skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah, I changed jobs to another job with similar bullshit Bay Area culture.

You realize there are jobs outside of the “Bay Area” don’t you? Do you know how many job “opportunities” I’ve “noped” out of in my career just based on asking the right questions about the “culture”?

> Are you seriously trying to argue that they're isn't a pretty universal culture of long hours and, often, the expectation of even more hours after work on "passion projects"?

I am very much arguing that - based on 25 years of experience and 8 jobs. I have not written a single line of code that I haven’t gotten paid for since graduating from college - in 1996.

> Even ignoring small companies and "startup culture", the entire Google campus approach was to encourage people to stay longer and work more, and that seems to be the common model among the big tech companies

If that’s not your preferred environment then don’t work for BigTech, there are literally millions of jobs at banks, government, insurance companies and other corporate America jobs where people work 40 hours a week.

> That said, I don't know why you think unions can't help fight wage collusion. Something being illegal doesn't mean it doesn't happen, and it has to be brought to light to be caught.

And it was…
Markets don't arbitrarily inflate prices across asset classes (stocks, crypto, commodities, real estate). Classifying widespread worldwide inflation as energy cost inflation OR profiteering is (subjectively) an excuse for policy failure. Single family home owners in San Diego don't collude with condo owners in Vietnam. They do respond to bidders outbidding each other, flush with cash from asset values rising as a consequence of money printing worldwide. The core reason is money printing. The rest is noise. See charts for Fed balance sheet, M1 and M2 money supply for 10 years worth of printing in a year. The Cantillon effect makes people close to the money spigot richer at the expense of the masses.

The Fed knows it too, else QT and interest rate hikes wouldn't be used as weapons against inflation. Political messaging is oriented around not taking responsibility and blaming the pandemic, supply chain issues, Ukraine war etc. These reasons do play a role to be clear, but not to the extent that $ printing does.
> Historic Deal to End Crisis

> End

> Crisis

Shit's starting. Fasten your seat belts. One week from now things will be different.
Wait, is there not evidence that he practised as a lawyer?
Yes, show me what it does before asking to register.
He didn't, the lawyer stuff was a fabrication
You can pick up a Wyse 3040 with an Atom X5 for ~$20. It's limited to 2GB RAM, and of course x86, but the processor benches on par with the Pi 4.
We use nix-direnv mostly for the caching support and we use s6 as basically an init system but per project. Besides that it's all custom. We're looking to replace s6 with our own supervisor soon.

Edited to add, direnv just gets installed via `nix-env` but I wish it were using nix-darwin.

I'll probably get to write a blog post about this in a couple months.
Yes but those who want to perform often go to conservatories which are structured around the art/discipline first. We have no such equivalent for sports, except we sort of do and pretend they’re still there primarily for the education (basically every football team in the SEC).
I’m going out on a limb here… but did they all tell you about how hard ‘hell week’ was?
A scenario where AI is perfectly aligned with human beings will still be a nightmare if those humans who control it aren’t particularly decent people who care about the rest of us. The “AI alignment” crowd doesn’t care about any of that. That might be excusable if they had any idea what to do to prevent hypothetical extinction at the hands of AI, but they don’t have that either.
There could be permanent consequences either way. Children of overprotective parents tend to live less:

https://neurosciencenews.com/overprotective-parents-child-lo...
Commandline Heros - https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes

I Spy - https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ispy

Security Now - https://twit.tv/shows/security-now

Floss weekly - https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Gleam – a language for building type-safe, scalable systems
There would have to be some really strong wind in the opposite direction, so relative to the ground the plane speed is 10 knots, but it's airspeed is >100 knots. Demonstration: https://v.redd.it/8ejvh30f9d081

The second and third videos are shot head on so you can't really tell the speed
Fair enough - assuming steady state, but the acceleration is the curve I'm most curious about.

The point I was alluding to above was that the prompts themselves will be recursively mined over time. Eventually, except for truly novel problems, the AI interpretation of the prompts will become more along the lines of "that's what I wanted".

