skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shareholders are the people who own the company. The company is collectively their property.

The officers of a company (CEO, etc) are caretakers of that property on behalf of the shareholders.

If you own a Pizza Hut, and you hire someone to manage and run the store, their job is to make sure the store (and thus you) make a profit. The CEO has the same obligation to shareholders.
> Business is not your friend, it's not your family. The only goal of business is to make profit. If they can make something good along the way - great, but don't expect them to do it.

Yep, this is what the robber baron capitalists of the USA also used to believe - profit at the expense of human life. You are simply proving the point here that the only way to win is civil dis-obedience. Boycott, blockade, unionize and make these modern robber barons pay. Unless they feel the pinch they will not change.

Believing in profit at the expense of all other considerations only kick-starts a revolution.
Fellow SV resident (does Cupertino count?) and my eyes water when I look at my energy bill. Then I lose power for two days and learn that people REALLY dislike PG&E. And I thought National Grid was bad.
Thank you for the paper reference. I had no idea it had been written. It's always nice to get post fact validation for one's blovation!
PHP 8.2.4
Mostly for learning a bit of CSS and HTML, and hopefully a little bit of a leg up for interviews.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

The fact that the thing being abstracted into a security is BS doesn’t affect the rules you have to follow when you’re acting like a thing is an investment.

Pumping and dumping nonsense Is securities fraud in plenty of cases, the legal frameworks were created to prevent that kind of behavior.
CoachChat – A GPT-4 Career Coaching Chatbot
Just threw this together last night with GPT-4 API. Any feedback / suggestions greatly appreciated@
This is a very convolution way of saying that Haskell can have side effects, but some parts of the code is pure. This is also similar to any other languages. Any code is side-effect free until it is executed.

The actually interesting part of Haskell is that the type system is strong enough to indicate which sections of the code is pure and which are unpure.
The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management
Travelling alone sounds like a dream. But I'm an introvert on the ASD, so... I'm probably the exception.
CEOs do what's best for themselves and I'm reasonably sure people with low empathy (to put it politely) are over represented among CEOs.
Because cause and effect is more understandable and controllable in one direction.

Everything we do takes advantage of the higher to lower entropy gradient.

We get relatively organized photons from the sun, a percentage get stored in wood of trees, so we can burn that for heat which can drive an engine or generate electricity, with the end result is doing some useful work.

And we don’t actually lose any energy, due to conservation of energy.

But we have now lost USABLE energy, because all our captured energy is now heat diffusely spreading out from our engine into the atmosphere where it becomes uncontrolled DISORGANIZED and therefore no longer usable.

So clear causes tend to occur in past of clear effects.

For large objects.

But again, if you watch videos of individual marbles bouncing around, forward or backward, you see just as clear chains of cause and effect in either direction.
Obligatory "front end is a mess" comment. I taught at a bootcamp for 6 months, it was a great experience but when we moved on to react after vanilla JS the amount of incidental complexity was a huge step up, even with create-react-app. Now they push people towards adding a server side framework at the same time, right off the bat? I think there's a real danger with new engineers entering the industry that they have no chance to develop a proper mental model of the underlying tech stack the way so many libraries, frameworks, packages, bundlers are thrown together just to get something working. You think the docs should just start with using plain React, and then branch off in to SPA Vs SSR later.
AI moderators don't have to be personal. It would be enough to tag comments as constructive, lulz and flame and let users decide which type they want, or to which degree they want it. The technology of spam-detecting Markov chains should be enough since the users can easily correct the classification.

Since the feature is possible but not used, question remains why users don't need it.
Genuine question, but what makes an LLM more dangerous and requiring of censorship than a search engine? Search engines are perfectly happy to serve "unsafe" material with the right search terms.

Also, if the goal is to ensure the LLM "thinks" in a "safe" way under the hood, the current methods seem insufficient, as jailbreak prompts show it's not really changing the underlying model. Feels more like slapping a band-aid over the problem.
The tech: tracking collars

The rest: Breed wolves, attach tracking collars, and lobby your local representatives to pass laws that impose hefty punishments on anyone who would kill the wolves.

Introduce the wolves to areas you'd like to see tree growth. They'll prey on the the predators who prey on the seeds and saplings, and the trees will grow.

Use the tracking collar data to monitor their territory coverage. Breed and distribute more wolves as needed. You can also use this data to bring assailants to justice, should you succeed in passing the no-kill laws.

Note there are many biomes where trees cannot thrive naturally, where natural forces may make it difficult or impossible for forests to take root long-term, such as the American Great Plains.
The caterpillar turns to mush. Its nervous system seamlessly morphs into a new one. Many neurons are retained, some are pruned, and some new ones are formed.

This is why certain memories can be retained and certain ones can't.
The silly colors and patterns will instead attract the attention of people around.

