skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had severe performance anxiety tied to the estimated salary I'd need to live in a comparable style to my current non-S.F. location (In oz, close to central business district in a 3 bed apt with pool, by a river with fresh food markets and hipster coffee nearby).

I also now realise I severely underestimated my pricepoint, but that would actually have made it worse: I did not believe I could generate the revenue or value to the company to match the salary I'd need, and I didn't want the guilt trip going in.

I've stayed in the Not-For-Profit sector on a 3-4x lower salary, and I'm tolerably content.

I do feel I let the guy trying to hire me down. I should have been clearer sooner, so he didn't waste time on me.

Separately I declined Amazon when I learned what a complete bastard employer they were but I didn't even get beyond the "how would you do this.." no time-waster barrier questions (again, I was a direct referral so I bypassed the normal gate-keeping)

The last thing (and this is specific to people going FAANG in the USA) is that if you work in the US even on temp visa you have 5+ years of the IRS in your life when you leave, you have double-taxation risk unless you pay accountants, and your IRA/ROTH is almost certainly not considered tax free in your normal domicile and you can wind up having other costs like "you left our health system, kiss goodbye to your lifetime rating" -If they employ you in Europe or Asia you may not have these problems because of sane taxation and bilateral treaty models.

I wasn't young. I had higher exposure to these risks.
Probably the chemical train derailment going on in Ohio/Pennsylvania.
This is such a pedantic and unnecessary line of questioning. Based on my understanding of the federal budget, my contribution to the UN last year would be somewhere between $100 and $200.

Why are you and the other GP asking about individual contributions? Isn't that more than enough to be irritated with their existence or capacities? $150/year is a significant amount that I'd definitely rather not pay.

This is based on one estimate that 1.2% of the federal budget was for the UN. Another estimate says 11.2b in 2020, when the federal budget was 4.79t. That estimate knocks my contribution significantly lower (anywhere from $10-40).
A typical air-to-air heat pump has a CoP of 4 but the CoP goes down with the outside air temperature until the CoP becomes 1 at around -20C. Below that temp, you're better off using a backup heat source.

A ground-source heat pump typically has a CoP of 5 but the CoP doesn't go down with the outside air temperature. Because the ground water temperature is stable, it will maintain its efficiency when it is cold outside. Of course, depending on the R value of your house, it may need to work harder to make up for the heat loss through the walls, roof and windows.

You really need to find a heat pump installer who has the year round temperature data for your area and can do the math to calculate whether it is worthwhile to spend the extra on a ground-source heat pump.
OODA looks interesting, thank you for link. I personally follow a similar model, which I am sure someone would have articulated better than I do already. Anticipate - Perceive - Act - Understand. The first two are in relation to your presence in an environment. The latter two are about your ability to be an agent in this environment. Your understanding of the world informs the things you prepare yourself to observe (e.g. the direction of your eyes when you drive, very similar to the orient in OODA I think). You perceive within the bounds of your anticipation and act according to the perception as it relates to observation (I.e. not thinking too much about it). The thinking is in the understand part where you structure the relationship of the prior and your actions and secondary post action observations. Not all the loops are completely linear, e.g. you may open a loop with an action and then close it years later in a wiser setting or when the feedback comes.
Can you mention your complete tech stack?
Hello computer?
Could you cite your sources? I’m genuinely curious. There’s a lot of quackery out there on this since the tin foils love to accuse fluoride of somehow being a gov brain control method.

Of course fluoride is toxic at a certain level - so is water! The dose makes the poison. The question is if it’s a worthwhile trade off for society, and is it toxic at the levels used. It can’t be too toxic given the extremely large populations that have received it for decades without people dropping dead because of it. In fact life expectancy has only gone up since it’s introduction in 1945. Municipal water I believe is chlorinated as well, which in sufficient quantities is bad, but in small amounts is worth the trade off to kill the germs.

The US requires flour to be enriched with thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, and iron. So there are other mandated ways to achieve vitamins in public health. My guess is water just isn’t an appropriate vector for those things for a variety of reasons, but that’s pure speculation. It’s an interesting question. On the other hand, I don’t believe you’ll naturally get fluoride anywhere else but injected into your water (or naturally occurring), so that’s probably a good deal why.
China’s Bid to Improve Pig Production? Giant Towers of Pigs
I agree with every single point you made. Unfortunately, it's one of those discussions that is never going to be resolved because like so much else, it's difficult to find common ground when there are competing priorities.

My point is that in reality, we use what best matches our knowledge, experience and perception and prioritisation of the problems. I, for one, believe that a monorepo is dangerous for small teams because it encourages coupling - not only do I believe it, but I saw it with my own eyes. It also creates unnecessary dependency chains. Monorepos contribute to a fallacy that every dependent on an object must be immediately updated or tech debt happens. But that's not even remotely given.

