skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is search really that big of a deal?

Yes. From finding things to searching archives etc.

Tim Bray has a good post on the topic: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/30/Mastodon-... (you can skip to the very last section if you don't want to read it all)
brave browser directly on apple app store
Okay so was the original acronym for generative pre-trained transformer intentionally chosen this way as a play on words?
Does anyone know what the edge cases SVG concentrates on are?
Only if you aren't using pre-compiled headers, or hot code reloading, alongside incremental compilation and linking.
Okay…but you can feed a lot of bunnies with the $250K carrot.
Agreed. I think the dominant entrepreneurial trait isn’t risk taking, it’s optimism.
I'm sorry but I really I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but I'll assume that you're not...

> so a few folks will amass a lot of wealth based on luck and not merit

You severely underestimate how concentrated bitcoin ownership is. A couple of hundred people would control a significant proportion of the global economy just because they were lucky. Why would you want some random people controlling the majority of the global economy? I mean things are very far from perfect now in my opinion but at least most billionaires have earned their wealth through actual work in one way or the other and can be generally expected to behave rationally.

The main issue in this case though is that bitcoin is deflationary. Obviously it's flawed but with Fiat money you're forced to either spend or invest your money returning it into the economy (also it's simply not physically feasible to hoard several billion (let alone trillion) of $ i a vault...).

If you don't utilize your money somehow it will lose value continuously due to inflation. Bitcoin on the other hand will increase in value when the economy is growing (which is why using a commodity like gold which is still a magnitude or so so superior to bitcoin in this regard is and was a bad idea unless there are no stable governments). So hoarding money will become the safest and relatively best investment This means that these few folks will remain billionaires for ever and their wealth will keep increasing without them actually doing anything...

There would be no or very few bank loans given out (imagine HUGE INTEREST RATES + HUGE DEFLATION, obviously not something that can exist now as long the people charger are not more than mildly insane...) venture capital, really any investment, which to be fair makes my last point moat cause there would be very little (or like negative) growth anyway in a such an economy.

> I'm just surprised why you think that few nerds becoming billionaires is a major one

So you want to take one of the biggest flaws of the current system and dial it up to 1000? Great idea...
It is pretty incredible. I remember exploring up north of Fairbanks and you’d be a nice paved two lane road. Not a tiny road, but think secondary highway.

Then you get to the end of it and it just stops - nothing beyond it but wilderness.

Pretty wild compared to even the Western US where the road network even in the empty parts of Nevada is pretty good and you can cross through it.

In Alaska some roads just end because there is nothing beyond it.
Too many details to communicate and it’s poorly structured (if at all). If you miss something important you’re paying the roundtrip which takes hours/days, if you try to communicate everything it’s too much overhead
I always found SVG a non-readable file for most images I’ve used. Yes, if you place a simple rectangle it works, but when you export an image it’s almost impossible to edit it manually.

I like this edge on TVG, as a binary format is more optimal for size and you’re not losing much visibility on this case.

I believe TVG popularity will depend on the final use cases. Having to use a poly fill on the browser delays the reproduction of the image until JS is loaded. It would be interesting to compare both cases: download an optimized SVG vs download and print a TVG file using the polyfill.
it's a shame to see shallow responses to what was actually quite a nuanced point.

The paragraph ended with:

> we’re focusing on understanding this further and finding ways to make sure people build the necessary connections to work effectively. In the meantime, I encourage all of you to find more opportunities to work with your colleagues in person

So this is not in the least requiring employees to return to the office. In fact a reasonable reading of it is that it's actually supporting remote work by specifically articulating what is necessary for it to work well and then planning to facilitate that. It's a far more intelligent approach than the blunt option of "let's just force everyone back to the office 3 days a week".
I think many big tech companies are in a "we don't know what our next big goal is" kind of phase.

And this would be ok for a small company. But when you have tens of thousands of people who now need new clear marching orders, this is a very dangerous thing. And doubly so if you keep on changing those people's goals because you think you need to launch something big and new that requires thousands of people to build it (but you don't know exactly how it's going to be built).

Why is it dangerous (and I mean org-productivity-wise)? Because everyone has a natural need to feel useful and that they're productive and deserving of their pay.

So when clear instructions are lacking about what we're supposed to do, we make up things to work on. We hire people who say they can help us figure out what to work on. We create managers to manage people who seem to not know what they're working on, so that some direction can seem like it's clear. Because you can't have 10 people not knowing what they're working on, without a manager to manage their not knowing what they're working on. We schedule meetings to find out what other people are working on, and how we should get involved to be useful, distracting the few who are actually being productive.