Another issue -- it may target specific soft/hardware combinations, but will not confuse all of them. It will probably not work against color-agnostic IR or ToF/depth cameras.
Absurd & bizarre connection you draw. Companies that wish to continue forever face rot. Sometimes it's from over-retaining. But usually IMO it's from under-valuing & under-attending to the people making the meat.

The impact won't show up in a quarter, or maybe even 4, but the hollowing out & disenfranchisement of your workforce has real impact, is what makes you a lumbering husk, that might not be in visible decline, but it does make you weak & fragile & with muted senses, makes you less attuned. The cost of being a shit adds up.
Checkmate cancer
I have a datacenter at home (that is, the top shelf of a cupboard) with my fiber connection, router, a 10 years old tower with a mix of HDD and SDD, a small computer that acts as the router/DHCP/... and a few other equipment - behind a UPS.

I measured the consumption at some point and it is a steady 60W.

I expected more, this setup has a marginal consumption compared to other appliances - and it gives me happiness.

Without doing advanced research, I would guess that a lot of consumption i fixed and hardly compressible (fridge, dishwasher, water boiler, induction plate, typical lights) - at least I hope so.
I honestly think a lot of people in their twenties already do this. They’re not making much money but seem to be making enough to just have fun and pursue other things.

My brother has figured he can make a great living out of gardening for people. Yes robots will probably do this one day, but will they to the same level ? Really who knows anymore?

I’m actually sure a lot of the more wealthy people he works for kind of also just like him and his company too. He’s a youthful fun guy with a lot of creative ideas.

The silicone value push for eternal life via the singularity and trips to Mars seems to be mostly fuelled by cults and the need to keep shareholder happy / profits coming in.

I don’t know if anyone else cares that much, including the bots themselves. Time will tell.
Microsoft Teams or Zoom should work on a system that injects a subtle distinction in each and every stream so you know who is the leaker. Or at least, similar to certain internal communications that vary a bit depending on the group receiving them.
Projects like this make me think of arms race (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_arms_race).

If I wanted my governments surveillance camera system to improve more quickly I'd confront it with some challenging training data by making an exploit public and available for everyone :)
Twitter Files #19
Back in '17, I took my car across the Atlantic to the US, and drove coast to coast and back again for a total of 10 weeks. The majority of the trip was spent driving alone.

My original plan had been 12 weeks, but coming around the 7th-8th week, as I was driving back to the East Coast, I was hit with a severe sense of home sickness, so I decided to cut my trip short.

It was a great trip, and I met a lot of people on the way. Also met my now wife -- though, ironically, on the last day of the trip.

I will recommend these sorts of trips, particularly to younger people before they settle down. But - as pointed out elsewhere - remember to talk to people. Still made me feel home sick; and exhausted from the constant bombardment of new experiences.
In many of these companies the system, process, algorithm, whatever that lays off individuals just informs people from senior manager down, they don't even know who's going away. How do you imagine that correlates with individual performance? The correlation is basically 0, maybe negative sometimes :-)
"UAP" became a term because officers stopped reporting them because of the stigma against UFOs.

I think I remember there even being another new term to replace UAP.
Honestly, it seems like if you accept any contract law you implicitly must accept copyright law. Consider the following contracts:

I agree to harvest your crops in exchange for 50% of the yield.

I agree to sing if you give me supper.

I agree to sing if you give me supper and not record me.

I agree to sing if you give me supper and subscribe to all the rules of copyright law.

I agree to sing if you give me supper and subscribe to all the rules of copyright law and all people in your jurisdiction also subscribe to copyright law. (And then some folks who wanted a singer got together and passed a law that satisfied the singer's requirements).

All these seem reasonable to extensions of the previous and it seems like we've ended up at the latter.

You might say 'well I didn't agree to that contract', but there are plenty of things in the world that we are bound by that individuals that we didn't explicitly agree to. I didn't explicitly agree to not dump motor oil in the ocean, or hunt deer on a certain day or that 50 decibels as the bound for noise during the night, or that children of age 12 can't vote, or that I have to wear pants in public.

You might argue that the last step is invalid, and instead the world should be a place where individuals can pick and choose which laws they are interested in subscribing too. I don't really want to put much effort into that path because my intuition is that's equivalent to anarchy, but maybe there's an alternate argument here.

So it seems to have a world w/o copyright law, you have to throw out contract law, or convince everyone to stop somewhere on that chain, perhaps not to make the contracts that mimic copyright law, or make a law making such contracts invalid. The later two options seem fairly artificial, impinging on folks self determination. So we're left with having to eliminate contract law, which seems pretty limiting.
Twitter to open source recommender code on March 31st
Good to see you around, hope you are well
Hacker news used to be a place I turned to for that sort of thing, but yes lately it has become a complete horror show, especially with the advent of AIs I mainly want to imprison the creators, inflict corporeal punishment, etc. (I have found it soothing/calming to imagine e.g. various terrible tech leaders being tortured) - not that I don't value knowing which terrible things are happening in the world of computing or otherwise but I miss when HN was spewing out interesting new frameworks every other day.

