skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the careers page once again it seems like I am behind the curve. They are probably hoovering up the best engineers Google laid off: people who rode the ZIRP wave and are probably already wealthy as heck and are now jumping onto the next big thing that normie techies will latch onto after it too becomes cliche. It seem like reading HN is only if you want to know what has happened not what is currently happening or going to happen. Where do you go to find out those things?
I think they have different prices for each region
Not to be ad hominem or anything, but I think it's useful context to point out that the author of this is a long-time anti-nuclear campaigner.
I agree with you on the SaaS version but the scenario I was thinking of was where there is a licensable model that can be run on a cluster in law firm’s AWS account. I think that should be okay.

HIPAA data can definitely be stored in the cloud given the right setup. I’ve worked for companies that have done so (the audit is a bit of a pain.)
I asked it to tutor me in Hopf algebras and it did a remarkably good job in the back-and-forth of explaining ideas to me in a very explainable and interesting way that I could understand. I then asked it to write something for fun, and it wrote a cool little fantasy story (that was generally high level but what can you say for a very short writing window lol).

I then asked it to write a paper detailing the main character's final battle with the final sorcerer in terms of Hopf algebras. Some parts of it are basic/trivial but it fits so perfectly that I think I'll never see magic systems the same way again.

What's crazy is that that paper as the capstone of our tutoring session helped me understand Hopf algebras much better than just the tutoring session alone. My mind is completely blown at how good this thing is, and this is from someone who is a self-professed LLM skeptic. ChatGPT I used once or twice and it was cool. This is crazy and over my threshold for what I'd say is 'everyday usable'. This is going to change so much in a way that we cannot predict, just like the internet. Especially as it gets much more commoditized.

Here's the full paper here so I don't drag y'all through the twitter post of me freaking out about it. Its temporal consistency is excellent (referenced and fully defined accurately a semi-obscure term it created (the N_2 particle) 5+ pages later (!!!!)), and it followed the instructions of relating all of the main components of Hopf algebras (IIRC that was roughly the original prompt) to the story. This is incredible. Take a look at the appendix if you're short on time. That's probably the best part of this all:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tysam-code/fileshare/69633...
I tried playing blind chess against ChatGPT and it pretended it had a model of the chess board but it was all wrong.
I'm guessing they don't have offices that require employees like cleaners, or those are conveniently contracted out so don't technically factor into this?
> I don't see how this is inherently worse than mobile phones,

the problem isn't that it's worse than a cell phone. The problem is that it isn't any better. All of the privacy and security problems that exist with cell phones now exist with this product. You're locked in to using a cell phone which, for most people, is a hardware platform that Google controls and exploits at your expense.

You can't secure your cell phone and keep it private, and so nothing on your cell phone should be assumed to be secure or private.

If I'm in my doctors office, or working with a client, or doing anything where I don't want Google and who knows who else listening I can turn off my phone, or put it away, or leave it at home, and be reasonably sure that I'm not being eavesdropped on (there's always some risk of three letter agencies listening, but you can't do anything about that), but that's not an option if I need my phone to transcribe every word being said to me and even in situations where I currently leave my phone on it isn't normally sending every word it hears to the cloud to transcribe and send back to me either.

I like that this can work with a cell phone app, but it'd be much better if it could be used entirely offline, and ideally on different hardware as well, including a PC.

Imagine being able to run something like this entirely offline connected to something the size of an ipod or even a nano running linux. Imagine being able to build your own tools to interface with it. Add your own substitutions/annotations to real time text. Add dictionaries, or translation features.

This could be really cool even life-changing tech for people, or it could just be one more technology that's convenient but ultimately used to exploit people.
Seriously, what is with all of the people in this thread that take offense at the flaws of ChatGPT/LLMs being pointed out? Are you all just working at AI companies?
You can get promoted mid-year at Apple.
This has already been refuted elsewhere in the comments. Your near certainty is completely unfounded.

Howard Oakley and his work are well known in our community. If you don't know him, then please don't cast aspersions.
> Oxide not only offers the best healthcare plans we could find, but we also pay 100% of monthly premiums – a significant benefit for those with dependents.

I confess I read TFA just to see when the other shoe would drop, and there it is: compensation varies depending on number of dependents. Yes it's hidden from the paycheck but insurance premiums are absolutely part of compensation. Yet the author openly praises this discriminatory compensation decision.
This is exactly the problem. It looks plausible. Every sentence makes sense. But they don't add up.
Quote:

> The polynomial given is f(x) = x^5 + x + 1. Since the polynomial has no rational roots (by the Rational Root Theorem) and it is a polynomial with integer coefficients, it is irreducible over the rationals

The polynomial has no rational roots - true.
But it's not irreducible. Irreducibility doesn't follow from the absence of rational roots. Here's the factorization:

x^5 + x + 1 = (x^2 + x + 1)*(x^3 - x^2 + 1).
Update from Silicon Valley Bridge Bank CEO
I’m trying to understand - what’s your point here?
I also wonder how many AI startups doing medical vision will now go under.
The obvious chain of events is payments not being processed, Thiel gets on the blower, receives inside information which causes him concern, removes his money while he still can.

