skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Walking out of the woods in the early hours of the night to get a tow cable for your buddy’s stuck truck is an experience that can’t translate into a map. We have contact with reality on a deeper level than the “maps” we use to navigate it consciously."

Farcical, Korzybski would have slapped him hard.
At a previous job we used to rent a fair number of servers from companies we couldn't trust (and even if we did, some had security practices so bad that we couldn't be sure they didn't, for example, leave easily exploited backdoors on our boxes. We sunk a fair bit of thought into how we could get some use out of that spare compute we were paying for. Some day, maybe that problem could be solved with FHE, if an efficient scheme could be achieved. Though I'd prefer, in the future, to never be renting shady or insecure servers I suppose.
When we talk about tech hiring we often focus on demand and don't think about supply. The number of IT/software graduates has been steadily increasing as well. And they have to work somewhere. If there are no jobs these new grads can "flip burgers" or something, but more likely they'll find someone willing to hire them to crank out code. Of course the cause and effect are intertwined. More code means more apps get made, which means more investors think the market will keep going up, which makes them invest. That's the "bubble".

I've been coding for 10 years. The coding profession has been a thing for maybe 40 years. The industry still hasn't worked out how to plan for these labor shortage and surplus cycles.
I think you'll find that vast tracts of granite across the planet relese more uranium decay products into the environment by several orders of magnitude than uranium mining does.

You can work this out for yourself by downloading and working through the raw 256 channel data of an entire continent aquired across 40 years and > 600 surveys.

https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/disciplines/geophysi...

https://www.publish.csiro.au/EG/EG09025
> I know I am naive but I can't help but think that people just don't want to think outside the box. I've encountered this in my career and now I'm encountering it in the entrepreneurship world. What am I doing wrong? Why am I so dumb to think I can just take something apart to its smallest bits and put it together in a better way?

Remember that the people you are pitching to are paid to, well, rip apart every possible problem. But that doesn't make it a bad idea. Hacker News famously had the worst take ever when Dropbox was announced. Read what they thought of Dropbox - which would later become a multibillion-dollar company, and it might brighten your day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
I don't understand, are you saying the person you're responding to is advocating for testing diseases on people in jail? Because from the outside it looks like you're adding a random characterization to someone else's unrelated argument in order to more easily dismiss them.
This is good. Thanks for the r pointer. Didn’t know they produce a report like this.
It is disingenuous to say something required a SRE, will be guaranteed 100% by the government (ie. tax payers) - and then also claim it is not a bailout.

I am not putting words in your mouth - that is the logic the government is feeding everyone today.

It is also disingenuous to claim a techy bank that catered to the tech sector posed an imminent risk to the entire banking system, ie the systemic part of the SRE. A bunch of tech elites and big tech companies would have been burned - and some failover would have happened certainly, but this was not a system issue, it was bad choices made explicitly by banking executives at some specific banks.

It is also disingenuous to claim no tax payer money is involved when it is in fact tax payers that are providing all the guarantees here, bear future risks, and ultimately will pay for it with bank fees and more.

The entire thing is a political exercise. Don't look behind the curtain... because it might all topple over.
You imply it's the USA who started this war? Please get your facts straight, will you? Russia invaded Ukraine. First time in 2014, then again in 2022. Nobody invaded Rusdia since 1941, or China for that matter.
>The government alleges the defendants and other members of ViLE use various methods to obtain victims’ personal information, including:

-tricking customer service employees;

-submitting fraudulent legal process to social media companies to elicit users’ registration information;

-co-opting and corrupting corporate insiders;

-searching public and private online databases;

-accessing a nonpublic United States government database without authorization

-unlawfully using official email accounts belonging to other countries.

>Prosecutors say they tied Singh to the government portal hack because he connected to it from an Internet address that he’d previously used to access a social media account registered in his name. When they raided Singh’s residence on Sept. 8, 2022 and seized his devices, investigators with Homeland Security found a cellular phone and laptop that allegedly “contained extensive evidence of access to the Portal.”

>The complaint alleges that between February 2022 and May 2022, Ceraolo used an official email account belonging to a Bangladeshi police official to pose as a police officer in communication with U.S.-based social media platforms.
The past is dead, as the US and French attempts at reviving nuclear power plant construction are showing.

