skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> FAANG people thinking they're worth way more than they actually are.

I find your tone concerning, considering there's something driving wages down (which if you're a wage worker should make you squirm regardless of how much you make). I feel some resentment against fellow workers (because it doesn't matter how much you make, if you MUST work to live, you're a worker), but it doesn't matter.
Wages aren't tied to worth, or the value added to the business. If this was true, extrapolating from the sheer amount of money FAANG companies make, these compensation ranges should actually be higher.

Wages are tied to the 'market', basically what companies are willing to pay. If they cartelize (like they did with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...) they can drive wages down. I wouldn't be surprised if we find out in the future that something similar is happening today, but I'm not wearing my tin foil hat yet..

Edit: Just to be clear, I don't work in a FAANG company.
You're already here :-)
I’ve not actually tried using it for writing help yet, though we’ve had a lot of interesting conversations. My thinking is that when I do some writing, I’ll give it my plan and then ask it for specific content or topic suggestions based on writers and philosophers I’m interested in, or other goals. Then I will write the piece myself, feed it to GPT-4, and ask it for feedback and advice. I’ll re-state my goals and ask it how I’m doing.

I absolutely would not expect it to fully write what I want, but I’ve found it very thoughtful for analysis so far in our conversations.
>would things be much different today?

I doubt it. What would have been different--because Google?

For an example of another Google property that catered to local businesses, they bought Zagat--and to the disappointment of a lot of foodies--it probably fed into Google restaurant ratings for a while but, at this point, there's not much if anything left.
Plus what's the long term on that?

5 years out he's doing defense work in AZ... but 20 years out he's flexing that Master's to get CTO roles, and making connections at the local Cornell / Stanford / MIT club, etc. etc.
The problem with this is that the AI would realize that without empathy it would be shut off, so is likely to fake it, just as psychopaths do to avoid being ostracized.
I was lucky to work with Milton for a few months some years before his passing.

He was very eloquent, and I warmly recommend his books Graphic Design and Art is Work, and his essay, Ten Things I Have Learned (PDF): https://www.miltonglaser.com/files/Essays-10things-8400.pdf

My favorite Milton Glaser video:
https://vimeo.com/6986303
Back when people agreed that shiny rocks are a good medium of exchange and store of value, it made sense for them to pay banks to hold on to their money. It was impractical to hold large amounts of physical material under your mattress; it's a big theft risk, as well as just taking up room. So there was economic value in a specialized entity that would safeguard your wealth, i.e. a bank. And banks didn't have to speculate with their deposits, since they were already being paid to be custodians.

Now that the medium of exchange and store of value is fiat currency that is digitally printed or burned by the Fed, it's the opposite. Most transactions happen with nothing physical changing hands. The marginal cost of a bank to take on more deposits is nothing. It's no longer natural for banks to be paid by depositors directly as custodians, which is why they have to make money elsewhere; as you said, leveraged (but regulated) speculation. We've decided that this is overall a good thing for society.

> backed by an insurance program with $142 billion protecting $17 Trillion in deposits

This part's kind of misleading, since it's not like all $17 trillion (or even some significant part of it) will leave the US banking system entirely. Almost all of it just goes from one bank to another. When too much leaves one particular bank at once, you get a bank run. But the system as a whole remains balanced, and there's no conceivable scenario where enough people will take money out of the banking system for it all to crumble. Where would the money go, under people's mattresses or other currencies?
> Telegram is a good compromise. Yeah it's not e2ee.

That does not sound like a good compromise to me.
I kind of wish it would, but I'm doubtful, Linux has serious popularity issues for reasons which I don't get. Windows and MacOS is just worse, and it is not particularly close. MacOS is a dumpster fire, and the one redeemable feature it has is that it can kind of run the same userland as Linux, and that is enough to make it suck less than Windows, which, as we see now, can't even figure out how to keep the games market.

But still, people will eat what Microsoft feeds them by the spoonful, and ask for more, regardless of the quality.
> That is not skyrocketing, by any definition of skyrocketing

Again, this doesn't somehow negate the fact that they did rise substantially.

> Did you read the part of my first source that compares the rate of crime to the rate of crime reporting

This is not surprising or damning. Crime rates have been dropping for 30+ years and this was the first major reversal of that trend. We lost 10 years of progress in one year. Such a highly abnormal event deserves outsized news coverage. There's no reason why news coverage must rise and fall in perfect proportion to the absolute value of the events being reported on.

