skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't make sense to me. But isn't there a difference between senior engineer and jail? Are you saying we should have no input on how children grow up or society behaves because some eugenics people picked the idea up once? Why must we be afraid of _everything_ the eugenicists _ever said_. Can't people sometimes have even a single good idea? I'm not in favor of eugenics at all. But social conduct and manners? That sociology, social psychology, we should grow away anything from any field that has ever been touched by _bad people_?

When i was younger the things Jordan Peterson said actually helped me. This whole "Reverse Midas Touch" thing is getting really out of hand. Just because a person has had bad ideas, doesn't make the person bad or require destruction of every idea they've ever held or spoken. Just because a group of racist and ignorant people held bad beliefs, doesn't mean every possible belief they held was bad and must be destroyed. This whole argument is just, "but the bad people thought that so it must be bad too", without ever establishing what's actually bad about it. Tell me what's wrong with the ideas without mentioning a group of bad people, tell me about why the ideas are bad. Tell me about the people who "manners and proper behavior" has hurt, and then explain to me why it can't possibly be different. Speak about the ideas, not the people. Everyone knows why those people were bad. Now tell me about the ideas
It might have something to do with surround?
https://rec.games.video.classic.narkive.com/cEZltqT1/sega-ge...
I don’t think you’re using conflict of interest correctly. You’re saying here the author has secondary motives, such as being sponsored by an anti-weed org or something, which they would have to disclose in their own section (as per basic academic standards).

You might want to instead if you want to criticize the research say the authors clearly have a personal agenda or bias.
I'm feeling like this is early days of a disaster in Silicon Valley. We're at the first or second domino teetering right now. I hope a Sequoia or KPB will step up and save the bank, otherwise a lot of their portfolio investments are about to start missing payrolls.
> 2. The inventories on dealership lots have been rebuilt over the last 6 months, hiding a drop in consumer demand.

I am still not seeing this. Many of the dealerships in my area are still putting use vehicles on prominent display to make the lots appear more full.
Stripe Atlas has supported SVB accounts for a while. I believe it may have been the only bank account supported at the beginning, but regardless, I suspect there are a lot of Atlas companies backed by SVB accounts.
This is the correct answer. I work at a company that sends millions of emails every week from our self-hosted IP range. If you have a high quality list of recipients who actually want to hear from you and warm up your IPs gradually, you can be successful.
Translations:

First ad:

Kid: Haha!! Did you send the photo to mom, dad?

Dad's phone: Your photo has triggered our criminal activities filter. Your online services have been suspended and the police has been alerted.

Caption: Create safe spaces online for children instead of making the internet unsafe for everyone.

...

Second ad:

First worker: Weren't we just supposed to look for sexual crimes and terrorism?

Second worker: That was during the previous government.

Third worker: adds a 'race' label

Caption: The governments of today say they will monitor serious crimes. What will the governments of tomorrow say?
What did it previously cost before this change?
I often fantasize about moving a bunch of my company's crap off of ECS/EKS and onto a managed colo with just old-school ansible deployments. I've even spec'd out some bare metal from our local colocation facility and the servers they offer are so ridiculously powerful and CHEAP. We could run our entire production system in a half-rack for about 10% of what we pay AWS.

But alas, nobody will ever go for it and I'm left to dream.
There has been interest in acquiring SVB for a long time. There will be multiple bidders and a deep discount. Suspect a sale will happen this weekend.
Sure but all tech takes time for maximum penetration into the mainstream. Crossing the chasm, etc.
Here's the full text of the paper it's covering (cited as footnote 4):

"Long-term Cannabis Users Show Lower Cognitive Reserves and Smaller Hippocampal Volume in Midlife": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9426660/
Might be worthwhile to run the same code with an appropriate numba decorator. My guess is that you'd get at least as much speed up but without having to change the sieve declaration, but I'm not sure.
This is a new type of conflict of interests.
I assumed only good intentions from IT guys.