Some things to think about: What happens when an entire company's slack history is mined in this fashion? Or email history? Or GIT commit history, with corresponding links to Jira tickets? Or the corporate wiki? There are, I'd guess, hundreds of thousands to millions of project charter documents to be mined; all locked behind an "intranet" - but at some point, businesses will be motivated to, at the least, explore the "what if" implications.

Given enough data to feed upon, and some additional code/logic/extensions to the current state of the art, I think every knowledge worker should consider the impact of this technology.

I'm not advocating for it (to be honest, it scares the hell out of me) - but this is where I see the overall trend heading.
I never said it does. If you’ve got malware, you should consider all your credentials fully compromised.
Maybe, maybe not. The Fed has wiped out 6 months of QT's impact within a week. They might temporarily slow rate hikes but I am not convinced they will stop. I see this more as them plugging a hole in the economy. It will take a collapse for them to pivot and admit defeat to inflation.
>And what would you replace it with

just plain old kW. kW * hr/ hr is just 1 kW.

A kW is relatable. About the same as an electric kettle, microwave oven, or 100 lightbulbs.
Lex is great. Some of my favorite episodes of him are with some really cool software engineers.

-- Chris Lattner -> Wrote the LLVM Compiler and lead/(leads?) development of the Swift programming language. Done a bunch of other cool things with RISC-V development too --
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5fpAb2OpRL3Uy8ZTq94vD8?si=b...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fzFCgBznLjKvG2tJFLk3I?si=f...

-- Bjarne Stroustrup -> Creator of C++ programming language --
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nfoXUYySjgyCtJVglb5LV?si=4...

-- David Patterson -> Turing Award Winner (Don't remember exactly what this guy did but the podcast was 4.5 hours and I listened to the whole thing so it must have been good) --
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5GgaJfeIZWLbofcapDbo18?si=8...

-- Brendan Eich -> Creator of JavaScript --
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vLJaVnHrT6uWrgZdRaAkO?si=4...

-- He's had on Elon a few times too. --
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1E3ESPFzTHiAxJVXQPiRGd?si=f...
He also had a bunch of really good physics and math guys on like Grant Sanderson (3 Blue 1 Brown guy) and Frank Wilcek (Nobel Prize Winner in physics, wrote "A Beautiful Question")

I'd also counter one of the previous comments and say that I think he challenges the controversial people he has on significantly more than almost anyone else doing podcasts right now. That's specifically one of the reasons I like him.

Some other good podcasts though:
PodRocket -> Really good stuff on Web Development and general web technology

Command Line Heros -> Some really good episodes on the history of software. If you're young like I am this podcast gives you a really good rundown as to why things in software are the way they are and how it evolved.

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg-> Great podcast for learning about how the tech ecosystem operates on a large scale. It's 4 guys who have been extremely successful in the tech/VC world and they breakdown current events in tech. I feel like it provides really good insight into where the tech world is/is going and also if you're interested in starting a company it helps wrap your head around the terminology that comes along with raising money and working in that world.
> 1. Alternative to magnet or any window management systems that does not require elaborate tmux setup.

Try Pop_Os or install Gnome extention on you're current install (https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-shell/)

> 2. More adoption of snapstore and auto-updates.

Flatpak is what you're looking for.

> 3. Comparable performance and battery life to today's arm laptops.

While I agree with this one, I think this is more on the chip and hardware manufacturers.
> Even a TPM or secure element is just a financial obstacle to a sufficiently motivated attacker.

For sure, but currently it's a fairly big step function for an attacker to have to teardown a TPM (or find a vulnerability in its firmware).
Parker Conrad tells his side of Zenefits resignation
It makes me wonder why C put the ultimate type on the left and not on the right.

