skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The engineering work is based on a process known as "molten regolith electrolysis," and Blue Origin has advanced the state of the art for solar cell manufacturing. In this process, a direct electric current is applied to the simulated regolith at a high temperature, above 1,600° Celsius. Through this electrolysis process, iron, silicon, and aluminum can be extracted from the lunar regolith. Blue Origin says it has produced silicon to more than 99.999 percent purity through molten regolith electrolysis.

> The key advance made by Blue Alchemist is that its engineers and scientists have taken the byproducts of this reaction—and these materials alone—to fabricate solar cells as well as the protective glass cover that would allow them to survive a decade or longer on the lunar surface.

This is super cool technology!

I wonder what the applicability would be on earth, say the sands of the Sahara? It appears to contain many of the same components. [0]

For years I have imagined a 40 foot container on tracks eating sand on one end and spitting out low-to-medium quality photovoltaic cells on the other.

[0] https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/chem-2018-012...
>They're incapable of knowing if what they're telling is the truth.

Right, because all they're doing is regurgitating the data they were trained on. It's like the kid in your CS class that copies someone else's coding assignment and just changes all the function names, variable names, and comments but not the actual executable stuff and never even bothers to compile and run it to see if it produces the desired output.
I have been using ChatGPT successfully for coding tasks for the last two months. It's often faster than a Google search because it delivers the code, can explain it, and can write a unit test.
I feel like compression will do a better job than deciding on an encoding scheme ahead of time, no? Once gziped I wouldn't expect a difference
> when we engage with it we inevitably slip

This brings the practice of the "sociologistic we" to the level of serious abuse, and such practice should be made a crime.

"People tend to slip" is criticalmost different from "[all] inevitably slipped".

Yes, people can grow. The state of "fools" is not mandated - the opposite.
> I'm sorry, but you can't help me believe you.
Killer apps are hard to find. I recently thought to myself “I have notes scattered across five different services, I should consolidate them” - so I dove into Obsidian, got it all set up to cloud sync, transcribed some of my existing notes, categorized them, aaaaaaand… a year later, I now have notes scattered across six different services.
I don't get why all these new services, including the biggest here don't just make a simple string search to see if any of the secrets are in the reply?

Seems incredibly simple no?
It looks like their core business model is modular asset packs, not necessarily tied to real world environments? Potentially some overlap, but I would guess it's unlikely we would be going head-to-head with them in most customer use cases.
always thought twilio would be acquired by AWS eventually - twilio is more of a product than a company, or even just a set of product features. Never made sense to me as a stand-alone company.
thanks for all the feedback everyone, i've made an update that makes it possible to only give access to a single repository instead of the entire account
Only if it’s a likely response or if it’s a canned response. Remember that ChatGPT is a statistical model that attempts to determine the most likely response following a given prompt.
how about one knowledge worker charging a $trillion and then going home with it?
> Losing money now to make money in the future isn't sexy anymore. So you have to fire people until you make money now.

I am familiar with this concept but I'm curious if you could teach me more on the specifics. I think what you are referring to is basically "cost of capital analysis".

If the companies weren't hiring/paying payroll with debt at 0.5%, why does the fact matter that debt would now hypothetically cost them 5% come into play? Are they up against the fact that their projects (after payroll and all expenses) need to return more than the risk free rate (4-5%)? Why would that matter? Are tech projects really that unprofitable? I figured most projects at tech companies are easily 20%+ in terms of margin.

> For companies like FAANG - which are ridiculously profitable - it's still the same.

Would you go as far as to say Microsoft laying off 10,000 and Amazing laying off 18,000 people had next to nothing to do with the federal funds rate then?
It doesn't seem to work with all sites. Seems that there is more to it than just a blocklist.
If I've read the histories and articles correctly, Slack for intracompany chat and Zoom for intra and inter company video.

This is switching the intra and inter company video to Teams (which means that GitHub doesn't have to pay Zoom for video anymore).

Intracompany text chat remains on Slack.
I think it seems likely any thing similar to a blog farm you describe would also get detected by the AI. Maybe we will just develop AI bullshit filters (well embeddings) just like I can download a porn blacklist or a spam filter for my email.

Really it depends on who is running the AI, the non Open Assistant future and instead Big Corp AI is the dystopian element, not the bullshit generator aspect. I think the cat is out of the bag on the latter and it's not that scary in itself.

I personally would rather have the AI trained on public bullshit as it is easier to detect as opposed to some insider castrating the model or datasets.
Yup. I was given a Surface Book and a MacBook Pro when I joined Microsoft in 2017, and the Surface Book was just so I could do some testing for things in Azure and make sure it worked well-enough on Windows. My last year at Microsoft, I focused entirely on Linux and used a combination of devices and there was even an internal team focused on making it possible to use Linux as your daily driver with little impact.