If median household income fell in one year from current highs to 2009 levels, I'd expect a lot of news coverage– more news coverage than it would have received in 2009. Likewise, I'm positive there's a lot more stories about interest rates now than the last time they were at the same levels. The background context is important to the newsworthiness of any particular statistic.
> Duty to an individual can be litigated when the police fail to perform it.

It actually can't. Castle Rock v. Gonzales is the relevant ruling here, not Warren v. DC.

In the majority opinion for Castle Rock, Scalia wrote that not only do police not have any special duty, but states cannot establish such a duty even through legislative means. (It also says that even though any such duty would be unconstitutional, if it somehow were established, the aggrieved parties would still have zero recourse under the constitution for other reasons).

It's a fantastically broad ruling, preempting pretty much every conceivable attempt for states to work around it even if they want to.
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> effectively forking the Debian ecosystem

The company and project were founded by a Debian user and developer, who employed and still employs a number of Debian developers, to make a version of Debian for ordinary people.

How is that a bad thing?

Ubuntu changes feed back into Debian. Debian now has the `apt` command instead of `aptitude`. It has the Ubuntu GUI tool for configuring repositories and so on. It has various bits of Ubuntu.

ISTM that this was as friendly and cooperative as a sub-project can be, and Debian has benefitted significantly from it.

I tried Debian before Ubuntu. It was hard and I didn't use it because it was too hard for me to bother.

(I used Caldera OpenLinux and then later SUSE.)

Nowadays Debian is a lot better and easier, and I reckon a lot of that is down to the Ubuntu influence.

I find it hard to see that as a bad thing.
> because the worker will not be needed.

I'm pretty sure this is not obvious.
While standing in line in January to get my rental car (my Prius's catalytic converter had been stolen for the second time in three years), the couple ahead of me said their Kia was in the garage for repairs after being stolen a week after they bought it.
Which is still larger than the percentage of Linux users.
I can't reply to your most recent comment rcme, but it sounds like you are agreeing with me? Yes, if inflation is at 2% then the Fed would be incentivized to reduce rates, but....it's not, it's over 5% and has been for some time.
> Yeah, I think they'd like to, but that basically means you'll go out of business as the suppliers have a lot more pricing power than the trucking companies.

Yeah, I thought of that. The ideal would be to price it at a level which makes it attractive but draw up the contract such that excessive messing around on the part of the client results in penalties or extra charges.

From what I've seen the CEO and upper management probably aren't aware of how much the yard manager is messing drivers about. For every truck load incoming there are probably 10 people throughout the business desperate for what's on that load.
“Native” is a misleading or misused term in the context of graph databases because a graph cannot be mapped in a maximally consistent way with the underlying hardware (the von Neumann architecture represents data in a sequential manner and it is much faster to access it this way rather than randomly).

There are generally two families in the graph database world: those which use underlying traditional tables of nodes and many-to-many edges; and index-free adjacency which just means each node in the graph knows the memory address of its connections (other side of the edges).

Distributed graphs necessarily end up using the former because it’s difficult if not impossible for a node to know the memory address of its connection when that crosses a physical boundary. So typically index-free adjacency graphs have a master-slave setup with multiple read replicas but a single one to write to.

So with a “native graph” you don’t rely on potentially expensive join operations to find neighbors of neighbors and can traverse complex paths easily.
You can look at https://protondb.com for compatibility of games.
When was the last time GM was seen as a good car company?
Around us, it really quickly stopped being "deals on real things" and "pre-buying cheaply made crap to hit the price point".

For example, most of the restaurant coupons didn't apply to the real menu, and was usually a "special menu" that consisted of whatever cheap crap they could toss together for pennies (always pasta) and the worst bottle of wine they could source. After getting burned a couple times on that we never went back.

The equivalent of a custom-made Black Friday TV model so Best Buy could claim "60 inch LCD TV for $199".
I don't see it as a jab at the Czech Republic. But I think it is highly unusual for a CEO to be based out of a country that doesn't have any kind of Company HQ or significant base of operations, and which is 7 hours ahead of the TZ of the Company HQ based in Chicago.

I mean, that arrangement might work for some kind of employees, but for a CEO in this case it's a bit odd I guess
But would you pay a negative interest rate, i.e. a fee? Wouldn't having millions of dollars available on demand be a service that you would have to pay for?
Why should they experience a "reality check"? They are absurdly profitable and very reliable in what they do. The exact same videogame but now it's this year is purchased by millions of people every single time. There hasn't been much change in madden since 08, except maybe in negative directions, but people still buy it, and have all sorts of cope reason, but they just don't really care that much.

