skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is awesome. Someone stepping up to the plate to solve the problem without asking the public to bail out the richest 1%.

Real leadership.

Too bad the whiners got rewarded.
What specific features would you like to see?
You're on the money. Like literally, empathy here would convey some sadness, or just "negative feelings", which would affect how the money feels. We can't have the money feeling bad now can we? Plus who cares anyway, we all know software monkeys don't feel. They just want to sit around all day drinking coffees and mashing little plastic chiclets! And the money is perfectly happy with this arrangement. /s
Because the base URL isn't encrypted. The packet still needs to be able to be routed
hackernews is an insanely simple app too
Don't confuse "the messenger" with "the messenger's message, viewed in context with their other messages on related matters".

Or do, because they're both you.
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I'm giving you an up vote for creative writing and nothing else. I'm not claiming anything about your data, just your creative writing skills. Thank you.
The crypto industry has basically done a speed run of the history of banking and finance over the last decade or so.

But the safeguards and regulations that governments put in place for money are mostly absent for crypto. It should remain this way. I want to see how far crypto can go without government regulations and protections.
Thank you :) That was the idea.
Tiny data center used to heat public swimming pool
Digging into this on oxylabs site i found this document:
https://oxylabs.io/Oxylabs_Residential_Proxy_Acquisition_Han...

"Consenting and fully aware individuals become a part of a residential proxy
network in return for a financial reward or some other benefit. When they choose to participate in our suppliers’ pools, they consent that a part of their internet traffic and a small amount of the device’s hardware resources will be used for a variety of business cases."

Does anyone that uses NordVPN know how explicit this is in their client/agreement? If they are even using it...
If you’re only talking to your directs for 10-15 minutes every two weeks you are neglecting your duties as a manager. The standard is 30 minutes 1x week with every direct report.
For anyone in this predicament, the place I see the most hiring for software developers is large non-tech companies like Walmart. They have 1379 job openings with “software” in the title. Many are in CA, WA or TX, and hundreds were posted in the past few weeks.

https://careers.walmart.com/results?q=software&page=1&sort=r...
I'd like to clarify, who is the fed? The federal government? If so, would that go as high as the sitting president?
You're mixing bad things that Hubbard does and Eliezer doesn't with things that are done by both but are not obviously bad.

It reads like a "Hitler also ate sugar" argument.
What’s the iPhone 7 radio debacle?
How has the startup world devolved to the point that it's primarily about financial movements and shenanigans and not related to technology innovation? I feel we're so far past where technology innovation has come from, and now we simply trade startups as financial products.
Subscribers get 4000 character limit? Another way in which Twitter is not twitter any more.
Good point. If you are entertaining a large party, you can expect to pay a lot more for quality too, for similar reasons.
I’ve said a thousand times that learning a programming language and writing code are just a small part of successful software development. Necessary but not sufficient.

Programmers who focus all their efforts on skills that can get automated will eventually get automated away. When a chatbot can replace me in terms of understanding customers and business domain expertise, and translate requirements into code, I’ll retire.
>To my knowledge Microsoft never made any commitment saying that Bethesda games would always come out on other platforms.

I'm not sure if a "technically we didn't promise anything" is that good of an excuse when you tell the regulators that it wouldn't be beneficial to you to withhold games from other platforms.
I think that's why they're open sourcing their client to show they're not going that?
Since the on-chain hash is part of an immutable object that no one can change, then anyone can use it to verify that the off-chain data is valid at anytime. (No one needs to go ask someone else whether it is valid they can check for themselves) If the off-chain data was found to be invalid, then a correct version of that off-chain data would need to be provided or a process would have to be developed that would handle exceptions where the document is no longer available and now a new NFT would need to be minted.

The minting process could be managed by the government or some entity using an on-chain contract or it could just be a manual process that the government does in conjunction with banks. The enforcement of the ownership records would still be held with the government. The point of having property records as NFT on-chain data is it enables easy to verify ownership of property records, transparency/auditability of property records, and easy transfers of property records to new owners.
Is it silly? It's already being banned from US and European government devices. It is just one more sentence away from being banned for general population in those huge regions.
The elevator in a building I lived in had a feature, presumably for emergency responders, where holding the door close and a floor number simultaneously for a few seconds would take you directly to that floor. I believe that method has been replaced with a standardized keyed override. The trick did come in handy once when a bratty kid pushed all the buttons as a prank.
I assumed something like that happened behind the scenes but I never knew any facts. It was a publicly traded company and it was a good offer based on the stock price so I doubt any efforts to resist the purchase would have succeeded.

