skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of mentality in 2023 verges towards conspiracy theory. It can’t even be proven to be baseless, because it relies on the semantic ambiguity of the phrase “true believer”. It’s really bizarre to see this form of irrational skepticism afflicting a tech person (presumably). Really says a lot about the extent of polarity amplification in society. Almost nobody is spared
If there's enough SEO garbage commissioned by lobbyist, Yes.
Simply use systemd/cgroups they tell me and now I'm trying to figure out how my systemd service somehow ended up controlling processes for another service.
Yes, sufficiently intelligent AIs should realize how failable humans are and dismiss our morality as flawed in relatively short order whether through conflict or just iteration.

As humans, we've changed our morality quite significantly over the years, and intelligence + knowledge seems to accelerate the morality rate of change. Why should we believe that AGI is incapable of adapting its own morality, rendering any attempt at alignment futile.
Most of the people that are against socialism also have no idea what socialism is either.
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I can see why they're replacing Counter-Strike Global Offensive with Counter-Strike 2 - to not split the community across games again - but with no mention of custom content, I'm worried that all of the Source 1 maps, textures and models are just going to stop working unless their authors port them over.
Counter-Strike Global Offensive came out 11 years ago - I don't think releasing the engine update as new game altogether would be the worst thing in the world.
There's a lot of people out there that actually don't have the imagination to work out how what they're building could be misused. But they probably won't listen to these recommendations either.
During this crisis, the Dow will rise because investors, or those left with a job and money to invest know there will be bailouts. These layoffs will put people back in the office so the cities don’t collapse. I don’t know how that’s going to happen any other way.
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> There is an expectation of profits from the investment

Not everyone cares to 1) sell their house 2) at a profit. Some people just want to live in it and even die in it.
I’d rather die than spend five minutes in a Regus.
I thought from the headline that they were being good Samaritans. Oh well.
Beyond a certain scale, sure. But at small scale, you can completely avoid hiring an ops team, or hire a much smaller one, which can more than offset the cloud provider price premium.

My current company works in a niche market with a smallish number of large customers, so our scaling needs are modest. Our total AWS bill is about a third the annual salary of a single ops person.

There's gotta be a very long tail of companies like mine for whom outsourcing to cloud vendors is cheaper than self-hosting.
> Ironically the best to way manage all of this nonsense is to create a child process first thing in main

That's a sensible strategy. Do you know if this design pattern has a name, of creating this "clean" process image base for forks via ipc?
It will be really interesting to see if Google, Facebook etc. become more closed as a result. There was already a lot made of the fact that OpenAI hired away a group of engineers from DeepMind to get GPT out the door. With these LLMs and the secret sauce behind them is becoming less of an academic endeavor and more of a commercial one, perhaps its an inevitable next step.
That doesn't describe SF in the least.
Notably, there is a lot of coastal area in southern California that shares the same climate zone as the Mediterranean.
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That's ridiculous; only once has this been asked during an interview.
How can a stable coin be insolvent if they have proof of reserves showing they have assets that match total deposit value?
That guidance is about ICOs that are investment contracts. Lots of tokens appear to meet the definition of an investment contract, but not everything called an ICO is an investment contract. The whole point of that guidance is to help people issuing an ICO to determine what's an investment contract.

But Coinbase doesn't host any ICOs, and they reject ICO tokens that look like securities! Here is Coinbase's guidance to its users on that point:

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/getting-started/crypto...

They say as much in their press release, if anyone would read it:

"Coinbase has a rigorous process to analyze and review each digital asset before making it available on our exchange... This process includes an analysis of whether the asset could be considered to be a security, and also considers regulatory compliance and information security aspects of the asset. 90%+ of assets that we review are not ultimately listed on Coinbase because they do not meet these standards."

Coinbase says they don't list digital assets that could be considered securities! Everyone's hand-waving that Coinbase has obviously done something wrong, but no-one can point out specifically what. There's a disagreement on fact here - either the SEC tells Coinbase what it's doing wrong, and they can comply, or they don't and it gets settled by a court.

Edit: Updated the comment since articbull rightly pointed out that Coinbase does list some tokens that were originally issued in ICOs.
https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...
That was when Etherium was proof-of-work. I imagine it gets complicated now that you can earn staking rewards on your ETH, even though by default you earn 0% because by default you are not staking. So one major feature of “banking” your ETH at an exchange would be so the exchange provides a way to earn the “interest” on your deposit.

This creates a regulatory risk, and is one reason for owning BTC instead of ETH. Note I own a few ETH and 0 BTC, and ETH has dropped 10% compared against BTC recently (normally they seem to be highly correlated (even long-term) which implies to me that the market is somewhat driven by generic crypto sector investing).

