skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2005, the earth trembled with a ferocity that shook our nation to its very core. The worst earthquake in our history left over 100,000 souls lost to us and 3.5 million displaced, a gaping wound that scarred us for years to come.

Social media was unheard of at that time. News sites and blogs were primary sources of information. I set up a WordPress blog to collect and disseminate critical information.

Spending 4-5 hours every day, I compiled information about relief efforts and rehabilitation activities. There was a section for missing persons too.

The blog was mentioned in the publications like the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNBC etc. It remained at number one spot in search engines for quite some time.

But it was the comments and emails from those who found hope in the midst of the chaos that truly fueled my drive. I heard from people who had reunited with their loved ones, others who received vital on-ground aid, and still others who found ways to lend a helping hand.

Though my blog may now be archived, the memory of those days still lingers on. For in that moment of crisis, I found the strength to make a difference, and my efforts brought light into the lives of so many.
Off the top of my head...

* Silverstone RM21-308 2U Chassis

* SilverStone RMS08-20 rail kit

* SilverStone EPDM Sound Dampening Foam

* Three NoiseBlocker BlackSilentPRO PC-P fans (80x10mm)

* ASRock Rack X570D4U motherboard

* ASRock Rack TPM2.0 (Infineon SLB9665) module

* AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750GE

* ARCTIC MX-6 thermal paste

* Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 cooler

* Corsair SF450 Platinum SFX power supply (backplane needs four Molex power connectors)

* Extra twin Molex power cable for PSU

* LSI/Broadcom 9500-8i HBA

* SFF-8654 8i 74pin to Dual SFF-8087 Mini SAS Cable

* Two Noctua NF-A4x10 PWM fans. One for X570 chipset, one for HBA, with 3D printed mounts

* Intel XL710-QDA1 QSFP+ (single port) network adapter

* FS.com Customized 40G QSFP+ to 4x10G SFP+ Passive Direct Attach Copper Breakout Cable

* One SuperMicro 64GB SuperDOM (SSD-DM064-SMCMVN1)

* Two SK Hynix P31 Platinum 2TB PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe. Mirrored and using 45Drives autotier.

* Two Be Quiet! MC1 Pro M.2 SSD Heatsinks

* Eight 16TB HDDs. Two Seagate IronWolf Pro, six shucked WDs with kapton tape over pins 1-3. Two-disk mirror, six disk RAIDZ2.

* Two more 16TB HDDs (spares).

* Running TrueNAS Scale 22.12.1.
man, that's a good talk. I've got some decompilecting to do in a few places.

I loled at the beginning, when he talks about (in 2011) how "all I see on hacker News is people talking about how great and awesome all this new stuff is and nobody ever questions it, asks if this stuff is adding more problems". The culture must have shifted in the interim.
I also used to have lack of confidence but rather towards what I would write.
Well... complaining about people online or in the media making grandiose is like fighting wind.

I totally see your point about inherent "derivativeness" of LLMs. This is true.

But note how "being alive" or "being intelligent" or "be able to think" are hard to define. I'd work for the "duck test" approach: if it is not possible to distinguish a simulation from the original then it doesn't make sense to draw a line.

Anyways, yes, LLMs are boring. I am just not sure we people are not boring as well.
:') :') :') ROFL

"How did you know it was an imposter Jim??"

"He was too fucking nice, most Microsoft robots won't cuss to save themselves or others."
>untrue information meant to inflame tensions and divisions and demoralize people.

Isn't that the exact thing mass American media is doing with its anti-China propaganda?
> What I find distasteful about these fellas is that they’re not adding anything to the world. They’re taking away.

I find that distasteful about the whole advertising industry, that celebrities are just a part of.
Kind of makes sense though. Tungsten is quite dense. It can probably get prohibitively expensive pretty fast. Not to mention difficult to flow the material / keep hot the more tungsten you add.
I used to feel a similar despair, until I touched grass.