But you're right that some of them may be more interested in complexity of used solutions, bigger budgets, and their personal job security than in company results and sustainability.
We also have to be more specific. What does "going to the office" mean? Does it mean I'm going to an actual office, where I have my equipment all set up how I like it and a tailored environment that helps me stay focused and productive? Or is a bullshit open floor with terrible lighting and everyone is sick all the time because you're sitting face to face for 10 hours with someone you don't even talk to?

"The office" is a tool. It's like we've forgotten the reason for doing things. Software development is really not all that social. It's not akin as a factory or an orchestra or any of these other analogies that get tossed around.
I'm not either. But it's always a fight worth fighting. If nobody is vocally against this stuff, governments can just go "see, nobody even wants full privacy anyways."
I keep saying - if they aren't doing the job you'd fire them even if they were in office. If you think they are working two jobs but they are getting their job done you have to ask yourself - are you paying for someone to get the job done (which in this scenario they are) or someone you force to sit in a seat for x amount of time each week?
It's pretty annoying having to touch my yubi key every single time. I find KeePassXC + TOTP much more user and disaster resilient. If I lose my yubikey, I'd better have a physical backup copy. If I lose my keypass device, my file is just up on Dropbox. I find the value proposition is outweighed by the risk of disaster for yubikey personally, and keepass doesn't make me touch it every time so it's much more convenient.
Information decay has started with forums for the masses. It has become increasingly hard to actually find useful advice, because lots of the "answers" you find are actually partly wrong, mostly because people without knowhow feel like they need to answer questions to boost their karma...

Many of my coworkers feel the same. And this started way before GPT was conceived.

Besides, your post somehow feels like generic technology-angst to me. It seems like whenever we invent something new, there are those people that predict this is finally our demise...

GGPT is a tool, like every other technology. Use it wisely, and you will likely benefit. Use it without engaging your brain, and you will like see negative effects.
It also requires meetings to be made open to the public so that a mob can come give their uninformed harassment to said specialists.

Edit: Just read the bill in full; the only mention of 'pornographic' in the bill is that schools are required to let parents present evidence that a book is pornographic.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1467/BillText/er/...

> Each district school board must adopt a policy regarding an objection by a parent or a resident of the county to the use of a specific instructional material, which clearly describes a process to handle all objections and provides for resolution. The process must provide the parent or resident the opportunity to proffer evidence to the district school board that: [...] b. Any material used in a classroom, made available in a school library, or included on a reading list contains content that is pornographic

It seems to me that the biggest change here is that the state is mandating that media specialists are systematically undermined.
‘Extraordinary’ sighting of orca with baby pilot whale astounds scientists
Amazon has that option for nearly every purchase.
Instanton
It doesn't always end sadly -- it really depends on the individual and the company.

In my case, I ended up doing the job of maybe 5-10 developers for a year and a half leading up to the launch of a product at a large tech company. It was tough, but I believed in the product and wanted it to succeed, so I didn't mind putting in the extra time. I was also fairly young at the time, so I could handle marathon coding sessions without burning out.

After it launched (successfully), I developed a reputation within the company that let me basically have my pick of projects for the remainder of my time there. Additionally, I was awarded a 7-figure stock grant that ended up being worth 8 figures by the time it fully vested, so it worked out well financially too.

I view that project as sort of a career-defining moment, and I'm extremely glad I did it.
People using AI to generate crap faster is definitely a (short term) risk. And, BTW, not only with code. I read an article stating that in a few years (2-3, can't remember) 80% of content only will be generated by AI. Which would be a disaster. We're already swimming in low quality information and this will only make it worse.

