skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent years travelling alone for work. I grew bitter. I hated it. I started to hate travelling.

Some years later, I decided that I wanted to be able to enjoy travelling alone. So I did, for 30 days, in France. I made rules for myself:

- Don’t stay in the same city more than two nights.

- Go do all the touristy stuff, eat at all the restaurants, etc, that I would do if I was not alone.

- Speak to people.

It was the best vacation of my life… I have so many stories from those 30 days.

Travelling alone is as hard, uncomfortable or increasingly good, as you yourself let it be.
I think perhaps there's a subtlety in that quote - "philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds".

Maybe part of the meaning, is that I'm the course of doing what scientists do, philosophy doesn't move their particular ball forward in the way they want so they can and sometimes do ignore it. Not necessarily that they should.

This guy helped create nuclear weapons, and then quoted the bagvad ghita and had a long time to think about it. I can't imagine it didn't occur to him.
I can't answer your question philosophically. You could decide not to, and accept the bugs as natural limitations of what's available to you.

But from a tech perspective, I see minor annoyances caused by complex systems with parts from many companies where 1 error in coordination can have very large bad consequences (ex: losing the Intel Serial IO on the Fold due to errors in the Intel drivers = no bluetooth, no touchscreen, so you will think it froze while it just needs the drivers reloaded, say by doing that from a USB keyboard or by RDP)

Our current hardware is great, and never has been simpler to use, but it has also even more complexity than before: this is increasing the risk of subtle issues that even most readers of HN would have no idea about if they hadn't read first about it here (like Dells catching fire due to ACPI S0 idle).

But nothing is set in stone! You did that in the 2000s? You can still do that if you want a great experience! You may already know about tweaking IO and IRQ addresses from before? That's not very applicable anymore, so update your knowledge to today's problems: learn about the the DSDT, the default APST settings per device, etc. It may take some time.

However, once it's done, 1) you have a much finer understanding of how your computer works allowing fixing the root cause, 2) so the problem rarely comes back but if it does you are ready 3) you're ready to tackle more challenges!

This year I'm moving to Linux on the Laptop using arch. Everything I learned on Windows is extremely helpful. The rest, I'm learhing it along!
> against a mostly harmless virus.

Wtf. It’s easy to say that now after covid variants have become decreasingly virulent as they became increasingly transmissible, but it was absolutely not mostly harmless. The human species won the lotto with how it evolved, but just spin that to play to our political leanings. I’ll take the downvotes for saying this, but with all respect, please just duck off back to “doing your own research” in whatever echo chamber you prefer.
Why? They died from no food or something?
Except this isn't even a rounding error, it's less than that. You can't engineer out the basic physics of turbulence for winged propelled aircraft.
That’s right, use ChatGPT to write the blog posts.
It's a vicious cycle, but, every time one of these internal town halls gets leaked to the internet, the execs lose the ability to speak candidly, and the workers feel like execs are completely aloof and detached from the reality on the ground.

Unfortunately, it's incredibly difficult to maintain a certain level of trust once an org gets over a certain size.
"Architect systems and database tables from user stories in seconds"...haha, no. This only works for simplistic problems that we got as students to solve on paper during a 2h exam back in the day.

Realistic problem from my own workplace:
"Ok, ChatGPT, write clock- cycle exact embedded C code
for checking in less than 5ms if firmware on this ARM is working correctly with the sensor described in datasheet.pdf. Detect and implement countermeasures for any EM interference issues due to cable length.
Implement it in a generic way so it can work with Atmel and NXP microcontrollers.
There is a bug that caused the sensor to sometimes return wrong values when using the system on a Kuka xyz robot, please debug."

... yeah, I'm still waiting.
Cool and fast is but details to me.

I care about great OLED touchscreens, comfortable keyboards, and ECC RAM.

You may read between the lines some other things I don't care about, and maybe they are important to you and you find them on a mac? Not me.
I'm of a few minds about this. I don't think these questions are unfair, because it's destabilizing mentally to deal with constant rumors, unclear direction, and actual layoffs. I worked at Meta during the Nov layoffs (though not personally impacted), and I remember the day to day anxiety in the lead up and aftermath. Nobody wants that. It's part of the reason I quit.

I don't think Mark's answers are necessarily unfair either, he's running a business after all. He does have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders, even if that means making difficult staffing decisions (still true even if they were his fault to begin with by over-hiring). Ultimately you agree to participate in this framework by accepting a job at a public company.

But there is a point after which it becomes distasteful. It gives me the same sort of feeling as those stories about companies pulling offers right before the start date, after an employee has quit their previous job. Legal? Yes. Justifiable? No doubt. Morally? It's grey. And it leaves a sour taste. On an individual level, it's the kind of thing that is punished in the long run, through reputational damage. In an ideal world I would like to see companies face something similar.
You asking for advice and support is already better than what 99%+ people would do in your situation.