So you find, after a few years, that you've accumulated a massive apparatus of people who have created a behomth of their own, simply from the desire to believe they're working on something useful. Sometimes they're very convincing, looking like they're working on something useful.

And unpleasant as it is (and surprising, as Elon Musk showed), many of them could stand to be fired without much detriment to the original purpose of the company.

Figure out what you want to build before you hire tens of thousands of people to do it. (and whether it will work). Or, at least as a caution, when your goal changes but you already have tens of thousands of people, be prepared to act unless you want to find yourself unwittingly in this position.
They do pressurize the cockpits, but the pilots breath through their masks. At high altitudes, the cockpit air isn't pressurized enough to prevent hypoxia so they need masks.
Is it still using XMPP, though?
Realizing that webdev isn't what you want to do anymore is fine - when you're asked, focus on the things that you want to do going forward rather than what you don't want to do. Many fields don't care anywhere near as much about having $x years of experience with $y as much as tech as long as you can present a history of professional-level employment and a college degree. As a rule, the more competitive/lucrative the field, the more credential-filters you'll face.
UBS to Buy Credit Suisse for Nearly $3.25B to Calm Turmoil
The whole point is that carbs are addictive and most people demonstrably cannot eat a reasonable amount of carbs and just stop, similar to any other addiction.
> 30-50 to 1 and it felt like a good balance. My team and I (~5 people) met with the manager once a week for a couple of hours.

That's a pretty broad range, from conservative estimate 12 hours of staff meetings weekly for 30 people and 2, to 30 hours on the high side. This leaves no room for reporting up, or for relationship building via 1:1s, promotions, hiring and budget planning, among other responsibilities.
> Forgive me if I made assumptions. But when you gesture at popular culture's disdain for techies as some form of proof of our sins, you make it difficult to take the argument seriously.

They weren't assumptions; they were careless reading. Don't do that again. And yes, popular culture -- art -- matters, and depictions (representations) that have currency also matter. If this makes it hard for you to take me seriously, as you say, then you seem to have entered this conversation with a view that culture is irrelevant to begin with, so why are we arguing about culture?

> Indeed, I'd love to see more on this. A Marxist might claim that the idea of economic merit and talent is but a facet of bourgeois society and a post-structuralist that the idea that one is owed economic merit at all is but a construction.

I'm no Marxist and I'm no post-structuralist. I have no opinion on what constitutes 'merit' in the absolute sense, but I observe that rapidly converting our current order to a new one, where cognition is cheap and provided by LLMs produced by large, central organizations, is probably not going to go well, mostly because, as a practical matter, people's self-respect is depends on their role in the economic order. Maybe that can change, but not easily, and not soon, and probably not in time.

> Forgive me in remarking that this sounds remarkably Burkean.

Again, loose reading. I am not claiming that actual merit (how much a human being is worth) has some connection to their economic output. I observe, as a matter of fact, that, in modern western democracies, we act as if this is the case; suddenly changing the rules of the game will have enormous consequences, many of them likely dangerous.

> You claim that shouting must happen because there's a conflict: the idea of individual self-respect (in one's economic value or merit) is eroding while liberal democratic institutions are incapable of dealing with change. This seems deeply contradictory.

I claim the shouting will happen because shouting is a natural human reaction to having one's sense of self-worth upended. And modern liberal democratic institutions are not likely to be able to handle this, yes, because they are sclerotic and polarized.

This is not contradictory; this is 2023.

And yes, a Leviathan moment is precisely what I fear might be coming: a liberal democratic capitalist order that fails over into some form of autocracy or another.

I hope I'm wrong.
> The overwhelming opinion amongst developer types is that remote is better in every way

It doesn’t check out to me that this is an overwhelming opinion. People definitely like remote and hybrid work but the tradeoffs vs being in person at least some of the time are well known to the point of being obvious. Partially-remote teams inherently have higher communication bandwidth between the in-office cadre versus the remote teammates, and all-remote teams specifically plan for team retreats and hangouts to build camaraderie, emotional connection, and understanding.

The Meta studies are one of those “you have to find numbers for the thing that is obviously true” situations.

It’d be really surprising to me to hear any kind of experienced developer contest this, even if their personal preference is to knowingly make that trade in favor of the flexibility being remote gives.

