skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking a peek at your Twitter and Linkedin, I'm honestly not sure how useful this advice is for most people and whether it's based on reality, or what you wish happened.

For example, you say you got promoted from junior on "sheer volume of work" which is contradictory to focusing on "low hanging fruit outside of code" without "too much time investment".

https://twitter.com/ryanlpeterman/status/1623745298920255489

If a junior knew how to leverage "low hanging fruit outside of code" without "too much time investment" they would basically by definition not be a junior anymore, so I see this as a bit tautological. It seems like wishful thinking rather than something based on reality.

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I also noticed on your Linkedin that you made Staff in 5yrs, which is extremely fast and likely means you are an exceptional engineer. I'm aiming for a similar trajectory, but I noticed a little while ago (Before I was even working as an eng professionally) that giving advice to people was very difficult. How do you explain that you just "get" things?

For example, my manager told me that he liked the fact that he only had to give me feedback once and then I would implement it. He also noted that weaknesses from my previous performance review became strengths in the next one. This is with only ~3 months between reviews as well.

There are a number of similar behaviour my managers have noted that I believe have been and will continue to be critical for my growth, but how do you teach those kind of things to someone who doesn't operate like that? I don't think you can.
I'm pretty disenchanted with blockchain-related things but I am curious about some kind of identity based on real-world reputation, that I suppose blockchain might facilitate more easily than anything else. There are a zillion gotchas with every approach, but the idea could be some process where x amount of people are verified to verify others, one needs more than one real-world verifier (3?), the verification happens but doesn't require public disclosure of any information including who verified, and it can spread out at the speed of actual human connection.
>I never place it anywhere where there may be dust.

If it's any consolation, the Apple M laptops' keyboards aren't the infamous butterfly ones.

More generally, I don't worry too much about pristine keyboards. I wipe them down every week or two with 91% isopropyl alcohol and tissue paper and they're good as new. They're going to get grimy because you need to touch them, so it's not worth the worry.

As for the screen, I just take a swiffer duster to them anytime I notice dust buildup. If I notice any liquid stains, like the keyboards I just take 91% isopropyl alcohol and tissue paper to them. Good as new.
It seems obvious - if you scare a junior engineer they will sit in their office and build an abomination to avoid asking a simple question that could be answered in 3 minutes.

It's a real thing and it doesn't help the junior engineer or the business.
Wait, so now the fact that the brain tries to predict future inputs at all(which is not exactly news, btw, it'sbeen known a long time), suddenly means that's all the brain does?

This is not how science works.
But you typically run off firm promises of cash from investors. Then you only need a couple of weeks cash in the bank, and the investors promise to make cash available on demand as you need it.
Great looking portfolio atleast.
Looks like you have been busy making alot of apps and "things".
Interested in what the people here at Hacker News has to say about this.
I'm tired. Please explain: did you misunderstand my comment or are you just seeking internet win points?
Your Bloomberg article is a rehash of the verge article discussed down thread.

The twitter files are not a change of subject as they are precisely about the power of the algorithm, censorship, and how it was tinkered with prior to Musk taking over. It is literally your concerns but backed up with actual proof.

Understand something: I think such things are very bad regardless of the direction in which it applies. I am a-political. I would actually be very interested in any actual evidence.

It is a bummer that you think I will just be willing to put my head in the sand if it was Musk doing it, clearly you think I am somehow aligned politically with his views (whatever the hell they are supposed to be) and would be willing to look the other way. Nope, not the case. People do be like that and this is a problem.

Again, regardless of affiliation, it is a problem.
that’s depressing to read. so much interesting stuff. I wonder if there’s an equivalent list of living services
This is not a perfect analysis, but:

- Roku has 487M in SVB

- After the 8-K released, Roku lost 323M in market cap

Basically, the market is expecting around 30c of value recouped for every dollar inside of SVB.