To me as a low information armchair expert it seems bizarre that Thiel could move money out while SVB was having trouble moving money at all.
Utility (= (pleasure minus pain) x time) is the essential good when we're talking about animal and human welfare. Good actions increase expected utility; bad actions decrease expected utility.

Machines experience no pleasure or pain and thus there is zero utility gained/lost by destroying them. Dogs and humans do; it's bad to kill or torture them.

Throwing a dog in front of a train (or killing/torturing it for research) to save a child depends on how likely it is that it will work, and how many QALYs the dog and child have left.
Reddit isn't really used as "defacto source of breaking news". I mean, local subreddits and other things stiff get prompt information, but it doesn't get as much wide coverage as Twitter.
Yes. The privacy concerns are huge. With that said, id use the shit out of this for open source development where privacy is not a concern.
*alarming
Perhaps. I'm more interested in using them to build large objects like rockets to facilitate asteroid mining and the construction of Von Neumann probes.
You have to move paste the copy and paste and think about applying the API against groups of files and databases.

simple script to add comments to all your code files.

Text-SQL interface.

building a chatbot.
1. generate 50 ways to ask to take a flight.
2. now build a set of rules or reg expressions that match on those questions

scrape HN and categorize each of the titles and for each ML link go out and create a summary of each of the articles.

how long would it take you to do any of these with the api.

how about it the api didn't exist?
Hiding the pricing should be illegal. Hopefully EU will regulate it at some point.
At least they still have jobs.
GP said "tankies" not "leftists".

For people from two-party-system country it may sounds same. But as someone born in Czechoslovakia, some of those linked posts gave me a pause.
This has already basically happened with the Web and Wikipedia two decades ago ?
And yet boatloads of people are willing to hand their phone number over to OpenAI.
Many times the founders don't have preferred shares and just common as well

VCs many times being the only winners or only ones to get any money back
I'll be honest, all these asides feel like there is some kind of explanation or big reveal that never comes. I can understand a bank identifying a large-sum account and wanting to look after them, being annoyed by that account moving banks as well as a local branch having to take precautions on such large withdrawals. But otherwise, I feel like I'm missing something here that isn't spelled out.
Just display the prices for each region then?
I don't believe that's accurate. a lot of instances do have a registration questionnaire required however, mostly to combat spam, similar to some mastodon intsances.
Wow, this must go a long way to feeling like the management give a shit and to make people feel valued.
190 isn't enough for LA? I was thinking of moving there while making ~120k. Granted I have no kids or anything but I thought 120k could make it in LA?
In general, whenever some business I have a vague professional relationship starts calling me on the phone because clearly some CRM system has prompted them into "just checking in!", it only bothers me and becomes a source of annoyance. I don't like getting calls from people who want to sell me new things or who work on commission.

The likelihood of me continuing as a happy customer is inversely proportional to the number of unsolicited calls I get.

Mostly all this means is these days I give out the main number to my pbx IVR menu and never my direct cellphone number.
Anyone that actually cares about the privacy of their data isn’t going to be satisfied with just a “promise”.
You can learn asshole skills anywhere.
191'000 USD / yr "even if it's not a lot" ?
Renewables cannot scale. If you want a 20th century level of power production in the 23rd century, renewables are your ticket.
Oscar Wilde said "Progress is the realization of Utopias." I don't think any utopia anyone can think of with regard to this technology is really thought through.

I'm going to wait for the AGI to be realized and then ask it whether the sacrifices on the way were worth making it. Should be more salient than everything I read about it these days.
I'm working through both The Loop and Your Computer Is On Fire which discuss the authoritarian tendencies of computing as it exists today.

Everyone's been saying for years that democracy's at a breaking point, capitalism's at a breaking point, now technology is at a breaking point. Unless we stop flirting with fractures and actually hit that breaking point and survive, this paradigm will only continue to squeeze. Precious little time to find a future that isn't annihilation or incredibly bleak.

