skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> We aren’t paid to write working code. We are paid to grow harmonious systems. Working code is table stakes.

With all due respect, you may have learned the wrong lesson — or missed some important context — and the above is a false dichotomy. Working code isn't just table stakes; it is virtually impossible to "grow harmonious systems" if you don't have solid working code, because without solid working code you cannot grow the system reliably.

The other thing to note is that just because someone makes a lot of money doesn't necessarily mean that they are good at their job, or that they are a good team player, or that the way they operate and the context they operate in applies to you. I know consultants who pull in a million or more every year, and you know how they do it? They write absolute shit software that, while fulfilling the contract requirements, ends up hamstringing the client down the line. Sometimes prioritizing short-term gains might be acceptable or even necessary (e.g. the auditor asks you to compile data from a bunch of sources and you need to do it fast), but for projects with longer life spans one should definitely not blindly "typey typey type".
This seems unnecessarily anti-free market. What makes you think that cultured meat (or any other alternative) is sludge that shouldn't even be allowed to be sold? Plenty of work goes into making alternatives, and there are legitimate reasons for consumers to want to buy them. In lieu of evidence-based health reasons, I don't see the logic in banning them.

I'm in favor of correctly listing ingredients (ex. insects), just not in banning them entirely.
I doubt that a war with China is really motivated by high moral goals. For me, it's much more a struggle for economic and military supremacy.

Today's China was built for decades by the USA. It was convenient to export pollution and import ultra-cheap stuff made possible by slave labor.
The same place herbs have always come from. If you don't want to step outside of your city or visit the local farms/greenhouses, then import. You can also import seeds, but it's up to you to ensure the seeds are the right ones and they have the proper environment they need to grow, and then the right tools to actually process those herbs in the "traditional" ways (or in your own experimental ways I suppose).

Herbs aren't magic you know, you've come across many if you've walked through any trail. Although I wouldn't blindly go picking anything and everything you see, some are toxic!
Lob me an email, details in my profile.
This function signature is a work of art: https://docs.rs/effing-mad/0.1.0/effing_mad/fn.transform.htm...
Try it in very slow and in particular stop-and-go traffic. The acceleration curve is very smooth and predictable and makes these conditions a lot less stressful.
It takes time to investigate the transfers and prove they were fraud proceeds before possibly clawing them back...as the investigation lingers, prosecutors will likely ask SBF's dad to return that money.
You know what distro I had the most experience of hunting down drivers? Ubuntu.

I've given-up on Debian-like systems on a laptop, because the drivers were never good, just decide one last try with bare Debian, and have everything work out of the box. In my experience, Ubuntu never works, and when you suddenly get most things to work, they break down again in a week or two.

No other distro ever gave me that experience.
The subpopulation that uses alcohol to deal with life stress likely skews male and more conservative.

I recently had a conversation with late '20s guy from a small town in Illinois who said guys in his town at any point in time were either working, hunting or drunk. He felt the need to get out of there.
How does it work? Does this generate the actual HTML code for the websites? Or just the copy?
EDIT: never mind, I must be dreaming
Perhaps naive question, but how do you decide if an AI system is "more powerful" than GPT-4? In particular what happens if your AI isn't a language model? How do you compare the "power" of a non-language AI to GPT-4?
A true global company doesn't have off hours.
I think it's more that you always have a bunch of other things competing for your attention on the internet so there's no incentive to read things you once wanted to read.

Even an article you just opened in a tab competes with scavenging for more info on HN/Reddit/Twitter. I don't think that's evidence that the articles are just worthless.

Once, when the internet was out for a few days, I realized that iOS saves your reading list items for offline reading and I was glad to have it. All sorts of interesting articles that I curated. I now work through the reading queue on flights.
You have to look at the circumstances. If you were an airline laying off pilots in April 2020, no, this wasn't a C-level failure. Sometimes, the layoffs were because of bad C-level decisions, and leadership should take a hard look at how did performed and if they should still be there. And sometimes, even if leadership screwed up, the uncertainty if they leave isn't worth it.
Project Zero has a fairly strict 90 day disclosure timeline, in part to avoid having this discussion for the majority of issues. 90 days passes, issue disclosed.

But they did recently withhold four disclosures due to the seriousness of the issues: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-inte... and not for anything as life-threatening as a pacemaker. It seems that brings the total number of policy exceptions to six.

I think one of the keys here is working out your policy in advance, so you've got a robust set of criteria to work from when you need to evaluate a specific case.
“pause all training on any AI systems more powerful than Open AI’s recently released GPT-4 for at least six months”
..
Six months only?! I thought it was about ethical values etc etc. not just “so we can catch up”.. anyone has an access to that open letter, I want to know all these weasels hiding behind “ethical values”!
ironically the author uses one of the most popular squarespace templates in the muted pink which is called out in the article
can you call Dell and Lenovo and expect support as a Linux user? Or do you still have to put Windows back on before they give you the time of day?
Scheme was created 16 years before Visual Basic and has none of these problems, so I don't see what the age of the language has to do with how difficult it is to understand. (Also, Python and Visual Basic were actually both created in 1991, so they're contemporary.)
Yes, echoing the input prompt is a feature of the API, which most people don't turn on by default, likely because it eats more output tokens: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/completions/c...
The MMT people always do this... bury people in bogus articles, references and walls of text to try to make people think everything known about economics was and is wrong.