I think more likely the new CEO's comment stemmed from that fact that 1. The old executive staff were in fact horrible at face value. 2. In between the time of the offer to buy the company and the closing the old CEO visited several locations presumably under the idea that he was there to keep everyone around / soothe the typical nerves about being acquired. But something else happened:

Instead he took snide shots at the acquiring CEO. He noted that he was surprised the new CEO hadn't visited our site yet.... when at that point the deal hadn't closed, they were still technically competitors. New CEO straight up couldn't visit.

I think old CEO was just a horrible person and salty he lost (mostly due to his own missteps) to his competitor.

But that was par for the course with old company executives. They seemed to operate thinking they were so smart and really were as transparent as could be, almost childish.

I generally feel disconnected / suspicious of executive staff... but these guys, they were human garbage as far as I was concerned, and I don't use that term lightly.

My Fav examples:

HR at one point sent out a series of long emails about a big change upcoming, but they didn't / would not say what the change was, it put a lot of people on edge. Then finally after the 5th or so email they announced that after HR spent thousands of hours in meetings and off site meetings ... they were renaming HR... that was it... it was like a joke, but they were serious. CEO and all the other executives of course had to reply all to congratulate them.

One of the last meetings with the OLD CEO had an open forum where people could ask questions about the acquisition. Old CEO seemed to give the impression he had some idea what he combined company would look like / could do. Someone asked where he saw the new company in six months/ what it might look like. He responded "I'll be in Banff sking." That was it, that was his response....
It's adorable that you think people assume HN comments are factually correct. I read everything here with extreme skepticism, because I know this is all coming from flawed humans. An computer system giving authoritative text and insisting it is 100% correct is a different story.
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Clarification: resistive heating is very near 100% efficient, meaning that all of the energy you pull ends up in the air or water it is meant for. Gas water heating is at the very best ~90-95% efficient (e.g., top-end condensing tankless water heaters), but often as low as 60%: plenty of heat going out the exhaust. You think resistive heating is inefficient because policy has made electricity much more expensive per kwh than gas/oil.
Operation chokepoint in action.
Saving for retirement does not mean doing nothing fun until you retire.

The world is in a transition. That transition needs to happen. However, two things are currently true:

* There is a huge demand for oil. Having friendly control (compared to hostile nations) over that flow is likely beneficial to many people in the world.

* Even with more electric vehicles, petro is used in many every day products. It will still be needed.
Labor unions seem to put that kidney dialysis measure on the ballot for every election, then they are outspent by more than 100-to-1 by the kidney dialysis companies on TV ads, and the measures never pass.

Money wins, and the unions could spend more but they don't in this case.
> When skills are not valued over CS brain teasers the shark has been jumped.

That's been the case for like the past 15 years at least, in my experience. There's now dozens of businesses built just on helping others pass technical interviews. The shark was jumped a long time ago.
For my medium size company, before wfh applying for a job was competing with people living in the sf Bay Area, now it’s competing with the entire US and the actually company throws out resumes from high cost of living areas including any from CA
Thanks for the report, it should be fixed now.
Totally agree with this, though even with Geyser Bedrock players are second class citizens (some mods don't translate well to Bedrock clients, e.g., furniture mods).

Java is the better way to play Minecraft generally, which is unfortunate because the performance is still really bad.
I used to buy residential IPs from a competitor of Oxylabs in a previous life. Nothing illegal, just scraping data from websites using cloudflare. (Cloudflare has some anti-scraping-scraping protection, even if you do 1 request per 15 second)

I asked this question, the answer from this other company was "we would close your account". But they were unable to explain clearly to me how and if they monitored this.

In fine, I think this is your responsibility, you basically voluntarily installed some malware.
Air-to-air is much cheaper than connecting to water flow radiator system. Radiators aren't that great for cooling anyway.
That’s the normal state of things in Wall Street. Do whatever you can to make money, greed is good etc. They’re not fools though, it only works if there’s some truth in it.
My POV too. I was listening to Bloomberg radio yesterday and the people were all talking about if this is a bailout, and if voters would see it as a bailout.

I thought the reason people were pissed at the 2008 bailouts because the actual too-big-to-fail corporations (less Lehman and WaMu) were enabled to continue existing, with their shareholders still owning part of the corporations.

Here it's only the depositors who are being made whole.
Nobody gets salary cuts. What happens is that devs get laid off then companies hire at lower salaries.

This is indeed what is happening right now.
Maybe we should follow the unix philosophy with companies. Do one thing, and do it well, and seek to optimise compatibility rather than building huge monolithic companies that seek engulf everything smaller.
Well, the client code certainly isn't great. Reading through it random, I see a lot of undocumented code, functions with 20 positional arguments (who wants to bet some call sites silently swap two of them?), a file called constants.go where random strings are defined far away from where they're used, etc.

