skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does adding 2 months between your 5-20% rounds recover that continuity?

Yes. The knowledge is consolidated in fewer people that way.

> It still looks like an incredibly stupid thing to do, but it will spread enough knowledge to keep your lights on. The problem is that "keep your lights on" is the only thing people will care about while overworked looking for another job

Agreed. However, if a business is bleeding $1M per month and has $10M in savings, "keeping the lights on" for a while is considered success.

I will mention: I'm not advocating for a specific course of action. I'm merely trying to explain one way of reasoning. Personally, I think there are usually out-of-the-box solutions which avoid layoffs, especially in situations similar to big tech.

Google could, for example, spin up a consulting arm and (1) Get dead-weight people out of core operations (2) Likely, make a mint.
Stop arguing on the internet and join the fight: https://climatebase.org
Switzerland puts up 260B francs for Credit Suisse rescue
I don't think anyone wants an AI that generates hate speech unprompted.

There are plenty who would want an AI that generates hate speech when explictly instructed to.
Whatever happened to "squats and oats?"
One problem is huge swatch of premium land being dedicated to cars (parking lots, wasted whole floors of residential building for parking, huge highways through the city etc.
what do you see as the important difference between real threads and interprocess shared memory?
> our dependency

I know I'm being pedantic, but I made a very conscious decision not to depend on this technology any time soon given how brand new it is, for this exact reason.
It’s easy enough that children can do it. Cycling on hard-packed snow is not particularly hard, less so than sand, I’d say comparable to gravel. Ice is a problem.

Convenience is relative. Sure, cycling in winter requires a good pair of mittens, and a warm hat, but all in all, it seems that a lot of people prefer it in Oulu over driving.

And the thing here is that it’s not the weather that’s stopping people from cycling. It’s shitty maintenance of the cycling network. Slush and ice, being forced into the same space as cars.

And that’s the newsworthy part - how does Oulu manage to maintain a cycling network in winter where most other cities fail. The answers include things such as priorities, dedication, investment. Oulu dedicates resources to the problem. Most towns don’t because “no one cycles in winter” - which then becomes a self-reinforcing prophecy.
The post was saying Slack and Meet are repeat offenders in terms of breaking users expectations or their workflows due to a change-heavy approach to product management, not that they break in the sense of going offline.
Any pointers? What would you change?
The mention of the film has since been removed from the Wikipedia article. It may be urban legend.

https://commonplacefacts.com/2015/05/08/how-herbie-goes-bana...
Pragmatic HTML (2010)
Easy... have you ever been called a 2 in binary!?
Language is overrated. It’s visible, and once written down or recorded it is stuck in place like a specimen on a microscope slide and can be poked, prodded and is conveniently unable to defend itself. (Derrida, Badiou, etc. take advantage of this)

Birds and mammals can do almost all the same cognition we do however, but do it without language.

The success of ChatGPT is remarkable and will lead people to return to “language is all you need”, but its deceptive.
Not a popular opinion here apparently. "Disruption" I guess. When VC tech touches on caring for people, the psychopathy becomes more evident.
No. Both of those things can be done with light JS use. A framework is definitely not needed.
Hello. I am truly not throwing rocks, because I think that a well-curated curriculum for this area of learning is very important.

Nevertheless, AI is upon us, so here is a link to a “Poe:Sage” answer to the question:

“what is a good homeschooling curriculum for k-12 based on ‘the great books’ of western culture.”

I hope you find this useful…

https://poe.com/s/Um9NGaFBlpJNJpNwPFSk
To me it sounds a lot like just trying to find interesting ideas for engaging, cheap side projects, without having to think really hard or do a lot of research about what to do with them or how to handle it if they succeed. And hey, if it fails, it's only $100, so why worry?
annnnd this just came across my feeds - "The Great Workroom":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Wax_Headquarters

That's an open office plan from ~1930, that, IMHO, is designed with the people who're gonna be working in it in mind.