OTOH, so much for the idea that people will guide the hand of AI to create better code. As this will unfold, there will be ever more incentives to remove (most) humans from the loop. And if past can be used to predict the future, what we have seen so far is that when AI gets reasonably competent at something it will gain superhuman capabilities very quickly. I still keep bringing up how people thought that after alpha go beat Fan Hui (European go champion) it would have taken a huge leap for it to beat Lee Sedol. Because Lee Sedol was so much better than Fan Hui. At least in human terms. It only took a few months of training and tinkering for DeepMind.

Speaking of loops: since AIs are taught from the internet (simple language models or coding specialists), we're creating an unwanted feedback loop here. More AI generated content will likely make teaching future AIs harder. At least with information harvested from the internet after ~2022-ish.
Ah yeah, I think you're right. I may have been looking at old documentation on pricing.
No plans to move money out. But definite plans to create a new, additional account elsewhere and when payment for current orders in process comes in over the next 30 to 60 days, have those new funds go into the new account. (Basically, diversifying is good, and I shoulda/woulda/coulda done it sooner, but it was never my top priority... until now.)
I've read about a hundred of Rachel's posts and never thought "but who/what company was this actually, specifically, by name", just enjoyed the stories. I mean yeah something something facebook, big places needing big troubleshooting, but in the end I think it's irrelevant to most people, as most people don't work in SV.
It's pretty shocking how many people I know who are essentially high 24/7.
Will this be the Compuserve to ActivityPub's "email"? I look forward to my free CD.
Raising capital and then burning it all is what most startups do. Investors put in money knowing this was the most likely outcome. The whole point of the C corp is to keep the investor money isolated from personal money.

I'm disappointed that we failed but I think it shouldn't affect our personal credit one way or the other.
I can't count how many times I've read similar comments on HN in the last 10yrs
APIs for New Developers: Controllers, Services, and Repositories
I would nuance that system a bit.

Replace "moderator" with "any peer".

Replace "block" with "vote". (And that vote could be as simple as "up down" or maybe something more sophisticated)

Now everybody you meet (every "peer") has a "rating". Based on the cumulative voting of yourself and your peers.

A peer that you upvote, his votes are weighted-up in that cumulative rating calculation.

A peer that you downvote, his votes are weighted down.

So we have peers, votes and a cumulative rating calculation.

And then we filter out view by rating.

Voila! Personalized decentralized moderation.
Its obviously risky. A year ago it had a market cap of $35B, if you can buy for next to nothing it could be worth it. Depends a lot if there is a big hole in the accounts and if the old customers come back.
It’s ironic that HN commentary is so much like LLM output: usually very good, always authoritative, sometimes wildly wrong.

And when I see the wildly wrong stuff it makes me wonder how many seemingly knowledgeable comments were also wrong, just convincing.

I think a lot of the negativity towards LLMs is because they turn a mirror to our own fallibility in facts and tone.
Yes. Thanks for the feedback:)
Open source platform for covert data exfiltration
A significant number of "cloud migrations" involve moving an application running on Linux on a server to running on Linux on a VPS for similar or higher cost. Not even using ANY of the "features" of the cloud, just treating it like a server. But then they can say "cloud" and everyone's happy.
You're looking at a microcosm of the phenomenon, but effectively you're just seeing the tragedy of democracy. Once a group realizes it is more cost-effective to just lobby the government to do something than doing it themselves, they'll just do that.
You will get banned on Reddit if you say trans women aren’t real women. They call it promoting hate towards a marginalized group. You may be sympathetic towards that so think twice before moving the goalpost.
> this bond is not worth $90

Not to a retail investor looking at short term returns (and irrationally obsessed with Inflation! due to media consumption), but to a bank with regulatory deposit requirements and a longer term outlook? Seems not unreasonable.

Anyway it doesn't have to be worth the full face value. It just needs to be worth enough to back a short term loan big enough to honor current withdrawal demands.
My issue with this study is they based it around IQ points. I feel like IQ is a very bad measure of cognitive ability outside of determining if someone is competent of not. And the fact that it only went down by a mean of 5.5, I feel like that small of a decline could be attributed to someone just having a bad day or being a little groggy when they took the IQ test.

