skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Bryan - it's me, again (the poster).

The transparency is great and is clearly a value-add for candidates, IMO.

But the salary simply does not compete with HCOL Startup Senior+ Engineers (around 20- 40% lower than Staff level).

That said, Oxide is in a unique class of startups that can still hire strong talent despite this pay deficit (whether due to an exceptional product, team, technical challenge, or other rare attribute). I know a Software Engineer who just took a 25% pay cut to join a construction analytics SaaS startup because he has heard his brother (a Surveyor) complain specifically about problems this company's solving!
https://archive.ph/75GVX
how about "useless with no successes of note" AI?
It looks interesting but, given how Atom was abruptly taken out the back and put out of its misery, are many devs are going to invest the time in going all in on Zed?

EDIT: Just had a look inside the app bundle to see if they were using Electron again. Looks like this is built round WebRTC instead.

EDIT2: Actually the actual 'zed' binary is just under 284MB, so maybe Zed's not built round the WebRTC framework, but just uses it for networky stuff ???

The binary is pretty big by itself.
> A 2 year old iPhone (or to be fair, Google Pixel now) still has enough years of support

I think part of it is also that older iPhones still have good processors due to Apple's substantial lead in mobile CPUs. An iPhone 12 (2.5 years old) will Geekbench at 2,000 single-core. The latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (a month old) will Geekbench at 1,700-1,900. Apple's phones just really hold up performance wise for a good while.

A Pixel 5 from October 2020 will Geekbench at 770 compared to 2,000 for the similar-age iPhone 12. Even a Pixel 7 Pro from October 2022 hits 1,400. When Apple is shipping CPUs with a multi-year head start, older devices are still going to be pretty good. Snapdragon 888s from 2 years ago hit 1,200-1,300. Those devices aren't going to feel as snappy as long as a 2.5 year old iPhone 12 getting 2,000.

Apple's software commitment is a big part of it, but the fact that their devices are years ahead CPU-wise also matters.

The Android ecosystem also means that there are budget, non-used phones out there which compete and drive down the price of used devices. Do you want to buy a used Galaxy S21 or would you rather get a new OnePlus Nord or Moto G? Apple doesn't offer you a lot of choice in new phones at a budget price. There's no $150 new iPhone out there, but there's plenty of new budget Android phones ready to take your dollars instead of buying a quality used Android phone.

Why should I pay $350 for your used Galaxy S21 when I can get a shiny new phone for less than that? Yes, the new phone might have a slower processor and worse display/camera, but it's new! Even if you would buy the quality used device, many wouldn't which will drive down the price (due to increased competition from substitutes).
As someone who is more interested in building the product than marketing it, I found the following recent reads helpful in achieving a balance:

1. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore - making your product work for the masses

2. The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen - achieving escape velocity, getting viral referral traffic

3. Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss - it might seem a bit gimmicky but negotiation always comes off gimmicky

Motivational stories:

4. The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

5. The Founders by Jimmy Soni

6. The Upstarts by Brad Stone

7. Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton

8. That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph

9. Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's by Ray Kroc

Can't skip:

10. Zero To One by Peter Thiel
AMD have an addon for Blender that supports Hydra, though it is a bit slow.
There's ongoing work to add it to Blender itself natively

https://projects.blender.org/BogdanNagirniak/blender/src/bra...
How: By force (as opposed to achieving a peaceful resolution through adhering to the Minsk agreements which admittedly was just a ploy on Ukraine's side to buy time to build up for an offensive)

When: OSCE reports show increased activity in the area (the majority of it on the Donbass side of the neutral zone) during the two weeks leading up to the invasion. From that perspective it looks like it was in the process of happening when Russia stepped in.

By whom: The Ukrainian regime (feels a bit weird to even have to answer this question).
> it's more grey than that in services like Uber or Doordash

I understand this perspective, but my opinion is that the company running things is responsible for the people working under their banner. If the company doesn't make something right, that's on the company in the end regardless of who specifically did something wrong. So it doesn't look gray to me.

> sometimes you are at the mercy of losing a massive library of content

True, and that's a tough spot. Personally, that risk is why I never use a service that can put me in that sort of position. But I do understand that others may be willing to take this risk. It's still a risk, though, and I expect that the people who choose these sorts of services are aware of that and accept that they might lose.
* for MacOS :(
They really need to work on reducing the glare on the visor and illuminating the face in the dark. Otherwise we won't be able to see their emotions on camera as they're attacked by aliens.

Maybe just full MR and forget about the visor? That way we can see the aliens sneaking up on them as they blindly bumble around deceived by their advanced technology.