If you identify with the blog post, I recommend getting off the internet. Go garden, sit on the deck and drink some vinho verde, enjoy the breeze, read or write something, go buy a copper-bottom stainless steel cooking pot you can pass down to your great-grandchildren, come up with a good recipe that you can also pass down to them, just relax.

The internet isn't real, not nearly as much as you think.

Go spend time with people who aren't terminally online. You'll feel embarrassed and relieved, embarrassed for how cringe you were for ever caring at all about that socialmediathing that enraged you or whatever, and relieved that the real world is actually quite nice with some quite nice people in it, grounded, interesting, pleasant.
Could you give some recent examples, especially from news organizations with leading reptuations (NY Times, Washington Post, etc.)?

To a degree, that's what journalists should do: They are not writing a history book. They can't wait until all the facts are out or we'd never know if someone was arrested or accused until the trial was over.
Done Means Shipped
When Kentaro Yokobori was born almost seven years ago, he was the first newborn in the Sogio district of Kawakami village in 25 years. His birth was like a miracle for many villagers.

Well-wishers visited his parents Miho and Hirohito for more than a week – nearly all of them senior citizens, including some who could barely walk.

“The elderly people were very happy to see [Kentaro], and an elderly lady who had difficulty climbing the stairs, with her cane, came to me to hold my baby in her arms. All the elderly people took turns holding my baby,” Miho recalled.

During that quarter century without a newborn, the village population shrank by more than half to just 1,150 – down from 6,000 as recently as 40 years ago – as younger residents left and older residents died. Many homes were abandoned, some overrun by wildlife.
because people plan their family around things like maternity leave and rely on these actually being honored. what should they do now, get un-pregnant?
Friedman had a very mystical conception of the market - viewing almost as a collective intelligence - and would say in this case that its judgment of the company strategy was correct.
From that link: “ the natural father or mother of a child who has been adopted”

How does that disagree with me?
Why do you think Brin and Page put Sundar Pichai as front man of Google _with an additional layer of discrepancy_; Alphabet.
This has been written about for decades, Flowers for Algernon, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, and though it was by training instead of experimentation, Ratman's Notebooks.
Comments like yours is why I'm afraid to hire anyone to begin with. The moment I do I'm automatically an enemy.
Biological parents already described that.
Honestly, the signal is just to avoid whatever full-time JS developers are getting into.
> and then quoted the bagvad ghita and had a long time to think about it.

That was Oppenheimer, not Feynman.
React is for Facebook problems. Facebook is not concerned with "new engineers" at this time, nor have they ever really. Big tech contributes the least to education and pays little in taxes.
Some of the banks have started providing higher insurance. Seems promising. Other banks might also have something similar in place

Below is excerpt from the mail that I received from them today.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

We know you’re more concerned than ever about protecting your cash — and the safety of your deposits is our top priority. That’s why we’ve continuously worked with our partner banks1 to offer additional FDIC insurance — first to $1M, then to $3M.

Now, we’ve gone a step further. By Monday, you will have access to up to $5M in FDIC insurance — 20x the per bank limit.

The way Mercury is able to offer customers this expanded FDIC coverage is through our partner banks’ sweep networks, which spread customer deposits across a network of established FDIC-insured program banks, including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo. In addition to the increased coverage, these sweep networks also protect your deposits by holding cash in multiple places, which limits the risk of any single point of failure.

To protect funds beyond your insured balance, Mercury Vault is automatically enabled on all accounts to monitor cash and provide suggestions on how to manage bank risk. For example, Vault can help you move deposits above the $5M FDIC insurance cap to a money market fund (99.5% invested in U.S. government-backed securities and held 100% in your name) through Mercury Treasury.
Yes, they are generally synonyms. It’s not a new term.
I should add I don't use social media, unless email or this forum count, and I'm pretty bitter. It's not the social media platforms, it's the Dickz in power.
Actually at closer look would you say that the definition is wrong?

