skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So strange to white-knight a company and attempt to deny something that happened pretty publicly...

> As a result of the recent changes at Basecamp, today is my last day at the company. I joined over 15 years ago as a junior programmer and I’ve been involved with nearly every product launch there since 2006.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210430155528/https://twitter.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210430140035/https://twitter.c...

https://twitter.com/zachwaugh/status/1388190748189802501

> I’m leaving my position at Basecamp, where I’ve worked for 4 years, due to the recent changes and new policies.

https://twitter.com/lexicola/status/1388189598367559688

https://twitter.com/dylanginsburg/status/1388199059983413257

https://twitter.com/jonasdowney/status/1388205182916440070

> Given the recent changes at Basecamp, I’ve decided to leave my job as Head of Design.

https://twitter.com/mackesque/status/1388206605506842627

https://twitter.com/kaspth/status/1380616358266871810

https://twitter.com/wcmoline/status/1388208323908968449

> I have left Basecamp due to the recent changes & policies.

https://twitter.com/conormuirhead/status/1388207801646780416

https://twitter.com/Rahsfan/status/1388209146487623681

https://twitter.com/AdamStddrd/status/1388223100823642112
I’m not concerned about AI eliminating humanity, I’m concerned at what the immediate impact it’s going to have on jobs.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love it if all menial labour and boring tasks can eventually be delegate to AI, but the time spent getting from here to there could be very rough.
'Most vulnerable' U.S. banks lost $1T in deposits in a year
Makes sense for a seasoned criminal, of the type who might shoot a cop.

Joe Lunchbucket isn't likely to be so agile.
Show HN: I open-sourced my Windows Media Center plugins from 2012
Thanks, that makes sense. Definitely rooting for you and will be ordering a 16 when I can!
Russia post-2000 is another example, though in that case it is probably more accurate to say power is mostly concentrated in Putin whether he is PM or President, not a particular office.
ok Im going far. but what if the plugin was the human. in a way that we can use chat gpt to cure of alleviate some diseases such as alzheimer or if you a more dictatorial regime, to educate children even while they are foetuses in some hive. I dont know the tech. I don't know if neuralink or other technologies could help but aren't we a few discoveries away from cyberpunk world??
Likely a result of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner
I'm really wondering though because I feel kind of at a loss, what are some things you think we can do to be more human?
I love the covid angle thrown in for dramatic effect-- "poor students wanted the parties to get over covid blues and look how the college is punishing them!! Evil College!" My immigrant 0.02$-- if you care about building a life, being a frat president or organizing parties are optional activities. But then again, I also don't get why college football coaches are paid more than CS professors...
I didn’t say anyone was wrong, it was just an observation. Either way the only delta is that I would consider the head of state more important/powerful than the head of government who is more active. Just a perspective thing.
Yeah, I'd love an otrholinear module. I'm very sad that this is not offered on the 13 inch, I'd truly love to play around with that.
> advertises the price of their coffee as 40c then in smallprint “times 12 made in a single payment”.

lol, exactly like the mail-order CD club I signed up for back in high school.
> When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress?

Every time an IRB, ERB, IEC, or REB says no. Do you want an exact date and time? I'm sure it happens multiple times a day even.
I know it's about US but this screams to me "Germany". They are the top subscription predators on our continent. Two years duration by default, automatic renewal, cancellation 3 months in advance by post or fax. Stay away from subscriptions when dealing with entity incorporated in Germany.
You'd need to be careful about how you setup and run the corporation such that the veil can't be pierced. If a court got involved, I think they'd be nonplussed if the corporation was organized, acquired the property, and filed for bankruptcy within a couple of months.
> if you’re having a conversation with someone in a browser, all that shit started life as a teeny demo of 2 engineers sending messages back and forth over a “hanging GET” channel back in 2005

Hmm.. pretty sure I was using online chat rooms around 1997. He's probably talking about Comet, but it was just a technical improvement, not an enabler. And realtime streams have since moved on to SSE / websockets.
The author claims 61.0% on WinoGrande vis-a-vis GPT-4's 87.5%.
Your point being?

/sarcasm
I love this laptop's keyboard layout, finally! This might be my next laptop if there's ever an option to have one without E-cores
I love these idea of LoRAs for LLMs.

Has anybody made a llama/alpaca erebus model? I read about them in the oobabooga docs and a locally-run language model fine tuned on literotica could be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." -- Ursula K Le Guin
New submission: The Ottomans invented the doner kebab, yet its fast-food variant served as a sandwich with sauce and extensive salad was invented by an ethnic Turk in Berlin. Berlin has, for historical reasons, a lot of ethnic Vietnamese inhabitants. Some of these have moved to Vietnam, taking with them the kebab, and inventing a variant called banh my doner kebab, which uses pork for the meat part, and adds sour vegetables and chili sauce.
A saltwater pool IS a chlorine pool. The difference is that instead of adding sodium hypochlorite from a jug, you add salt to the water and use electrolysis (chlorine generator) to create chlorine gas and hydrogen.