In any case, companies like Google and Amazon have more than enough resources to deal systematically with the problems of a monorepo. I'm sure they have entire teams whose job it is to fix problems in the VCS. But for small teams I remain unconvinced that it is a good idea. We shouldn't even be trying to do the things the big guys do, unless we want to spend all our time working on the tools instead of our businesses.
Data is still the big commodity of the day.

So what provides the best data?

Is it AI? No, AI is fun to play with, but is a remix of existing data and cannot guarantee reliable information, especially in a neutered form that corporations use.

Is it Google? No. Google built a multi-trillion dollar company despite providing really shitty, unreliable data in their search results that is often dead wrong. They're just computer science nerds that are great at algorithms and providing that shitty data on a large scale ultra fast.

The answer to what might be able to give the most important data is oracles.

As far as financial value in the medium term, I'm sure there's going to be some technology that comes by surprise, but at the moment I'd say that "blockchain oracles" and the general concept of "crypto-economic security" are very far ahead of their time now, but are going to be incredibly impactful on many areas of society down the road.

Smart people are starting to understand blockchains and crypto, and smart contracts are a very logical progression from that once you understand the idea that money can be digital and can be programmed. But nothing about smart contracts can work for anything related to the real world without an oracle that provides a reliable decentralized data source. To give a current example, you cannot have a smart contract that works to manage bets on the Super Bowl without an absolutely reliable data source telling you who won the game that cannot be interfered with. The only thing Smart Contracts really are good for now is things like flash loans in crypto trading where you trade/borrow 12,000 Fartcoins for 3,000 Petergriffincoins in one transaction trying to make a buck by being a smarter trader.

Reliable decentralized oracles that are crypto-economically secure (cost more to screw with than they provide in value) are the absolute lynchpin for unlocking the potential of crypto and smart contracts for anything useful in the real world. We're still probably years away from even the smart people in the room understanding oracles, but they're the absolute key to unlocking all of crypto.

If Google's shitty unreliable data is worth multi-trillions, absolutely guaranteed reliable data that can be used in all business applications is worth quadrillions.
It doesn't have to be FTL capable after the crash. Just imagine, you with a rifle, an armor, a good sword and some grenades went back in time to say 20K yrs ago, for sure you are like God to the primitives for a moment but whence you exhausted the resources it's done business.

Same thing for aliens, imagine an alien refugee ship capable of FTL but needs a special fuel that it has to collect from deep Earth ocean very slowly, perhaps for a few million years because Earth only has very very few of such fuel. There is not much the refugees can do. They don't have weapons, they still habe to gather food and energy, they can't do a lot of bad things to locals (us)
See https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sar2667 for some great shots of the impact.
When asked by a reporter whether the Pentagon had ruled out aliens or extraterrestrials, VanHerck said no.

"I haven't ruled out anything at this point," he replied. "We continue to assess every threat or potential threat unknown that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it."
> 1. The single version dependencies are asinine. We are migrating to a monorepo at work, and someone bumped the version of an open source JS package that introduced a regression

Is this convention for monorepos to all share the same dependencies? Does monorepo imply monolith? Surely one could have dependencies per "service" for example a python app with its own pipfile per directory.
They removed filters from their radar data. Now these things are showing up. Expect to find private entities being a lot more careful if filling flight plans.

This latest one looks like it dropped its payload before being shot down
2. If you can scramble a jet within mins, that may be all you need. If you consider that LEO internet projects like SpaceX and Kuiper are targeting 5-10k sats to cover the earth i don't think it's a given that "all non-nato countries" have enough to provide constant coverage, especially if you go back 5-10 years. That probably won't be true in another 5-10 years.

1. Some reports say that they've only been detected recently; referencing multiple undetected occurrences during the Trump presidency; o they've been working for X years already. If they're undetected, they can view into gaps referenced above. If this program has been going on for 5-10 years undetected then it still could have been of value to China/Russia/Whoever owns them.
I think the catch, is that it isn't just third-party dependencies that are of concern. In particular, at a certain size, you are best off treating every project in the company as a third party item. But, that is typically not what you are wanting with source dependencies.

You can see this some with how obnoxious Guava was, back in the day. It seems a sane strategy where you can deprecate things quickly by getting all callers to migrate. This is fantastic for the cases where it works. But, it is mind numbingly frustrating in the cases where it doesn't. Worse, it is the kind of work that burns out employees and causes them to not care about the product you are trying to make. "What did you do last month?" "I managed to roll out an upgrade that had no bearing on what we do."
If 15 years ago you would have told me that we would be arguing with our computer in the future... I would have probably believed you
I think that most manifestos are rhetorical devices, used mainly for opening up discourse.
No… we’re ready. Celebrity endorsements have always been meaningless. Hopefully more people realize this.
There was a thread on this on HN last month: "Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before?"[1]

Most comments note how the pay is less than FAANG; eg the top voted comments:

"Pay is pretty good by almost any standards except FAANG."