Or is it being used wrong?
Or attract mates like the birds of paradise.
I don't know anything about facial recognition software so I'm probably underestimating the difficulty of alerting the system and it's operators to the interesting possibility of giraffes and zebras wandering around the urban environment.
While this may be brutally honest. I find the SO version quite approachable and just generally good advice for newcomers.
https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask
What doesn't make sense to me is why this delivery charge keeps going up? Is it just PG&E throwing a fit about having to modernize its lines so they don't cause fires anymore?
That term has existed since before “woke” was a term. There’s nothing woke about it.
As another user pointed out, why does the definition you posted qualify it with:

"who has been adopted"

> It's not a new term

I see, it's somewhat new to me, when did the term come to popular usage? When was it "invented"?
Klint: Compile-time detection of atomic context violations for kernel Rust code
Once an employer has explicitly approved an employee's maternity leave, then the notice period of termination should begin from when the leave has expired. This is basic, common sense and is also law in many European nations.
- Fun. Lots of fun. This bears the fruit of knowledge too.

- Some form of "marketing" or "exposure" to the inconsequential side projects that you do and probably thought no one really cares about

- Some small amount of internet money ~$10/month enough for the site to pay for itself from AdSense

- Expert networking gigs ($100 to $200/hour). Basically, they connect you with their clients on consult about a certain topic. These are rare though. I've only done 2/7 successful arrangements so far.

I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat.
Because they _need_ cool tool A, utility library B, theme C, and then helper library D because B doesn't work quite right.
I think you are drawing an arbitrary line to defend an industry that doesnt deserve it at all.

In my book, even the supposedly important news are pure poison for the individual, and at the end of the day, unimportant as well.

People that need to push a new or current narrative will likely disagree, but that is predictable. They dont want their hate-channel to be closed down.
It's the path that anyone who gets into internet marketing soon learns. You start off trying to make money by playing SEO , keyword slicing and dicing and filling the internet up with affiliate links. Eventually you realise for all your hours of efforts, you have made 12 cents over the past 3 months, so you make the ultimate pivot. You start trying to make money on the internet, but selling 'products' to people on the internet, about how to make money on the internet. Your passive income, becomes selling information to others about how to make passive income. They in turn eventually do the same pivot and thus it continues.
When I worked as a inbound call centre operator in the early 2000s they used to measure your "productivity".

Productivity was the percentage of your work day that you were busy on an inbound call. The problem with this was that when you call a client back, that call wouldn't be counted towards you productivity. The other problem which is relevant to this is that when you do a large number of calls (keeping your calls short and concise) the time gaps between the one call ending and the next one starting added up quicker for fast workers translating to a lower productivity. (I should mention that a large part of your bonus was calculated from this "productivity").

So if you answer a call and you can keep that call going for as long as possible, your productivity would skyrocket. On average the number of calls per person dropped on average from roughly 150 calls per day to 90-100. (anecdotal, but I observed my teammates)

This is how I got fired. (greatest thing to ever happen to me btw) I didn't like talking to people, but I was a dumb 20 something and had no other options, so I would answer the call, with a double tap, that would put the caller on hold immediately and I would just hang on to the call for as long as they stayed on the line. The other way was to start the call, get the info of the client and then tell then you will check with whoever and then just leave them on hold. For the case that got me fired the guy was sitting and holding for more than 7 hours.
You'll end up with a many more anti-worker activity if you don't vote. And you will be ignored.

And who will make decisions for you? Who will take on your responsibilities? What other authority is there? When we are children, we can be irresponsibile and our parents ultimately see to them. As adults, there's nobody else; it's just us.
yeah .... good point. I really hope at least some of them do because they will really make a big difference.
You might be interested in https://linklonk.com/ , a kind of socially curated RSS feed aggregator. (Personally, I think the recommendation system is not quite optimal because most of the articles it suggests to me are from sources I already subscribe to directly, but if you don't have a collection of RSS feeds you follow yet, that might not affect you much.)
“birth parents” and “biological parents” are synonyms, and have been as long as I’ve been alive (well, at least using language.) This is not some novel usage.