C type/variable declarations are an expression that transforms the type/variable into a primitive type, which is then annotated on the left of the expression. Why not on the right?
In February of 2016, Parker Conrad was replaced by David Sacks as CEO of Zenefits. Parker shares his side of how it all happened, the recourse and the role the media played.
There is already a state bailout. CS got loaned $54B. UBS got guaranteed another $100B loan for buying CS - and I read from another post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35222147) the state will cover up to $9B in losses from the buyout.
Data Stack Show (https://datastackshow.com/)
No More Big Bets
Who cares about the Internet. (I'm on internet-history... it's a bunch of aging farts, very distinguished and nice aging farts but still, talking about TCP/IP and who did email and who did this and when did that happen etc. That's all swell. My book was not about the Internet. It was about PLATO and from a larger perspective, the rise of cyberculture of which "internet" only a portion.)

DCL like the Education dept at UIUC pooh-poohed PLATO from the outset. So it's no wonder they had a snooty attitude (and still do) about PLATO. MIT and Stanford had the same snooty attitue. PLATO was electrical engineering-driven, and science and humanities-driven. Very unusual for such a project, but that was the way it was.

Also, my book wasn't about the impact PLATO had on the University, but on cyberculture. The University politicians gladly swept PLATO under the carpet as soon as they could as the NCSA got big money in the 80s, and then the web took off in the 90s. Today it's like PLATO never existed at UIUC. A lot of that is due to decisions the PLATO lab took to stick to clearly antiquated design decisions and a reluctance to embrace client/server and distributed-computing designs. But they had to stick to old ways, because they had an immediate need to deploy, they weren't an ivory tower think tank like Xerox PARC dreaming up what the future might look like in 20 years. PLATO folks were dreaming up the then-present, and they shipped, like any good startup.
Changelog (primarily just the main show, sometimes Go Time/JS Party) and Syntax
SELinux in particular is complex enough many vendors just give up and write "disable SELinux" in install manual...

Also it is totally not fit for the "ask user for permission" model.
Stop the presses! A privacy focused startup offers a new privacy focused product and wants to be paid for it, so you know, you are not the product.

OMG how dare they!
The convention dates back to at least ML in the 70s, possibly even longer time back. So it is not some new thing, it's recent rise in popularity is more a reflection in MLs increasing influence in language design space.

If I'd had to guess, the syntax might be inspired by math notation such as x ∈ ℝ
I grew up in Bozeman, Montana, so I've got my own sob story of beloved disappearing hometown to contend with, thanks.
"Fractal Shipping" is a great cyberpunk name for a dodgy shell company.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/hackerbci/pieeg all details about the project here
The stuff that didn't make it to the blog is disturbing too (like the weird conclusion to the Moloch essay):

https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/ArsonAtDennys/status/13621531...

Apparently lots of the blog and his neoreactionary FAQ was set up to get people into some of the ideas if neoreactionaries like eugenics stuff.

There was a whole trove of stuff that released a bit after the NYT article on Slate Star Codex that kind of proved its suspicions right.
There are probably more unlicensed pilots in Alaska than there are licensed. "Restrictions" on the frontier out in Alaska are a LONG way away...
Show HN: AI tool to find the purpose of other websites
An AI based tool that helps users discover the purpose of other websites. Simply enter a website URL and it will provide insights of what the website does and how it can be useful.
What did you use exactly? I am curious, Resque? Sidekick?
it is only EEG signals, and application are very limited
We found shortcuts to writing poems in Shakespearian style ...
When I was a child, I was surrounded by lots of technical books. They weren't children's books at all. No one forced me to read them. They just stood there and you could flick through them out of boredom. But now I still think it was my inclination of character, as nowadays children avoid any books. And this inclination of character was due to the fact that I was living in the lack and limited resources of my parents. I think that if you give a child everything, it severely restricts them from dreaming of doing something of their own. After all, everything is already there. There needs to be knowledge around instead of a common consumer environment.
Hi, since you're commenting here and appear to be interested in exploring things further, I just wanted to point out that once GPT-4 is available through the API you could use a LangChain Agent[1] to maintain the board state externally and feed it back in automatically with every new move, so that the playing field would be more level in terms of memory. You could also inject instructions about explaining its plans either as system messages or as per-prompt instructions.

