skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The distribution side, the poles and wires that supply power to homes and businesses is entirely supplied by SA Power Networks in this state. They are the sole distributor and 51% is owned by CKI and just as disturbingly in my opinion the other 49% is owned by Spark who got bought out and are now also foreign owned by a group led by private equity firm KKR. This segment of the power business is a natural monopoly unlike retail and generation which are both competitive markets and while it is regulated, the regulations can and reportedly are gamed. SA pays outrageous power prices which are well documented.
What I love is when competing services claim the same large companies use their product.
Looting the state via privatization is the core tenet of neoliberalism. Conservatism is really more of a social philosophy than an economic philosophy. If you are in the us both major parties are neoliberal.
I used to be friends with a whole indictment of lawyers on Twitter and this was a running joke.
What is this "more caring and sensitive manner"? Should employees have to fly across the country to get fired face-to-face? Or over a text message? Email? If you work over Zoom of course you are going to be laid off over Zoom.

What people really want to get around saying is "no company should ever do layoffs", and well that's a whole different discussion.
> if you have a fixed term contract and they don't honour it surely you can get all your cash in court?

Two things: 1. The financial barrier to legal representation for people working in QA in the games industry is high to begin with; 2. There is a nonzero chance that people in these roles already signed an agreement with an arbitration clause, in which case they won't be going to court anyway.
How is that relevant to the discussion?
Like any reseller, they are aggregating demand, and then negotiating volume discount with the provider. Resellers will work with multiple cloud providers.

In principle at least, customers can become loyal to the reseller and their value-added services, and the reseller can influence their clients to move to other providers. Obviously hosting is one of the stickiest SaaS services around since switching costs can be monumental, but the theory still applies.
Well, Ford (and VW) were major investors in Argo AI.

Argo AI ran out of money, no-one else was willing to put more money in so Argo AI had to shut down.

It looks like Ford effectively acquired the company by hiring all the people (who would otherwise be out of the job) but without actually acquiring the company.

They waited for the company to dissolve and then picked up (most of?) the people. I'm sure it was possible because of the prior investment and relationship with the company.
Honestly I was beginning to wonder if I might be the only person on earth who doesn't listen to anything while driving. Everyone seems to think it is so weird.
We're in a conversation between Jim, John, and Joe.

Your name is Joe. You like mudkips. You should respond in and overly excitable manner.

The conversation transcript so far:
JIM: blah blah blah
JOHN: blah blah blah BLAH BLABLAH BLAH

JOE:

I need the first paragraph naming all the characters because without it, the AI acts like the characters have left. In other words, by default it assumes it's only taking to me.

The second paragraph is a chance to add some character detail. It can be useful to describe all of the characters here, if the characters are supposed to know each other well.

Third paragraph is the conversation transcript. I have built myself a UI for all of this, including the ability to snip it previous responses, which can be useful for generating longer, scripted conversations.

The fourth then provides the cue to the AI for the completion.

The AI doesn't "know" anything. It's just a good looking auto-complete based on common patterns in the wild. So the AI doesn't know that other characters are also AI or human.

Hell, it doesn't even know that it has replied to you previously. You have to tell it everything that has happened so far, for every single prompt. There is no rule to say that subsequent prompts need to be strict extensions of previous prompts. Every time I submit this prompt, I swap out the "Your name is" line and characterization notes depending on which character is currently in need of generation.

An example of a conversation I generated this way: https://on.soundcloud.com/PKdoh
SwiftUI looks nice and definitely is the right direction for a compiled UI language. But in practice is terribly hard to work with compared to most web frameworks. Terribly slow recompile, no HMR, miles worse dev tooling, no way to dynamically inspect and change things on the fly.

On the web I have my app fully running on one side, and my code on the other. I make a change, it shows. Even if it’s inside a deeply nested pane, with some stateful stuff going on. And if things go wrong, I open the console and I inspect everything, change things, run some code, and fix it.

I actually tried SwiftUI on my last app I was making for months before I gave up. It felt like going back to the stone ages.

And that’s Apple putting their full effort behind something with decades of UI stuff already in place!

Not to mention my files kept getting too big for the Swift syntax checker all the time, but I’m sure they can fix that.
I didn’t say it was random behavior. You did when you said it was a happy coincidence.

I know it is just a language model. I know that if you took the same model and trained it on some other corpus that it would produce different results.

But it wasn’t so it doesn’t have enough data to say that bananas are larger than the Empire State Building, not that it would really matter anyways.

One important part of this story that you’re missing is that even if there were no texts about bananas and skyscrapers that the model could infer a relationship between those based on the massive amounts of other size comparisons. It is comparing everything to everything else.