Adopted, so kind of forced to be aware of things like that.
Its a concept, at least Model 3 came out.
See ... Back then we thought that it would be replacing cash. Some friends and I were thinking about having wallets in smart cards (technically possible) and distributing BTC terminals to local businesses.

The whole crazy investment thing came much later and basically destroyed any hope of using BTC on a daily basis.
I had to go back to double check, and indeed there's the "talking to your reader" device used in both places, however - and it could be just my translation - but I didn't see the same condescension in Calvino's words. They were evoking - to me at least - the joy and anticipation a reader gets when starting a new, mouth-watering novel. Not the sedation of a modern life under existential depression.

Maybe that's what the author wants to tell us, a contrast between the two, but I feel like they could have done that in other ways than at my expense as their reader.
I see a recurring pattern of chief people officers and their minions totally destroying company brands and internal morale. This isn't traditional HR nonsense but pure Peter Principle. It really must be too much run plans and messaging through a comms or marketing team first. As a manager, this stuff pisses me off to no end because it seeds worry in the minds of team members that are in no way at risk.
"Justifiable? No doubt. Morally? It's grey."

WTF? It is absolutely NOT justifiable and very much morally despicable to pull a job offer after the person has already quit their other job.
I’m sorry, but no. Not anymore. Everything is run by being able to get money from VC investors, and to make money for them. It IS the main driver. Idealists learn pretty fast how their idealism won’t take them anywhere in Silicon Valley of 2023. Or they’re stupid or tone deaf enough to keep on going and thinking that their n-th to-do list app will change the world.
I’m afraid I gotta break it to you, but your romanticized idea of Silicon Valley is dead in the water.
I replied to your other comment, but you could clarify here, when did it come to popular usage, when was it "invented", and when did you here about it?

Because I first heard it used about a year ago.
“Early last year, Google announced it would be increasing parental leave for full-time employees to 18 weeks for all parents and 24 weeks for birth parents”

Perhaps they’re widening it to include people giving birth. Some people giving birth may then give up their child for adoption, so they wouldn’t want to be called mothers. Either that or they’re trans in some way but able to give birth.

I think the point being is that there are many ways a family is constructed, and many situations people find themselves in.
> 'News' sites are just middle-men for a 9:1 blend of unimportant trash and important information.

You are looking at the wrong sites. There are many - more than I can read - which focus on serious news.
Do you have links to Part 1 and Part 2 for reference?
This can only be because they found the aliens.
It seems to me that this is extremely unlikely to be true under corporate law. Do you have a reference? In particular, there is no unique group or shareholders that makes the majority!
Seconded. ‘“Latest generation” is poorly-behaved’ is a tale as old as time. ‘“Latest generation” has lost interest in life” is something quite different.
The core issue with capitalism in the US is that equity holders are considered to be more important that labor. This logic is used to justify massive layoffs like this, but why can't employees be treated at least as importantly as shareholders? After all they are the people who actually generate the wealth for the shareholders.
Hello Julien, if it helps then I can point out that your comment reads as though it was written by a native English speaker.
[EDIT to remove the pot shot in the first paragraph but I still think OP has got to be trolling. But in case you really aren’t…]

Layoffs are bad because they are deceptive and cruel to those laid off and further erode trust from those not yet laid off. They are deceptive because being hired as an employee traditionally carries with it implied permanence that being hired as a temp or contractor (like your plumber) does not. You have a job unless and until your performance provides cause to fire you. They are cruel because they take advantage of the inherent power imbalance between employer and employee. The employee may be here on a visa, or just moved their family across the country, or has debts and obligations where he requires employment. He is harmed if the company suddenly and unilaterally ends the relationship. The company on the other hand is not materially harmed if the employee unilaterally decides to leave.