Yes, I'm joking. But really there are reasons to do MR/VR in space due to the huge dynamic range and availability of non-visible spectra. The huge clear face shield looks like a point of failure (as are joints etc). At the same time, I expect once there is MR for some cheesy horror movie to use it to arouse innate human fears of the unseen. One could always flip a covering visor up to see, if there were a failure... and once part of your space suit is failing, you've already got problems!
UBS got bailed out in 2008, the state even made a hefty profit from it.
Article is a day old and already out-of-date on some of the key financials of CS. Update from the Guardian today:
https://theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/15/credit-suisse-s...
Keto bread is an abomination and a horrible food to subject yourself to.
You purchased _access_ to the media for as long as the company decides to host it. You don't physically own the media. Think of it as renting or a lease.
Elon Musk on OpenAI
I'm really looking for a lighter-weight GUI editor. Too many random shortcut keys to memorize in Atom, and VS code is getting wayyyy to bloated. It always has an annoying welcome message at startup, annoying notifications about things I could install, and way too much text in the UI. I don't like settings and other dialogs being tabs alongside code, even though I know it hip to do that nowadays. I search for 'ssh plugin' and there about 35 of them.

SSH remote editing is about the only "plugin" I need, and if it's built into the editor that would be nice.

Very often I find myself going back to terminal vim because VS code has gotten to be too much, and also too annoying to deal with if I want to keep multiple projects' repos open at the same time.
I think the fact it correctly uses "meat-eating goat" but misuses "vegan wolf" hints at the core lack of understanding.

Understanding either concept takes the same level of intelligence if you understand the meaning of the words (both a vegan wolf and a meat-eating goat are nonexistent entities outside of possibly bizarre exceptions, yet someone capable of understanding will have no problem with either).

That GPT has no trouble with meat-eating goat but struggles with vegan wolf hints that the former has some "statistical" property that helps GPT, and which the latter doesn't. It also hints that GPT doesn't understand either term.

Hence my example: something a human wouldn't fail to understand but GPT does.
I believe their policy statement on admissions as much as I believe former MIT president Susan Hockfield's reason for stepping down from her position in 2012.

Also, don't forget that Susan Hockfield never referred her dean of admissions at MIT to the attorney general's office to face prosecution on wire fraud charges after it was discovered that she had fabricated a medical degree from a medical school that she had never attended on her resume.
Total Wireless used to be the easy answer here, but VZ just bought them (of course.) However, their plans (Total By Verizon, it's now called) are still pretty competitive: $30/m for 5GB data (2G speeds after that), unlimited T/T.

I've been a customer of theirs for years, and like you, I barely ever use more than 1/2 GB of data. I always preferred the VZ network in my area as well. Not sure if VZ carried over the tradition, but TotalWireless used to run nice Black Friday sales on low-midrange Android phones as well. I highly recommend one of the Motorola phones around the $200-$300 (less on sale) price point.
I highly recommend watching Mark Meldrums video from yesterday that answers your question.
I have Mint and live in a major city and have never had any noticeable issues. If you're talking about power users, i.e. people using their phones constantly on network to do a wide range of network intensive things like watching videos, then sure it makes sense to not use a MVNO. If you're the average person that spends 90% of their time on wifi and uses their network data occasionally when not at the home or office then MVNOs are a godsend.
YES we (well some highly trained and lucky astronauts) went to the moon.

It's like your assuming all of the landers NASA and other countries have landed on Mars and Venus are fake too.
When you offer something for free and then suddenly start charging for it, you are jerking around your customers -- especially when you do it with such confusing and incomplete communication as Docker has provided in this instance.

This is effectively a long-term bait and switch. This is not ok.
The problem is that the businesses have made customer's ability to access their previous purchases dependent upon continuing to have a business relationship with the account. If, when closing the account, the business paid back full value for everything they were removing access to, the ruling might be different. But they aren't doing that.

If you are a business doing more normal business, selling something with no sort of required subscription, something the customer does not depend upon you for, then you are still free to stop doing business with them (minus a few cases related to protected classes).
We've heard of 2-4% performance hit in terms of performance using pyroscope on Node, but in practice, we've seen ~1% hit in terms of perf (Though we're not running high-performance systems where we're trying to eke out every bit of perf from each pod, so YMMV)
What forms of keyboard navigation are you missing? We try to make sure everything is controllable from the keyboard.
I haven't used a MVNO at a packed stadium, but I've never experienced complete bandwidth starvation even in large crowds.

I've also never had any problems with tethering on a MVNO; I think the restrictions are only for the "unlimited" plans which don't make a lot of sense (may as well get service from the major carrier at that point). In my experience, if you're paying for x GB per month, you are free to use that via tethering without extra interference from the carrier.
If I have a CD, that CD is often not time locked, it just has a penalty for early withdrawal (X months of interest or whatever).

If I don't trust that the bank can give me the money, it doesn't matter if it's in a CD or checking account, I'm going to pull it out (screw the gains) and the liquidity problem still exists. The extra months/year of interest don't stop a bank run.