(note: I know this analysis isn't perfect, but it gives a rough idea)
:shrug:

The alternative to banks is a credit union where you are a shareholder and their rates aren't necessary exciting either. There's a cost to maintaining infrastructure both digital and physical. Not to mention providing various financial services to shareholders.

The moving money problem is a bigger issue with the American financial system as a whole and basically the business mentally of underinvestment and "don't break what works".
FedNow will hopefully reduce alot of the time delay related friction in the coming year or two that comes with ACH.
Here's the thing: the host doesn't get any of the guest's money until 24 hours after the booking begins (basically after the guest's ability to cancel during the first 24 hours has passed).

The host's payment from Airbnb does not include fees and taxes that guests need to pay that Airbnb keeps (and passes on when required) and it doesn't include the fees and taxes that hosts need to pay that Airbnb keeps (and passes on when required). So completely refunding guests full payment can mean a host is deep out of pocket.
It's like Shell that sponsors COP. No, thanks.
The depositors, creditors, employees etc. all have to be paid first. I would be surprised if they can even do that, much less have anything left over for stockholders
> But it absolutely calls in question the notion these companies wouldn't do something just because they're "competing" against each other.

This doesn't make any sense and you're misunderstanding the original comment. The point is the idea that they are hurting their bottom line by overhiring, but the whole thing works out because it prevents their competition from hiring is completely nonsensical, when you're alleging that they are all doing it. If they are all hurting themselves by overhiring, they can't be deriving any benefit from keeping the talent away from your competition. Your competition is also overhiring and doesn't need the talent either. So keeping them away from your competition helps your competition at your expense.
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How would you encode meaning by reading a dictionary whose language you don't know? Can you describe it, step-by-step like?

I mean, I can imagine opening my hands and levitating but I don't know how to do that in practice. So how would someone encode meaning by reading a dictionary in a language they don't know? In practice?
My eyes are bleeding. Reader mode to the rescue.

Always easier to see someone else's problems than our own, I suppose.
The AI Crackpot Index
The AI Crackpot Index
(Apologies to John Baez)

A simple method for evaluating any claim about artificial intelligence or machine learning

1. A -5 point starting credit.
2. 1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false.
3. 2 points for every statement that is clearly vacuous.
4. 3 points for every statement that is logically inconsistent.
5. 5 points for each such statement that is adhered to despite careful correction.
6. 5 points for each use of the terms “AGI”, “singularity”, “superintelligence”, “intelligence explosion” etc. as if they refer to specific future events.
7. 5 points each time a claim is justified largely by appeal to popular media examples (eg “a Terminator-like scenario”).
8. 10 points for each mention of "Bostrom", "Yudkowsky", “Musk”, or any person associated with the “Intellectual Dark Web”.
9. 10 points for each mention of Roko’s Basilisk or Paperclip Maximizers.
10. 10 points for each mention of The Chinese Room argument.
11. 10 points for each mention of The Simulation Hypothesis or the “multiverse”
12. 10 points for each use of the phrase “taking over the world”.
13. 20 points for each insistence that preventing eschatological (“end of the world”) scenarios should take precedence over all other practical and ethical concerns.
14. 30 points for treating any discussion of ethical and regulatory oversight, as is common practice across industries, as a nightmare scenario of government overreach and stifled innovation. (10 more points for comparing such oversight to Nazis, stormtroopers, or brownshirts).
15. 40 points for anyone using or suggesting the use of AI to classify and/or rank people by intelligence, race, sex, gender, beauty, or other social categories (eg, “criminality”).
16. 50 points for drawing any connection whatsoever between AI and blockchain/cryptocurrencies
so it looks like the bank run was not the root cause but a consequence of this mess, and all these people moralizing about not panicking were essentially advising small companies to keep funding wild practices of one adventurous bank CEO out of their pocket - how could it have ended in anything else?
A bummer to find out Roku ever raised 2B in the first place when I've met several brilliant founders with good ideas who failed to raise ~200k. Despite being a staunch capitalist, I have to say, funds are so cowardly allocated in SV.
I wish I could play them in the browser instead of with apps.
Your model is missing money velocity.