One thing to note is how incredibly dangerous construction was in the past, including during the first nuclear rollout. The rate of deaths among construction workers was something like a factor of 5 higher in the 1960s as it is now. Did construction become more expensive because these deaths were deemed unacceptable? If so, you're not going to see cheaper nuclear without great relaxation of worker safety rules.
I don't think that's relevant to the post though. It's essentially saying that a big bank has bankers that want to check on accounts once they get large enough and he didn't understand that
Not necessary true. Many non muslim Arabs adopted Christian name. In fact the name is more of "western name". Same with millions of Chinese who are Buddhist or Taoist and yet have this kind of Christian Western name.
What? I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say here.
> In my case about 50% of the test code is just boilerplate

Why not replace it with a function call?
To be fair, neither has DINB
What is your comment in reference to? You are replying to a link that has unsubsidized, all-in costs, not marginal costs. And it also has costs for storage, in battery form. (And costs for hydrogen, which might some day be a form of storage, but much more likely will just be used for chemical processes and maybe heat)
Same here. It's really disappointing...
Who says they suck?

Most people are not creative, nor can they predict the future or better ways to do things. Most of the time when you explain an idea, people won't get it, nor will they see the value in it.

I often think I have stagnated, that my ideas are crufty and that my best ideas are behind me. But then I go out into the world and I see predictions I have made come to fruition.

The weakness of entrenched players is that they are defending their rathole. Use judo and push them on their heels and they will fall right over.
If you have enough assets, Chase will absolutely lend against that collateral.

“Enough” is likely the key word. But if you have business or personal accounts with over a couple million (and certainly $10+ million), I would be shocked if someone higher up than a clerk hadn’t personally reached out to you, tried to take you out to coffee, and let you know the perks applicable to your personal situation they can provide you that you can’t find on a website.

Sure, they likely weren’t as enticing as SVB’s perks nor as willing to lend to an account that had $0 yesterday and millions the next, but they absolutely will offer personal loans/mortgages against stock compensation on the guarantee you keep your account with them above a certain threshold, etc.
This is exactly how I use it also. It's great when it suggests the correct thing, but doesn't interfere with me if it's wrong.
How about Echo Park. I wanna be around people somewhat near my age range to help stave off(but not eliminate) my crippling depression.
The major energy consuming step for synfuels is hydrogen production. Electrolysers are getting cheap, so there's not much penalty to having the input energy be intermittent. Nuclear will therefore be competing directly against renewables on a levelized cost basis here. That's a competition it can't win.
Until GPT becomes more trustworthy and fun to work with than the average person, my job is safe :)
> What services did Alex render in this story to justify being a "rising star"

He didn't.

What is perhaps a touch of poetry is the author learning (the hardway) about the lessons with managing large amounts of cash, while simultaneously learning the hardway about being a customer account manager.

As another commenter wrote, Alex blew his opportunity.
More Google than that: the product launch is wildly successful and they get a lot of traction, only to succumb to institutional ADHD and sunset it to free up resources to launch yet another chat app.

Honestly, I’d love to know what childhood trauma afflicted Google to be the way it is.
With these phone prices? The third world got kicked off with the cheap android devices…
Don’t let people steal your time. There is power in saying “no.” And it’s ok to say it.

Try this. Next time someone asks you to do something you don’t want to do, respond with “How am I supposed to do that?” It flips it on them and makes them solve the problem they created.

Credit Chris Voss for this. He helped me realize no is fine, and a great way to fulfill a defensive time position. Time is money, but time is also life, so don’t let others steal it from you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33822149
Interestingly, many (most?) humans don't self-reflect or correct themselves unless challenged by an external agent as well — which doesn't necessarily have to be another human.

Also of note, GPT-4 seems to show huge improvements so far over GPT-3 when it comes to "thinking out loud" to come to a (better) answer to more complex problems. Kind of a front-loaded reflection of correctness for an overall goal before diving into the implementation weeds — something that definitely helps me (as a human) avoid unnecessary mistakes in the first place.
>Apple employees are very well compensated

We're not comparing Apple engineers to some guy flipping burgers, but to engineers at other comparable companies. So "$X should be enough" is not the metric. There's no cutoff for "well compensated". It depends on how much profit the company makes and how much you bring in.

Apple is notorious for not compensating its people well, given that it doesn't have the most generous of salaries compared to other FAANGs and has more strict working conditions - while having the biggest profit margins.

>If people thought the deal they have is unfair and they can get a better deal elsewhere, they'd leave in droves, but that's not the case.

Many top devs have left Apple over the years exactly for such reasons. And people factor in other stuff too, for many years for many employees Apple was more based on instilling a cult-like, reality-distortion-based hold to be "glad to be working at Apple" than actual conpensation.

You know, of the "Apple employees get to do some really meaningful and impactful work" variety...

>Apple's revenues were down 5% in 2022.

Why, does Apple share its profits with employees the years that they're up 5%?
I wonder if this would have gone differently if the author had originally opened business account with the local teacher's credit union. That could have really been interesting to see how the account manager handled his account. And @jmillikin's comment about the author being used to treating banking as an anonymous store for cash and executor of transactions vs how they have traditionally worked is spot on.
Yes.