You feel betrayed. They set you up with an expectation of emotional safety and then used it against you. That’s messed up. I’d be angry too, and I have been angry in similar situations.

I’ve learned a couple lessons over the years:

1. Most people in a transactional setting like business are not honest. They might claim to be supportive, understanding, etc., but when you lean on them to do so, they’re not. If a transaction is taking place conditioned on something like you performing a job, then you probably aren’t going to get unconditional support in return.

2. It’s not worth burning bridges. Not because these people will spread gossip about you or reconnect with you down the line, but because it’s a distraction from moving forward. The best way to let go of an experience like this is to get involved with a new experience. Vent any emotion first and then dive into something new. A new project, a new programming language, a new job, etc.

3. Use this experience as one of your super powers. You’re not the first to be treated this way and you won’t be the last. You now have the unique perspective of being able to empathize with others going through a situation like this. And you’ll be able to recognize in yourself if you start to go down the path of treating someone this way.

The ones that you want to stay connected to will reach out in time. But if no one does then lucky you for not having wasted more time with people who treat others this way.

I’m sorry you had this experience, but thanks for sharing and reaching out. And good luck with whatever lies ahead.
https://opensource.apple.com/source/X11/X11-0.40/xc/programs...
> Second, it's not zero carbon if you include building the plants, since the plants have a limited lifespan, so there's still a carbon footprint for the materials.

Nothing is zero carbon either. Batteries have a very long supply chain that involves a lot of carbon heavy steps, and their disposal also creates pollution. The same goes for solar panels, but people conveniently choose to ignore that.

> we would run out of all easy to mine uranium in a few decades

We dont need uranium to run on nuclear power. There are several alternatives already.
I don't know if you know this but electricity can travel through conductors to other places.
It's true that it would be helpful to be able to troubleshoot the code output of AI chatbots. What I've heard from friends is that ChatGPT is pretty good at troubleshooting itself — not automatically, but if you re-enter buggy output, it can often correctly suggest how to fix the bug. This won't always be the case, but it does seem to undercut the argument that humans are always needed to fix bigs. There may be other reasons, like optimization, that are more compelling. Or it's possible that AI will be good at that as well!
The AGPL and GPL in no way mandate upstreaming, they mandate downstreaming to end-users. It is only via a culture of valuing upstreaming and or the maintenance burden of non-upstreamed changes that upstreaming happens.
~5YoE. I was getting absolutely nothing for 4 months. No interviews and by mid December recruiters had dried up completely.

Then I applied to a non-remote job the other night, while not paying attention and the company ends up reaching out for an interview the next day. I’m guessing I’d see a lot more engagement if I applied to more on-site jobs.

Honestly the pay seems reasonable and the work doesn’t seem all that bad, but I really don’t want to move. It would basically mean death for my medium and long term plans/goals. Moving is also expensive and I’d be moving right back to a state I left several years ago.
If trains could sprout wings and become guided missiles sure... but passenger HSR is fairly constrained in its destructive/terrorism potential compared to jets.
What a damn shame. I was just re-watching John Wick 3 just yesterday. Its shocking he's gone. RIP. I haven't seem in a lot of movies, but he used to be great part of those.
Yes exactly. I had a specific project in mind, and ChatGPT was able to give me step by step instructions how to build it. It’s like having a private tutor. That’s transformative for folks like me that struggle to get through generic 12 week courses, but want their learning experience scaffolded around a project they’re already motivated to work on.
Maybe Japanese society deserves to go extinct? If Japanese people are not willing to reproduce at anything close to replacement rate, and they are not willing to accept intermarriage with outside cultures, then the logical conclusion is that “Japan” is a cultural dead end that will eventually cease to exist. I say this as someone who quite likes Japan.
You just don't hear about all the computers, that's all. There's one on your car's key fob, and likely 100 more in the car. Your coffee grinder has one. So does your dishwasher. And your electric blanket.
> ...Hayes Valley, an upwardly mobile neighborhood in downtown San Francisco.

Actual physical cringe.
because it's probably easier to write the code to run on a single 256 core server with 8tb of RAM.
And is that typically 10 years? Or 25/30?
I have had around 13 power outages this week. I live right in the middle of Silicon Valley. Most of the charges from PG&E are indeed the grid charges, the rest is supposedly a mandatory green energy. This is depressing.
"Investors say agroforestry is climate friendly and also profitable https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23794141"

Nah, agroforestry really isn't climate friendly. Like most industries that can't function without a vast amount of fossil-fuel inputs, you can certainly make a profit from it though.
Just found them. They are just in Taiwan."
About what? In what circumstances? Walk up to people tending their front yard and strike up a conversation? At bus stops? I've tried at least the latter but people generally aren't up for it in western Europe at least

This advice article could be a whole lot more concrete
chmod is much better documented than the vague errors (which are silent or displayed as I/O errors) that podman "gives" you.