Had the measured brain waves or brain activity it would be one thing, but I feel like an IQ test is just not satisfactory for a study like this.
But that configmap does not change by itself.

The same with annotations approach - its very limited.
Telehealth startup Cerebral shared millions of patients’ data with advertisers
https://open-assistant.io are working on collecting a dataset and training an open source model comparable to chatGPT
Indeed: this may portend a very rough few years for small businesses of any type and location being able to access the kind of banking services they have been able to until now.
So just imagine how bad are the ones they don’t release.
How are you calculating 4.5 lbs / 6 miles?

I think it's closer to 0.15 pound / mile, or 0.85 pound / 6 miles if you like.

Source: http://co2cars.apps.eea.europa.eu
This is often where creative memes help.

This wouldn't be the first issue where some public education is needed.
Nothing particular.

More sane minimal OS would be nice as Core and Nano didnt deliver. Nano was a good effort but they stripped it down way too much. Give us kernel only with pwsh and winget and its all good.
Orwell had an interesting expression related to this, "prolefeed"
Presumably it was meant as a hyperbole.
It can depend... there's a few colocation/shared offices in the Phoenix area. I know of a couple in Chandler, Mesa and Peoria in particular. Though I have a gigabit connection at home that's pretty stable and have my workspace setup how I like it.

Personally, I prefer an office space as I find the comradery is better. Being able to have lunch or general conversation is much more natural. Also, a commute that isn't too long (20-30m) is nice for ramping up on the way in and clearing the mind on the way home.

All of that said, since going remote, I don't plan to go back. I really want to move to a more rural location that better aligns with what I want in lifestyle/community. Of course, internet connectivity becomes crucial, and the current interest rates prohibit that.

I also don't think TFA is quite right on that being younger is the stronger reason for a higher chance of layoff. I think a lot of it comes down to experience and value provided from more experienced devs. It can definitely cut both ways and I have seen it in practice. I would suggest it's about perceived and actual value as well as a bit of office politics and agreeableness in the workplace that is more desired.

I do think that the nicest thing about more remote work, is it is more regionally competitive. At the higher end of the talent pool, one is able to compete for jobs that are much better paying that would be available locally, while still being less expense for businesses rooted in tech hub cities. This comes at the cost of communications, which you mention, though I think it's more than a 15% degredation in some cases. My prior position it seemed to hold things up for days on communications at times, with an international team.
See also: rising rates of self-diagnosed ADHD and Tourette Syndrome arising through heavy social media use.

e.g. -- https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-developing-tics-...

Furthermore teenagers are the "IT'S NOT A PHASE MOM" group (it was definitely a phase).
I hardly think you can expect an unbiassed opinion from Gorbachev.
Its a literally „the use-case” for operators from K8s In Action..
> now we're talking about Ethan Hawke stealing your laptop, your security key and recreating your fingerprints from a glass he stole at the bar

Why bother with the glass from the bar? Your fingerprints are likely to be all over the laptop.
> most startups in the US bank with them

Is this true? And if so, how was this not a major red flag for investors earlier?

From what I gather as an outsider, it sounds like SVB has most of its assets in the form of loans to tech startups and most of its liabilities in the form of deposits from tech startups. This seems like an obvious recipe for disaster in the event of a tech downturn, no?

EDIT: People have clarified that the bonds are the big problem on the assets side, not the loans. They had a bunch of low interest rate bonds that now have to be sold at a loss because interest rates are much higher.
Some IDEs can auto-inline something temporarily if that's an approximation of what you want, it's the same sort of trick as intellisense popping up documentation when you hover or whatever, it's extra info that's there when you want it and not there when you don't.