At GitHub (where I work now), it’s standard-issue MacBook Pros.

A lot of teams at Microsoft even used Slack internally before 2020. Compliance issues (and I’m sure cost) forced us onto Teams, which was unfortunate, but as a company, Microsoft was a lot more free/open than most other companies of its size with regards to what tools teams and individuals could use — especially when it comes to what you have to do to your own machines if you want to bring your own device to work (the InTune policies are completely and totally sane, more sane than when I worked for a company owned by Univision and Univision wanted me to call the help desk anytime I needed admin access or to install something outside of the Mac App Store — things I frequently needed to do for my job).

GitHub has completely separate IT systems. I can’t/won’t comment on what changes are happening for video calls, but I don’t see this as some sky is falling moment.
If you use it for a single company (ie one login) it is OK, but IMO a worse experience than Slack; MS get away with it because it is free.

Where the true nightmare begins is when you need to login to multiple tenants/workspaces. You simply can't use multiple at the same time, and switching from one to the other is super slow and unreliable. I tried to do so today and Teams crashed 4 times, at which point I uninstalled it and decided to just use the web app instead.
BATNA - Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement.

This acronym is taught in any course discussing the basics of negotiation. If you are negotiating on anything, you will always be in a better position if your BATNA is good. In the context of job salary negotiations, saying "I have another job offer for 1.3 times my current salary" is going to put you in a much better position than saying "I feel like I'm worth more". So the answer is to find a good BATNA and then approach your boss. Unfortunately, the jobs environment is not great right now so finding a better offer might take some time (in good times, even the threat of leaving might put you in a good negotiating position).

On a secondary note, you don't necessarily need to work at a tech company to be appreciated, but it's generally important to work in a division and in roles that help increase company revenues. Try to look for that in your next role.
Yeah, I'd advise looking for work elsewhere, it's not supposed to be like that and I guarantee you that you could find something better
I am on Xfinity and have been using my own modem for 7 years now.

Internet went out randomly a few weeks ago. Their online assistant tried to ping my modem and failed, they sent a tech out and fixed the line and were on their way.

It sucked being without internet for a couple of days, but it was also kind of nice.
The statement "this is how the internet should be, free for everyone, without censorship and restrictions" comments on the business activities of online publications, without offering any alternative.

It's pretty on-topic in this specific instance.

The author also wrote "Top 4 Chrome ad blockers that you need to know about"[1] which rails against ads. So they don't want paywalls. They don't want ads. Then what?

It seems their views on all of this are rather unsophisticated (yet they still make broad sweeping statements about it).

[1]: https://www.ghacks.net/2021/08/12/best-chrome-ad-blocker-ext...
You're asking me to substantiate a negative - ie. identify any possible reason someone might provide that novel behavior might not be emergent out of a model under optimization and then disprove it, but ahead of time. This is a challenging task.

Our minds are emergent out of the interaction of billions of neurons in our brain. Each is individually pretty dumb, just taking in voltage and outputting voltage (to somewhat oversimplify). Out of that simple interaction & under the pressures of evolutionary optimization, we have reached a more emergent whole.

Linear transformations stacked with non-linearities can similarly create an individually dumb input and output that under the pressure of optimization lead to a more emergent whole. If there is a reason why this has to be tied to voltage regulating neuron substrate, I have yet to see a compelling one.
Like I said, there's an outlet on every corner of the island about 2.5 feet from the sink. And on the other kitchen sink there's one immediately on each side. Nobody is getting fucked.
It is very possible for a private company to say "everything is fine, no one is getting laid off" and then have layoffs happen weeks later. I've seen it happen.
Be skeptical and have a backup plan.
Manager got fired so I don't really have 1:1s - the skip-level guy is the interim manager and doesn't have time for that.
If you look at Hospital REITs, the majority of the systems have low rent coverage on a cash flow basis. Look at the distribution yields/low multiples applied to hospital real estate... many are priced with high tenant default/bankruptcy risk.

e.g. MPW

Hospitals are not the same as Medical Office, which tend to be more profitable. Where are the facts to corroborate your statement?
Silicone is a polymer of siloxane which makes rubber-like substance such as silicone oil, silicone grease, or silicone caulk.

Silicon is an element often used in semiconductor manufacturing.

Neither Apple or Intel manufacture silicone in any major quantities.
I'm quite the opposite: Twilio's revenue tripled from 2019 to today; if their headcount didn't triple to support that growth, I'd run away!
The article author is saying "I sprained my ankle and it was extremely painful to the point I could not do anything". You can ice an ankle (take a little time off) and have it fixed.

The parent is saying "I broke my ankle - fractured in several places I was crippled and needed surgery you did not experience a broken ankle". You cannot fix this problem by icing it. You need a systemic reduction in everything.