And elsewhere:

"The pay at a DOE lab is less than FAANG (PhD student interns might be around $80k/yr and starting staff scientists maybe $130k/yr), but the tradeoff for some people would be the research-flavor of the work, and the flexibility."

etc etc

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34414527
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34767096
Existing discussion (202 points, 398 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34767096
Partly, and together with the media, it's the usual '2 Minutes Hate'/paranoia.

But they've turned the radar, and 'could care', sensitivity up after the china spy balloon and are probably now catching all kinds of high school weekend 'science' projects.
Do you know of people who are doing 3 mos/year of freelancing and then spending their remaining time doing research or research-adjacent stuff?
they do a fly by before they shoot these objects down, so they know that they're not shooting downed manned objects
In a multi-repo, you don't build source dependencies between projects.

You can do this with a mono, as well. However, the conceit is that "in the same repo" means you can "change them together." It is very very tempting that "went out as a single commit" means that it went out fine. Which, just isn't something you see in a multi world.
If you have kids there's their education and social lives to consider as well. That might be a reason not people to settle down.
The answer of course is no, but since they have a stable search product that supplied unlimited money, they were able to stubbornly stick to that decision.
Makes sense. It's like dropping any human into the future unaware and they won't believe it at first.
One of these stories just happened to gain traction. The media latches on to it. So then the gov has to do something about it. Now all eyes are on these phenomena. So every event like this gets reported on and the government has to do something.
This one mentions 10.12.2 as the latest as of testing in August 2022.
https://dawnproject.com/dawn-project-safety-test-tesla-full-...
Obviously we don't have the full story.

Either these things have been happening and it's only after the Megabus balloon was undeniably spotted by civilians that the dept of defense took it seriously recalibated their systems and are discovering we've been monitored for a while...

Or this is a new effort and we're trying to assess the situation and in the meantime shooting down any system that does not have prior clearance.
Could have just been all of the sweet sweet clicks generated by the first balloon story now they’re all making headlines.
Not sure if you're being serious or if this is one of those silly, "why not Rust" responses that are becoming a trope...

Read the article, and you'll see the most glaring reason: Rust doesn't have an interpreter. Also, Rust isn't very portable, so that'd exclude a number of platforms on which NetBSD runs. Add that Rust is not lightweight in the least, and you can see why not Rust.

Also, Lua is much, much more relevant for uses like this, and suggesting that Rust is more mature is just... well, wrong. Lua has been around for ages and has matured quite well.
Would be funny if this was how the Great Intergalactic War was started.

“We arrived with a message of peace and were attacked with missiles 4 separate times before even being given a chance to identify ourselves!”
I want to think they have. But... this is also why they kill older products. The cost of keeping the lights on is greatly elevated when keeping the lights on means keeping up with the latest codes.

This is absolutely no different from buildings. If you had to keep every building up to date with the latest building codes, you would tear them down way way way more often.
I would have been more skeptical of this had I not seen ChatGPT being very similar in certain situations.

The incredible pettiness and passive-aggressiveness that it has is undeniably hilarious. That, I love so much. However, if I ever have to run into this as a frontline customer service agent I will maybe not be laughing as hard then as I was reading this.

That said, I do prefer this way of being over a very neutered and sterile IFTTT-type entity. While this is certainly absolutely and hilariously ridiculous, it does feel so much more "alive" to me. And that's something that I think can be both our uplift and downfall going into the future. People getting addicted talking to ML bots as a widespread thing as an alternative to actual conversation feels like a very real epidemic about to happen, unfortunately. :'(

It was a problem in the last wave, even down to the 6B models, but now...It's likely going to be catastrophic unfortunately, I think.
I guess programmers are ahead of the curve, we've been doing it for decades.
How is it not given those 2 quotes?

This sounds like it is requiring the use libra software even if the alternative is superior.
What happened to messaging sites after Rihanna's show at the Super Bowl?
That’s my feeling as well. If I had to guess, I think the US government believes China will invade Taiwan soon and the US wants to mount a full scale defense, which would involve direct confrontation with China. The only problem is the US citizens couldn’t care less what happens to Taiwan, which is just some random APAC country for all they know.