[1] https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/agents.ht...
According to Google Translate "Mattress topper" is the correct term I was looking for =)

Basically a thing you put on top of a mattress for extra comfort and it makes making the bed a bit easier and cleaner.
Tell HN: OpenAI says they might add a new subscription level for more GPT4 limit
When hitting the GPT4's usage limit (which is now 25 messages per 3 hours), OpenAI shows a link to a form where they mention their plans for GPT4 users.
Your not saying the opposite of what I said :-) I literally said that indeed electricity did cause many jobs to go away.

My point was more about the way these predictions are phrased and that they may sound absurd, regardless of how they would pan out
You didn't, you are right. Sorry for implying that. It's just a sentiment that I actually encounter very often online. I guess I'm also biaised, as a muslim, to care way more about the iraq war than the US electoral process. So for me it's just such a non-issue (especially since the documents weren't forged or fake) but I guess everyone cares more about their own backyard ;)
"If you don't resign, we will almost certainly find out who you are anyway"

Is he really confident of this?
It can. TPMs have a "dictionary attack" (DA) protection feature.

You can't set the number of bad attempts that trip lockout, or how long to lock out for differently for different objects -- those are global configuration parameters. But you can configure which objects / policies require DA protection and which ones don't.
Map of my personal data infrastructure
Reasoning Machines
Here's my theory - I think two key developments have occurred in AI/ML:

1. Relevance Machines

- The attention mechanism in transformers has caused a significant drop in the cost of predicting relevance.

- These systems correspond to the implicit System 1 in animal and human cognition in dual process theory.

2. Reasoning Machines

- Predicting relevance of human language in LLMs has caused a signifiacnt drop in the cost of reasoning (notably GPT4).

- These systems correspond to the explicit System 2 in human cognition in dual process theory.

When combined, I think these systems lay the foundation for AGI and turn it into more of an engineering problem than a fundamental research problem. While that effort unfolds, I think we will begin leveraging cheaper reasoning in business and other settings.

What do you think? Do you agree/disagree? Why?
With a secure enclave of some kind, there could conceivably be a three attempt limit before the temporary key associated with the pin is deleted, and full pass phrase is required. In such a setup pin might make sense.

As it is - I'm not sure if pin makes sense even if there's user demand? Then again I do use biometric unlock - and that's not really great either.

At least the bitwarden installs are behind fde (macOS) - and possibly (?) file based encryption (Android 13+).
Why did you jump to a 4 digit PIN instead of a 10 letter word? (which is still faster than the full 20 letter master password with many special symbols)

Is it because of the name PIN? So there is your simple answer of what problem Bitwarden needs to fix
This may be separate conversations.

I'm speaking of macro-level infant mortality and mass starvation.
Monitoring the QO-100 WB transponder usage with Maia SDR
Seems like a case of burnout.
That sounds like a playfield leveller but most likely won’t happen. But it surely would be nice
Mirror:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230319140022/https://harpers.o...
Did you install the update from yesterday? It contains the fix so if you installed it, you won't be able to replicate anymore. Try finding old screenshots which meet the requirements.
> The industry has moved beyond past decisions for a reason, that is the point.

And those “reasons” often SUCK; that is the point.
So high that the pilot can prove that they did not use more distance for the landing/takeoff.
Wow, I did not expect that to happen basically overnight. I guess FINMA and the Swiss government were really fed up with the CS shenanigans.
Right, I’m not sure whether this refers to finding another earth-like planet with JWST (interesting and plausible though not related to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum), or seeing another version of the Earth with JWST that followed a different path in possible many-worlds quantum outcomes (seemingly impossible!).
I think I really did win that one.
Nobody wants to ban rural living, just stop subsidizing it, or subsidize it less. I don't get why responses to these suggestions are always framed this way: "but you need the countryside!" Well, yes... and that's what paying for goods and services is for.