See the Norvig-Chomsky debate for a concrete example of how a language model can creat sentences that have never existed.
no, you hurt your general well being by working very late, too little sleep, being stressed etc.
(Congrats on item ID number 35 million, by the way. It's kind of poetic that your comment has the string "000" in it.)
Who is the ultimate, and last enforcer of your rights?
Wait, so they killed the 550 person AV startup they were funding, took 2.7B loss, and 4 months later hired those same 550 people to resume the same work? Something looks seriously wrong here.
I mean not if you can't say LatinX. It essentially removes them from existence.

Obviously sarcasm but that's pretty much the argument.
So GP's lived experiences are not real? Your reply reads like "yeah, but for me..." All of the HN discussions about work from office vs home always devolve into the same No True Scotsman arguments. It doesn't matter what anyone says, someone else will inevitably say: "yeah, but for me..." Nothing new is learned. Everyone's mind stays closed to other's peoples lived experiences.

And wait until you have teammates that don't want to pick-up the (video) phone or reply to your chats or emails. Suddenly, you won't be having those "in depth conversations working remotely". Can you empathize with GP's experience?
Nice! I’m working on something similar, also incorporating TTS.
Or just interview some place that doesn't give this kind of interview, like most companies. It's pretty trivial to get hired even if you can't talk about technical specifics along the lines of an architecture diagram.
Here's a similar example with Google Cloud: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35874988

Under certain circumstances there is no way to delete an App Engine application, which results in potentially nontrivial charges indefinitely, with the only solution being to delete the entire Google Cloud Project, which can be very painful because tools for migrating resources from one project to are limited.

At the above link you can read about how this missing functionality has annoyed people since 2008. Speculation: Nobody working on Google cloud is motivated to fix it, since fixing it would mean less money for them. The surprising thing to me is that even with the $500/month support plan, you can't get somebody to just somehow manually fix the problem in a specific case.
We had a motorcycle messenger deliver an affidavit to the house once. The company asked for our GPS location, we gave it to them, and he showed up (in the middle of a rainstorm.)
Sure, I'd like to draw a vaccum cleaner, because this interview seems to suck and be unrelated to my job role. :)
The Moonshot has been done and dusted well over 50 years ago.

The time is now for the Silicon Valley Marshot.

Jeff B should let crusty WaPo go.
me, when I turn up at the house of the people who wrote the privacy policy
It was always present. The reason for the claim in the docs is because they cannot be overloaded by themselves, only indirectly via overloading the binary operators that they're syntactic sugar for.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

Which is actually better than C++ in more than one way. As a library author, you overload a+b, and you get a+=b for free. As a user, you know that a+=b always means the same thing as a=a+b (except for side effects) regardless of the library.

Similarly, you can't overload && and || in C# directly like you can in C++, but instead you overload "operator true" and "operator false", and you get the boolean ops consistently derived from that (which means that they can short-circuit properly when overloaded, unlike in C++).
And if trust in government is lost, there is also no liquidity.
Do you have to know what free will is to experience the feeling of causing your own body to do things after thinking?

Heck, do you even have to know what the sun is to see that it glows in a way the average rock does not?

And yes, I know of blackbody radiation, it's why I used this example. Because blackbody radiation is something you can find in maybe some minimal sense all over the place and yet there's quite a difference between the sun and and the minimal EM emitted by an average rock, just as there is a difference between life with lots of agency and life with very little agency at all (e.g. viruses).

Sometimes the difference is more a difference of degree than kind. What propels us is persistent and internal to the parts of us we control and our own systems are self-stabilizing. What propels most of the universe is largely external and not controlled by anything with any significant agency or ability to deliberate.
he called the market then, very well, he told you when to get out, I watched it. he said I just sold my beach house, get flat. I told my friends to get flat the week before.
Depending on the game it would seem a small number. I’m not sure how you could test something on the WoW scale or even Hogwarts Legacy with only 200.
Except progressives are pushing LatinX as the default term that all Latinos fall under.
I agree with the author, but for far different reasons. Anytime taxpayer money is up for grabs by private companies, there is almost no oversight and things get out of hand quickly. This is the wrong way to go about things and it never works.

I don't think the US government is capable of running large programs efficiently. They're universally understaffed, the staff that does work there is under-qualified, and they don't have to answer to anyone because they can't be fired for missing budgets, goals, or deadlines.