I’m curious if others agree or disagree here, given the author presented the exact opposite of my stance so frankly.
Phnom Penh is probably the most sobering cities to visit in all of Asia. Words can't really do it justice. I was neither expecting nor prepared for the history there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields
If the only thing you could do with physics was build rockets, then physics would be akin to rocket building. There is no such thing as computers without programming. That CS isn't about programming is such an absurd perspective. Even if you consider that some CS research is mostly focused on hardware, the vast majority of CS research is about software. The vast majority of CS research is about writing programs.
In San Diego in... 2010? I remember seeing the population change. At first I thought the brown widows were just immature black widows, since they basically looked the same with lighter color and an alternating pattern. Read about the brown widows a few years later and it made sense.

FWIW, I fought them for years and finally gave up. I easily had over a hundred at any given time on my 6800 sq ft lot. Every night they'd spin webs between any vertical surface(i.e. my house, the fence, block walls) and the ground. In 16 years I never had an issue with bites to either me or my pets. I would clean the ones out that took residence under deck chairs, but that was about it. I never saw them inside the structure of my house, with the exception of < 1' from the garage door because there were gaps around it.

I had a healthy collection of daddy longlegs inside the garage. Not sure if they kept the widows in check.

The #1 enemy of widows is other widows, and they spread fast, so fighting them is often a losing battle.
I think it needs to be more specific in that BTC (Blockchain Takeover Coin) is at $28k. It had the same ideas as a "Bank". A safe place to store wealth. But Banks in general use your wealth to try make more money with it. The original Bitcoin idea had this foundation as it was not owned by anymore. BTC has lost it's foundations and it will need a lot of work to try and bring that idea back since a lot of exchanges have basically turned into a Bank for the token and a bankrun on BTC would be fun to watch.
Are you European? Wasn’t it your whole cultural tradition to argue? Perhaps your modern culture has been corrupted somehow where you can no longer have meaningful debates. The Socratic method is an argument based system.
In order to effectively manage the identified existing and potential contract risks, a strategy must first be devised, followed by an assessment of the contract risks presented to a specific company's contract lifecycle management portfolio. Your contract risk management review will identify several contract risk factors, such as potential financial effects of a contract on the business, missed chances to forge new business connections and agreements, legal risk exposure offered during various contract lifecycle stages, etc.
The overnight rate plus 0.10%.
>Our early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely.

If their performance data is reliable, why does Meta need several rounds of layoffs? The foundation of their analysis is weak.
As the other reply brought up, GPT-4 access is waitlisted, and costs significantly more

API access makes it easy to chew through a lot of tokens. With GPT3.5 I hardly have to think about the cost of tinkering for hours on end. Yesterday I made over 600 requests and wracked up a whopping 67 cent bill...

At an order of magnitude more, I'd still tinker, but wouldn't feel comfortable with all of the same usecases (ie. setting it up in ways that allow it to recurse very quickly like I do with 3.5)
My understanding is the reaction to black widow venom can differ a lot between people.

Some people end up with a red swelling, itch, pain and that’s it. This is the majority of cases.

Others can end up with a large area of tissue necrosis and get very sick. Some require skin grafts.
don't forget blocking youtube shorts
I'm thinking of it more like team practice in a sport - it sounds like a way to get some team cohesion and pass around some knowledge in a group setting. You aren't going to be doing this all the time but it doesn't sound like the worse thing to do for an hour - people aren't exactly going to lunch together when remote.
I suspect that's what is known as a "joke"
You can remove, and pause, your watch history (YouTube desktop), and remove searches from your search history

I don't know how much that effects recommendations, but Google support claims that's has an effect.

Might be easier than the alternatives listed by sibling comments.
QRs never really worked for me -- either b/c i'm android, or because my phone is too slow, or they just suck.

we used to have bump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJguU7r-bs

but, i say do it. esp if you laid off like everyone else. might not lead to fortune and fame, but possibly something else might come of it.
Work from home so good for me. I don't see any valid reason to throw it away. Companies can not force me do what's clearly not in my best interest as long as they need me more than i need them.
Unfortunately, the great majority of these jobs are already being automated with basic robotics
safe space = echo chamber
For what it's worth: I'm a 'developer type' who agrees with you.
> In person work, though a logistical headache and social annoyance, drives team cohesion.

This is probably true, but the thing is, I don't care. Team cohesion is not worth commuting. So any company that wants people who feel the same as I do to work for them is going to have to bite the bullet on the tradeoff.
Proof-of-concept integration of ChatGPT into Unity Editor
> Bitcoin is not deflationary. It just has a fixed supply.

Exactly. As the economy grows BitCoin will increase in value because its supply is fixed (not even gold or silver were even remotely as bad and when they were used as currencies).

Imagine a financial system with huge * huge interests rates * and and * huge deflation *. You can't because no central bank is run by people who are stupid and insane enough to try that? Well...

Something like that is 100% guarantee is btc becaomes a global currencies.