Properly maintained pool water will have the same chlorine level either way. The "chlorine pool" water won't have quite as much dissolved salt, but over time it does build up.
I mean supportive parents, and very likely also a supportive school and supportive community. "led a youth group" on the application doesn't arise in isolation, any more than high grades in external exams come from homeschooling (they can in both cases, but you're in the 0.1% of the 1% who get into Stanford territory).
It happens. Imagine the duty manager has to spend 30 minutes each shift sorting out inventory paperwork because the system is old and slow.

Nobody at the store has any influence, the area managers complain but the project for the new system is low priority.

The CEO has the ability to see that this is a problem and the project needs increased priority.
Does human history applies to true Scotsmen as well?
In my online credit card account, I can expand each purchase and "show digital receipt" to get information about what app/subscription it was for. For all App Store purchases, Apple will also email the account that made the purchase (even if it's me) to let them know the purchase details were requested. That seems reasonable to me--the payer knows what the payment was for, and the purchaser knows the info was accessed.
That suggests that the layout at some radius R in the distance is unpredictable without "running" it, in the Wolfram computational-irreducible sense.

They say they have "a new kind of geometric incommensurability argument", and there are many statements about the related undecidability of related tiling classes.. but not really grokking this.

Anyone know?
> You can't buy tons of weapon technology, nuclear materials, aerosolized compounds, pesticides. These are all highly regulated and illegal pieces of technology for the better.

ha, the big difference is that this whole list can actually affect the ultra wealthy. AI has the power to make them entirely untouchable one day, so good luck seeing any kind of regulation happen here.
uh, HIPAA???
Not clear why you're being downvoted as its a great question. I agree w/ the answers already provided - the digital sensors are probably over-saturated - which begs the question can it be fixed. My belief is that any sort of automatic exposure compensation, especially with a high frame-rate camera, on a dark night isn't going to be fast enough. Anyone have experience with high-speed cameras shooting in the dark?
Most decent places will be able to do it. Somestime they call it something different, like "white sauce" (although that can mean something else, so ask first)

But, like, to give a national chain, you can get oil instead of sauce on any pizza at Mellow Mushroom.
But that's exactly the point: Ulbricht was not convicted of a violent crime (regardless of what people here believe or don't believe he actually did), and yet he was sentenced as if he had been.

That is literally the only point the ancestor poster was making: that if you have the means to run, it might not be so cushy a plan to turn yourself in for a non-violent crime, if you're assuming you'll get a sentence of less than 10 years at a reasonably safe low-security prison.

And in this particular case, the interesting point is: even if the prosecution didn't believe they could get a conviction for possible murder-for-hire charges, they somehow still got the desired final outcome: a sentence seemingly harsher than what would fit the crime he actually was convicted of.

(Then again, if your "only" crimes are non-violent/white-collar, maybe it is safe to assume you'll get a cushy prison sentence.)
Microsoft's paper on OpenAI's GPT-4 had hidden information
OK, but dogpile was pretty damn cool. I just recall it being a little slow.
Has the political change lead to a better or worse work environment?
Every day, all day! After years and years of trying a lot of clever ways of gathering bookmarks using sophisticated tools (TUIs, browser extensions, apps etc), I decided to do the simplest thing possible: ctrl + D -> add a few keywords -> Enter. Thats it!

No folders, no hierachy, just a bunch of lightly tagged bookmarks!

The best part is that it makes it insanely easy and low-resistance to find a site that I vaguely remember exists, an interesting article about a topic or a GitHub project that I can't remember the name of.

In Firefox, starting with a star (*) in the address field limits the search to bookmarks only, and I always find what I'm looking for within a few seconds. Syncing with my phone and having all this available at my fingertips is a really nice bonus.

The simplest solution is, in this case, the best!
This is not a problem or experience unique to Stanford: NYC has 600,000 university students living in it, and they manage to tear it up just fine without relying on the campus to host their parties.
It's absolutely not weird. Saying "I was wrong" is a signal that you can change your mind when given new evidence. If you don't signal this to other people, they will be really confused by your very contradictory opinions.
yeah its gonna do what google became. giving you the most consensual or even sponsored recipe. in some ways that's also the end of mankind as it was in all its genius and variations. and that aligns very well with the conspiracy theory that the 1% want the middle class to disappear into a consumer class of average IQ. because the jobs that will disappear first wont be the bluecollar ones. chatgpt will lower the global IQ of mankind in ways that tiktok could not even dream.
I imagine the timeshare company has right of first refusal for transfers, or will be adding that to their contracts as soon as this is a thing.