I don't know what the right answer is honestly, so I do enjoy ready other people's views in this thread.. but I'm certain its not what we're doing now.
We have one day a month or two where my 6 year old has a bad night, so I guess we are lucky. He hates taking pain relief medication (e.g. to get a fever down so he can go back to sleep), so it can be tough on those nights. I am at an age where it is tougher to get back to sleep also, so I might be up for 5 hours after our kid was up for 30 minutes or so.
Too few, or too many? Seems like a small number.
because king pooh doesnt spent disgusting amounts of efforts talking about how china is a shiny beacon of light for freedom, how "we are NEVER gonna be like THEM", "that doesnt happen here".

the west talks big, but in reality western countries are the biggest slimiest dirtiest hypocrites the world has ever known
Like other commenter pointed out you were interviewing for what basically amounts to “tech lead” role without relevant experience. I’m not sure other L4-5s on the team would be happy if someone less experienced is hired in a TL role
Even if someone wanted all those things, it would still be rational to weigh them against the negatives. That would include both realized downsides, like incompatibilities and conflicting life goals, and potential ones, like all of the negatives involved in divorce.

Doing such an analysis and coming up with a different conclusion than the (current) norm shouldn't be grounds for him needing mental health services.
To say we already live in Idiocracy would be too banal. I'll only say these ads infurate me even though I don't live in US.
> I'm assuming there's probably a good test out there for that and more.

Javascript test?
Public test realms do the heavy lifting I think.

But indeed, I lack context. I don’t know how many is correct for a game of a given type and size. 200 just feels like a lot.
Ok if not cache then it must be hashtable?
Possibly they wanted to restart the company without the external partners (mainly VW)?
Maybe they wanted out of the VW contract agreements.
The problem you're asking them to solve is a legal one, but you are not interviewing lawyers. I have never worked for a single employer that didn't require an NDA, and the NDAs are always written in a way that can be easily interpreted as "do not tell anyone anything about what you do here".
What percentage of your beliefs and ideas do you possess a "rigorous definition " for?
I’m not driving 6 hours or flying in to the office to get laid off. Personally I would find that more insulting and a huge waste of time.

As impersonal as it is, virtual is what I’ve signed up for so wouldn’t expect anything different were I to get let go.
> But often times nobody cares.

It's not that nobody cares, it's that the people with the power to both pass regulation and enforce that regulation aren't affected when they don't use their power to help the people (even if the majority of their constituents/voters support it).

While you could put this all on the evil politicians, it could also be linked to two things: first, the culture of the country (countries) as a whole, in that voters aren't willing to give up voting for someone that doesn't protect them from harm in their daily life (or otherwise overthrow such politicians), and second, because there are a limited number of politicians they can vote for, meaning that both/all of the candidates on the ballot can be disinterested in solving the problems at hand. The only real solutions I see to this are things like ranked choice voting, or more likely, more laws and regulations being represented by having voters vote on those laws separately from their candidates.

Given this is all intrinsically linked to politics, the only real solution us consumers can adopt is by aligning ourselves with products and services (or people) that solve the problems we care about via either logistical or technological means. For example, we can't trust Facebook not to track us, so we enlist browsers and extensions to block ads. Importantly, we can't trust the government to enforce "if you hack a computer you go to jail" so we enlist multi-billion (or trillion) dollar companies to keep us safe, since we know their incentives (money) align with our need for safe and useful
products and services that prevent bad things from happening in the first place.
I think the supposed negative is "in a mass zoom call".

It's not 100% clear, though the phrasing of the article ("an unscheduled mandatory Zoom meeting at 8 a.m. CT", one time) does make it sound like a single meeting with 200 people.

The more "human" feeling thing is to have 1-1 zoom calls with each person being fired so you can talk to them about their situation and specifics.
his fund did well, but he is in a different business now, he is a TV personality.
It depends. Either it's nobody because you effectively don't have them. Or it's whoever decides to (police, court, yourself).
> Argo AI ran out of money, no-one else was willing to put more money in so Argo AI had to shut down.

For those interested, there are a few more details about that in this Bloomberg article: https://archive.ph/ipQqz
Opting out largely does not work without devastating consequences of not complying. It also does not work even with these consequences, because government power can sneak in and force data collection even when the companies don't want to otherwise. The only way to ensure privacy is with adversarial clients, where false data, indistinguishable from real data, is provided when possible to pollute the data collected. This makes the data less valuable, and also protects the individual from being tracked.
There's also https://github.com/joshcho/ChatGPT.el but it hasn't been updated yet to use the API that came out yesterday.
Interview a bunch of single men who are sad that they can't find women who like them. It's not the woman's fault they're unlikeable. It's not the woman's fault they aren't getting laid. Like seriously, this is an incel puff piece.
I guess you live in/around London. Thank you to share your experience. The commutes that my London teammates endure sound like soul-sucking hell.

