2K fashion.” See: low-rise jeans

Isn't it hi-rise mom jeans that are from the 90s? I was in a store yesterday and kind of chuckled to myself seeing 3 high school girls in there shopping for their lunch all in those mom jeans.
People ask this question like it's meaningful... is there any proof that we are? No. Then stop asking it as if it sheds light into the similarities between humans and machines... it doesn't and it's obfuscating to that extent.
That's fine, they look great. Realizing we've got stuff looking like that that generates freakin' electricity is amazing.
> I think a more interesting question is why as a society do we allow people to have infinite wealth?

Because 'money' is just a denomination of share-of-control over the resources of the system that enforces it.

Therefore any person who has demonstrated their ability to deploy resources effectively (by whatever evaluative method used) 'earns' access to higher resource volumes to pursue their endeavors.

Get access to volumes above a certain level and your 'infinite wealth' criteria kick in.
Jordan has a mean steak.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan%27s_Steakhous...
It wasn't "media disinformation", it was the local constable and his accident investigators being wrong.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/tesla-spring-crash-f...

And even in that article, there's an addendum a couple of months later stating that a person was seen getting in the driver's seat and that the NTSB reenactment wasn't able to engage the autosteering when trying to replicate the crash.

I don't know what more you want from the press. They reported what they were told by the authorities. And then when new information came in, they reported that as well.
I would never want my friends to know how much I make, only 3 of my closest family members know that.

It's a terrible idea. Couldn't care less of strangers, but irl people are envious, toxic and potentially dangerous.
> He elevates his teammates more than Jordan ever could.

That makes zero sense. Jordan got everyone to buy into his obsessiveness and fully commit, getting TWO 3 peats. And it would have easily been 8 in a row if he didn't take time away after his dad was murdered.

I'm taking 3 Lakers over Lebron (Kareem, Magic, Kobe) if I'm building my team. And they are still after Jordan.

Lebron doesn't have that Jordan or Kobe mentality. He's also been in an era where he just bulldozes and travels on most plays. Exceptional athlete and player. But he's not the leader or competitor that Jordan was. Objectively based on his career - he just isn't.

Can you recall the Paxson, Kukoc and Kerr moments for Lebron? They don't exist.

The fact that you would hate playing with Jordan is what his teammates said too. Yet they wouldn't have traded it for anything and he lead them to 2 3 peats.

He made it hell for them and challenged them like they never would. And they stepped up when he called their number. There was no confusion on the role of every player.

Paxson, complete role player - “The stories are legendary about him on the practice floor,” Paxson said. “There was something unique about what was inside of him. The challenge was always there for him, and that’s a unique trait that you don’t see in athletes too often. The great ones seem to have it.”
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> So the tasks remain useful and accurate in testing ToM in people because people can't perform statistical regressions over billion-token sets and therefore must generate their thoughts the old fashioned way.

Is it not also possible that the study suggests that the human mind actually operates as a statistical regression over billions of data points rather than through some kind of Baysian logic? You say humans are known to be not-great at statistical next-word guesses, but I would antelope they're actually pretty good at it.
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Yes, because I want my internal home devices publicly accessible by default.

Seriously, the global addressability of ipv6 is something that people used to using ipv4/NAT tend to forget. I know a bunch of people (well, two) that make a living scanning for IPv6 addresses inside networks that the admins didn't realize were open to the world.
idk I religiously firewall my work and personal life but still feel a lot of "personal work employment inertia":

- I know that everyone doesn't suck to work with
- I know who to ask for specific institutional knowledge, or to get something done through unofficial channels
- I know who is more or less competent in specific domains
- I know what kind of work people do and do not enjoy

etc. It's actually the main reason I haven't done the whole salary optimization by job hopping thing, well that and the effort of hyping myself up into extroverted self-pimp mode
Who do you think is paying now? States are spending billions on it through Medicaid cost share.

A state like California with a contract manufacturer would probably break even on the insulin and save billions for reduced complications. Poor people with diabetes are frequent fliers for ER admissions. The cost of one ER visit is probably close to annual insulin cost.
You are just telling me what the current state of the law is and how society is currently run. I agree that is the world we live in. I am making a prescriptive argument about how I think we ought to do things. Maybe my argument is weak; I’ll keep trying.
Five years from now, I think we will not see "remote only" for a large company and think "ooh, they value their employees I guess", but rather, "uh oh, they like to think of their employees as being like virtual servers, easy to spin up and easy to shut down the moment you don't need to pay for that capacity".

