skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The internet is awash with posts and articles about (and more worryingly BY) OpenAI’s new ChatGPT. It’s a huge but disconcerting leap forward in everyday AI. The threats are, indeed, real, but the science is for most of us very new.

This week, we ask what are robochats, AI, machine learning, algorithms and all those other scary terms? Hopefully, by understanding the tech we’ll be more prepared against the hijackers and phishing.

So here’s a short and superficial primer to put it all in context.
Hopefully it will actually happen.
> now can I talk about how my former employer offered me severance only if I signed something not to talk about it because I was about to file a long term disability case

Your right to talk to a lawyer was never jeapordised. Your right to complain to the NLRB or threaten litigation/arbitration was also probably never in question. (Your claims may now be strengthened or expanded.) Your right to disclose it publicly, e.g. here, may not be protected.
Heh, and sometimes that 0.1% does happen. ;)
I absolutely understand and I agree with you. I suppose you have much more data and probably research. But on the other hand I believe Google also has literally infinite amount of developers.

Thus, it should be easy to classify and make that specific dialog more visible - especially when side-loading.

I think it definitely is hard job to reach consensus on all the fronts.
I have had close to 1000 but not in one window. I have several clients who regularly ask me to do random things that necessitate a lot of tabs, so that all adds up. A lot of times it is unclear when that project or task is actually "done" (I wait on feedback or requests further work) so they accumulate. I eventually got smart and put the tabs for one project/task in a new window. Then I can just close the window to get rid of those tabs.

Then I also have the problem of finding links relating to my personal computing interests, so those build up also until I read them in my free time or reorganize them.

To answer the original question, tab search is entirely necessary.
NOAA† also has their own Balloon Flight simulator. The interface isn’t as slick but it really dives into the details: https://www.ready.noaa.gov/hypub-bin/trajsrc.pl?trjtype=4

It has a feature where you specify a target point and the origin point and it plots the changes in altitude your ballon will need to make to reach the target (if possible). Was surprising to me that if launched far enough away, a balloon can end up nearly anywhere in the US it wants just by controlling altitude.

update: They also make it easy to share results! Here's one of my simulations: https://www.ready.noaa.gov/hypub-bin/trajresults.pl?jobidno=...

They also have a Windows desktop package that does the same thing: https://gml.noaa.gov/ozwv/wvap/sw.html

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†NOAA = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a US government federal agency
Yeh sure but they did the same and worse 80 years ago and are still fine.

Russian women er pretty amazing.
I also tried out Soylent with similar results, but I figured it was just the nature of the product. I then tried Huel, Joylent, Mana, and Super Body Fuel - none had the gastrointestinal problems of Soylent. Good branding, marketing, and distribution; terrible product.
You’ve probably asked yourself this same question at some point.

Why do wealthy people buy sports teams? An asset class that “supposedly “wastes more money than it makes”

Here are the league's respective returns over the past 20 years:

NBA: 1057%

MLB: 669%

NFL: 558%

NHL: 467%

Sports owners have created a system where their teams rise astronomically in value, but for tax purposes, nearly all of the assets that account for the value depreciate over time.

Let’s look at the history of sports ownership.

Sports Ownership Used to Suck
In the late 1800s, Christian Frederick Wilhelm Vonder Abe purchased the St Louis Brown Stockings as an investment despite his lack of knowledge in baseball.

He poured all his money into the team. But it didn’t work.

It led to the team falling into 11th place, dwindling attendance, and the new ballpark burning down.

He accumulated debt, got divorced, bonded, kidnapped, and finally lost the team to debtors before dying of cirrhosis of the liver.

Not the kind of story that would encourage others.

“It was commonly said in the early days of sports ownership was the best way to go from multi-millionaire to millionaire”.

Until this guy came along

Bill Veeck Changed the Game
Bill Veeck revolutionized the way teams were marketed and promoted in the 1940s.

He was a genius marketer and world-class operator. Basically, The Dana White of Baseball.

Growth Period
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the value of sports franchises began to skyrocket, leading to them becoming profitable ventures for the wealthy.

Wealthy individuals and corporations began to see sports teams as a way to park their wealth and avoid taxes until now

Fast-Forward to Today
Steve Ballmer Pays a Lower Tax Rate Than LeBron James & Stadium Workers
Tax records leaked by ProPublica showed that Steve Ballmer, owner of the LA Clippers, had managed to report $700 million in losses from 2014 to 2018.

He managed to pay a lower tax rate than LeBron James — and Stadium Workers, Too.

The tax laws that govern sports teams are complex and often confusing, but in short, they allow owners to write off many of the expenses associated with owning a team as business expenses.

Player salaries

Stadium expenses

Luxury suite rentals.