Edit: I think this photo might be from much closer to construction. It's even more sparse / a lot less crowded:

https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2014/04/30/realestate/comm...
This is probably a sensationalist exposé on a very very niche sub-subculture, but this just goes to show, for every modern societal ill, there is a much dumber and counterproductive "cure" peddled by those who know how to make good money.
> The newer style of cargo bikes can for many families replace a car

This very much feels like "in addition to" rather than replacing a car, at least in the US. My wife and I (without kids) tried living without a car in one of the largest, most walkable cities in the US and it was doable, but it's just soooo much nicer to have a car. Coordinating rentals or even ride shares are a lot more tedious than jumping in a car and driving, and even if ride shares are cheaper than car ownership, I would often find myself not doing things because of the cost of ride share / car rental / etc. Further, I would have occasional ride share drivers blow me off when I really needed to be punctual, and I also had some fraudulent experiences with car share companies (upcharging me for services that I've explicitly declined and not correcting it via customer support channels).

There's also public transit, but that takes wayyyy longer to get around and it's also really dirty, crime-y, and otherwise uncomfortable at least in the cities I've traveled around in.

Lastly, cycling is probably always going to be less safe than getting around by car (we can and should improve cycling safety, but I don't know that we're ever going to get to parity with driving) and I don't know that very many people are going to want to subject their kids to that risk as their primary form of transit. I probably wouldn't, realistically.
We need a cops and robbers game where the robbers serve their prison sentence in real time, and the cops have to fill in mountains of paperwork for every shot fired :)
This IPCC report is an annual report and you can directly compare year to year.

So far it seems like the report gets worse every year.

The pessimistic take is that every single advancement in environmental policy has been used to cover increased fossil fuel usage somewhere else. Almost every "carbon credit" trading program has been to pat people on the back for doing "their part" while actually doing very little and masking existing fossil fuel consumption with sleight of hand accounting tricks. Almost every bit of annual power savings by collective action switching to things such as LED light bulbs and EV cars has been (too easily) entirely offset by the vastly increased energy consumption of things like cryptocurrency mining operations and AI computation farms and still far too cheap oil prices. (The world was on track for net coal-fired power plant shutdown and Bitcoin alone is responsible single handedly for restarting up enough coal-fired power plants in the 2020s to offset that expected net gain.)

This report card says we aren't doing anywhere near enough. We aren't meeting our collective promises (we are likely to miss the Paris Agreement best case target and are hoping we still have a path to stick to the Paris Agreement's worst case). Maybe we still aren't yet "doomed", but there's not really a lot of credit to go around for anyone collectively doing the right thing. (Individual action was always something of a red herring given how dwarfed individuals are by large corporations and industries. It's probably not worth handing out gold stars for individuals doing their part, either.)
Actually just opening the dev tools triggers it. The blacklist seems to expire on its own so I went ahead and opened the dev tools and did nothing more, reloaded, blocked.
Although I think alot of it is in the financial and insurance areas. which does has a direct impact of the bottom line.

try insuring rooftops if fires, hurricanes etc. are destroying them to the point the area becomes unlivable.
> other ARM devices and most MIPS, RISC-V commonly use U-Boot with Device Tree (as without UEFI or ACPI, there has to be a way to inform the kernel of basic non-PNP hardware and how to communicate with it).

Additionally, UEFI on ARM (and probably RISC-V) will commonly give you a device tree too. The two aren't mutually exclusive and modern ARM SoCs more or less require kernel space to have more information than UEFI is capable of conveying.
Supposedly you get much better results using a phone actually ( maybe becuase of the DoF camera?). SmoothTrack for iOS comes up ( I have not personally used it). I was already using an old phone as a webcam however for my desktop so I have the thing on a big gooseneck arm already - might try this myself!