Creating money does not automatically cause it to circulate, as the ECB and others have demonstrated between 2008 and 2022.
It's not that simple. ChatGPT has taken us into this uncanny valley of sentience, and even smart tech journalist (cough) activists (cough) twitterists can be sucked into the media circus of spotting the HALs and Roy Battys hidden behind our beloved chatbots. Duh.

Now, OP's got a point: advanced LLM-based tools are moving extremely fast into our daily toolchain, in creative and unexpected ways, with minimal moderation and no supervision. It's not about its failures being a reliable knowledge base, but at how keen some of us are willing to hand the keys to their bash prompt to an statistical "perplexed" system with rand() bolted on in more than a couple places.
It's pretty bad to compare social media to smoking, or call it "the new smoking" because... teen tobacco usage is far from a solved problem. Teens today vape and it will have long term consequences both for them and society at large.

Honestly the panic around "screens" remind me of the moral panics around Dungeons and Dragon back in the 80s [0] and video games in the 90s and 00s. The media hysteria did try to blame many acts of violence on DOOM.

Some researchers have now spent 30 years trying to prove a link between violence and video games, without any success. To put things in perspective, during the same time period neural networks were completely abandoned by AI researchers, before coming back and giving us the deep learning revolution and the leaps in self-driving and language models.

> Young folks comparing themselves to Instagram models is very analogous to air-brushed magazine models in the early 2000’s to cite a recent example.

In 2018 "obesity prevalence was [...] 21.2% among 12- to 19-year-olds." [1] according to the CDC. That's one out of 5 being obese, not just overweight. And it has more than tripled since the 70's [2]. I have to wonder if it's related. A lot of teenagers are bombarded with images of perfectly healthy bodies that, quite simply, won't match what they see in the mirror. The solution? Ban mirrors.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/us/when-dungeons-dragons-...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity_child_15_16/obe...
>> government doesn't need taxes to fund anything, it can just create money and sell bonds.

This is a nice fiction a lot of people spout. The consequences of that are inflation or default. Inflation is very unpopular but defaulting ends the game because investors won't buy the bonds after that. There are consequences to ignoring debt.
I, for one, will never get another mRNA shot ever again. Not until there is long-term, indepedently-reviewed safety data, and the government doesn't force it on me.
LLaMA doesn't perform very well with answering questions.

If you ask it "What color is the sky?" It will reply with something like "Why is ice cold? Why do we exist?"
> Communism produces hyperreality too. It is hyperreality. It takes a naturally occurring thing — family and community — and intensifies its most attractive elements. It's an intoxicating hyperreal vision.

It's interesting how people try to make sense of the world and it's history and fit it into the mold of the concepts and models they use to navigate it. The author is the founder of repl.it, so he's definitely developed his own unique way to understand reality.
That's why it's so much better to be illiquid! :)
There is no downside to society if banks are less profitable. There is a definite downside to the banks, though. And given the chance, at least some banks will try to get out of that downside.
"It's kind of an annoyance that British and Japanese shows will spend time creating funny characters in an interesting environment and just end it in a season when there was plenty left to explore."

I disagree, you don't know what you're missing. Ie you're missing getting bored of tired storyline and characters.

Keep in mind, all the talent is still knocking about making TV, you just need to find what they got up to.
> With something like pledge, you can't limit anywhere near as much as what you can limit with a MAC framework.

Go ahead, tell me a specific thing that I can't limit with pledge and unveil. Note that everything you mentioned when discussing Oracle could be done with them.

I've provided code. You haven't even listed a threat model. You just yelled a bit about root escapes, and then when challenged to provide an example, yelled about Oracle. And then yelled a bit about how MAC provides more, without any specifics about which relevant 'more' it provides. (I certainly agree that it's more flexible, more complicated, and more difficult to configure -- but not that it's more secure).