I would wish best of luck to the techbros that anointed themselves our enlightened leaders and refer to everyone outside of tech as "normies" and "lemmings", but I've also read Survival of the Richest.
Has this ever happened in real life?
That's not clear and correct. The conviction was about 'perjury' committed under a subpoena for the sunshine laws investigation concerning a fact (when the phone calls stopped) that turned out immaterial to the sunshine law charges. The prosecution of the supposed Sunshine Laws violation was not successfully completed. The conviction was for speech
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Lemmy: A Federated Reddit Alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615058 - Nov 2022 (215 comments)

LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438493 - Nov 2022 (186 comments)

Open Source federated link aggregator in rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31712332 - June 2022 (37 comments)

Lemmy Release v0.14.0: Federation with Mastodon and Pleroma - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266003 - Nov 2021 (48 comments)

Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453165 - Sept 2021 (213 comments)

Lemmy a federated, open-source and privacy alternative to Reddit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24393689 - Sept 2020 (9 comments)

Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23664067 - June 2020 (634 comments)

AMA about Lemmy, an open source, Federated alternative to Reddit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23389622 - June 2020 (4 comments)

Note:

Reposts are fine after a year or so, but when a story has had significant attention in the past year, we mark reposts as a dupe. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19686972 - April 2019 (99 comments)
No one cares about test taking except people who think getting a degree from a "prestigious" university means they're more special. This is a final nail in that coffin.
I made this one but I have no users :D - sendie.com
Yes I know it was but it looked like it ran on rocket fuel. It must have had better exhaust vents too because when the old blunt yellow noses turned up they absolutely stank. The 125 smelled quite a bit too but only as being present rather than stuffing black soot up your nose. I was very young then and I would have been repulsed by anything worse.

Fast forward to today and GWR is a customer and the modern version of the 125 (I forget the Class number - I'm just IT) is still running. I've seen them in bits in Laira (Plymuff) and St Phil's Marsh in Bris'l. The power plant is a bit of a whopper. In the sheds there are dispensers for ear plugs, regularly spaced for quick access. You should try to keep a few in a pocket anyway - ideally all of them! They are quite handy when a technician fires up the motor and decides to run it at max chat.

Back in the day I saw the APT doing trial runs. Nowadays I can take a Pendolino ...
> Some will say that we should be talking about equity, not cash compensation. While it’s true that startup equity is important, it’s also true that startup equity doesn’t pay the orthodontist’s bill or get the basement repainted. We believe that every employee should have equity to give them a stake in the company’s future (and that an outsized return for investors should also be an outsized return for employees), but we also believe that the presence of equity can’t be used as an excuse for unsustainably low cash compensation. As for how equity is determined, it really deserves its own in-depth treatment, but in short, equity compensates for risk – and in a startup, risk reduces over time: the first employee takes much more risk than the hundredth.

There's an entire bullet point dedicated to it. They even used the same words you used, so searching the page should have gotten you to this section.

If you don't agree with the specifics of their argument here, then that would be an interesting addition to the conversation.
>I'm curious how they make this work in sf unless they own a home or bought a long while back.

Comment shows how warped our expectations really are. It's still a 90th percentile household income in the SFBA: https://www.vitalsigns.mtc.ca.gov/income
My guess is cascading effect of failures (slower delivery of messages, some internal connection issues, probably degraded database and etc.) that caused a bigger problem that they're trying to fix. That, or DNS.
Agreed. The current iteration of speech training is ok-ish for pronunciation, but speech formation is an additional but important step.
It’s also not quite true that companies can just pay local rates. In my experience someone from low COL can easily find a position where the “local” pay band for their level is higher than the local rate. It’s virtually impossible for an engineer with 2 or 3 YOE from LCOL to find a local job paying 125k+, but not hard at all to find such a remote opportunity.

Furthermore, not all jobs are equal. If Google moves their headquarters to Detroit they won’t suddenly pay Detroit wages.

And finally there is another force at play here - companies need to fill the position and what they pay HCOL candidates establishes what they’re willing to pay for the work. Living in Beverly Hills doesn’t make you a better engineer. This isn’t a bargaining chip you can use, but it’s a fact you can benefit from if you’re persistent.

The markets just arent siloed as much as people want to pretend.
I did a couple of comparisons between Bing and Google search results and I have to say that Bing seemed to come out on top when it came to sponsored links at the top of the page and ads.

I had to scroll down quite far to get what looked like a standard search result.
> Or is every business just supposed to juggle dozens+ of accounts if they’re big enough to stay safe?

You don’t need dozens of accounts to diversify against short-term risk, and the long-term risk is pretty low since, while uninsured, even in failures a large fraction of uninsured deposits tend to be returned, and bank failure is still pretty rare (in terms of probability of hitting any given depositor per year.)

And, if you do, there are, in fact, businesses you can go to whose entire business is facilitating this.
Well, I think I just retired.

Even knowing this was coming, it's still a bit unnerving. Sad too, but it's for the best. Let the machines program the machines. Schmidhuber's Gödelmachine. The automatic scientist.
> As for how equity is determined, it really deserves its own in-depth treatment

AKA skipping the discussion
Yeah, we don’t natively support range queries.