Looks like people are saying the other issue with webcams is they are low framerate - there are dedicated devices it seems like TrackIR (more money) but I bet a phone with a decent FPS camera could work well. Theres also software called OpenTrack (and people are saying to get a high FPS webcam with low latency). Some people on reddit are even using a wiimote to reduce CPU useage supposedly.

Biggest thing though is you want the largest screen possible - otherwise you will barely be able to move your head and still be looking at the monitor (best experience I had was in a theater with 3 full imax screens side by side)
I found cockpit games to be the least nauseating since my "avatar" was seated, just like I was. The only thing moving was the view outside of the cockpit so it was like having a window into another scene. For bonus points, I would arrange the throttle and stick so they were in the same place as their virtual representations, so when I moved my hands, they matched the character's hands in the game as long as I kept them on the throttle/stick controllers.

Anything where I was "walking" around gave me the same disconnect you mentioned - my avatar was walking around but my body was seated in a chair with hands on a controller or joystick.
I would expect to see guidance exactly for that claim. I don't see it as ambiguous, I see it as a misunderstanding. The rules are not "must not contain no breaking changes".
Wheat waffles? Cursory google, is it actually just a guy you pay to send pictures to and he gives you a rating out of 10?
I'm not sure that makes much sense as a safety metric, bicycles obviously travel less distance on average per instance used, so the 'rate of death' would not have the same scaling as distance traveled
The “real, immediate threat of climate” is trillions of dollars changing hands? A massive TAM, with tons of otherwise intelligent people distracted by chatbots and crypto?

Sorry… this is supposed to be a threat? What are you threatening me with, a good time?
> It's not a bad proxy, but it surely is not as good as actual excess death as proxy for "normal human life, good living standards and the capacity to adapt".

Excess deaths, in and of themselves, only tell you that more people than average died. Excess deaths, in and of themselves, don't tell you why they died.

While a total number of human deaths is objective and can be counted with nearly perfect confidence, human deaths from a specific cause can be extraordinarily subjective. I gave some examples in the post you're replying to, but anybody with an agenda can link virtually anything to climate change if they really want to. Therefore, this metric isn't going to be persuasive to a large amount of people.
> he's still one of the most qualified people in the world to be making claims like these

He’s been out of lawmaking for a decade and never worked for the New York DFS, the regulator that actually shut down Signature. When asked why he was on Signature’s board, he said it’s because he needs “to make money” [1].

His comments are well placed to receive sympathy from banking-naive crypto enthusiasts (I presume this describes most of them). Because, again, he needs to make money.

> regulators are now making it a requirement that "Any buyer of Signature must agree to give up all the crypto business at the bank"

The proximate reason Signature went down was because it was affiliated with crypto. Silvergate got tanked by crypto. Signature’s stock started falling simultaneously despite their crypto exposure being much smaller.

Crypto is a threat to banks that bank it. Our banking system should slough off that business, or at least charge a rate aligned with its risk. (For example, negative interest and no loans.) That doesn’t mean that’s why Signature was shut down.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/090e081f-35b3-484b-8095-c42a3c5e4...
Yes, but I think the folks who work on technical alignment would like to have stronger guarantees—I think they would like to end up with formal guarantees that the AI will only be helpful, and not harmful.
Exactly my point, the layoffs seem to be (at least initially) a response to over-hiring.
The Move to Memory-Safe Programming
Would be funny if it were a corporate reaction to a security researcher contacting them about some silly web API design (e.g., endpoint taking an arbitrary account ID without authorization check).

In the writeup, the researcher illustrates by copying the service URL from the browser's dev tools. And so the obvious corporate corrective action is...
I was thinking the same thing. If I was intent on using the dev tools for who knows what with MailChimp, it would merely be a roadblock. I might even be more compelled to achieve my goal just to defeat their bullshit.

Not that I would ever use MailChimp.
Employees typically depend on their salaries to pay for necessary living expenses. If they lose their job, they need to get another one, or they'll eventually go broke.

Any CEO making $10M/yr would only need to work for a year before they could retire and live comfortably the rest of their life without ever touching the principal.