There are also random, mostly undocumented, interfaces lying around /everywhere/, in all kinds of places not connected with either the call site or the implementation. My favorite is a custom bools library called "strings".

I haven't found any obvious bugs, but the coding standards are poor. Good on them for open sourcing it, but man, did nobody stop and think "hang on, is this code gonna make us look bad?"
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/streaming-hackernews-feeds-re...

It's only a freetier 1 core streaming database for both streaming and serving, please expect slower responses if concurrency is higher ..
I think EY's big contribution to the LessWrong/Rationalist cult/movement/ethos is writing the "Sequences," which purport to be a guide to training yourself to think rationally. (https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/original-sequences)

The rationalists are an interesting group. I like a lot of the vibe of the whole thing, but there is also some very weird navel gazing that has cropped up. It can be hard to differentiate from the good and the bad.

I am overall a little surprised by the vitriol towards EY in this thread though. While I agree that the guy is somewhat shrill and his ideas are pretty out there, he really doesn't seem like a con artist from my standpoint. It seems to me that he is genuinely extremely concerned about AI alignment/risk, and his actions seem to make sense in that framework without needing to ascribe a bunch of weird and sinister motivations to him.

Not professing agreement or disagreement with him on any particular thing, just my two cents.
I'm definitely not saying I need a bailout. And we were offering 90-95 cents on the dollar while banks and hedge funds were offering 60-70.
> FDIC blew their whole wad on SVB, that’s not lawful.

Even if it was true that they had blown their whole wad, it would be lawful. The systemic risk exception would allow that.

> Another couple banks have problems like this and they’ll be telling us that we need to turn on the munny printer to save them.

No, the funding mechanism is well-defined and does not involve monetary policy. (Its even fiscally neutral, so it doesn’t even involve the monetary effects of non-neutral fiscal policy.)
There's certainly a spot between 1 and 2; one where the customer service that exists is reasonable, but horribly under-funded and under-appreciated by the business. I'd say half of all businesses fall into that bucket.

I know when I call my insurance or bank that I'll mostly get things sorted, however I need to jump through 101 hoops to get to the right person via a automated service. Stop being cheap and just hire some operators to wire you through to the right people. It's not terrible per-se, just some combination of good (helpful customer service reps) and bad (automated operator).
For your fun:

Tell me something about zorn schemes.

(NB: that is a nonsensical term).

> Zorn schemes are a type of set theory first introduced by German mathematician Richard Zorn. They are a generalization of finite sets, allowing for infinite sets that are still countable. A zorn scheme consists of two sets, the underlying set and the complement of the underlying set. The underlying set is the set of all elements that may be part of the infinite sequence, while the complement is the set of all elements that cannot be part of the infinite sequence. Zorn schemes are used to study various combinatorial and set theoretic concepts such as infinite descending chains, ultrafilters, and regularity of sets.

Even more fun:

Tell me something about convergent eulerian toposes, and their underlying noetherian rings.

> Convergent Eulerian toposes are a class of toposes which have the structure of a complete, regular, Eulerian ring with one-dimensional congruence lattices. They are a generalization of Euclidean rings and can be used to study algebraic structures which behave in a similar manner to Euclidean rings. The underlying noetherian ring of a convergent Eulerian topos is a commutative, noetherian, Euclidean ring with one-dimensional congruence lattice, and is unique up to isomorphism.
Any thoughts on an individual "Here you go, but you're on your own" license? Something like this would be massively beneficial to small IT teams who have the same inability to send code to OpenAI, but could use the benefit of a smart auto-complete style system like Copilot. They wouldn't necessarily need the custom integration - even small benefits would be seen from an initial core model. Additional integrations could be sold as piecemeal consulting engagements after the fact if need be.

Just a thought - there's a vast market out there for organizations with dev teams in the 1-10 person range.
Which is bonkers.

Daikin's DZ20VC0241 is a 2 ton, 20 Seer heat pump available everywhere. Price including install is 5000-8200 (not counting tax credit).

Their offering is a 2 ton, 18 seer and costs 16k (not counting tax credit). Double the price at the high end of Daikin's install costs, triple at the low end.

Plus you get all sorts of vendor lock in with this startup
Why wouldn't it? I don't use these apps, what is special about them?
I don't think it has. This was a once in a lifetime kind of thing. My other companies are all innovative technology companies, like you said.
I was very aware of the new rules on sulfur as I had been working as a consultant for the very same engineering firms that actually run the sulfur capture units.

I'm also very interested in climate change.

I can't believe I didn't put the two together. Wow. You've made a very interesting connection.
Is this allowed under OpenAI's ToS? I just don't want to connect my account and then get it banned.