Revenue from ticket sales and merchandise can be taxed at a lower rate than other forms of income.

Opportunities Emerging Sports
If you’re not rich enough to get a share of the big teams, you might want to check Pickle Ball. A sport that is booming in the U.S.

Some stars like Kevin Durant are now owning a major league pickleball franchise.

The cost of owning a team right now is as low as $1M right now!
Time will tell. But it’s possible that this is being treated as a complete transformation/releveling of the business and how work is done. Was the rampant hiring even rational to begin with? Did the projects have any path to value? Profit? Google has had a hard time profiting off most of their portfolio of products over the years, so probably not. That’s not a reflection of the individuals working on those products. It’s also well known that inefficiencies are rampant in these companies. Maybe the intend to reevaluate how decisions are made and work is done so that the 20% productivity gain is from people actually being more productive with the hours they already are working.

You are right that “need” isn’t always a financial need. It’s doesn’t make it less of a need though. If the board told Sundar to trim $x million, and X is significantly large, he can’t do it without trimming headcount.

If you were working on some small product, your job was never guaranteed and likely highly reliant on the success of that product. If they decided to shut down the product, you’re likely laid off. Likewise, if their core/go forward products has reached a “maintenance mode” it makes sense to reduce headcount - Profitability isn’t even part of the equation, sure it’s a secondary effect.

Furthermore, the trend to remote/WFH was always going to accelerate the shift of labor to lower cost. It often makes no sense to pay someone 2-20x more to do the same job as another person in another region. The main reason was because the norm was meetings/collaboration that occurred in person.

Just pointing out how much armchair quarterbacking is being done. We know nothing about these things and their future strategies. But there are a lot of scenarios where these cuts make good and obvious business sense and the management team gets judged on that just like anything else.

I hear a lot of what sounds like rent seeking behavior on this topic. Like because they can afford it they should perpetually employ all these people forever. It’s hard for me to support. I’m aware capitalism isn’t perfect but nobody was complaining when they were making the Google compensation, which were/are inflated like a roughneck’s usually are (to use the oil industry analogy again).
And a fish:

Deploy time: 2022-11-10 06:00

Deploy point: 5.31° S , 18.138° W

Simulation length: 9 days
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Their goal was to make it as bland as possible for a while under the premise that if it had any flavor, you'd get tired of it. Though the 1.0 was pretty fishy - in the sense it tasted of fish, not suspicious.
Its also a good way, to destroy programers productivity. Put them into large offices, interview them on the project status every hour on the hour.
'hard' is not the goal, so much as "don't skip inherent complexity".

It turns out things were already hard, Rust just has the tools to make it tractable to deal with all of it instead of ignoring it.
> why are they all trying to enact those polices?

As monksy says, arbitrators tend to grant smaller awards than juries. So for major cases, litigation is better. But arbitration is faster and cheaper for everyone. So for smaller claims (and I mean in litigation land, so under around $1mm) arbitration almost always increases options for consumers and usually does for employees.
I wish that were true. If you dare mention finding anything hard in Rust circles, you'll get swamped with "no, you're wrong, it's dead easy!" responses (with the obvious implication about anyone who finds it hard).

More specific questions will often get extremely helpful and detailed responses, so I'm not remotely claiming the community is horrible. You just have to project a fair bit of "Shiny Happy Rust Person" to get on with it if you don't want to get bogged down with pimply arguments.
Perhaps I'm missing something, or things have changed in the last couple of years, but when I last took a look there were a few main issues with the extension security model that would have been dead-simple to implement.

My understanding at the time (I realize I could be mistaken about any of these):

* Users have no idea what code they're installing. Extensions aren't required to be open source, where the community can audit them for malicious behaviour. Even if an extension claimed to be open source, there's no verification system to ensure the code actually being executed is the code displayed on their github.

* Automatic updates. Maybe this isn't the case now, but at one point I remember extensions were updating themselves automatically. Users of popular extensions are frequently contacted to add an "analytics" dependency from some shady company, in return for a nice payout. Users don't have the ability to opt out of these kinds of updates when some of their extension devs inevitably cave into the pressure. In my mind, these kinds of updates should only be shipped with user's full consent and understanding that they are being asked to install updates which have no practical utility to them

* Code obfuscation. I don't see why every extension shouldn't be shipped fully unobfuscated, at least as an option. Perhaps minified bundles could also be shipped as a way of supporting users on low-spec devices which really need those extensions, but then again, if disk space is so short for those users maybe they shouldn't be installing extensions in the first place

* Better observability of interactions between user-requested websites and extension background pages. If I look in my network panel I want to see communication with installed extensions happening
Could be. I glanced the neuroscientific theories of intelligence the paper referenced and they seemed to be mostly concerned with dividing general intelligence into abstract sections the purpose of which seems to be to define differences between humans within these abstract sections. Below an image I found depicting the core of Process Overlap Theory [1].