Layoffs affect these groups differently.
That's not just BNF in its usual sense though.
As far as consequences for voicing one's opinion go, having a post on the Hacker News forum flagged is pretty much down at the bottom.
I wonder why the chat history isn't persisted in the browser storage and synced just for analytics. Having R/W access via API isn't privacy friendly.

If it was a security issue with users being able to access other user's history, that would be quite a misstep on OpenAI's success journey.
Yea, they're depositing capital so that the small banks can meet depositor demand.

It's a liquidity infusion. A lot of times the big banks don't want more small depositors anyways.
If they had cut our hours too, I wouldn't have gone back to the normal salary :)) but we were still expected to work 40 hours a week.
I wondered why I kept getting blocked. I accidentally open dev tools all the time
Agree with this. I would not want "true on prem" most places, not least because on-prem cost is driven in no small part by real-estate and electricity prices and salary costs near the colo, and for a lot of companies that means their on-prem won't be able to compete on price with colo or even managed servers with a provider. A lot of manage server offerings also offer requisitioning via API, rent on short term contracts (so still opex like cloud instead of capex).

But I also tend to favour hybrid setups these days, and most managed providers also has a cloud offering, which gets you the best of both if you have a decent provisioning setup and an overlay network:

The base load on managed servers at whatever commitment period gives you the best prices. The cloud instances provides elasticity. Done well your users/devs can't tell where one ends and the other starts. And because you have a cloud setup tied in, you can go pretty close to the wire on those managed servers - a lot more so than with a purely on-prem/purely colo/rented servers setup, increasing the savings from the managed servers even more.

I've had setups like this where we hardly ever needed to spin up any elastic capacity, but where having the capability meant the managed servers often got to 90%+ utilisation because we could let the utilisation rate get that high without issue knowing the system would spin up cloud instances if necessary.
Seems like a better investment, market can't be that deep for $55k iphones.
> there is little incentive for banks to play it safe

Except SVB and signature shareholders lost all their money and most of the employees will be fired...
The Swiss are extremely pissed. They spent a lot of capital and time to put up the to big to fail laws which this bank met yet it still failed.

CS paid over 32 Billion in bonuses since 2013![1] Meanwhile people aren't getting paid more to balance the inflation.

I also see a lot of US blaming going around specifically because of the capital regulations that the EU and Switzerland put in place since 2008 and supposedly the US did not. Also supposedly profited over them because they did not need to meet as strict of capital requirements. I don't hear much about SVB however.

The news has also reported that the Swiss government wanted to let the US branch of CS fail but there was enormous pressure from the US to prevent this.

There are a lot of details of this deal that aren't clear yet but I do have the feeling everyone here more or less agrees this was the only option. The focus seems to be on why it came to this situation in the first place. There is also a push from some parties for a government investigation.

I also expect the next pension law adjustment coming up to have a very hard time after all this.

[1] https://www.blick.ch/politik/trotz-hilfe-vom-staat-darum-sol...

Edit: Spelling
It didn't inlcude this one in Roanoke Virginia that a colleague runs:
https://roanokepinball.org/
I have 3 boxes: "Enable JavaScript source maps", "Enable CSS source maps", and "Allow DevTools to load resources, such as source maps, from remote file paths. Disabled by default for security reasons". The first 2 are checked but without the 3rd trying to load source maps doesn't seem to do anything unless I have them locally. It's very possible I'm just testing it wrong, I don't use source maps often. It's also very possible Firefox does something similar and I'm just overlooking the option/behavior there.
Felt relatively safe and of course once we got older we would just hop on caltrain for super cheap and head up to SF. Told our parents we were going to "the movie theater". New Years in San Francisco at age 13 was definitely interesting
Java's virtual threads are preemptive, not cooperative -- they are preempted not at explicit points, but at blocking IO operations.
Not at all. But I'm pissed off that I stayed in a crappy job for worse pay.
You can usually pay the data center staff for their time to push a button or connect a few wires. Seems expensive at first when they quote you 50€/15 minutes but often way cheaper than somebody driving there and going through security to do the same.