This is why I think this can really only be solved by government and regulation. Government regulation on the quality of investments to make sure that they're really worth X% long term. If there is a bank run, government needs to step in with the government liquidity, and say "customer gets their money, we get your assets". Of course, brokering an auction for these amongst other banks is the preferred approach.

There should be a fairly free market around what leverage banks are willing to take on as long as the investments that back it are regulated and solid. If a company wants to expose their shareholders to risk by keeping high levels of leverage, that's their problem, but you can't punish depositors for the mistakes of the bank. Not saying we shouldn't have any regulations in this space, but as long as mistakes impact shareholders and not depositors or taxpayers, I think everyone is happy.
I could see these being difficult logistical problems for companies but that gives them no right to socialize the problem by playing hardball and holding accounts hostage. That problem is in their domain to solve, and sorry that being a profitable business is tough but, again, solving this is not on the customer.
Honestly, the increased RAM is probably the nicest part of my new phone and not having to wait for large apps to reload has been the biggest quality of life improvement. That said, I don't feel like it justifies the price of a new phone by itself, mostly because large apps are usually games and if I have to switch back and forth between a game and some other app constantly then I probably should not be playing games.
For GPT4: "Pricing is $0.03 per 1,000 “prompt” tokens (about 750 words) and $0.06 per 1,000 “completion” tokens (again, about 750 words)."

Meanwhile, there are off-shelf models that you can train very efficiently, on relevant data, privately, and you can run these on your own infrastructure.

Yes, GPT4 is probably great at all the benchmark tasks, but models have been great at all the open benchmark tasks for a long time. That's why they have to keep making harder tasks.

Depending on what you actually want to do with LMs, GPT4 might lose to a BERTish model in a cost-benefit analysis--especially given that (in my experience), the hard part of ML is still getting data/QA/infrastructure aligned with whatever it is you want to do with the ML. (At least at larger companies, maybe it's different at startups.)
Credit Suisse Is in Crisis. What Went Wrong?
Improving job system performance scaling in 2022.2 – part 1: Background and API
The point is that AI is more than just generating more of the same data it was trained on.
> Companies above a certain treshold (and all citizens for that matter) should be able to bank with the Fed, and have peace of mind that the money they deposit there is not being put to work in any way, shape or form.

Banks being able to lend out money is generally considered a good thing though.

There certainly are alternatives though for depositors that want to have more control in how their money is put to work: money market accounts, short term treasuries, etc
> my libraries

You may have curated but you do not own your library. You purchased _access_ to said library.
How does moving people from high productivity jobs in high productivity regions to low/low ones help anyone? That's the question here. There is no reason one area should have a higher or lower GDP (GDR) than any other. And if they do, that is not a moral judgement on that region. It's just a fact. People seem to want to reduce everything to the lowest level to make it "fair", but regions are not people, regions should NOT be treated fairly. People should be treated fairly. Regions (and countries) are just made up...
Yes in normal circumstances they won't need to immediately borrow the full outstanding amount of the loan to convert it to cash, but the fact they can borrow £1m in reserves at that rate to the extent capital weighting rules or withdrawal demands require it is critical to why the £1m credit they add in the borrower's account is treated as money by other banks and their customers. As is the detail that the bank's profit is only the difference between the interest rate paid by the business and the bank: the bit they create "from thin air" isn't their asset, it's a liability they may be required to borrow to pay some other bank or customer.
Improving job system performance scaling in Unity 2022.2 – part 2: Overhead
Sure they can, and did.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmnpd/the-freedom-convoy-bi...

Many cryptocurrencies even build the functionality in directly. Tether, for example, can blacklist tokens: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/10/tether-freezes-...
Upstream source: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/spacesuit-for-nasa-s-artemis-ii...
No mention of extensibility is a big red flag, and if it isn't open-source it presents the same risk as anyone adopting Atom originally ended up getting burned by.
It's like if Ubuntu locked you in a jail

Only windows is worse
is it an electron app? like vs code?
That may be true, but the EU can simply outlaw those types of contractual arrangements going forward, and require that prior purchases be either defaulted into the new purchase arrangement or refunded.

Welcome to governments that are actually responsive to protecting their citizens. It doesn't have to be the way it is in the US with corporations holding all the cards, that's just regulatory capture in action.

That's how the EU works in general, the balance is shifted way towards consumer protections - even if companies don't like it, tough. You get a default 2 year warranty on everything, no questions asked, and if the items fails past that due to an inherent defect in design or manufacture, they have to replace it even if it's outside the warranty window. And that's just normal, that's how everything is expected to run. USB cables, charges, all that crap, the EU does what it thinks is best for its citizens' lives, and while specific things sometimes do go wrong, on net it's a massive benefit to everyone's quality of life.

Companies exist to serve us, folks, not the other way around. It doesn't have to be this way. "Oh we put something in the terms of service"? Yeah bullshit. Mandatory binding arbitration in your contract of adhesion? Arbitrate on deez nuts.