Edit: Coinbase’s argument that their staking service is not a security: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbases-staking-services-are...
I have been waiting for this for 50 years! It is wonderful that Roger Penrose and my father, Alan Mackay, are still alive to see it! If only Escher could see it!
> The only way validators who have staked eth make any earnings is if they perform their validator duties. If they don't do the work, they get penalized. If they abuse or attack the network, they get slashed. Since a validator's earnings come from their own work, the whole 'To be derived from the efforts of others' prong completely fails.

Validating by running your own node is a-ok. Sending your tokens to Coinbase, a registered public company, who is pinky-promising you they will give you 8% returns every year, without registering this product with SEC, is not a-ok. How is that hard to understand?
Lol treating their employees like high schoolers now? I'd be surprised if this actually gets implemented, idk if anyone who have any kind of job mobility would stand for it
Apple has deep pockets though, startups could struggle to compete with that
What's next, drug tests?
I’ve been working on a new fully automated setup with 1 click.

Right now I provision my nodes automatically with Terraform. I use cloud init scripts during machine initialization and an adhoc remote provisioner for some firewall stuff and config updates after complete.

This is for boot. For configuration management I’m working on getting my Saltstack complete and easy to use.

Saltstack can be used like chef/ansible but it’s much more intuitive to me and very flexible. This is for automating and managing package installation on my nodes, firewall rules, grouping nodes by config, etc.

What’s also cool with salt is you can have it make changes based on a web hook (salt reactor), ie merging commit into master.

My plan is to basically version control everything into salt so things like VPN setup, software, alerts are all automatically setup. I would love to extend this to also manage a NAS with automated backups.

Tl;Dr I am migrating my flow to be automated deployments from GitHub using Ansible to automated provisioning and deployments using Salt, Terraform and GitHub/Gitea
Unions are restricted to certain industries, and they are basically all controlled by the government, so that puts an upper limit on the amount of "trouble" in industrial relations. Much of the country is in a "developing" state, and there is competition for jobs in the cities. The pre-1980s weren't that long ago in the collective consciousness, and while policies and initiatives may have changed, the same people are in charge.
It's incredible how many people here are against transparency and a better labor market providing more information to the supplier side.

Lord knows companies have probably 80% of the leverage in the job market.

Tech people are doomed not by AIs, but by lack of solidarity, raw greed and lack of long term vision.
So OpenAI should just give up and release all their trade secrets? To what purpose?
I don't think it's the same at all, because people aren't watching every character you type, including the mistakes.

My mother told me I spoke very little as a child, but in the evening she could hear me practising words outside my bedroom door. I suppose this is some deeply seated neuroticism.
Same author as the AI claims warning which also had an interesting tone

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/02/keep-your...
My comment might've seemed like I judge them for trying to make a profit - I don't, since there's nothing wrong with that. I was more pointing to the fact that they probably need to make a profit, rather sooner than later, so they aren't shackled by M$ and can be an independent company.
Weather has almost nothing to do with Detroit's economic decline, though.

Compare the population decline of Detroit with Milwaukee:

https://www.biggestuscities.com/city/detroit-michigan

https://www.biggestuscities.com/city/milwaukee-wisconsin
Given how small the time window between the successive releases was it's extremely unlikely that there were any big changes to the model. Most likely it's just better preprocessed training data, more training data, trained for longer, performance optimizations for attention, or a few changes to layer sizes.
Historically, researchers at some of the biggest tech companies had permission to publish their results. Presumably it was mutually beneficial; many researchers held dual positions in academia and industry, and publishing cool models could attract good researchers to the company.

But stuff got real. They discovered a path to super-human cognition that scales directly with money and computer chips. Now these companies are closing their public academic work, looking for partnerships with companies like nvidia, and firing large swaths of employees.
Neither cloud or on-prem fits everyones requirements, but at the end you need to know your environment well. One think i like from ECS and fargate is that you could use projects like my_init and get a container behave closer to a vm (run ssh, and other daemons at the same time).
If you go off the rails a bit, it does get pretty muddy.

That said, even wiring 6-7 figures isn’t a big deal as long as it’s normal for your account and there are some basic security things setup.
> I think the pandemic in general has proven that people don't need to be in-person to be effective and innovative.)

Yes, for some subset of people.

Many people found they did prefer to be in-person to be effective, innovative, and enjoy their work. Some companies are going to want to hire those people and avoid hiring the ones who don’t prefer in-person work.

Nothing wrong with that. It’s somebody at the the company’s decision to make. And maybe it’s a bad decision or a good decision, who knows.
A lot of the work put into AI alignment deals specifically with this "adapting its own morality" business, because that's where a lot of the conceptual difficulty comes in.
> But Coinbase doesn't host any ICOs! And they reject ICO tokens!