This implies that companies that have offices keep people on in order to make sure every desk is being utilized.
> whether or not it's a security of basically marketing?

Not basically, but substantially.

> could also explain such a product as simply a custodianship that is able to hold your eth in a staked state for you, with no promise of return at all, only a claim to whatever the staked eth amounts to in its own domination at the time you'd like to withdraw

Custodianship is a big word in finance [1]. There are crypto custodians, and I'm guessing they let coins be staked. But that isn't something you can easily scale to retail.

> there is no - and had never been - a promise of returns in USD

Not relevant. You can issue stock that pays dividends in piñatas. If it's sold to Americans, the SEC has jurisdiction.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/custodian.asp
ChatGPT disagrees that it has theory of mind.

“As an AI language model, I do not have consciousness, emotions, or mental states, so I cannot have a theory of mind in the same way that a human can. My ability to predict your friend Sam's state of mind is based solely on patterns in the text data I was trained on, and any predictions I make are not the result of an understanding of Sam's mental states.”
We cannot assume that, because text generation is all these models do, then it must be possible to get answers to the questions we want to ask by examining their textual responses.

It is fair to ask why, if we accept these verbal challenges as good evidence for a theory of mind in children, we would not accept them for these models, but children have nothing like the memory for text that these models have, and the corpus of text that these models have been trained on includes a great many statements that tacitly represent their authors' theory of mind (i.e. they are the sort of statements that would typically be made by someone having a theory of mind, just as arithmetically-correct statements concerning quantities are to be expected from people who know arithmetic.)

To be clear, I am not arguing that it would be impossible to show a theory of mind in a system that can only interact through text, but personally, I think it will require a model with greater capabilities than responding to prompts. For example, when models can converse among themselves, I think we will know.
Due to JetBrains’s (alleged?) links to Russia, their products are banned at some companies. :(
$ du -sch ~/.config/Slack
846M $HOME/.config/Slack
846M total

... this is on a two day old machine. WTF, Slack? Junk cached data belongs in ~/.local/share ($XDG_DATA_HOME), not ~/.config.
> “As the adage goes, ‘you ship your org chart,’” said one current employee. “It’s chaos here right now, so we’re shipping chaos.”

That’s just such a fantastic quote.
and owns so much cultural IP

No. That's not cultural IP, that's Disney IP. Disney made a habit of taking stuff that was in the public domain, changing a few things around (even the whole story line) and copyrighted that.

Next time you have the inclination, compare a Disney movie/story/comic that purports to be the same as one of the public domain tales with the original tale. You'll find that the "Disney Creation (c)" is nothing at all like the original.

As an example, compare the original 'Star Wars' franchise from the 1970s with the later Disney knock-offs and see for yourself. As further examples, compare Disney's 'Cinderella' with the original book version, or maybe Disney's 'Alice in Wonderland' that is a weird hodge-podge of TWO of Lewis Carroll's books, 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Alice Through the Looking-Glass'.
I'm amazed Woz is complaining about being "robbed" and should have a better understanding of "beta", however, he gets one point absolutely right.

What I think nobody could have foreseen is how unnerving it feels to be in a self-driving car. I don't think this is the same as it not working. Even when it is working, you're still on edge.

We probably had this same feeling when cruise control was first invented, and then when it introduced the "distance follow" feature. Is it really going to slow down? Is it going to just follow the car ahead?

We're more comfortable today that those systems just work. And I don't know if they always worked flawlessly.

Tesla has done work in the UX to try to make people calmer by understanding what the car is doing, but it's clearly not working.
I would reconsider this pricing model. Flat monthly fee with unlimited calls/runs may not be pleasant for you.
I'm joking around. What you said is very similar to the "Effective Altruist" mindset and so I'm referencing FTX & Alameda.
Another option is to promote commuter electric motorcycles, e.g. something like the Ryvid Anthem which has a removable battery you can take inside and charge. With a range of 80 miles it's definitely a commuter motorcycle, but it's top speed of 75 MPH definitely allows you to hop on the freeway as part of your commute.

The best part? It costs less than a typical used ICE car, so it's very budget friendly. And it has virtually no maintenance.

I'm not against public transit but it's a significant investment and towns like mine have spent the past 40 years failing to make it happen and unlike an e-bike an electric motorcycle can fully utilize all existing roadways.