The US is completely obscene by the standards of the rest of the developed world.
Sounds like op might have been using the cheapest option without ecc ram, server grade cpus etc?
My analysis of this:

After Kubernetes became the de-facto container orchestration platform, Docker sold a bunch of their business to Mirantis. They shifted their marketing and positioning from enterprise to developers. From public sources, it sounds like their strategy is doing pretty well.

The question then is, does Docker look like they are committed to open-source and the open-source ecosystem?

1. You would think that a developer-focused strategy would involve open-source, and that doing things to decrease their influence on the open-source world would reduce their influence, branding, and narrow their funnel. (But maybe not. Are the people paying for Docker Desktop also big open-source users and advocates?).

2. It sounds like Docker has full-time internal teams that maintain the official Docker images and accept PRs from upstream.

3. Docker rate-limited metadata access for public repositories. Is that a signal for weakening support for open-source?

4. According to the article, the Docker Open Source program is out-of-touch ...

5. ... But they may still be paying attention to the big foundations like CNCF and Apache. So the images people depend upon for those may not be going away anytime soon

So I would look for other signals for diminishing commitment to open-source:

- If several of the larger projects pulls out of hosting on Docker Hub

- If the internal Docker teams are getting let go

- If the rate at which PRs are accepted for the official images are reduced

- If the official images are getting increasingly out of sync with upstream

- Some other signals that matches
Anything written before about 1755 gets heavily edited for modern readers because the old (and sometimes also inconsistent) spelling is a bit too painful. (I think Shakespeare's First Folio didn't distinguish between the letters U and V. Does adding that distinction count as an edit?)

Also, according to online images, the First Folio had "Actus Primus. Scoena Prima." rather than "Act I Scene I"!
Yeah I don't much care for baguettes for this reason. I just do good old brown, 1cm thick bread. Just enough to soak up the pesto and absorb all its flavours without getting too mushy. Man this is making me hungry, might have to go fix myself one of these :D
It is not really llama, it is llama quantized to 4bit. Not even the quality of original 7B. I could also quantize it to 1 bit and claim it runs on my RPI3.
> how does "life of the author + 50 years" incentivize the author to keep creating? It just incentivizes them to keep exploiting.

It is a necessary protection against moral hazard, and a way for artists who may well be poor during their lifetime to be able to leave something behind for their children.

In your world, if one wants to print Calvin-peeing-on-things t-shirts without having to deal with legal hurdles, all they'd have to do is shove Bill Watterson into traffic to force his creations into the public domain.

There is no point to creating anything if someone else can throw you under an actual bus to immediately claim rights to (and start profiting from) the years of time and effort you spent building the "brand." Forcing a delay of 50 years goes a long way toward discouraging this sort of literal piracy.

This is the premise of the current AI debate, only it's forgery at scale instead of manslaughter.
> The pedestrian should be obvious from the graphic

The text is intentionally fully-redundant with the graphic, when both are used.
Web Game Dev Newsletter – Issue 012
Does the prize include a PhD? /s Because, this sounds like a dissertation-level project, and that prize money is less than the cost of supporting a grad student, or a post doc for a couple of years. That said, I think this is soo freaking cool.
This is such a blasé way of disassociating outcomes from actors and actions. We may live under capitalism, but people are making these choices.

We don't have to move in these directions, but people who work at these companies, people who are paid by these companies, people who are applying to these companies are all choosing to make these decisions and drive us to these outcomes. Every step of the way they have had the chance to say "no". They have had the chance to champion for a different outcome. They have been a piece of a broader machine that they could have collectively grouped together and said that we can be better.

Do not try to wave this away as "well it's capitalism, too bad, so sad". These are real people making these choices, and at the end of the day this is what they've chosen. And, the out come is incredibly sad.
Cost of maintenance and use is much higher than a train line, though. The cost of maintenance per year for a four lane highway is something like $300,000 per mile, and repaving is $2,000,000 per mile. Meanwhile in Europe in a high speed rail line costs about €160,000 per kilometer, or $99,420 per mile. The distance between the proposed ends is 353 miles. So a highway along the same route per year would cost $105,900,000 to maintain. Meanwhile the rail line would cost $35,095,260 per year to maintain. And the road cost doesn't include the personal cost incurred to the user per year due to vehicle maintenance.

So yes, the upfront cost of a high speed rail line will always be higher simply because of the type of infrastructure being built. But the running costs will be much lower, both to the state and to the individual users.
> I’m not sure I understand a definition of AI that doesn’t include the ability to generate things.

It depends how you define "generate." For example, is software that controls a robot arm generating anything? I guess it's generating the movements of the arm. But when people use the term "generative" with regards to machine learning models right now, they generally mean content—e.g. text or images for consumption.