You can argue that a company is legally allowed to act in bad faith, but “barely within the law” is not a high ethical bar.
Okay, my curiosity is piqued. If you're willing to share, which country are you in? If not, totally understandable.
It's regulated by law in my country so yes, but that's not what I'm talking about. Once your revolution kicks off the mob won't care a single bit that I'm a "good" employer. No, I rather keep working on my own even though I could and should employ someone.
That's different. But yeah if an F35 is messing with a drone, dumping crap on it, That would be trolling in my books. I am not saying any of these acts are justified, but they happen to tickle my humors by their absurdity, the situation, the PR response, what these machines are capable of and what they did in comparison.
I remember being taught this as a child and iirc recent studies say it doesn’t mush.

EDIT:

"Textbooks will commonly talk about the insect dissolving into a kind of “soup”, but that’s not entirely accurate. Some organs stay intact. Others, like muscles, break down into clumps of cells that can be re-used, like a Lego sculpture decomposing into bricks. And some cells create imaginal discs—structures that produce adult body parts. There’s a pair for the antennae, a pair for the eyes, one for each leg and wing, and so on. So if the pupa contains a soup, it’s an organised broth full of chunky bits."

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/3-d-scans...
We need something like seti@home for large language model calculation. As OpenAI is completely closed now.
They do both typically convert to the same class at IPO, but preferred often has a conversion ratio — that is, it isn’t always 1:1, the way common is.

Functionally dilution should be considered in the full context of the financial outcome unless we are talking about voting rights and I wasn’t. For small shareholders the only real value of stock is money. If it is worth less money then its value has been diluted.
Interesting. From your perspective, what's the % of how often you have heard "biological" vs "birth" parents and has the rate changed any?

I'm curious as to why the change of what I've heard (biological parents) and in the recent year (birth parents).
As the tagline for one of HN’s self-consciously frivolous ancestors says, “It’s not news, it’s Fark!”
We won the Lotto? Over 6.8 million people, including over 1 million Americans died. Many more suffer from long-term damage. The economic cost was astronomical.
1 year's severance should be mandatory. And 1 year of identical healthcare coverage for free.
> I and the rest of humanity are a blight upon the earth that must be contained, right?

This is about sustainability—i.e., the opposite of what you wrote. “Unsustainable” means “bad later”. The point is that sprawl is bad for the humanity, but if you see humanity as blight then letting it sprawl is probably the faster way to exterminate it.

> How about you go build one, and we'll see?

They already exist, go to Singapore or a few other places and see.

> Maybe I want to live in the forest.

The fact that you want to buy a gun and walk around with it shooting people wouldn’t make it an OK thing to do, and doesn’t mean it suddenly falls within the accepted meaning of the word “comfort” (though admittedly it is an analogy, which based on your first paragraph you may have trouble understanding).

> But like I said, it doesn't matter.

And like I said, it actually does. Not to you, of course, but to your children and grandchildren. Shutting your ears and shouting doesn’t make this issue go away, sorry.
reptuations, that was a freudian slip, right? Reputation is obviously in the eye of the beholder... What is one persons reputable source, is a money making machine without conscience for others.
From the little weight alone under normal circumstances, yes, but when the whole system becomes chaotically unstable, then unpleasant changes can happen fast.
What's funny about this is at the time I most trusted my online friends people who weren't terminally online felt much more vocal about online predators and scammers. Now that everyone is terminally online they don't seem to be as worried.
Aren't they getting 16 weeks of severance + 2 weeks per year. Say an average of 2 years of work. Most people at Google are making at least 150k. That's almost 60k. That's more than the median U.S. worker makes in a year. And more than the median household income in almost every EU country.

Not to mention no one Google lays off is going to have any trouble finding a job paying at least the median wage.
I'm not sure how you get from

"If you’re taking AI or drop shipping startup ideas from online videos with hundreds of thousands of views, you’ve already lost"

to

"So nobody can find inspiration and learn about new things from YouTube videos?"
This is on the home page along with the link to this study, which mostly answers the questions posed by the blog post:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4
Did he take full responsibility this time as well?