No, I usually use sudo with a slightly extended timeout.
The hell? Japan is no USA or Canada but the discrimination isn't that bad, it's pretty on par with the rest of east Asia except maybe Singapore and certainly better than China.
Admittedly this may be a smaller problem with the children, but our rule when it comes to myself is that I also avoid sesame unless I'm not going to see my wife for a day or two. Our concern is that some of it would stick to teeth despite careful brushing, and then get transferred by intimacy. (She is extremely allergic.)

And truth is our children and myself have not been away from my wife for more than a few hours at a time since they were born!

Again, maybe this rule is not as important with the children who are not as vigorous kissers, but especially during the latest healthcare overloads we have been extra careful with avoidance. And as another commenter pointed out, the children don't understand that they are eating stuff that kills mom, so they may be unreliable in other ways.
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I note that MongoDB is no longer AGPL, it is SSPL now, which expands the scope of the AGPL to the entire service:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License
Most common mortgages in the US are 30 year fixed followed by 15 year fixed.
If ChatGPT had existed 20 years ago, things like React would never have been developed and all websites would still be using nested tables for layout.
AI-generated art can be copyrighted
There are quiet a few, uh, racist Japanese. For some Japanese, the surrender during World War 2 was just to end the war, not necessarily to end their views ethnicity and race. To be clear, this isn't all Japanese. But quiet a few of these types of people have kept power in Japan for years.
There was no guarantee that the govt will make money but there is a guarantee it creates a moral hazard. If you are a banker take excessive risks and enjoy the profits, if things go wrong, the govt will bail you out.

Heads I win, Tails I dont lose.

You also ignored that govt/Fed keeps printing more money, so the taxpayer ultimately loses with inflation.
This is not entirely correct. I can't say on this "retrocausality" stuff in particular, but more generally in quantum foundations, there are a lot of philosophers with a very solid physics/math background who have a better understanding of quantum than most physicists. I find quantum foundations to be not very interesting personally, and I doubt it will have much relevance 20 years in the future, but some philosophers working in it are definitely worth taking seriously.
Nice reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholia_(2011_film)
I unironically and sincerely believe The Onion is one of, if not the, the best sources of journalism in our time.
Even ethics aside, what you're describing is really, really, really expensive.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/wiki/books

https://www.reddit.com/r/Chempros/comments/jput3t/megathread...
If you don't modify the AGPL software, you have no obligations under AGPL at all. The extra network provisions only trigger for modified versions of the software.
I would wager most companies don't modify their database software. Even those that do, don't let end users interact with that database, so should have no obligations either.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
> There's a recommendation that NaN payloads propagate

I looked more closely, and yes, the signalling NaN + 0.0 always changed the bit pattern, and the quiet NaN + 0.0 always stayed the same.

Thank you for your informative details about IEEE 754.
I agree it’s gotten harder to get by, and that influences cultural malaise and anxiety.

I’d like to add that where I am people experience far more political and economic adversity than the USA, yet this doesn’t make them outwardly bitter, cynical, angry, impolite, etc. Anecdotally people are much happier, while being in a worse material situation.
Do people learn more languages since translation tools exist?
...or ChatGPT would have come up with something like/better than React, and we/it would be using that now.
When I was growing up there were two neighbors who just swapped houses.

Another friend years ago did a 1031 Exchange.
Sure, but this is after they have shown to be violating.
It's worth noting that Japan has higher fertility right now than any peer country in the region, their collapse just started a bit earlier than China/Korea/Taiwan.

Believe it or not, Japan is vastly better situated than South Korea or China for what's about to happen.
Yeah, they use words like “allegedly” or “according to unnamed sources” to free themselves from liability in the event when what they report turns out to be inaccurate. In that case might as well not report the news then if they’re not sure.
How unhinged is it to call the lack of exponential population growth a crisis?

There are enough (way too many in fact) people already. The social and economic mechanisms just have to adapt to the steady-state or even decreasing population levels.

We should be grateful it is happening spontaneously, instead of having to think of instituting invasive policies to limit growth.
Turns out we were the aliens all along.
Lishten, money penny, just because we have face swapping technology and voice cloning technology and deep fakes does not mean I shouldn't practice my Sean Connery impression. I admit, I may be somewhat shaken by these recent developments but I'm not shttiered.
A newline is missing there, u = -t. (Too late to edit it.)
We're Drowning in Subscriptions as Retailers Join Too
I mean .. you are correct to do so when adding 1 or 3 employees, and basically completely wrong at the scale of hires we're talking about.