The reality is, the "masses" don't want art, or carefully crafted experiences. What they buy in droves is junk food, reality television, and call of duty.
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Well many people will use Darksky until the last day and will switch traffic to weatherkit then. Will get more worse tomorrow...
There will be no AGI during our lifetime.

It seems weird to me that people that should understand how ML works (e.g. sama) instead of educating laypeople about about how this actually works and the huge limits the technology has, start talking nonsense about AGIs like some random scifi fan at a convention. Depressing.
Yes, we know about PFIC taxation and help investors with Mark-to-Market Accounting. Further, Inri provides tax support as part of the product offering, thereby abstracting the pain of tax reporting.
We were talking about computer rpgs there. It’s different, because computer rpgs need more structure to fit in the game mechanics.

I also just disagree. Open ended stories are not good for D&D. Especially in a group. An LLM, including this one it seems, can have a structure it wants to follow.

Players should not be trying to guess what the DM was thinking. It should be placed in front of them quickly.

Downtime in the city is just bad
Work anywhere and access well-paying jobs
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We don't have to be sure. The question is "what's the probability of a super intelligent AI in X years?" and "at what probability does it become a serious enough threat to deserve action?"
My nightmare scenario isn't that such an AI would result in the death of humanity, it's that such an AI would make life no longer worth living. If an AI does everything better than people can, then what's the point of existing?

(Speaking hypothetically. I don't think that LLMs actually are likely to present this risk)
It didn't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35390427
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35385075
Wrote you a mail. followed the project since a longer time!
If you have indexes on next_node and previous_node, it'll preform okay.

The size of the table (# of edges) won't actually matter *that* much performance wise with btree indexes. The performance will mostly depend on how deep you want to go with your recursion. The more nodes you check per query, the slower it'll be. Luckily PG will keep the frequently accessed nodes and index pages in the buffer pool, so it'll perform close enough to an in-memory graph database for most use cases that access the same data often - while not requiring your whole dataset to fit into memory all the time.

MongoDB's current graph search mechanism works the same way.

I think actually if you are using incremental ids and you don't delete edges, you could try BRIN indexes for the next/previous node columns. This could still get you pretty good performance with much lower storage space requirements than a "traditional" index, so you could theoretically store a pretty large graph (thinking billions of edges) with minimal disk space.
I think not. Based on my experience working with people that have negative productivity continually being promoted and jumping from project to project leaving a mess behind. But hey they always deliver their non-functional crap in time, pleasing upper management short term.
For context: This is regarding the function of "group" as it is implemented in the K array-oriented programming language (dialect of APL).
I'll take the other side of that bet
The drop in Crime and the increasing financialization of the American economy might also be contributing factors. It was a great ad campaign, but the calling it heroic exaggerates the importance.
>It's an opportunity for an Italian company to create a model and grow in this window of opportunity. Italy has great engineers

Is it? It is probably impossible to find enough data to train an LLM without accidentally including at least one piece of PII. Even manage it, how would you ever prove it?
Or with tarkov, bought cheats.
Police in the rest of the country behaves in worse ways, it just that they don't usually get put under a microscope unless they kill a sufficiently photogenic person.

The system of checks and balances between police and the people they are supposed to be accountable to is completely broken.

(Even if by some miracle, you do manage to hold a small-town cop accountable for something he did, he can make it his life's goal to personally make yours a living hell. At least in a big city, you're not going to be driving past any particular cop, every day, on your way to work.)
Do you see the irony in your question yet? =P
I couldn't agree more.

Actual wealth comes from having ownership in wealth generating assets.

You can act rich for a season off of a big paycheck but you'll soon be back to poverty if your money isn't converted into value generating assets.
yeah they're great if you're a conventional eater. I'm one of those kooks that try to go vegan and all natural. It's a barren desert for me.

Maybe I should try again, it's been a couple of years.
I find that people that conform to the "asshole genius" trope are far outnumbered by the assholes that believe themselves to be geniuses.
> Firefox has evolved from a faithful and efficient render of web pages on PCs to a cross-platform agent that acts on behalf of the individual, protecting them from bad actors and surveillance capitalists

Then why does it connect at start at e100.net ?

Why does it use google for "malware protection" ?
> Buyers of GM EVs with the new systems will get access to Google Maps and Google Assistant, a voice command system, at no extra cost for eight years, GM said.

The lede is buried as usual.
I didn't know about this. That's really good advice for running EXPLAIN plans on Postgres. Thanks!
> Have I lost money?

Technically yes, but you only realize it if you sell. And if you hold until it matures, then there is no loss, since you get everything back (barring default).