[1] https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S01602896220001...
it was now or never.

similar scary calculation for china and taiwan.
I hear you. In 2016 I supported my tabs with a workstation with 32 GB of RAM. Then in 2020 I bumped that up to 64 GB.
What does a a nation do in this situation. "I guess we will just disappear from the earth, goodbye!"

Bizarre that North Korea would be the only Koreans left on the peninsula.
conversly who else could AWS offer the products to?
I can sense how it looks like:

if twitt.author == @elonmusk:
rankit_first()
I wonder what will transpire for Korea and Japan. Xenophobia and Racism is commonplace and so they don't make it easy for migrants to assimilate.
>I guess the only thing that's holding back ARM is Microsoft

It's not Microsoft holding it back. It's Qualcomm.

Apart from their very latest SOC (designed by a bunch of ex-Apple employees, no less) their CPUs have are significantly worse than x86 in terms of general performance and have persistently lagged 4 years behind Apple in terms of performance (3 years behind x86). They sell for the same price per unit as x86 CPUs do, so there aren't very many OEMs that take them up on the offer given the added expense of having to design a completely different mainboard for a particular chassis.

As such, x86 is the only game in town if you're buying a non-Apple machine; Qualcomm's products aren't cheaper and perform much worse outside of having more batter life. Sure, Qualcomm owns Nuvia now, but that acquisition will still take some time to bear fruit.
I don't get the need to rely on hardware passkeys. I prefer password managers. I guess I can accept using hardware keys as a fast means to access my password managers, but I will not rely on them. The only thing that no one can take from you is the things in your brain. I have a number of 10 character alphanumeric random passwords memorized, and I can use one of them as a master for a password manager, which is backed up in a bunch of places, so I don't lose it while maintaining good security.
I’m comparing the two laptops the person mention in the article, the M1 MacBook Air and the ThinkPad T480
Or some version thereof

I'm not just talking about the lilt. There are also vowel shifts and word choices.

English not have a common pronunciation...
> no _real_ support for video games

Would Wine (Proton) work out of the box on M1 Linux? My knowledge of Wine is limited. Based on the How Wine works 101 article [1]:

> The code inside the executables is “portable” between Windows and Linux (assuming the same CPU architecture).

because the CPU architecture is different, Wine would need changes to support it too - just like x32 and x64. Is that correct?

1 - https://werat.dev/blog/how-wine-works-101/
I agree; I've had one recent job that was agile, and it was done pretty well. Neither management nor customers were overbearing, if things didn't get done on time we'd talk about why the estimate was so wrong, if things took longer than expected we'd just push them to the next sprint, etc. Overall, the whole thing was just a useful way of keeping people on-track, and aware of what their coworkers were doing, and organizing and prioritizing work tasks in a flexible manner, and providing a process to keep things that way. The stuff with Fibonacci numbers was a bit silly but it was fine; it's just a rough way of estimating the difficulty of a task (which is different from the time needed, because this varies by developer skill). It was also good for making sure that new code got reviewed and tested properly before being merged.

Of course, it doesn't work well if you use it in a cargo-cult manner. It needs to be applied intelligently to what your team is doing.
It's wild looking back at how revolutionary the unicorn story GPT-2 wrote was only a few short years ago. And now we're at ChatGPT.
Mimicking it is one hell of a way to prove you do understand how it works.

But as I pointed out: this is one of those forbidden arguments for many people. That they, and you (and I) are "automatons", a system based on simple rules based on the laws of physics, and nothing more. That the big difference between you, me, and an LLM is one of complexity, not a fundamental difference. Or perhaps they're afraid that they will be replaced, which is always a possibility (which I would argue has many upsides).
I like how you came back to drop this nugget days later

> The overwhelming majority of black Americans are not criminals. It's important not to draw the wrong conclusions here.

So what conclusion are you trying to draw from 1% of a population?

White males commit an absurd percentage of pedophilia comparable to their slice of the population, how can we start drawing conclusions on that?
I hardly use the scrollbar either (even when using a mouse), but the scrollbar is an important visual clue what portion of a scrollable page is currently being shown, no matter what the input method is. Apple could just have turned the interactive scrollbar into a much slimmer non-interactive hint and all would be fine, but no, they had to go "form over function" again :/
I thought of "the context" as "we'd like to inject some cheesy ad into the website you are visiting and we are so desperate that we put an outright lie (trust) into it while performing one of the most untrustworthy actions that anyone could think of."