I don't think it's on HN though, every time I find a new community that is more like that it seems it slowly becomes corrupted, usually thanks in part to some idiotic tech bro "oh we made it easy so now your meditative thing has a bunch of annoying notifications, yay progress"
Prompt engineering is as engineering as data science is science.
If you hire people as disposable automatons and show no goodwill or loyalty, they will naturally do the minimum necessary not to get fired. So you need to add managers on top to make sure automatons don’t slack. But managers also cost you, and they will try to game the system all the same. So you add cameras and build butt detectors into chairs to see how much time people spend away.

For an employee, it is an arms race to dystopia slowed down by mountains of government regulation. For your business, it will never benefit from any employee’s full potential.

Free market only works if people value good will, good faith, reputation. Embracing a lack of these values puts you on a road that one way or another leads to authoritarianism or oppression.
Looks like stuff that Jake Sisko would wear
But it could be a good starting point for a group of humans to take, polish and maintain as a new language.

Not sure why need any new languages when we have the perfection that is Golang tho.
Is it for sure the women that don't want to have children, or is it more cross-gender? Would the involuntarily celibate Japanese men breed with consenting foreign women?
What? Fathers are also birth parents. As opposed to step parents or adoptive parents.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birth%20parent
Narrator: It's at this point Michael realized the futility of C++ and promptly learned Rust over a couple of beers pondering if he will ever survive the oncoming AI apocalypse.
Don't why you have been downvoted, while there are famous dev outside of the US, american identity and marketting does sell better than the german one.
The plumber analogy is flawed but yours is not much better. When is the agreed work done for an employee? Employees are not hired to complete a specific job like a plumber is.
Don't they already do that?
That’s a term for the natural mother of a child who is later adopted. You could also consider surrogacy. There are many ways families are constructed.
> For higher numbers of marbles the probability becomes lower and lower, but is never 0.

Exactly. It doesn’t take a very large jar to make a return to an original state practically impossible. But even for two marbles, shaking them to return them to their original locations costs a fair amount of organized energy.

And that is organized chemical energy in your muscles, which you are dissipating as disorganized heat energy due to your efforts, increasing the total disorganization.

And the marbles are microscopically wearing down, shedding compounds. The jar is also wearing down. Both becoming less organized.

So even with two marbles, overall entropy continues increasing.

We can locally reverse entropy, only at the cost of actually increasing entropy in total.

- Organizing your day takes effort and uses up useful organized energy.

- Computation uses up useful organized energy.

- Your cells, maintaining their metabolism, uses up useful organized energy.

No matter what we do, entropy still increases.
Rural Japanese communities are seriously depressing. Dilapidated houses inhabited by octogenarian and nonagenarian widows. Shuttered primary schools. Rusted jungle gyms in parks that are overgrown with weeds.

When my family first moved to Japan, we spent a few months living with our in-laws in a rural agricultural village. Not even that rural by Japanese standards, it’s only a 10 minute drive from a relatively thriving city center. But there are telltale signs of a shrinking and aging population everywhere you look. I remember one day I took my three year old son to the park, and it was just so quiet (except for the sound of bugs and frogs), and so neglected, that I was overcome with sadness and hopelessness. It reminded me of “Childhood’s End” by Arthur C. Clark.

We ended up buying a house on the other side of the city in a relatively new housing development and it’s basically the complete opposite. Kids are out playing in the street and nearby parks, neighbors are friendly - it’s a great place to raise a family.

I can definitely understand why rural communities are being hit especially hard by shrinking population, and how one could go 25 years without any babies being born. Nobody (or most people, at least, the family in this story is definitely the exception) wants to raise a family where there are no other families around, the elementary school has been closed, job opportunities are scarce, etc. So people move elsewhere.
Someone’s triggered. Get off antiwoke Twitter my friend, it might do you good.
It's not black or white. There are people in the startup ecosystem that are driven mainly by money and there are those more idealistic.
Who is going to make decisions and hold power in our society, if not you and me? We have responsibilities for it; if it's malfunctioning, that is on us. Who will take care of these responsibilities for you?

Expecting someone else to do it is playing a victim and a child - it is us, there's nobody else; there are no parents or authorities to take care of us while we act out. People following your path are why nothing happens. People who act are the reason many do face consequences.

Look at the world that was built for you - the freedom, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, the technology, health care, roads, schools, etc. They were built by the prior generations, not by people who quit under stress. What are you building?

The best tactic of the people with power is to get people like you to give up yours, because the public has the ultimate power. Why do you think people in power invest so much in persuasion, disinformation, etc.? If you were powerless, it wouldn't matter.