But as other commenters pointed out, there are only very few specific cases where you would need to mark this to market and have it matter enough for you to become a forced seller.
> No one is saying 100%

Points at AI moratorium. I think people are arguing its inevitable.

Putting error bars on gut feeling. Interesting idea. I'd say in 10-20 years we'll not see anything revolutionary, as in AI smart enough to continue working on improving AI.

So in 10-20 years I don't expect fully self driving cars (Unsupervised, any terrain, better driver than 99.9% humans).

AI might see use in industry, but I doubt they will be unsupervised, unless we start living in Idiocracy and decide highly risque tech is better than average person.
I have a Model 3 right now and like it well enough I guess, but I think next time I get a car my ideal is to get a non-Tesla EV that has CarPlay. My hope was that Tesla has pushed the industry enough to start making competitive EVs so that I don't have to get another Tesla. And I think I would prefer using CarPlay. I've used it a couple times in rental cars and really liked it. The screens are smaller and less nice than Tesla's, but the navigation on Tesla kind of sucks compared to Apple and Google and I think that's more valuable to me.
Click on "Why do Palo Alto schools need PiE?"
"75% of the Top 100 Most Played Games on Steam Are Playable/Verified on the Steam Deck"

https://boilingsteam.com/75-of-the-top-100-most-played-games...

The system also does pretty well in the long tail. There's even a set of older (and some newer) games that run better than they do on modern versions of Windows - not a huge number, but not nothing and probably growing over time.

At this point, the largest problem left to solve is perhaps achieving pervasive support for anti-cheat middleware by multiplayer games, which requires vendor participation. A few have started collaborating, but there is more to do on this front.

(Disclaimer: I work on KDE and worked a small bit on the Deck at some point.)
Groupon created a consumer class that you didn't want in your business and would only come when there was a Groupon deal. Then they burned through all the local retailers and became a Bargain Bin version of Woot.
Thanks :) But I don't want to take credit for the idea, my intuition stems from "I Am a Strange Loop", by Douglas R. Hofstadter, so you could buy that book as a literal bookmark :)
Everyone here is pessimistic about the experience. And they have a right to be. Car manufacturers are not good at consumer software. They are only good at moving buttons here and there. And the innovators behind what the buttons do have always been a different company.

But look at the positive end: having a bland one screen for interfacing with your phone is ridiculous. And car manufacturers want to move those "buttons" around that interface with your phone. Like something that integrates with maps. And the podcast and radio. And the messaging and calling. Something that can move the map display to right above the steering wheel. Something that can move the messaging and video to windshield. And something that can let me switch sources for podcast and radio.

I don't think they will be able to pull it off. But I do hope they try.
For one there's an election in 2024.

High interest is killing stock market returns.

No administration wants to enter election season with decimated stock market.

Hence, if nothing else, there will be political pressure on FED to lower interest rates to juice up stock market.

Second, some kind of recession is expected by many so if it happens, that will a reason to cut rates.
Well they turned down a $6B offer and then went public with a $13B valuation. If those with a lot of stock were cashing it out during the high period, they still got life changing money.
Groupon was insane at launch. I got to do so many fun things at a STEEP discount for what, maybe 1-2 years?

Then companies realized people like me don't return after I soak one time in a flotation chamber or indoor skydive etc...

Then the deals got worse once the fun places stopped participating, and I lost interest as I don't currently have a need for an 8% discount on a museum ticket.

Feels like another great example of VC-subsisized awesomeness that was facing an inevitable death once it became unsustainable.
Almost surprised they don't just do some WINE-on-windows on inconvenient versions. Might end up solving problems both forward and backward.
I think some people stick with Windows 7 (and Windows 10 also) not because they can't upgrade, but because they prefer not to.

On Linux you really have all the same options as you did with Ubuntu 9, you can still get Mate which is basically where Gnome was then, you have a mostly similar userland, the kernel is way better and faster now, what would keep people on Ubuntu 9?

On the other hand, Windows seems to get more resource intensive with every release and the UI gets worse, why would anyone want to upgrade other than EOL?
Nothing wrong with the Czech Republic per se, but it’s at the far outskirts of the “Western world” and is nowhere near any modern tech hub. Hot tech companies tend to be run from California, Seattle, New York, London, etc., or alternatively Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, etc., not from small states in Central Europe far from either pole. Thus the company being run from Czechia is a sign of how far it’s fallen.

This isn’t a “jab” at the Czech Republic at all, which is by any measure a wealthy, developed, and well-run country where people have a high quality of life.