Now, is it legal? Maybe, maybe not. But they will pretend it is until you take them to court, and they'll quickly settle if you agree not to tell anyone else.
What percentage of this menu [1] would you say is tradition Chinese food?

[1] https://www.restaurantji.com/pa/philadelphia/szechuan-garden...
Yes, other countries too, like Germany.

It's supposed to compensate banks for lost profit from you not paying interest for the entire term. Equally, a bank can't cancel your mortgage before the term ends for the sole reason that it would be able to charge higher rates for a new mortgage.
(1) the government could make them or (2) it’s a feature which could help attract and retain customers. Credit cards a a highly competitive business.

Larger picture, we could really use a reformed payment system (government demands it) that address many inefficiencies of the system so that banks would have less wriggle room to claim the high fees they do. If there was less fraud and fewer chargebacks the banks could charge lower fees, as it is they con’t have a lot of motive to crack down because they can make us all pay for it.
I've observed that Comcast takes advantage of the separation of "fees" into a separate category to increase fees while keeping the service rate the same, allowing them the flexibility to raise prices even if the customer is on a contract that specifies a fixed promotional rate.

So it seems like the current breakdown of charges gives rise to transparency in price, but only because it's in Comcast's favor when it comes to adjusting the numbers. I'm not sure that Comcast would bother continuing to break things down if it no longer gives them an edge.
This is why you add cyanuric acid to the pool when you're setting it up. The sun can destroy an entire pool's chlorine in a few hours, but CYA will help slow that process down significantly, so that you can keep up with a chlorine generator or chlorine dispenser.
The problem of this strategy is that your dates may realise that you are not talking as well as a good dating LLM once they meet you.
As much as I hope that's the case, it's also likely that it only seems that way because legal processes are slow especially when it comes to issues with almost no precident that fundementally challenge the assumptions of US law
Honestly it very much looks like that. With current technology, we just need feasible integrations to disseminate and we can remove huge swathes of knowledge workers.

This will enable many new business models, but the amount of paying customers may rapidly decline too, complicating matters. Blue collar workers (especially around the world), can to a large extent already be automated away (ordering screens at restaurants, arms deep frying chicken and putting it on a conveyor belt... e.g. workerless KFCs in Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cighS7cNvk or a Chinese restaurant in a rustbelt city my mom visited with a robotic waiter bringing food from the kitchen). Costs just have to decrease to make this feasible.

And at the current rate of improvement - friends in the field say many techniques from 2018 papers still aren't in production - I honestly doubt if even the top 5-10% of capable workers can truly keep up. It's horrifying and challenging...

But yes, this is all in the backdrop of a new revolution in industry!
I've had pizza in italy, it's very much each person orders their own and eats it with a knife and fork, it's a restaurant, experience. I think this meshes with something I've read, that there's an additional factor in the American links in these food chains, in that America into the 20th century was simultaneously "inventing" the trend toward portable foods, eating on the go, simple lunches. Many europeans even today take 2 hours for sitdown lunch (with sometimes 1/2 of that for a nap). The hot dog, the hamburger, the sandwich, etc. were not distinctly American, but eating them for lunch was. In the US the "work more and strive" culture looked for foods that were all-in-one, like slices of pizza, and the consumers were from a mix of origins so there was much less of a "it's not done this way" culture to fight against.
creativity is the residue of time wasted.
> First we produce a list of possible neighbours of the hat polykite in a tiling. There are 58 possible neighbours when we only require such a neighbour not to intersect the original polykite; these are shown in Figure B.1, with that original polykite shaded. The first 41 of these neighbours remain in consideration for the enumeration of 1-patches. The final 17 are immediately eliminated (in the order shown) because they cannot be extended to a tiling: either there is no possible neighbour that can contain the shaded kite (without resulting in an intersection, or a pair of tiles that were previously eliminated as possible neighbours), or we eliminated Y as a neighbour of X and so can also eliminate X as a neighbour of Y.

From the preprint. It is definitely possible to lay the tiles so that they do not tile anymore.
Not the OP here, but I think anyone who has used Jira understands the want to get rid of it—it is simply trash.
That's not surprising when you factor in fuel procedures for pilots dealing with mechanical or other malfunctions that require the plane to land with a mostly full tank.