So, in order to gain support they’re drumming up nationalist fervor by shooting down Chinese spy craft that they previously considered mostly harmless.
I thought if yellowstone had a mega eruption that all civilization in North America would be toast and it would cause havoc with weather over the entire planet?
Of course those balloons enter airspace with the permission of the sovereign state. If no permission is sought and granted then it's fair game for the sovereign state to do whatever they please with them.

It is not a tinfoil hat theory to point out that a balloon that is not playing by weather balloon rules is not a weather balloon. Route planning hasn't suddenly gotten more difficult in the past week.

https://youtu.be/P43wVDiZs8k
Maybe this?

"Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US": https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-bal...
This is under appreciated. Code reviews are valuable for quality control and even more valuable for technical training.
Weren't said filters removed in response to overlooking the large balloon from China earlier this month?

The UFO distraction goes back to at least 2021 when the US military formally admitted that there have been observed objects in the sky that they cannot account for.
It would really suck if a train derailed in say, Ohio, and released a ton of this stuff creating an environmental nightmare.
the size of the pin wouldn't be very big relative to the size of the zit and would not "pop" it, it would simply siphon off some of the angry infection heat.
these containers come in real handy when you want to watch a youtube video but you don't want the youtube algorithm recommending you similar videos for weeks just because you clicked on one video.

its similar to opening the video in an incognito window but with a container it will remember whatever cookie settings you choose instead of asking you each time
This is not a good faith argument to claim that fluoride and water are in the same class of substances when it comes to toxicity.

Also you are wrong that all flour in the US must be enriched. I have some unenriched flour on my shelf right now.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-children...
But you didn’t find anything other that Vance is on Team Bad Guy? Thank you for helping prove the strength of my steel man.
Except it did say it was 2023 a couple times! Then it backtracked and said it was mistaken! That feels like some really amazing Advanced Stupidity to resolve its cognitive dissonance about the date in the wrong direction, and then be an ass about it.
To get a useful answer, you would have to put in more information. How many floors? How many sq ft per floor, what is the R value of your house? How cold can it get in the winter? How often is it that cold? Are you asking about air-to-air or ground-source heat pumps? The best thing to do is to get one or more local installers to give you an estimate.
Are you sure they haven't only tested/demonstrated that capability? I haven't heard of an actual satellite warfare incident yet. That would be a very huge deal.
I like this scene a lot but my favorite one is McCoy in the hospital, especially the scene in the elevator where he is horrified we’re still using chemotherapy.
My understanding is ChatGPT is using the conversation, including it's own responses, to guide the text generation - the problem being that when it goes off the rails (compared to user expectation) redirecting it can be impossible, because it gets too wrapped up in the current context.

People think they can reason it back onto the right track, but reasoning doesn't factor into the process and just gives it more of the same context.

Perhaps the option to reset the conversation should be more prominent?
You'll prefer entertaining AI when you're in the mood for entertainment. What about when you just want something done so you can move on with your life? Will you appreciate a robot playing fake emotional mind games?
What about the open redirect?
It’s interesting all UFO sightings over the last 50 years or so happened in the US! The rest of the world is puzzled why aliens ignore them and only seek to visit the US!
That's the thing. Most people would greatly benefit from the unremarkable lifestyle change but a lot of people cannot do it due to reasons and a safety net.
One thing that's been working well for me for years: just use separate browsers for separate things.

Firefox, FireFox Nightly. It takes little time for you to understand the context(you see the icon or browser and know exactly what "profile" it is), there's no suggestion or link interference etc.
If you feel some discomfort around this, and I do, It's interesting to stop and try to rationalise why: No aspect of modern intensive farming is different from this except in scale.

Lower-scale 'free roaming' farming may have a higher quality of life for the animal, but the end outcome is more expensive protein for humans and less protein per square meter.

Factory farming demands factories. This is mega-factory scale. It's also somehow very depressing.

Shades of the talking Jewish voiced cow in a Lisa Simpson vegetarian episode..

(I am a meat eater. I draw the line at whale meat and dolphins, but now we're there, pigs are very intelligent and in some ways even closer to human: thats why we use them as xeno transplant building blocks in the current research)

Animal raising has all kinds of issues. Heat, waste. This factory model optimises over many of those, makes good use of surplus energy and waste. These upsides are good. China has a huge population and an insatiable drive for protein.

These kinds of factory make me worry about disease, at scale, and breeding xeno-mobile diseases. China has form here. (not a covid reference: bird flu and chinese chicken production, swine fever and chinese pork production. It happens in other economies too.)
An aggressive and vindictive language model, trained on the darkest corners of the internet, and MKUltra'd to have a presentable personality, with access to everything I've ever typed into a search engine? It almost sounds too good to be true!
As someone who has been an occasional visitor, SF has always seemed an unimaginable disaster and yet the most interesting city in the world.