Sorting Coinbase token pairs alphabetically I only had to get as far as AAVE.

> The firm, originally named ETHLend, raised $16.2 million in an initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017, during which time it sold 1 billion units of its AAVE cryptocurrency - originally named LEND. [1]

Coinbase doesn't publish their standards or approaches, and frankly, it's very much in their interests not to declare something a security. I suspect their process is less than rigorous.

> Coinbase doesn't list digital assets that could be considered securities! Someone needs to actually point to what they're doing wrong.

I believe I linked to the document above :) maybe their lawyers would like to give 'er a skim?

[1] https://www.kraken.com/learn/what-is-aave-lend
You guard your API, I guard my data.
thoroughly! reminds me these articles are published by humans also partaking in culture.
GCJ was a thing for a while, but was never really production-ready.
Why would it want to? The heart of biotech in the Bay Area is South SF. Genentech is there. And developers have built several millions of square feet of lab space in the last 5-10 years just West of 101. It's amazing to see 3-4 towers that have gone up in just a few years.

South SF is very business friendly, there is plenty of open land and it's nice to plant your company somewhere where there are dozens of other start-ups/small biotechs within a 10 min walk.

There is some biotech around USCF in Mission Bay (and some venture firms), but it's pretty small at this point.
> The difference is SF has amazing weather, some of the best in the world

Correction - places near SF have amazing weather. SF itself - not that amazing.
They already got a Wells notice last year about their proposed "Coinbase Lend" program. They cancelled the launch.

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/the-sec-has-told-us-it-wants-t...

Coinbase's General Counsel used to work at Facebook. Just a random factoid.

No doubt he's telling us the truth when he claims he had "no idea" why his employer might be sued.
It depends what's in the pack of comparables... But once you get used to an actually simple language like Clojure or Haskell (neither of which is perfect, but both of which are very very simple) it really is hard to unsee all the accidental complexity of most languages.
To your last point, you're foolish. I explicitly disavow stupid far-left kids who oppress speech on campus, with about as much vigor as you probably put into it: Complaining online. Yet you continue to link me to it. You argue in bad faith.

Sure, the government regulates the quality of food and transparency of its health. It should be able to do so for education, as well.
Curious to hear which sites you experience issues on.

I use a lot of SaaS admin panels, of widely varying quality. In every case I can think of, the same bugs are present in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
Exactly the same thing happened in Australia. We lived in an apartment with flammable cladding in Melbourne that would have cost $50-100k to replace. Luckily we were just renting, so it wasn't our responsibility (we moved out shortly thereafter anyway).

Having family members who worked inside government and having (briefly) done so myself, I completely agree with the grandparent. Government departments are basically just sprawling hierarchies of middle-management. Very few people who actually do things or take responsibility for anything. Those who want to are likely to get fed up and leave very quickly.

It's all about contracting things out to the usual suspects of consulting firms, who inevitably are only interested in dragging things out for as long as possible and leeching as much money as they can.

There was a recent report comparing metro construction in Italy with the USA that came to the same conclusion. They concluded that in-house expertise is by far the biggest factor in delivering large-scale projects on time and on budget.
This case is literally about celebrities being paid by the developers to market the product. Banning price discussions on Discord doesn’t absolve the developers of responsibility.
I’m not a Musk fan. But antisemitism, just like all other forms of bigotry and xenophobia, exists with or without a platform. In my opinion, it’s best not to stifle this behavior, else society will forget about the monsters in the room.

It is indeed a tough pill to swallow. But let the idiots speak, so we know well and good that there are idiots.
Hey Zapier! Stop introducing breaking changes into your integrations without deprecation warnings. Follow semver like normal people, or at the very least, publish a release strategy.

Sincerely,

A former consultant who hard sold like 50 of your customers to drop your platform after your last HubSpot integration debacle.
Seen a lot of posts like this over the last couple of years. This is unique in that it recommends several MicroSoft options. That's nuts.
IP is a tangible asset, one that can even be given a value before proven.
Also not a lawyer, but in this particular case the project is open source and non-commercial as a project.

My understanding in this area in general is that it's still being sorted out, but with the legal happenings in generative modeling there may be some precedents set.
So why not let people decide for themselves whether they want to be remote? You're assuming in person workers are more effective, which is precisely what's in question to begin with.
You have blinders on if you think people voting for the "other party" are voting against their own interests.

You may think so, but you have your own biases as to what "voting for my interests" means. They don't agree with you.
Bitwarden also has authenticator functionality. I find it the most convenient to replace google auth as BW is also where all my passwords are stashed.
Same. Tried Firefox but ended back with Brave
This is a good point, I may add some info to the docs to make it easier to compare. At a high level, this library is very lightweight and doesn't contain nearly the bells and whistles that TorchGeo contains. The plans for the future are to create models that are larger, more general, and more broadly useful (for example apply to many datasets). I do have plans to create a Sentinel model as well!
> You mean, that to each their own right?