https://simpleflying.com/aircraft-fuel-dumping/
Hey, could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Also, it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political/national/ideological battle, and that's another (distinct) line at which we ban accounts—regardless of what you're battling for or against. Past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
This is an intriguing debate on the allocation of network costs between ISPs and Big Tech companies. It's important to consider the investments made by both parties in infrastructure and content delivery networks. Meta's point about their investments driving demand for Internet access is valid, as they create the content that attracts users in the first place. On the other hand, ISPs are responsible for providing the physical infrastructure that enables access to these platforms. It would be interesting to explore a more collaborative approach between ISPs and Big Tech companies to share network-building costs while taking into account their respective contributions to the digital ecosystem. Perhaps a balanced and transparent model could be developed that considers the symbiotic relationship between these entities.
Show HN: Sending and processing webhooks you don’t want to reinvent
Often times when I click a supposed citation it goes to a decent website or topic. I confront Sydney and she apologizes and tries to find the right one, usually with more success.
It’s a useful feature in some cases for certain stateful workloads (e.g. cloud-based workstations) but it’s almost always 100% better architecturally to develop systems that can just be thrown away and rebuilt vs needing to preserve state.
I understand that your post is sarcasm, but it does bring up the underlying issue of who's been empowered to make changes, and ultimately, who's had (correctly or incorrectly) trust placed in them.

An interesting thing happened at a company I worked for: the engineers were, during a time of intense labor pressure, asked to staff the fulfillment center. The fulfillment staff worked under a supervisor, and were supposed to perform the same rote tasks all day long: hook this device up to the bench, pack this box, unpack that box, and so on. The engineers worked under their engineering managers, and were supposed to perform the _exact samesame_ rote tasks all day: configure devices, pack and unpack boxes.

What really happened was that the engineers found all sorts of ways to optimize the process as they went - and they made them largely without asking anybody. They then shared the optimizations with the other engineers, who followed suit. And they were rewarded by engineering management for finding those optimizations. Later, they propagated back down to the supervisors, who propagated them down to the fulfillment staff.

If the fulfillment staff deviated from their rote tasks, though? They'd have most likely been fired.
There is a whole theoretical justification behind instrumental convergence that you are handwaving over here. The development of instrumental goals depends on the entity in question being an agent, and the putative goal being within the sphere of perception, knowledge, and potential influence of the agent.

An LLM is not an agent, so that scotches the issue there.
Thank you for the appreciation!
Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)
I.reddit.com Has Been Deprecated
I was wondering when this day would arrive. "I" was pretty much the only way I used Reddit on my phone. IMO the new layouts (both 'old' and 'new') are far inferior - lower information density, ads, and more. This likely marks the start of a significant reduction in my Reddit consumption.

edit Seems like it was rolled out with this update: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11zso11/an_improved_web_experience/
16" with a not stupid keyboard is a compelling offer. Laptop sizes have gotten maddening since everyone decided numpads were required because who doesn't want to type off centre the whole time.
I take my own soap when I travel for work in western europe because you cannot rely on these crappy airbnbs my boss rents to have any when you get there.
This whole thing is an alignment/security nightmare.

It's like hooking a lawnmower up to one of those "let the fish steer the car" devices...
> When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress?

Nuclear weapons?
Keep up, What we actually do when travelling is use a Tornado Mixer. We slice ourselves into thousands of pieces and those pieces are semi-randomly mixed with the pieces of other crypto heroes, who travel by different routes. Only after reaching our final destination are we un-mixed, and sometimes not even that.

By the way, I love having one brown arm and one pink arm.
I didn't say it is rent seeking, I said it incentivizes rent seeking. It incentivizes taking money without creation of new value. Subscriptions weaken the relationship between receiving money and creation of value. Money is received whether value is created or not.

You can look at the app store to see all kinds of rent-seekers, so it is happening. Not all subscriptions are rent seeking, but I have a hard time imagining how someone would rent seek without charging via subscription.
I own up because it helps me grow personally and professionally, and if I’m not growing, what am I even doing?
Checking which year is this as VMWare, Virtual Box etc have supported this for more than a decade…
You might be thinking of certain types of pool chlorine tablets that include cyanuric acid. Really a terrible way to treat a pool, honestly, it builds up CYA in the water and eventually you can't get enough active chlorine to safely disinfect. And the only realistic way to reduce CYA is drain the pool partly or completely and refill. Properly maintained pool water only needs basic chemicals, and pure sodium hypochlorite (unless you're going to use a chlorine generator, in which case you'll end up buying a few hundred pounds of salt when you fill the pool).
I got a siringe for free at the local drugstore. It's used for giving liquid medicine orally to infants. It has no needle of course, but it works on my fountain pen.
Tell me more. Are you feeding it a epic and all stories and subtasks? What are your prompts?
Lifecycle methods are a valid use case for hooks, yet that use case is constantly bashed (E.g. in this post).

There is a very specific way of doing React that influencers and sometimes the React core team push very, very strongly. Sometimes it's justified, but usually I find that it's personal preference being pushed as fact.
If you have full expectation and support from your superiors that you may shut down software development operations for ethical reasons based on your technical expertise, you might be a real engineer.