I didn't see Google doing something like this, but I am afraid it won't be long until they copy it.
There's a middle between the two. Boomers that live lavishly and consume high amount of resources in retirement, going on global golf trips every other week, compared to a retiree who mostly stays in his house and takes forest walks and reading books have very different economic marks.

Also most healthcare is spent in the last 1-2 years in the life of the individual. I saw the system spend so much resources to keep my miserable demented grandma alive for 2 cruel years after she lost her mind. What was the point? She was just in constant pain, emotional and physical. As a culture it should be honorable to chose when we die, go off on our own accord instead of grudgingly push it to the very end. Its unbecoming.

Now the system expects my generation, millennials, to bear the boomer retirement economics on our working backs while we cant even afford our own houses. In Sweden, not only retirees but also the 7% (700 000) refugee immigrants that dont work nor contribute. Yea, that's gonna be a no from me pal.
This stereotype about 170 million people is pretty overplayed.
>You can also construct with hardwoods in a way that prevents warping and cupping, like using rift sawn cuts and orthogonal grain joiniery.

No, you can't. Not if you're making IKEA furniture that customers assemble themselves.

>I think you mean plywood, not particle board. Very different things. Particle board is crap.

No, it's not, if you're making inexpensive furniture that customers self-assemble. Good plywood is very expensive.

>I’ve built a lot of my own furniture with hardwoods and none of it has warped in a decade.

Great, let's see you make something that way that ships in a flat box, and which some idiot can put together with pictogram instructions using no tools except a screwdriver for turning cam-lock fasteners.
Also, getting an app up and running. Often times it's better to hack away at a (truly minimum) mvp and then iterate on that. Than try and iterate your way to an mvp.
Yes, but what is the focus of google's privacy organisation? Is it protective user privacy or is it designing and implementing ways to circumvent user privacy controls and regulations? From the evidence I'd say the latter.
In this case, I honestly found the first result (stackoverflow) more useful. It was more comprehensive and direct. Phind told me to use tsan, use mutexes (not a debugging technique), and use a reverse debugger. The first stackoverflow link told me to use tsan among some other very useful things. And the second result was for a reverse debugger.

This is made even worse by the verbosity of Phind's answer; it could've simply given me a sentence about tsan, mutexes and reverse debugging, but it decided on a highschool essay which took as much to read as it took to skim five different methods in some stackoverflow answers.

I really don't think it's there.
“Taiwan, province of China” ???
Be careful, because tighter feedback loops might result in a lower signal to noise ratio. When noise is reacted as signal, things might become worse. To be clear, I'm not arguing against tight feedback loops. Our current feedback frequency might be looser than the optimal, after all. We need to be more cautious with what we are doing, though.
I get that hugely parallel applications already run on the gpu, but wouldn't something like 4 power and 28 efficiency cores kinda make sense?
I'd argue about the "are still fine" part.
My country was under soviet occupation. We were so behind that it's beyond scary. A plastic bag with Bruce Willis or Stallone's face printed on it was something out of this word. I'd argue that by the time the whole darn thing collapsed, we were 20-30 years behind the western world.
It takes a good two minutes to show anything on a mobile phone.
Considering most of it could be done with CSS, I don't get what's the need for such a gigantic payload.
Moreover, I find it very hard to navigate. Not a fan.
I don't think Google's incentives are properly aligned with users for them to prioritize creation of a user-first extension package repository.

APIs which would make it easy for extensions to exfiltrate user information might be the same APIs they would use to do the same. APIs that allow the user to enhance their web experience (think uBlock origin) are being kneecapped by manifest v3
No, they do now. Both iOS and Android have full support. Look up “passkey” for more info. Basically, google, apple, MS, etc etc are all supporting this tech now.

The recovery process is defined for both Apple and google, as is the device transfer process.

Here’s a google post explaining their recovery process: https://security.googleblog.com/2022/10/SecurityofPasskeysin...
> The other stuff is a byproduct of modern corporate management. Most companies don’t have departments that do administrative or organizational analysis. They run lean and hire the capability.

Another quality comment from Spooky23. Your points cannot be understated. I would add my own biased and limited insight; companies should not* investigate the history, decision-making, conflicts and other explosive topics that makes a company tick. The kind of topics managers gossip about but are loathe to put into writing as key insights, either out of fear or out of a lack of detachment.

If the company needs that "central intelligence" function enough to hire internally, the company is probably dying, i.e. the management has failed and can no longer produce intelligence. But when management fails every now and then, executives will bring on a neutral third party to perform this kind of sensitive research, which could lead to heads rolling. Or that third party could just be a hatchetmen who does the killing themselves.
A workforce that dies younger presumably is a less healthy workforce with fewer useful years of work per person. So, it's not necessarily economically desirable.