Again, there's example code sitting right there, which can be used for something like Oracle. Prove that there's an escape.
> "cultural marxism" is a far right antisemitic conspiracy theory

The Frankfurt School was real, not a "conspiracy theory". "Cultural Marxism" was originally used to refer to the Frankfurt School and its intellectual heirs by (left-leaning) academic Trent Schroyer, in his 1973 book The Origins and Development of Critical Theory – long before the term had any currency on the right. And they really have been a significant influence on left-of-centre academia in the humanities and social sciences, which in turn has been a real influence on the broader culture (especially at the somewhat elite level of establishment journalism, NGOs, etc)

Do a lot of people on the right overstate and exaggerate that influence, or offer overly simplistic accounts of it? Yep. But, this "it's a conspiracy theory" meme seems to be responding to that with its exact opposite, intentional understatement and denial.

And "far right antisemitic" seems to be an exercise in guilt-by-association: Are some people who talk about this far-right or antisemitic? Yes. Are they all? No. Is the idea in itself (however true or false it may be), that "the Frankfurt School has had an outsized influence on contemporary progressivism", inherently "far right" or antisemitic? No.

That's not to say I like all this "cultural Marxism" talk – I hate how it treats "Marxism" as a dirty word. It's so cringeworthy when right-wingers (Americans seem especially prone to it) do that. That's not to say I agree with Marxism, or deny that in practice it has caused a lot of mayhem, suffering, evil. But I'd much rather listen to the kind of right-wingers who can see the good in Marxism, even the common ground people on the political right can find with Marxists – I think Compact magazine is a good example of this, which started when two conservative Catholics and a Marxist got together to talk about what they had in common, and ended up founding a magazine to continue that conversation.

But to me, "cultural Marxism is a far right antisemitic conspiracy theory" ends up coming across as just as much a brain-dead talking point as "cultural Marxism" itself so often is.
Yes, and it had enough backup to run the grid for 5 minutes, at the low low price of $200m. Now you'd only need another $50,000,000 to have enough storage to run it overnight.
> ride out a few weeks waiting to be paid.

Or several months, if not years. If SVB isn't bought by Monday those funds are going to be inaccessible for much longer than people realize.
Poorly titled article. By the title, 'non-pensioners' can drive as long as they feel like it, without having to prove anything. Hooray for us 'rich people'!

The article correctly designates 'seniors over 70' as having to prove their fitness.
I am currently trying to "push the limits" creating a small game engine using C++20 with modern libraries and tools. The goal is not to build a functioning engine or a game, but to see how far I can push things until they break, or get too complex, etc.

I recently discovered how good mimalloc is, how helpful tracy integration is, and that static reflection is actually somewhat possible in modern C++ thanks to refl-cpp.

And a lot of other, domain related things.

For me, pushing the limits, and just building things definitely contributes a lot to becoming a better programmer.
No idea - it may have come to English via French too.

English is a mongrel of a language.
silica dessicant. chemists use it in their dessicators to keep things dry - pink is dry, blue is 'full' (i think, it's been 25 years...). i think it's a low level cobalt doping and as the silica matrix swells with water absorption it changes the UV absorption and the colour changes. or something like that.
And lessons were learned! This is not 2008 repeating itself. SVB is unusual in how much exposure they have on interest rates, on both sides of the balance sheet. There is no contagion, and the bank is still an asset worth many billions.

The liquidity problem gets solved by merging this bank with a bigger and more liquid bank. The insolvency problem is solved by wiping out the stockholders and bond holders will get a haircut. I get why people panic, but the issues here can be resolved cleanly and speedily.
I remember seeing an old offer letter from Apple that makes the rounds every once in a while where Steve Jobs said he would pay the guy in advance.