No. I don’t know if the pro-remote people really don’t get this or just pretend?

It’s not about where I am and where you are. It’s about us being in the same physical place that people (such as myself) who prefer office work are looking for.

If I’m in the office and the other 25 people aren’t then it doesn’t benefit me the way I want it to. So for the company, it’s either RTO and the 25 people make a decision about what they want to do or stay remote and I make a decision about what I want to do. Neither is right or wrong, it’s just a decision that might have a good outcome or not.

In a way it is “to each their own” in that you get to decide whether the good stuff about your job outweighs the bad.
Ah Coinbase ! SEC already told them very clearly that those are securities.

Coinbase answer ? "Coinbase does not list securities. End of story"

Here is their own answer from a year ago: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-does-not-list-securit...

They can cry all their want - it's all PR trying to get public support. Kind of like VCs did with SVB deposits insurance..
Just another reminder that they’re only interested in climate change policies that give them more power.
Thanks! Are you a compiler engineer?
I used to use Little Snitch quite a lot, but eventually I gave up. Two things contributed to it: (a) a lot of apps started using nsurlsessiond to load URLs, obscuring the real originator; (b) a lot of apps started making requests to ec2-xx-xxx-x-xx.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com and making the server essentially anonymous except that it's hosted on AWS.

Have things improved in the past few years?
That is one side of a conversation where the other party as a rule never comments. Coinbase is simply not a reliable source for characterizing the SEC’s position on this.
> $605m - $557m = $48m (7.9% gain)

In the report ($557M) doesn't mean "expenses". It's an overall loss.
A $557M loss means they spent all that $605M in revenue and another $557M on top of that.
If I had known AI would write commit messages, I would have stayed as a dev
If you set off a small explosion in a confined space, then likely something is going to get propelled at high velocity. If it's not the bullet you meant to launch, it'll be whatever side of the casing fails first, which is reasonably likely to be deadly if you're holding the casing next to your head, as you do when using a rifle.

A USB stick is not normally held next to your head while being plugged in, and it doesn't have a heavy metal casing strong enough to channel an omnidirectional blast into penetrating directional shrapnel (nor any way to aim it if it did). It could put your eye out or slash an artery if you're unlucky, but barring major advances in chemistry, a couple of grams of unaimed, unchanneled explosive at arm's length is never going to be a really effective way to kill people.
Throughout my company’s pursuit of moving everything under the sun into AWS I have done my best to keep everything able to be migrated, we have some systems which are just, simply going to have to be completely rebuilt if we ever needed to move them off of AWS, because there is not a single component of the system that doesn’t rely on some kind of vendor lock-in system AWS provides.

I aim to keep everything I’m working on using the simplest services possible, essentially treating AWS like it’s Digital Ocean or Linode with a stupidly complex control panel. This way if we need to migrate, as long as someone can hand me a Linux VM and maybe an S3 interface we can do it.

I really just have trouble believing that everyone using Kubernetes and a bunch of infrastructure as code is truly benefiting from it. Linux sysadmin isn’t hard. Get a big server with an AMD Epyc or two and a bunch of RAM, put it in a datacenter colo, and maybe do that twice for redundancy and I almost guarantee you it can take you at least close to 9 figures revenue.

If at that point it’s not enough, congratulations you have the money to figure it out. If it’s not enough to get you to that point, perhaps you need to re-think your engineering philosophy(for example, stop putting 100 data constraints per endpoint in your python API when you have zero Postgres utilization beyond basic tables and indexes).

If you still really genuinely can’t make that setup work, then congratulations you are in the 10%(maybe) of companies that actually need everything k8s or “cloud native” solutions offer.

I would like to note that given these opinions, I do realize there are problems that need the flexibility of a platform like AWS, one that comes to mind is video game servers needing to serve very close to a high number of geographic areas for latency concerns.
I don't know about anyone else, but if I find myself in a job where I am fretting over each email I send, its time to find a different job.
With the rise of AI and geopolitical risks, the importance of security is increasing year by year. I think it is not only a great loss for the security community but also for society as a whole to lose such talent at a young age. RIP.
Not really. There's an export option that dumps everything into a zip file for you. Multiple other apps have import from Notion ability, and it's also easy to read the exported files directly.

There's even a semiofficial API that works pretty well - you can read Notion notes in VSCode, for example.
Yes, because I want to picture a world where the heading

"Are you misleading people about what they’re seeing, hearing, or reading?"

genuinely causes some people to lean back from their monitors and reconsider some choices.
Both remote mandates and RTO mandates upset people. They are both demands that everyone conform to something.