If the situation were reversed, these kinds of defenses would not convince the people making them that rural dwellers ought to subsidize urban living.
This is hyperbole at its finest. Can you name a few industries that have been killed?

Which artists and writers aside from pretentious copy cats are getting replaced by AI?
but getting into an accident and spraying it all over during liftoff is something of a concern
Source: https://www.gu.se/en/news/worlds-fastest-laser-camera-films-...

Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-023-01095-5 (open access)
He runs a network that basically builds a East German style profile on people. Wouldn’t doubt in the least he has best in class capabilities to track this down.
Also in The Netherlands, our kid's after-school care playground has one. There is a quite tall one at another playground:

https://speleninstad.nl/mooiste-speeltuinen/speelplek-hoorns...

I grew up in a smaller village. We often climbed trees. I am pretty sure that this is safer.
I love it! So petulant and conceited. It's great to hear what these CEOs are like without the Corpo-speak PR filtering system
Title should mention this is from 2010.
Software Defined Talk https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/
The follow-on prompts would be to refactor the existing system to solve the scalability issues. You'd need to be able to feed in the existing codebase for that, though.
I think the post needs a [2010] tag, the article might be recent but the email is more than a decade old
With language models I won’t be surprised if it’s possible to create semantically equivalent but syntactically different text such that you can uniquely identify leakers.

Then you could send these out in a coordinated fashion to identify which group, if not person, is leaking.

The message says that they will find the leaker, but I doubt it (of course this is from 2010, so if they were found they have been for a while now).
>introduced serious price controls and other counter-inflationary measures

Price controls are not effective in curbing inflation [1] And they have a deleterious effect on production. For example: no farmer is gonna sell his produce at a price that is less than his cost to produce. So if you control the price, there will be nothing on the shelf.

[1]https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/2...
The plutonium 238 fuel in RTGs has a half life of 87.7 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238

Uranium 235, the fuel used in reactors, has a half life of 703.8 million years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-235

This means that plutonium 238 is roughly 8 million times as radiotoxic as uranium 235, gram for gram. If this mini-reactor carries 4.5 tonnes of fuel it will be 0.012% as dangerous at launch as the power source for the Curiosity rover.
List of near-Equatorial tropical cyclones
Because they are potentially completely different processes. It is certainly possible, but what I see is a test fixture that could be made completely separate. Therefore it would be interesting to know if it wasn't, how they know that it wasn't and why Apple wouldn't on production lines costing many millions to billions.
Personally I find this mode of argument, where someone talks about a collective action problem and then someone else replies “well why don’t you do it then” distracting and unhelpful. Collective action problems, by definition, cannot be solved by individual actions. We must first discuss the problem and reach agreement.

Pretending that collective actions can be solved by individual action seems to me only to be a tactic to defeat the efforts of those seeking collective change.

I should note you never commented on the merits of free university for all. You’ve diverted the conversation in to one about individuals, successfully avoiding addressing the key point I was making.
Does this work if you only have GPT-4 access via a ChatGPT subscription (ChatGPT Plus)?
If you recognize Intel ME as a problem - so if the general firmware on the motherboard which libreboot replaces. One of two (?) steps towards only running code on our computers which we can see and analyze; or at least, that knowledgeable people can analyze.
The author suggests GPT-4 is analogous to tools like the spellchecker, but really the roles get flipped. AI does the work, and we take the role of the spellchecker.

Not dissimilar to the one employee who hangs around the 10 self-checkouts ensuring they work properly. Can’t say I look forward to that career change.
Did they ever find out?
My requirements are 99% SPA and 1% SEO
Maybe they should make special operating systems just for people who constantly hold something in their one hand while clicking around with the other.
I was including that - the issue to me is that banking needs better regulation to stop them getting into this situation in the first place