The author is conflating a sprained ankle with a broken one. The parent is saying that is not true. A lot of people who have sprained their ankles have come into this topic to tell everyone "WELL ACKTHUALLY" in the most obnoxiously stereotypical HN way possible thereby diluting the actual meaning of the parent's statement. There are far too many HNers who have a permanent craniorectal issue.
> Hard to improve without dogfooding

They've been dogfooding and I don't think most of us regular users have seen any measurable improvement for years. Apparently it's hard to improve with dogfooding too?
Is this because of DMCA/copyright takedowns or something else?
That's true. Honestly, I don't really need better screen tech in a new headset, just reduced bulk and weight and ideally better tracking. An Index v2 which targets the specs of the original in a much more compact and lightweight device would be plenty attractive too. It's just hard to justify its current price with how long it's been out.
So if people disagree with another person they go to Reddit?

Everyone weighs the value of information differently and has vastly different information to use in making decisions. Additionally there are various weights applied based on impact to individuals, community, and society as a whole. Pretending you are right, or that I am right, isn't valid. Everyone gets their opinion and everyone believes they are right.
The primary author of the website (Martin) sold the website to Softonic https://www.ghacks.net/2019/10/07/ghacks-has-a-new-owner-and... .
>Intelligence is not a prerequisite to speak fancifully.

I think this may be a bastardization of the word intelligence. To speak fancifully an a manner accepted by the audience requires some kind of ordered information processing and understanding of the audiences taste. Typically we'd consider that intelligent, but likely Machiavellian depending on the intent.

The problem with the word intelligence is it is too big of concept. If you look at any part of our brain, you will not find (human)intelligence itself, instead it emerges from any number of processes occurring at different scales. Until we are able to break down intelligence into these smaller better (but not perfectly) classified pieces we are going to keep running into these same problems over and over again.
It can't be emphasized enough, this isn't a procedure failing when used- this is a canned recording of it failing. This means the group either didn't check the results, or did check them and saw no way forward other than getting this out the door. It is only small samples, but it is fairly damning that it is hard to produce error free curated examples.
MLM... Machine Learning Model?
It's not mentioned in TFA, but I really love "Monofur".

DAE know of a more complete lookalike with more glyphs?
>But there are plenty of news articles and youtube videos that show it doing ridiculous unsafe things

There are also plenty of videos of human drivers doing absurd things, so this is hardly an argument.

All that matters is whether a random Tesla that you see on the street is more likely to crash into you than a different car. I know that Tesla has published there own statistics which say that it isn't, but I would be very interested in seeing an independent study about this.
I am forced to use Teams on a Mac. It's beyond horrible. Messages sometimes take an hour+ to appear.

I would crawl through broken glass for google chat. Teams is sooooo bad.
> If people don't like it, they can turn it off.

If telemetry is opt-out, there's a good chance most people won't be aware that it's even there - that's deceptive. At the very least, there should be a big scary banner saying "your data is being sent to our servers" on every single command - that's the only way you can assure that everyone who uses the tool will be informed.

> Are you assuming most won't if asked to?

The big argument to opt-out telemetry is that "opt-in doesn't work", so yes, I'm assuming most won't.

If my assumption is wrong, why not just ask people? They'll say "yes" anyway.
>you intentionally publish an article where you state an incorrect answer that many people follow and make investment decisions about, the company absolutely can sue you and win.

I literally said that in my post!

But then I said if you asked me, it's different.

You are ASKING the AI to give you it's best answer. That is a million times different than literally publishing an article that people should assume to be factual.

>If Microsoft is leading users to believe that Bing Chat is accurate

But they aren't, and never will be. So you are basically just making things up in your head for argumentative purposes. There are going to be disclaimers up the wazoo to easily protect them. Partly because, as I keep trying to tell you, it's much different when you ASK a question and they give you an answer rather than publishing something to the public where it's implied that it's been independently fact checked etc.
Haha. I had the same reaction. What Seattle were they living in? I suppose parts of north Seattle can kind of be like that.

My experience living in Seattle was that it was hard to live in a place where there wasn't a small commercial district within a few blocks. Seattle does wonderfully with mixing small commercial into residential zones.
No, i reject this idea entirely.

Court judgements are made by humans and humans err. This is not the binary you are making it out to be. Indian courts are hamstrung by the rest of the Indian legal system and are routinely used to silence dissent and harass the small fry.
z-library uses a freemium model, a for-profit model.
Your managers know nothing. There are 3 things you can do if you are paranoid about being laid off.

- work on something that’s central to the business

- ship software frequently, such that git blame makes it obvious

- form a relationship with your manager and their manager

Everything else is out of your control.
As a manager the hardest thing for me is "selling company loyalty". I understand selling vision and coolness of projects (they are somewhat tangible?). A large part of selling loyalty is values and having people's back during rough times - same thing expected from managers. With the layoffs being a clear Kowtow to wall street (and fed's desire to manage up unemployment) how do I not come across as gullible or worse as an outright liar? I can't say that in a 1/1 as then I'd just look incompetent!