The simple way to efficiently do this kind of check would be to store an index of keys (perhaps chunk them into buckets, like 0-10, 10-20, etc), and then privately retrieve the individual items. Retrievals are fast, especially when batched, so if the ultimate number of items you’re trying to retrieve is not too large, this can work.

If you want to chat more about range queries, feel free to email us (founders @ blyss.dev)
I agree and really empathize with you on this. It's frustrating how hard it is to get people to care, I've even had someone throw McLuhan's tetrad at me, as if this is the equivalent of the introduction of phone apps.

We're racing into a fundamentally deep and irreversible societal shift, at least the same order of magnitude as the agricultural or industrial revolution. Maybe even many orders of magnitude deeper. Society will change so profoundly, it will be at least as unrecognizable as our lives would look to the average person from the Bronze age. There's absolutely no reason to assume this will be a good change. If it's not something I personally will have to live with, my descendants most certainly will.

I'll admit, I also draw a blank when I try to imagine what the consequences of all this will be, but it's a blank as in "staring into a pitch black room and having no idea what's in it" - not ignoring the darkness altogether. Mass psychosis is a good term for this, I think.

The collective blindspot failing to understand that there's NOTHING that says we're gonna 'make it'.

There's no divine being out there watching out for us. This isn't a fucking fairy tale, you can't assume that things will always 'work out'. Obviously they've always worked out until now because we're able to have this conversation, but that does NOT mean that things will work out indefinitely into the future.

Baseless conjecture: I think we are biased towards irrational optimism because it's an adaptive trait. Thinking everything will work out is better than not, because it means you're more likely to attempt escaping a predator or whatever despite a minuscule chance of success (which is better than not trying at all). It's another entry into the list of instincts we've inherited from our ancestors which bite us in the ass today (like being omnivorous, liking sweets, tribalism, urge to reproduce, etc).

You seem like you've given this a bunch of thought, and I wanna chat more about this and pick your brain about a few things. Have you ever thought about whether this intersects with the Fermi paradox somehow?

Drop me a line here: l7byzw6ao at mozmail dot com
I find that so incredibly off-putting. Whenever I see a company intentionally hiding pricing information I move them all the way to the back of the line for serious consideration. If I don’t manage to entirely put the product out of mind I’ll usually look for competitors or ways to get the service without paying for it.

If they’re going to be user-hostile, become a hostile user!
Pretty small shoe.
Try supplementing Duolingo with Anki / Ankidroid. Every word that I learn in Duolingo, I put into Anki. I do all my reviews in Ankidroid on a small E-Ink device but it's actually designed for phones.

You can configure Ankidroid to require you to spell the words properly.
I read the World Nuclear Association's "Small Reactor Dashboard"[1] (worst dashboard ever: it's 70+ page embedded PDF).

There's only one 4th generation nuclear reactor actually producing power anywhere that I could find on the list, the HTR-PM in China which was connected to the grid in 2022.

Terrapower is one of many companies that have some funding but nothing produced. To quote the Wikipedia link you posted:

> [in 2022] DOE gave TerraPower cost-share funding through the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) to test, license and build an advanced reactor within seven years.

Let's see where they are in 7 years...

[1] https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_78743/the-nea-small-modular...

[2] https://www.powermag.com/china-starts-up-first-fourth-genera...
I'm baffled at the comments here.

I think all do nothing but confirm the very first sentence:

"Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many".

There's literally nothing you can say about it without floods of negativity.
> will tie that account directly to the political success of whoever was sitting across the desk from you when you signed the paperwork.

I don't think the end user of a bank's services can or should be expected to know about, or take this factor into consideration when choosing to close their account or drastically change how they use it, however.

It's not personal, it's business, and to a certain extent any large US domestic bank is functionally equivalent to the other in features, fees and risk level.

If I closed everything I have with Wells Fargo tomorrow and reopened it with BOA or Chase I would expect about the same functionality.
"The number one thing you can do to support the future of this institution is to help us rebuild our deposit base, both by leaving deposits with Silicon Valley Bridge Bank and transferring back deposits that left over the last several days."
I mean, this is about the employees feeling equal. That's the purpose. Would they feel more equal or less equal if the guy with 2 kids and a stay at home wife got a smaller paycheck than the 25 y/o with no dependents? Seems like you'd be giving up perceived equal (the whole purpose) just to be technically equal.
What will delay UBI adoption is that governments can't afford the current welfare systems, many of which are unsustainable, let alone a much bigger one. France can't even raise the retirement age by like one year due to massive protests but they have to, as the current retirement age is unaffordable.