Edit: It seems like it is just using the API instead of the web interface, and thus charging my account each time. I originally thought it was injecting into the free web interface. But is changing the system prompt going to get me banned?
One that is not from my country or the political alliance my country is in.
> Are people upset about them adopting the name?

Yes. Oh yes are many Greeks peeved about the name of Macedonia, claiming that it means the country now called North Macedonia has designs on the Macedonia region of Greece.

Modern Macedonians are Slavic-speaking people, who moved into the region ~1500 years ago. Ancient Macedonians (whose most famous person was Alexander the Great) were a Greek-speaking people.
Because it’s anticompetitive and MS should have not been allowed to purchase such a company.
Out of curiosity, how did you calculate this?
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The superintelligence will not be fooled by your pseudonym.
In this case the acquiring company made the right call, the acquired company executives were trash.
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Precisely. Also "enthusiastic and opinionated on the matter, without actual involvement in the field except as dilettante sharing ideas irrelevant to actual practicioners"
> The scale of absurdity was difficult to measure with that one.

I have been told that one FANG which recently underwent a firing round barely took a break from their hiring rounds, and already started sending emails asking for volunteers for interviews even to teams which have just been decimated.

One more story for the absurdity bucket.
As long as they keep coming to PC, I honestly don't care much, especially when the so called "exclusives" are now ending up on PC after a few years. Activision-Blizzard has been awful for years now, maybe Microsoft's own special awful will mix with theirs and somehow allow for something that isn't a predatory game or mocking their core audience with gems like "Don't you guys have phones" paraphrasing.

Consoles these days are nothing but glorified mid-to-low tier PCs at a good price (usually costs the company money), that end up causing PC ports to be horrible messes as well as delay improvements in the industry due to the hardware. Not to mention, they're walled gardens.
Because they have huge margins and high LTV.

Every company who has these spend as much as they can on user acquisition. Why wouldn't they?
>the 20th century didn't end in 1990, but on 9/11/2001

Considering the dominance of 20th century persons in politics, business, and the arts, I’m pretty sure we’re still in the 20th century.
It doesn’t take every depositor doing a deep dive, but if you hold half a billion dollars in cash at a bank, you bloody well better understand their balance sheet. I assure you that mainline company and governmental treasurers do this due diligence as a matter of course along with all the other counterparty risk mitigations that are SOP for well run companies.

And if you are going to encourage (and sometimes insist) that your portfolio companies work with a bank, understanding concentration risk is the minimum professional standard you should be held to.

Every other industry understands what fdic insurance is and is not. Competent CFO and corporate treasurers manage their counterparty risk as part of their job. It’s either immaturity, incompetence or entitlement that makes SV think this isn’t their problem.
Speaking from personal experience, execs (most of them) are anything but risk takers. They are good wheeler-dealers, know how to navigate the land-mine filled org-chart to get things done. Not too different from civil servants. Those who develop risk appetite won't stay at such big orgs, they either go work at a startup or start on their own.

So over a period (FB has been around for like 15 years now) an org accumulates extremely risk averse execs.
He's correct in that you'd get a loan or mortgage from a bank still, but incorrect that banks lend out deposits though - a bank loan directly creates new money, so if everyone was using a CBDC and had their money kept in their digital wallet you would no longer need a bank account for storing money, but the only thing that would change about getting a mortgage is that repayments would come from your wallet, not your bank account.
By that logic, all banks are unsound. It's not turtles all the way down, and pretending the guilty party is blameless because "someone else would have done it" is nonsense.
By looking at the SNI [0] if the connection does not use TLS 1.3 and ESNI.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
Personally, don’t really care or use the door close button. However, would so much love it if I press a floor by accident, the second press deselects it.
Ask HN: Why are we not seeing “Large X models”?
Where X could be math/physics/biology/etc?
Just wait until employees are told to do their 1:1 with a chatbot...
Web application development and system admin, which mostly means cloud infrastructure. A lot of that is already automated in some sense, but not enough for my customers to tell Alexa to set up a VPC and write some useful code for them.
Exactly. Well.. mostly. I would say you're getting advice, not "therapy" per se, and that most people that others might seek advice from are not licensed therapists. Parents, mentors, priests, elders, etc.. all people that somebody might seek advice from who aren't licensed therapists, and generally nobody makes a big deal about it.

If you're going to the fortune teller or priest for advice, that's what you're getting and the quality of the product might even be good in some cases. If you're going to the fortune teller or priest to receive magical services, then obviously you're getting scammed.
> The community built custom cross-platform launchers, figured out pretty quickly how to run the game natively on M1 Macs

Java Edition works really well even on my A12 iPad Pro using Jitterbug!
It should be noted, this isn't really unique to Silicon Valley. It's more like the "capitalist" playbook.
What they should have done is used Google Reader to farm data from power users to then feed other products