It's non-descriptive (since it really is supposed to be referring to less-economically developed countries) and entirely inaccurate in every way.

China, India, Mexico and all of Africa are considered "Global South" despite being north of the equator.

The only things they are south of are the US and Europe, which really says what this name is about. I think it really shows the US/Euro-centric thought process that came up with this name.
You're right, heat pumps have been around for a while, but they're only at 15% market share across the whole US. The Southeast, for a few different reasons, has the highest market share. (1) It doesn't get that cold, and magnitude of heating/cooling loads are close enough that single stage equipment provides an OK experience. (2) There's very little natural gas infrastructure.

Cold weather heat pumps have recently become popular and enable increased adoption in the northeast, and the fact they're so efficient means they're competitive even in areas with a lot of natural gas infrastructure.
They are shut down, but not because the capital cost is so high. They are shut down because the operating cost is too high.
Hold on. Of course you want to avoid terrible candidates. But brain teaser questions and asking gotcha questions about obscure python syntax or something like that isn't a good correlative indicator. You get a bunch of false negatives this way... people who are good but not good at interviews.

You have to give them some take home exercise. That's the best way to determine if they're not a false negative. Unfortunately many good devs just don't have the time to do a takehome.

Did you hire a candidate who say... didn't know what MRO was, but created a stellar result for a take home project?

What I'm saying is that the market is flooded with these false negatives.
Is it right to assume that Creative Commons BY-SA was picked over say GPL v2 or v3 because of the attribution requirement it adds beyond just being sharealike?

Also, props for not going with one of the non-commercial variants - the definition of commercial is so debatable, and I'm not sure if it's ever been enforced.
>As a professional...why not do this?

because "open"AI logs everything that goes in and out of the model?
Trollish usernames aren't allowed on HN, so I've banned this account.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Then there becomes a "material" difference between Othello and those LL(1) grammars as grandparent comment suggested there wasn't.

I would argue the optimal compression for such a table is a representation of the geometric algorithm of determining move validity that all humans use intuitively, and speculate that any other compression algorithm below size say 1MB necessarily could be reduced to the geometric one.

In other words, Othello is a stateful, complex game, so if GPT is doing validation efficiently, it necessarily encoded something that unequivocally can be described as the "geometric structure".
Some languages are just noisy.

Go, Java I’ve experienced are noisier than others.
You know what still pisses me off? It’s tiny compared to most things, but it was the first thing that turned me against Google.

The removal of the ‘+’ search operator.

Before Google+ was a thing, a leading ‘+’ before a search term meant “this must be in the results”. Then they hijacked it for G+ and made me start "quoting" "every" "important" "term" in my query.

Or maybe it was the Reader shutdown. Those both happened around the same time, right?
Yeah, to me this doesn’t feel that different than using a library from another developer, just slightly more customized. Most code that is run is not written by the final developer, but by people further up the chain.
I did create the block files as sparse originally (using `truncate`), but at some point in the process they became realized on disk. Don't know if it was the losetup or the mdadm or the cryptsetup. I didn't really worry about it, since the block files need to be synced to the WebDAV server in full anyway.
Of course renewables can scale. Why do you think they can't? Be quantitative.
I notice the editorialized headline still stands as of now, when usually it is reverted to the actual article title. Is there a reason this case?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1B_reactor
I'm awaiting the day when the top commenter on HN is revealed to be an AI
Show HN: GPT-4 makes Snake game using Replit
> A doctor can put an entire patient's medical history in the prompt, a lawyer an entire case history, etc.

you don't see a real problem there?
I mean this is a prime example why lines of code are a terrible metric.
Even Bernie Madoff had $5B sitting in a Chase Bank account.
> Big corps (like HashiCorp) make their margins on SWE and FOSS' backs - do you owe them the same ire as landlords?

There is a false equivalency made here, in that it assumes that the debate regarding labor & the debate regarding capital are interchangeable.

Landlords (& possibly account managers like "Alex") derive their compensation from the maintenance & management of the capital's safety & utility: The quality of said capital (whether cash or real estate) should remain constant if they did their job. The debate enters in when the capital owners/managers put in little documented effort & receive large compensations in response.

For Software Corps, their compensations are derived from difference between the value created from the creative, technical, & outreach labor put in from their SWEs, designers, marketers, etc., and the cost of compensating that labor + maintaining the necessary equipment to make the labor usable. For this, the debate enters in on how much they should be compensated for the labor put in.

The two debates are not strictly equal.
I'm looking forward to the day when the "help me write" and the "summarize" features are the inverse of each other.

You're sending an email. You enter "I'm on it" into the help me write box, and the AI generates a complete corporate-speak email using all the latest buzzwords.