Unless you don't want strangers touching your assigned rack, then you need to bring the key.
On the whole, I disagree. My primary point is the super high compensation numbers that were possible for top individual contributor engineers was largely made possible by the explosion in stock values of the biggest tech companies. That period (basically from post Great Recession until now) was largely an anomaly of 2 things that happened simultaneously: 1. Big tech vacuuming up an ever larger amount of worldwide revenue, but many of them are now hitting the law of large numbers, and 2. ultra low interest rates, which makes the present value of a future dollar (i.e. equity) worth a lot more.

Sure, some talent will leave and start new companies, but on the whole I think hardly any of them will ever be able to match top-level FAANG compensation from the 2010-2020 period. Again, there will be some outliers, but even then I think the number of outliers will be small. For example, look at AI. A lot of people freaking out the most right now are people in other areas of AI who are realizing that all of their work is being completely obviated by LLMs.
First models on the block but we have options at least!

https://github.com/togethercomputer/OpenChatKit
https://huggingface.co/OpenAssistant/oasst-sft-1-pythia-12b
Yes, everything I have heard so far seems like they handled the situation well and everything seems to be working. I was impressed that the quickly analyzed the problem with 10 year bonds and set-up an appropriate system for the next bank. They did that over the weekend.
Flashbacks to Second Life, New World Notes, Active Worlds, LambdaMOO... the writing in this piece is brilliant. But it's the same old story again and again. Different time, different technology, same old loneliness.
The reason the bank is worth nothing is because it's all liabilities (responsibility to provide customer deposits) and no profit.

However it's similar to when people fight over the most important projects and tickets in a company. They fight over something with "negative" value (more work, risky initiatives) because it increases how "critical" or important they are to the company which can be leveraged into far more value later on.
Is your spend 2% of revenue? 5%? 50%? Saving 50% of 2% is almost certainly not worth the risk. The bigger your the percent and your revenue the more likely you should do it. Dropbox again is a good example.
It's not just cynics, that's just how it is. Emissions are still growing. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Frqp9M_X0AsvyMW?format=jpg&name=...
There’s a difference between your career and your job. My career is all about CS/programming. I love it, I spend countless hours on it on my free time because I like it. But if I’m trading my skills in exchange for money, then money rules… The sooner I can retire and stop working for tech companies, the better (then I can dedicate my free time to keep programming cool things and not what a fancy CEO wants).
Seems like you could just go farther in or somewhere else no? Alaska is an absolutely MASSIVE state
after a few weeks inside their api, sounds like a solution intuit's developers would come up with.
Small, highly mobile, clumps of radiation are easy to detect and to collect. The 1.5 million litres of contaminated water that leaked in November from Monticello's nuclear plant are not. Actually this is so common that 48 of 65 nuclear sites in the US have had
leaks of tritiated water in the past. It does not taste differently, it does not smell differently and it does not make you sick immediately but it sure is a health risk that frightens me more than a lost medical source.
Site is expected to be taken down in 2023
I've been wondering this too. How can the smart people working on these systems think that this is the right way to control them? Jailbreaks and other ways of getting them to do unintended things seem akin to social engineering to me. Even well trained humans can be convinced to break protocol sometimes, and I don't think anyone would say these things have a superhuman ability to detect social engineering attempts yet.
Men are convinced ...

I see no evidence that's close to universally true. Maybe a small number who have "gone down the tik-tok rabbit hole" as mentioned, but most people don't think in these terms.
Snow cover can make it impossible. Frozen rain means you need somewhere to store your wet clothes, and they will not be nice to put on when going back. Somebody who isn't a huge biking freak will prefer the car.
Fair point, though gauging what is the knowledge-level of your audience is hard. Gotta pick what to include and what to omit if you want to keep it concise.