I think it's time to start re-thinking transportation.
Filelink is an add on. They have added it.
I wonder if the distributed SETI stuff does this.
That is just not in evidence.

Seems like its nailing it to me. You ask about a scenario and it gives an appropriate answer.

We have evidence that LLMs build models of the things they are learning about. Have a look at this paper:

Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?

https://thegradient.pub/othello/

previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34474043
It's also the case that things change to the point where "strategic" people become less strategic for any number of reasons (the company changes, they're "rich and tired" to use a marvelous phrase from a colleague, etc.). Under what's been normal circumstances at Big Tech until recently companies often keep such people around anyway because they're probably the sort of people who can be pretty effective fixers with a half-day of work and such people may be happy to keep collecting a bunch of money. But a lot of companies are scrutinizing more today.
Exciting stuff, looking forward to seeing how this current AI revolution leads to improvements in the medical research space -- seems very promising
Since this article was written by Ted Chiang, just for fun I asked ChatGPT to summarize the plot of "Understand".

Apparently ChatGPT thinks "Understand" is about the government who is pursuing someone called Gary Whittle who has superintelligence (well, at least it got one detail right). When challenged ("no, the government is not the antagonist, but there is one person...") ChatGPT amends its summary to this:

> "George Millwright is Gary Whittle's former supervisor and is depicted as being jealous of Gary's newfound abilities. He becomes obsessed with Gary and is determined to bring him down, even going so far as to threaten his family. George Millwright's actions drive much of the conflict in the story and serve as a reminder of the potential dangers of unchecked ambition and envy."

I'm honestly fascinated by ChatGPT's "hallucinations". I mean, it all makes perfect sense. Its summary is a potential scifi story -- albeit a poor, completely clichéd one -- but this is not at all what happens in "Understand"!

Text compression indeed.
Because the statistical models powering AI don't have the depth of understanding of a PhD in this field, and so it casts a wide net to ensure nothing gets missed and then a more refined search by human heuristics is needed.
I don't understand how they're different. Charles Schwab is a middleman to the company (say Exxon). Kraken is a middleman to the Blockchain. That seems like a clear analog, and not only that, but the code, the law of the Blockchain, is certainly more publicly available and less prone to change or failure than shareholder documents, which represent legal contracts, but are still susceptible to human error.
That's survivor bias: for you there are thousands who didn't make it for one reason or another and it seems that those are just to get fucked.

65%+ Americans don't have 500 bucks to their name. They are one car breakdown from deep shit.

They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-- George Carlin
It's not just irl people. In fact, strangers can be even more potentially dangerous.

That's what would stop me from sharing my salary openly. Actually thinking about it more I wouldn't be worried about friends/family knowing at all.
I think that it could shine in integrations. Maybe.

(Voice chat)

- LLM, find three articles from HN frontpage which I would find insightful based on my recent evaluations, summarize them in under half a minute each and then I’ll choose the order, while I commute.

- (…)

- Okay, read me a second one first.

- (…)

- That was a good one because well-written and compared alternatives. Now find funniest article of all time based on my long-time preferences.

- (…)

- - -

While it’s dumb enough to forget what and how you’ve evaluated recently, a hidden prompt could(?) fetch that out, e.g.:

- (system) please convert my previous article ratings into json objects consisting of article url, article id (…how to get it…), 1..10 rating, your summary and a string of tags.

Then these ratings may be saved for later and fed into a chat secretly as:

- (system) If I gave you this prompt: “<voice prompt>” and had data looking like this “<db schema>”, please list which tables and filters would you likely use to form an answer.

- (…)

- My recent ratings were (…). <voice prompt>

- - -

I have no clue if this could work, but if it does, well, that would be useful.

Edit: it may be wrong, but we have enough mundane tasks which are better done wrong rather than not done at all. It has a great potential as an “occasionally bright secretary” archetype.
I literally don't see why. All my friends and family know what I make(and I know what they make) - what's the big deal?
Are your experiences with a union so different? There are a lot of places that will not hire you unless you are a union member. It has become common, and it is very much like a cartel operates. There was a time when unions brought relief to the worker from employer abuse, and increased wages and improved safety standards. But that time is long, long gone, and the focus has turned entirely to money and time off. The only reason for a union to exist today is solely for it to exist. While you get your head around that syllogism, consider that while labor unions are designated non-profit, it says nothing about what its officers can earn.[1] Generally the practice seems to be to financially take advantage of the larger pool of recent members for the benefit of the smaller pool of long-term members while fleecing large employers of profit and growth incentive.