For example this is how every tech "body shop" hires. The value is just out there in the ether of modern enterprise.

Bring in 20% more people year over year. Keep attrition rate for them and existing hires around 10%. Go knock hat in hand at every Fortune 1000 company and wrangle whatever buzzwords Gartner has thrown at them into a project or managed service you can slip as many billable hours as possible into.

It's the same with Meta, they can try literally about anything so when GPT or crypto or Web3 or AR or whatever comes along they just want to be able to throw a bunch of people at it to figure out how to socialize, advertise, and monetize it at massive scale.
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I'm interpreting your view as property only applies to physical things or abstractions of physical things. Is there a name for this theory? I'd say I subscribe to the labor theory or property and it's interesting to think about this from another perspective.

There's a couple cases I'm having trouble with. For example, is an ip address property? Seems so because it represents a physical scheme about the routing of ip packets. Similarly an email address or physical address seems like property. If any of these were replicated/spoofed by someone else, they would disrupt the ability to physically route whatever (bits, packages). Ok.

But then what about trademarks? In some ways those are 'pull' addresses - I go to the store, and buy a Coke and I'm expecting that thing labeled Coke to be the physical product I expect, not some spoofed version of Coke. But that label and what not is just a picture, and the original picture wasn't harmed in any way when the spoofed version was created. Is this concept just not allowed and we accept that inefficiency? Or maybe trademarks are allowed as property because they represent the physical concept of the systems the Coke corporation has put in place to create and produce Coke.

But if that's the case, then what about a non-trademark painting? If I go to the store and see a painting by an artist I like, and want to support them and the physical systems the went into generating that painting, and not be spoofed should that be supported?

(Though maybe all this could be solved with a QR code or DOP label or something. Though somewhat inconvenient to have to robustly check that all the time).
+1 for the "Toorak Tractor" - I've never heard that before.
Rental apartment.
What does it mean to have ‘epochs=30 in Keras' fit method given certain data?
>May the gods have mercy on our souls if we ever train an LLM on toxic Twitter and Reddit comments and it becomes superintelligent.

Cyber Hitler 3.11 For Workgroups 1x9 25gbps.
Say what!? I think you have an image of Japan stuck in the 19050’s.

I lived there for years and have known many people with mixed heritage, including my own children. Many choose to live in Japan because they feel comfortable there and that it is their home.

Modern Japan has millions of immigrants, and is thankfully free of the weird borderline eugenics stuff you’re proposing in your first comment.

Making babies isn’t an end goal. Children need to be raised in loving caring families in order to thrive.
Care to place a wager where I give your mythical unskilled team the best AI available today against me without AI and we’ll see who can solve a difficult engineering problem? Heck, even a moderately skilled team.

Sorry no. AI is impressive but I’ve given it very precise prompts where I describe exactly what I want it to do because I’ve already solved it and the solution it generates is complete and utter horseshit because it requires context that’s too difficult to communicate and a deep understanding of the business and technical aspects of that business. Similarly, novel ideas are not things it knows how to implement.

If you have a counter example I’d love to see it because my experience seems to line up pretty well with other reporting of where the limits of it lies - ie it can regurgitate solutions to solve problems but struggles to provide solutions and correct implementation. In fact, trying to find the problems is itself even harder sometimes because the way it solves things is simultaneously not a good coder and the approach it takes isn’t one a human would and thus it takes extra effort to figure out what path it’s trying to take and where it made a mistake.

As an example. Try to get ChatGPT to implement the server-side implementation of R2’s ListObjects (or heck - in any language / platform you choose, implement that). It’ll make really bad bugs like reading in the entire dataset into memory, not applying the delimiter properly in really subtle ways etc etc. basically, it can’t even do a usable first draft. Just don’t use go because I suspect it’ll cheat and just regurgitate minio
In times of crisis during war, countries may draft men into combat to fight against their will. If this fertility crisis keeps up, I wonder if we will see a similar kind of draft for women to breed. It seems unconscionable but literal existential risks can drive countries to do a lot of unconscionable things.

(Immigration isn’t the answer, their fertility rate also gets depressed just like the native population. All it achieves is to balance the birth/death rate on paper for the year.)
> He does have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders, even if that means making difficult staffing decisions

I feel like people over-index on the idea of "fiduciary responsibility to shareholders." I don't think most decisions a CEO makes are really done with shareholders specifically in mind. They do what is best for the company --for its health, growth, and sometimes survival-- and shareholders are just there for the ride. Certainly, there are some executive decisions where shareholders are the primary factors, but by and large I think they're an afterthought at best.

He over-hired, he lost faith in the direction of a big chunk of Meta's initiatives, and he now wants to pare back.