If you claim news is useless, what are you doing on HN that is so useful? (And see the headlines from Memeorandum, below.)

> there has been zero consequences during my 50 years of life

That's a falsehood, and if more need to face consequences, that is up to you and me.

> Memeorandum

Here are the current headlines. Many have great impact on the future of our country, on the freedom and financial security of hundreds of millions. You don't care about anyone else, including yourself? That's not a persuasive argument.

* Trump attorney ordered to testify before grand jury investigating former president

* Law enforcement agencies are prepping for a possible Trump indictment as early as next week

* ‘The Wire’ Star Lance Reddick Dead at 60

* Wyoming Becomes First State to Outlaw Abortion Pills

* My Struggle Session at Stanford Law School

* Two gifts to Trump family from foreign nations are missing, report says

* ICC issues arrest warrant for Putin over war crimes in Ukraine

* House GOP ignored Capitol Police requests to review public Jan. 6 footage, lawyer says

* Michigan Is Becoming The Anti-Florida On LGBTQ Rights ― And A Lot More

* Biden jokes he's ‘really not Irish’ because he's sober, doesn't have relatives ‘in jail’

* America Has Decided It Went Overboard on Covid-19

* Biden asks Congress to impose tougher penalties on executives of failed banks

* Just Because ChatBots Can't Think Doesn't Mean They Can't Lie

* Derek Chauvin, ex-officer convicted of killing George Floyd, pleads guilty to federal tax evasion

* As crucial legal test for Antifa ideology heads to trial, right-wing media also scrutinized

... etc. (list is getting too long)
At least when it comes to Discord(and Reddit actually), there are scripts that you can run that deletes all of your activity/posts/etc from the server. I am pretty certain that Reddit still maintains hidden logs of everything you do even if you have deleted everything from your profile, but at least this way it will hopefully be much harder for people to get into that info. As for Discord, I have no idea if they keep logs of everything you do but I would assume that is the case. On second thought, in the past I have had Discord server mods yell at me for things I'd posted but also deleted, so there is definitely still a record of your activities to some extent.
Snarky and stupid is not a good combination
Oh, ponyvillefm, long time no see
> It occupies the place of Peano's * first axiom that 1 ∈ N. */

Natural numbers should start with 0 [0].

Suspiciously, the following lines in the proof can be entirely removed while still verifying:

@func nat(x any) bool;
term 1 nat;

[0] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
It's a pure hypothetical because the people who do reproduce under conditions of modernity will become the future population.
Tech is a very broad term, it encompasses many domains e.g medicine, food, robotics, civil engineering etc. Not every website will cover everything. And even the technologists don't know what will be the next hit that will have profound impact on lives and when. One way to understand what could be on the horizon is to go through the company portfolios of major venture capital firms, read about research done by major universities, and follow few websites like Tech Crunch, The Register and Hacker News.

> My wife was just asking me how we should prepare for old age and what we should watch out for.

> One of my suggestions was making sure that we keep up with technology.

That is a good idea, but tech is a moving target. It will be difficult to keep track of it regularly.

What I would do, if I was in your place, is stop worrying about tech and instead think of what maximum places on this planet I could visit and start preparing for that. If you are in a western country, then I would urge you to visit those places that usually get bad press in the west, like countries in Asia, south America, middle-east, culturally vibrant countries like China and Iran, and countries in the Eurasian region. Just my 2cents :)
This comment is probably the best explanation of how American capitalism is effective at self-propagate its tenets through the confidence of those it screws over the most.
@procinct posted a definition that disagrees with you.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birth%20parent

This seems to be a problem with these new "woke" words or however you'd like to describe them.

They seem unnatural and sudden which is why everyone is confused.
Building an UI is hard, even with language with good support for it. Web ui are hard. Python ui are hard.
The average individual contributor in a big company is not able to meaningfully influence whether they produce value or not. They might be stuck in a team or even department with an agenda that produces little value, with no opportunities to make proactive change. It's quite intransparent in the FAANG hiring process if you will end up in such a team after your offer.

If ensuring your part of the company is working on the big picture right things becomes your responsibility, what's even the point of joining an established enterprise over a startup?
> People complaining about politics isn’t the same as securities fraud.

I never said they were - I said that celebrities who make promises to their fans never intend to follow through on them.
I'm at 466M points and within top 10k donors.....that's just thanks to running folding@home on my own machines for the last 15 years lol.

https://stats.foldingathome.org/donor/id/9171
Consumer labs has done studies and shown excessive heavy metals from around the world. In fact I’ve never seen a seaweed in CA that doesn’t contain a prop 65 logo on it.
Just a fun observation, these layoffs are happening around the same time GPT-4 was released.
https://techcrunch.com/
https://gizmodo.com/