[1] https://freebeacon.com/issues/report-union-presidents-paid-c...
Related, I made a tool to convert a YAML file with localizations into type safe go/typescript code. Anyone interested in it?
I don't really see it. Gitlab isn't a Google-style megacorporation; its CEO is co-founder, and it still has a reputation for having fairly horizontal management.

The idea that its execs just decided to lay off a bunch of people for no reason just to wage some plausibly deniable class warfare doesn't really make sense to me.
If Apple owned Tesla, there wouldn't be enough room in this comment to list all the reasons HN would hate it:

1. What do you mean, the OS and all its software is proprietary? Why can't I sideload my own fart app?

2. Highest margins in the industry? No we won't praise their business genius, we'll complain that they're charging a Tesla Fanboi Tax.

3. Like you said, RIGHT TO REPAIR, this is John Deere stuff, only it's a car and not a tractor.

4. Shit build quality would have us raving about butterfly keyboards 2.0.

And so on, and so forth. Steve Jobs had a "reality distortion field." So does Elon Musk, and it's aimed squarely at a certain very obvious demographic.
"Guys - we've found intelligent alien life! We have even decoded their signals."

"Amazing, let's send them a response!"

"Ah yes, about that..."

"What is it? Go on..."

"We're talking 250,000 light-years away. Their civilization is probably extinct by now."

moans
Looks great! Is there a way to trigger events based on Slack mentions? I'd like to build a GPT-3 Slack bot that answers poeple's questions in Slack.

Edit: filed an issue here: https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces/issues/513
I do agree with the statement that some of the language around the lack of insulin availability is misleading, but it's not just that it's more convenient. "Fancy" insulin allows one to better manage blood glucose levels. Poorly managed blood glucose strains various organs/systems in the body and over years and decades leads to various health complications, some resulting in death. (It's still a lot of work and stress -- modern insulin isn't an automatic improvement; but it does allow greater success in managing diabetes.)

(My comments here are in the context of type 1 diabetes. The (potential) positive health impact of modern insulin may be less pronounced for other diabetics.)
There's this old story about an IBM VP who walked into Tom Jr.'s office expecting to be fired after a $10M mistake. Instead Tom Jr. asked why they would let someone walk after they just got a $10M education? [1]

Not sure what Musk is after here, but firing the guy who knows the most about the problem seems counterproductive.

[1] https://isismjpucher.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/the-value-of-f...
Nim is garbage-collected, actually. It has an option to disable garbage-collection (though I thought there was talk of removing that at some point) but then it just leaks memory, it doesn't have a comprehensive system for GC-less memory management like Rust does.
> In the case of an LLM the language generated doesn't have the same relationship to reality as it does for a person.

I wish I could upvote this 1000 times. It is the core issue that all the hype surrounding LLMs consistently fails to address or even acknowledge.
Are these normal for UK? Even for startups in SF bay area, senior engineers are making 50-100+% above that number. I've been at startups that pay these rates to EU remote workers.
And those people also at one point spend $800 at least on a phone. Is $40 really a deal breaker?
I work in a role where help I ramp a lot of recent graduates into industry.

I can say this comment doesn't comport with my experience. The kids are alright.

One old practice that has helped a lot is pair programming. I employ strong-style pairing when I work with a new hire which helps them ramp up on our practices quickly IME.

A new practice which has helped immensely are in-person "burst weeks" every 3 months or so. It isn't the same as spontainiously grabbing drinks after work, but it definitely helps to build team camaraderie.
Agreed.. Though it's an often used metric: fatalities per billion kilometers (f/bnkm).

Someone told me that risk per unit distance was higher when walking than riding a motorcycle, which I thought sounded like it could be possible. Sadly it seems its not true [1].

Interesting how f/bnkm is so low for driving vs walking though.

[1]: https://www.normalizecycling.com/risk-in-cycling/units-of-ri...
My first instinct was that this model wouldn’t work because employees need a lot more context/onboarding than servers.

But then I thought about all the technology that was developed (docker, k8s, CI/CD) to make spinning up virtual servers painless.

I don’t love that my brain works this way, but I guess there’s a decent business in trying to build the analogous technology for “spinning up and shutting down” employees.