> They should be rewarded for the risk they're taking on, having invested significant amount of their net worth in the face of harsh criticism such as yours.

No they shouldn't. They contributed nothing to the society or economic growth. Even people investing in Credit Suisse should better rewarded than them from that perspective. Of course if there are other people willing to pay them huge amounts of money (yes money, not bitcoin) for their token well... it's their business).

> Bitcoin and "crypto" are completely different beasts. Cryptos are unregistered securities masquerading as Bitcoin 2.0.

Many other cryptos, well pretty much every one that doesen't have a fixed supply, like DogeCoin for instance would make much, much better global currencies than bitcoin.
Tell HN: I was offline the whole weekend
On Friday I turned off our Wifi and mobile data. After that I played hide'n'seek with my kids, taught my son to play chess, played guitar and banjo, went to sauna, read books, burned woods in fireplace, slept 9 hours each night, went outside, didn't worry about the world around us. And for first time in a long time felt like I had rested properly during the weekend. 5/5, would recommend and will definitely do again next weekend.
You may have missed that it has both a binary and a text version.
This seems like a red herring. I'm pretty sure costs have doubled multiple times in recent decades.
Where in the world?

Northeast US I’ve never seen a black widow larger than say an American quarter. They are smaller spiders as I know them
If you assume the economy is non stagnant it's always deflationary from the CPI perspective.
> Facebook might have good reasons to use metrics that inherently prefer in-person work

What's an example of such a metric?
I don't think anyone could replicate the utter disaster that Elon is every single day
Metaverse and anything reachable is so much not "in person" that it is comical.
And Google sucks more than Apple. It's just a matter of choosing the least worst option for me.
That one made me think.

Conway’s law may result in products’ appeal, thus what people are willing to pay for.
Async is great for a lot of communication and very efficient but sometimes you just need to tie someone down and get on the same page in a way that takes ages over async.
Algorithms without computers (in the "plastic box with CPU+memory" sense) are definitely a thing. Computers in the end, as we experience them everyday, are just one particularly manufacturable manifestation of Turing machines. A bunch of stuff in life and nature is amenable to algorithmic treatment. "Algorithms to live by" is one popular example of that aspect of computer science applied to life.

Programming is just a way to write down a mechanism. A mechanical computer would be "programmed" quite differently than by writing code in a text editor.
Usually wireless streams have variable bitrate to deal with packet loss.

If there is interference or the receiver is far (both means the signal/noise ratio is lowered), the quality is lowered to require less bandwidth.
> extremely vague and non-quantifiable in a way that makes them technically impossible to argue against

this is why it's a shame people are ridiculing Zuckerberg's post ... they actually did quantify it and actually did come up with some nuanced insight into what works well and what doesn't and he says they are going to keep studying it to learn more.

To me, it seems like there are two tenets to this. (a) remote / distributed anything is hard. but at the same time (b) remote / distribute anything is powerful. Do it well and you will have enormous advantages that your competitors, shackled to their mere physical earthly pinprick of a location on this planet can never match.

Which is to say, it's actually worth trying to do well and I respect that Zuckerberg has taken this more nuanced approach to try and get there.
> But since I was not a CS major, I never properly learned the academic side of CS.

Would you have been a CS major if that had been an option at Caltech?

For everyone wondering why CS would not have been an option, at the time Walter was at Caltech they didn't offer CS as an undergraduate major. They did have a CS department which did offer some undergraduate CS classes but it only offered graduate degrees. Undergraduates interested in CS typically majored in math or physics or engineering and took the undergraduate CS courses in addition to the coursework of their major.

I don't remember when they started offering an undergraduate CS degree. I think it was not too long after I graduated (class of '82), which was a couple years or so behind Walter.
Would you rather have obvious politics or invisible politics.
As a "hack" I'll agree it is pretty weak.

But the credentials were stolen and used to access information that was supposed to be private (even if keys are left lying on the ground, you can't just take the car that they open like its yours).

All of the legal liability of having broken the law, while very little street cred of having done anything particularly novel.
>"She basically thought her life was over. She was no longer able to be the athlete that she was, she was failing her teammates. And she wasn't able to succeed in school now. And I think ultimately, that's why she took her life, because she thought her life was over," he added.

Was the issue really the concussion, or that she thought her worth as a human was only in competing?

I'm sure head trauma can cause depression, alzheimer and a host of other issues as we see in former NFL players. But in this case we don't even know if this wasn't short-term issues that would have subsided after a while.

To me the main issue seems to be how much pressure was on these women to perform. Especially the way their parents talk about their stoic nature.