I remember the early dotcom days where a company would hold your first paycheck!
In the cloud, costs are transparent, as you receive a single monthly bill. When you self-host, there are many hidden expenses you would need to track down (energy, admin, maintenance, etc.)

The figures in the article are for illustration purposes only and should be taken with a large pinch of salt. The author doesn't detail what hardware they are running, what EC2 instances he has selected for comparison and how comparable the storage statistics are. I would also love to hear the Finance Department's version of his calculations.

AWS is more expensive than self-hosting. However, it is not as skewed as the author claims. Otherwise, very few companies would be using the cloud.
That isn't a flaw at all. There was no mention of selling; it could be referring to a car being passed down from generation to generation.
"The Truth Project, which is part of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, is documenting people's experiences so they can inform the recommendations in the IICSA's final report in 2022. [...] Fifteen per cent said their abuse was in a school setting and six per cent said it was in a religious setting. Sixty per cent said it was not in an institution or they did not know, *with 48 per cent saying the abuser was a family member*."

https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/religious-sett...

"Nearly half (47%) of the abuse started before children were 8 years old."

https://www.csacentre.org.uk/resources/blog/telling-the-trut...

"[...] I think that objectively your child is less likely to be abused by a Catholic or Anglican priest in the west today than by the members of almost any other profession."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2010/m...
Any idea what an "advanced dividend" means in practice here?
This is normal pronunciation outside of the US.
Netflix needs to move to the KDrama model -- a set 20-24 epsidodes for a series. You know it's fixed going in. If they want to, then you do a follow-up, but then it's never expected to continue. It just is contained.
I'd be pretty happy to buy SVB deposits at 30c if I could do that without exposure to Roku everything else, etc.
seriously, this is the cheapest clickbait and fortunately nobody important is making a big story out of this.
Show HN: A (nearly) seamless integration of ChatGPT into Obsidian
I decided to try my math again and document it more carefully.

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https://www.pervasivedisplays.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12...

Pervasive Displays has an oscilloscope measurement of 3.75mA on their 5.9-second updates for their 1.54" eink screen. (Page 14). That's 22.125 mCoulombs of electrons.

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https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Sharp%20PDFs/LS0...

Sharp 1.2" memory-LCD (a bit smaller) has 12uW to 50uW on static images. Assuming 3.3V, that's 15uA worst case (0.015mA).

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22.125 mCoulombs / 0.015mA == 1475 seconds per update break-even point, or ~24 minutes.

So yet another number, but yeah, memory-LCD is just really good. Remember that the 1.2" screen from Sharp is a bit smaller though, so its not a perfect apples-to-apples comparison.

Either way, its a much longer period between updates than I was expecting.
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Credit goes to https://austinhuang.me/ for the original post
> The writer of this story—Dan Garisto—had no communication about this story with his father, Robert Garisto, the Managing Editor of [Physical Review Letters].

!!!

I'm sure that's genuinely fine, but it's a slightly awkward way to wrap up an article about scientific impropriety.
Oof, heavy hit for people relying on those paychecks being timely.

Decent of Rippling to cover overdraft fees of those affected, at least.
> Sorry, were you in Australia? We haven't had load shedding from a LOR (Lack Of Reserve) event almost ever, and we don't commonly get browouts. That's just lies and FUD. That article is actually just "sometimes the grid operator has to ask aluminium smelters to reduce their demand a bit".

I was a quant for one of the top 3 largest electricity retailers in Australia. A wonderful market where you take everyone's money as long as you call it green. It was shocking to see the liberal government tell the truth about renewables while labor and the greens are lying/in denial about them.
I think they're going for something like https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/
Crap, is my tv at risk of not working?
>The twitter files are not a change of subject

You didn't ask about the pre-Elon days. You asked about Elon, so multiple people have responded accordingly. Being unable to rebut them, you've chosen to try to divert the topic to something else.

>clearly you think I am somehow aligned politically with his views

I do. But I'll disengage at this point, given your insincerity.