But for the broader idea I think you can also just as well ask why Bret Victor's vision has gone nowhere (and probably never will). I'm satisfied myself with an answer like this:

"Linux supports the notion of a command line or a shell for the same reason
that only children read books with only pictures in them. Language, be it
English or something else, is the only tool flexible enough to accomplish
a sufficiently broad range of tasks." -- Bill Garrett

But I also think that for many abstractions, the unabstracted form is often just fine too, and if it's common enough it becomes a 'pattern' that is read quickly in the same way that adults read words or chunks of words and not letter by letter. rpg's free book "Patterns of Software" gets into this near the beginning. For a simple example, in Common Lisp you might at some point write something like

(let ((result (mapcar f list))
(length (length list)))
...)

This is clean and abstract, you want the result of applying some function to some input list, and also get the list's length. It's too bad that this involves traversing the list twice, it'd be nice if mapcar could return the length as a second value or something. You probably don't want to modify f itself to mutate a counter, that goes beyond f's scope. But the unabstracted form of mutating a local counter and just traversing the list once with mapcar is fine, and a common enough pattern (again copying from the book):

(let ((length 0))
(let ((result
(mapcar
(lambda (x)
(incf length)
(f x))
list)))
...))

You might call the pattern "accumulating a result" but naming things is overrated. You see it in other languages too. It's just:

Initialize some local variable result
Loop
Within the loop, update the result (in the above, it's the "length" variable)
Outside the loop, use the result

Anyway, perhaps a clever compiler could turn the first into the second, or a clever IDE could turn the second into the first, and a suitable environment lets you toggle between them at will. It'd make a cool demo maybe. Perhaps s-expressions make one or both a lot easier compared to not having them? But I doubt it because the most advanced IDEs today focus on non-s-expression languages and do fancy things just fine, some fancy things not done by any environment currently available for Common Lisp. But for such a common pattern, with straightforward code in both cases (even if the second is a bit more wordy), it'd just be unnecessary to "zoom in and out", an experienced programmer reads the second as easily as the first because they can read the "pattern". How many non-pattern abstractions do we really have in a typical software project that would benefit, and situations that aren't already good enough with simple tools like inlining, jump-to-def, and intellisense?
Here's the actual paper. Long-term Cannabis Users Show Lower Cognitive Reserves and Smaller Hippocampal Volume in Midlife: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9426660/

From the abstract:

> We tested the hypotheses that long-term cannabis use is associated with cognitive deficits and smaller hippocampal volume in midlife, which is important because midlife cognitive deficits and smaller hippocampal volume are risk factors for dementia.

> Participants are members of a representative cohort of 1,037 individuals born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1972–73 and followed to age 45 years, with 94% retention. Cannabis use and dependence were assessed at ages 18, 21, 26, 32, 38 and 45 years. IQ was assessed at ages 7, 9, 11, and 45 years. Specific neuropsychological functions and hippocampal volume were assessed at age 45 years.

> Long-term cannabis users showed IQ decline from childhood to midlife (mean=−5.5 IQ points), poorer learning and processing speed relative to their childhood IQ, and informant-reported memory and attention problems. These deficits were specific to long-term cannabis users because they were either not present or smaller among long-term tobacco users, long-term alcohol users, midlife recreational cannabis users, and cannabis quitters. Cognitive deficits among long-term cannabis users could not be explained by persistent tobacco, alcohol, or other illicit drug use; childhood SES; low childhood self-control; or family history of substance dependence. Long-term cannabis users showed smaller hippocampal volume, but smaller hippocampal volume did not statistically mediate cannabis-related cognitive deficits.
Let’s not forget Twitter was a training source. Early Twitter was like 4chan.
Technically, you are not “banking” with Mercury:

> Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank & Trust®; Members FDIC.
The same Sequoia who bet the farm on FTX? I'll sit tight and wait for the FDIC. They have ample authority to do an orderly liquidation in a worst case scenario.
And then no one government ever lied again! /s
Great to see a campaign like this being rolled out to the public. Wish there were orgs in the US that could spend this kind of money.
I updated my post with more details!