Then the recipients get the email and the summarize feature shows them: "I'm on it".
Four-figure ("thousands of dollars out every few weeks"), presumably specifically to avoid tripping any automated checks on moving over $10k.

But yeah, it's still kind of mind-boggling that they could do this for apparently years without anyone noticing. And not just on Chase's side: how do you not notice that the money customers claim to be paying you is not actually landing in your main bank account?
First I copy everything into one folder, and then I copy that to two hard drives. Every few years I buy two new drives, copy the old backup, add all of the new files from the last few years. Old drives are thrown away, because I don't trust hard drives for more than a few years. Also I use cloud services like onedrive and icloud, so the only way I'll ever need my backup drives is if one of those services dies.
Hmm, seems like you are on the mark with the generative AI. I've read others writing similar things. Some people propose that this will be the breaking point where people have had enough of internet content and a trend of disconnecting might start to become a thing or the return to more curated walled gardens (remember AOL?)

As for your second point, seems like you are referring to neuralink? Are you also considering things like the upcoming Apple Glasses/Goggles? That seems like it will lead us to [1] (a video I totally despise because I dread it coming)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
A common occurrence is something like a pool of 10 actions where a bunch of tests each do 3 to 7 of them. This is very hard to abstract with a function call.
I wonder how much of this is availability of means.

Firearm owners have higher suicide rates just because they have a reliable means at hand. Vets have euthanasia drugs, dentists have gas, doctors have various drugs. Is that taken into account?
You probably should read the article as Carmack makes the case for inlining as a style, not inlining as an optimisation.
It's all that hiring of the best of the best.
Duchamp, quoted on why he wrote what he wrote on fountain:

> Mutt comes from Mott Works, the name of a large sanitary equipment manufacturer. But Mott was too close so I altered it to Mutt, after the daily cartoon strip "Mutt and Jeff" which appeared at the time, and with which everyone was familiar. Thus, from the start, there was an interplay of Mutt: a fat little funny man, and Jeff: a tall thin man... I wanted any old name. And I added Richard [French slang for money-bags]. That's not a bad name for a pissotière. Get it? The opposite of poverty. But not even that much, just R. MUTT.

Why did he choose "Mutt" after reading the strip, and not before? Why did he make the piece after moving to the US, and not before? Why was fountain made only a few short years after economies were industrialized, and not before (or 100 years later?)
I believe this 100%, and that's why I refuse to even try these tools. Not even once.
Let’s say you’re in a meeting with colleagues who are having a side discussion about something, which you can contribute to. In this current setup, that conversation would not be displayed, while as a hearing person, you could context switch on a dime.

It’s a decently-common occurrence. There’s a significant amount of literature pointing to the fact that people who are DHH avoid group conversations because they can’t follow along (see references). This sort of falls hand-in-hand with speech localization, which is another unsolved problem (and likely is unsolvable without true AR).

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1084713807301322

https://doi.org/10.1080/02674649366780051

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1473-4192.1998.tb00121.x
I feel exactly the same about the interviews.
nono I actually have built this and people are using it :)
Another +1 for plausible. Super easy setup and hasn’t crashed in a year plus in production for me.
The effort would be shown by recognizing iPhones and Macbooks and AirPods as "meaningful contributions" to society?
Even so, you can be promoted mid-cycle in orgs like this. My team opened up a senior eng slot at the 6 month mark and had a team member apply. Counted as an internal job transfer rather than a promotion.
chatsuggest.com
To be clear, who are the people that "played extremely loose" in your ire? The bank management or the individual bank account holders that had more than $250k in the accounts?

What does the price of a house have to do with the cash-on-hand bank accounts of the average citizen?
Slowly, no one even realized, our jobs were replaced by AI talking to itself.
> With Google Workspace Individual you get additional premium features including longer group calls and intelligent noise cancellation with Google Meet, and easy appointment booking through your own professional booking page.

from https://workspace.google.com/individual/

See also:

https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html

https://support.google.com/a/answer/175121?hl=en
Good idea.

I'd ask for my stuff to be added to that, but companies would probably use your list to find such content and steal it.
The US has not built a new coal fired power plant for ten years now (932 MW Sandy Creek Energy Station in Texas, came online in 2013). Do we even have the industrial infrastructure to build one now?
Check out the media lab epstein stuff
Many of the West Coast "Chase" branches and operations are just rebranded WaMu ones from when they collapsed during the GFC. Probably the new JPM Chase won't lose your money but the predecessor came pretty close.
You’re confusing AGI with useful AI. AI doesn’t have to become an AGI to change the world. I also haven’t seen anybody claiming the recent breakthroughs are AGI.