Yes this is all after we are keeping our heads down and doing our jobs!
So, yes, now that we've acknowledged that GPT is very good at making things up, for the umpteenth time in the last month, I'm curious: what are the current ideas in ML to improve on this? I assume the ideas of database access and such are in there, but what methods can be used to make the AI recognize when it is stating a fact that should be checked, and finding ways to check it?
Yeah, I am not going to meticulously clean their place and also pay them to have it cleaned on top of that.

I am not a messy person. I can tidy, no problem. I'm not paying you a $250 "cleaning" fee after 2 nights and doing your chores too.
my comment was a joke :(
> Considering Iran is actively trying to build a nuclear bomb, I’d say it’s a problem for the world, and I’m fairly certain that very few westerners would care about the well-being of the general population of Iran should they get too close to building one.

The apartheid occupation has a nuclear bomb that threatens the entire area, yet it seems fine for you?
Also See: 151 Illusions & Visual Phenomena with explanations by Michael Bach

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25045392
The time to sell to your manager was six months ago or earlier.

I recognized that this was going to be happen last year, pulled my manager aside and explained how dire the situation and how we needed more visibility in the company. He thought I was being paranoid, but agreed with the general benefits of improving things. We've made some promising changes, but layoffs haven't happened yet so no idea if it worked.

If layoffs are happening leadership and the board are already drawing up plans for layoffs and nobody is thinking about you they're thinking of an org chart and a list of compensation to figure out what makes the most sense from a big picture perspective. They're thinking of a product road map and who is needed to make their current strategy work. Nothing you can do now will change that.

The time to convince leadership you were mission critical is well before you realize that layoffs are coming.

All that said, layoffs are more arbitrary that most would like to believe. Don't stress yourself out too much thinking about what you can do to safe your self/team. You never had much control over this situation.
I want a 'You have to tell me if you are a cop' rule for these kinds of chat/voicechat models.
Great write up. My experience is spot on with your examples.

> I've noticed that it's not obvious to most people that it's mostly about knowing the domain well enough to ask the right question(s). It's not magic, it won't think for you.

Absolutely right with the part of knowing the domain.

I do not entertain or care about the AI fantasies because ChatGPT is extremely good at getting me other information. It saves me from opening a new tab, formulating my query and then hunting for the information. I can save that extra time for what latest / relevant information I should grab from Google.

Google is still in my back pocket for the last mile verification and judgement. I am also skeptical of the information ChatGPT throws out (such as old links). Other than that, ChatGPT to me is as radical as putting the url and search bar into one input. I just move faster with the information.
"Flight tracking data analysis revealed that the Boeing 777-200 had reached an altitude of roughly 2,200ft when it began a steep dive, descending at a rate of about 8,600ft a minute"

The article additionally says the entire ordeal lasted 45 seconds, but clearly part of that 45 seconds was a steep dive.
Once this is deployed, Matrix will finally be providing the bare minimum to be actually workable. About time.

Then we can finally try and bring in everybody who's currently trapped in proprietary IM.
I assume my manager doesn’t know anything

What information would be useful to me ? I still have my job, got to keep executing
I'm guessing that's specifically to deal with the possibility of bio-warfare?
There was a comment that was deleted about yelling or spraying homeless near people's homes and I had started writing a reply, then the comment was deleted. I thought I'd share some thoughts as someone who has a number of homeless individuals living within 10 feet of their single family home.

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Recently had a homeless encampment constructed next to my house. It is not great but at the same time it's a strange social situation to be thrust into. The encampment started out fairly orderly and clean but over the past two weeks I've found needles, human feces and other trash on my property. I have a small child and more small children use the path where this homeless encampment is so I've taken it upon myself to keep it needle and feces free.

I've never considered spraying the people who live in the encampment or even yelling at them but I have asked if they need any services or if there is anyone they would like me to contact. Most of the time the response is "no thanks" or "I'm already talking to services". Sometimes I get asked for specific things, "I have a heater that runs off of alcohol or something and could use some more fuel". Sometimes it's as simple as asking for their water jugs to be refilled. I am happy to oblige those human needs requests but for the fuel I will typically offer blankets as an alternative.

Still, I am frustrated, mostly with the city and county that they have allowed this to happen. I don't fully know the answer but I know that what is happening now isn't it.
This could be a good transition from a spreadsheet to a report. I wonder how data binding could work for that?
They aren’t centralizing their communication in teams. It’s being used for video conferencing. Everything else remains in slack.

Read the image in the tweet, it’s only 100 words or so