Real question: If you could afford the same setup closer to city center (say, zone 2 or something) but a 15-minute bicycle from the office, would you do it? My point: What London needs is more housing (a sh-t ton of it), then it will become affordable housing. Real estate prices are so out of control in London... forcing most to live far outside the city, and endure a hellish commute.
European here: I do. I also have a federated government login that I can use to officially identify myself with the many government agencies.
this was my basic understanding of the quote. it's still correct to accuse a racist of discrimination
Hyundai has sold cars with multiple different systems in recent years (HDA2 is better than HDA1).
Google Maps is utterly bizarre here sometimes. 10 days ago I wanted to drive across the GAM from Heredia (The Ark, wonderful place) during rush hour, and Google Maps sent me on a legit loop off one of the highways through a neighborhood...and when we ended up back at the place we'd branched off from, it wanted to send us around a second time. I pulled over, switched to Waze, and all was much better.
What no.

The heavy rain has done nothing significant to refill the groundwater that makes the bulk of the CA water storage.
I am not working in this problem space any longer, but it’s likely we’ve crossed paths. I have previously presented some suggestions to the Storage SIG on this topic. Feel free to reach out to me with the info in my profile and I can get back to you with a more detailed write up on the specific challenges that I would like to see addressed in StatefulSet, however I am currently traveling so my response will be delayed.
well i hope you like prison food then
You got extra computing power sitting around, extra runners make good sense.
> Why did "The Division 2" not build upon "The Division",

Four main reasons, you can argue if they are "that big of a deal" but ultimately they were. Please also remember that Division 2 was made in 2 years, and Div 1 was made in 7.

1) Clean slate of the architecture built on google cloud meant that connecting in to the datacenters in Montreal would have been very time consuming to get right.

2) The Division 1 continued, so a migration would have had to have some pretty clearly defined semantics, do we sync both the backends constantly? Do we fork your character? Do we stop your previous account from working. Forking sounds like the right thing until you realise you can't fork again. :\

3) We would have to carry over every single item from the Division 1, most of which do not make sense in the setting.

4) We'd have to have a clear upgrade path for your binary save game (from a moving target as Div1 was still getting updates!)

But it was a topic that was discussed at great length.

> Also, TD1's gritty survival mode was the most compelling gameplay of the franchise

Yeah, I really liked that, I wish we could have released it as a standalone game, especially as it came out in the height of BR and for me it hit similar themes.
But now I am getting confused with the level of verbosity, the level of explicitly has led to implicit complexity.

Enjoy the verbosity. It makes for excellent maintenance down the track. There is no ambiguity about what is happening if you name your variables correctly. For what it's worth, I once wrote an 8080 disassembler in COBOL. That was 40-odd years ago. It's still maintainable because of its verbosity, though I doubt if I'd have the patience to do so these days.
Heat death of the universe has been postponed until Jira can be updated.
Curious what the actual crime is there, assuming Cramer had no insider information about the company. Basically, how is this say different from Hindenburg research taking a short position then releasing a damaging report? Or me buying a company and then telling others to buy it, too?
Like the Eleuthera island in the Bahamas I would think: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3-F-7WKXG14

So Eh-Luther AI.
This raised the question for me of how long could we sustain this before the loss of mass to the moon started to affect earth? 22 billion tons a year seems massive but doing that for 100 years would only decrease the moon's mass by 2.2e-11 which seems completely insignificant (not that I would know what is insignificant here) and if we had not solved the problem in 100 years we probably have bigger issues anyways. How long could such a thing be maintained before we had to start thinking about the new problem that we were creating? Working at the astronomical scale has never been a strong point for me.
Maybe but there's got to be a less expensive way of doing that. Buying VW's stake?
Leetcode isn't fair game either. It's a despicable practice.
Hulu is an example of the same model. It was funded by a consortium of industry players, like Comcast, Fox, and Disney. Volkswagen and Ford were doing the same thing. Unlike Hulu, though, it wasn't successful. My guess is they felt leadership was lacking. I'm sure if you zoomed in, you'll notice some of the AV startup execs aren't among the 550.
Ask HN: Do you think an “authentic” social app can work?
I had the idea of creating a social app that is a crossover between TikTok and BeReal.

IMO, video has been used mainly for media instead of social, TikTok is not used to see what your friends are up to but instead to find interesting content from content creators. I think there is a huge opportunity to create an app that is only focused on video, but without the music, and without being highly edited, therefore being more on the social side of things and not media.

My idea would work like this: you would open the app and be greeted by the camera, you would then post a quick video about what you're doing and then receive access to the feed. Once you upload a video, you can browse the feed and see what your friends uploaded and/or what the world is posting. The goal of this is to not have it recommendation engine powered, but instead just focus on seeing what your friends and other people are doing.

The only way to access the feed is if you post a video. It would essentially be the key to unlock your feed.

Is it worth working on this?