Sorry... these are borderline crackpot theories. The devastation left in the wake of only a taste of MMT implemented is enough to drive MMT to bed, thankfully.

It's also rather interesting how one can tell a MMT'er is in their midst without much even being said.
Hm, not sure how most of that data would be irrelevant, could you clarify? I think all of that data as well as interacting with the environment creates the level of knowledge and intelligence we have today.
It might seem obvious, but you can find probably hundreds of claims in HN comments over the last couple of months about how this would not happen. Chatbots would invalidate the search business model since "there won't be ads". That idea never seemed to make much sense, and now there is proof that chatbots will indeed be monetized with ads, except even more intrusive ones.
> We both recommended on passing. It was only a seasonal internship, so we weren't super grilling, but we still recommended a pass

I’m confused. Are you using “pass” as in “pass on the candidate”(fail) instead of “pass” as it is used in the context of an exam?
I know mate, I wasn't trying to steal your thunder. I was happy to finally see someone else cover this important first step of using Windows to get your FW updated so that you ensure smooth Linux experience after install, and wanted to emphasize, from personal experience, how important this step is to having a good linux experience after install.
Because Teams (and Slack) are glorified IRC for the text portions and yet we have experiences like Teams[1]. You're seeing pent-up frustration about poor performance that we all deal with every single day, on most applications and almost all websites other than those that keep things simple (like HN).

[1] https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1640827575437250561
The rules of the road are about to change
My bet is that there is a bidirectional relationship between medication and mental health. Meaning, teenagers are over medicated which is messing with their heads. Some of them need the medicine, others are unknowingly suffering under some amphetamine, antidepressant, anti-anxiety etc.

Would love to see mental health numbers of teenagers that:

1. Havent been medicated

- I understand this biases the sample

2. Exercise
> I am waiting at this point for an open source local alternative

maybe something more along the lines of Folding@home would be needed
Today's 10,000 - https://xkcd.com/1053/

We can be pedantic...this is HN... :-)
Is there a fivrr for 3-D printing-ready CAD drawings?
I have an idea for a fairly simple item (2 materials, maybe 3-10 parts) that's probably a few hours of an engineers time and could probably lead to a patentable product. And I'm not a CAD guy, just a physician. I don't do my own web design, I don't want to do my own CAD either. Does such a service exist?
The phone number is a really fun demo! The pronunciation is off on a number of things: "LLM", dates ending w/ "AD", but the response delays are surprisingly short and the conversation is very natural. The 'bored and slightly annoyed' vocals make the generally helpful tone of the agent seem very sarcastic. Very funny and interesting!
Yes, but that’s not a new issue. My point is lab grown meat is basically a new kind of yogurt/fermented food.

Yeast requires a huge range of chemicals to grow, but we mostly ignore all the details when we mix flower, water, and starter because flower is already a really complicated thing.
Did Spain's B-Mincome Experiment Prove That UBI Doesn't Work?
Bill 686: Use TikTok over VPN and go to prison for 20 years and/or 1M fine [pdf]
I agree but Rust is extremely unlikely to go in this direction, even though it is a pretty good fit.
The division is eliminated. Some people are relocated to other divisions. This isn't really a confusing point.
Wire fraud is one of those catch-all crimes, like money laundering, that you can fit to any case without a clear victim or statuatory violation but with proof of obvious malicious/criminal intent.
That was fast. Looking forward to the future where I ask for travel tips in a city and being told that I should stop by a McDonalds to have enough energy to explore said city - I'm loving it!
Why do you ask? Does it bother you or you want to signal how astute about HN you are?
Depression is a spectrum of presentations, and severe cases render you entirely unable to work. In turn that means your physical well being is at risk if you depend on salary to keep yourself housed and fed.
At what point are organisations going to ask themselves wether this is intentional or not. Your velocity is disrupted by a likely competitor. I'd move out.
Is it my imagination, or has TLS always been more secure than Wifi?
The providers that don't comply with the warrants get taken down eventually, so effectively it may as well be all of them.
The law allows banning of ICT products or services. It doesn't matter if it is a profit making business or not. The executive branch makes the determination of which ICT to ban. If the only ones left are the ones the government controls, we lose free speech.
Exactly. For top execs to get "fired" without a shit ton of money (like, more than your average person makes in a lifetime, sometimes more that a large group of people will make in their lifetimes) there is usually something pretty egregious, like sexual harassment or overt legal problems. Les Moonves was originally going to get $120 million in severance before there was a considerable uproar having to do with the Me Too movement, and CBS held firm on saying they were firing him for cause.
I'd argue that the opposite is more common. People who are well off can often feel that they are entitled to things.
Penalties are on page 43.
> My understanding is that SRS and the like all require beefy desktop-class processors to run in?

Yes. You can ignore this question. I should have asked you the driver first. I think you replied that question already on another comment. Thx for your explanation. Looking forward to seeing it in the market soon.
Tech firms hold all the power as Goldman Sachs predicts AI job wipeout
The Decline of Liberal Arts and Humanities
https://archive.is/oNPw0
But muh disruption!
One of the odder changes in the behavior of people on the left in recent times is going from "I'm a person, not a label" to "Look at all the labels I have!"
More empiricist than theorist.
> Depression is a luxury version of stress - not happy, but also physically safe and not worried for your well-being.

That certainly is A Take on Depression.
This has always been inside of Bing Chat. They just test them out with a select % of the userbase. CEO of Bing Search confirmed this on Twitter.
I would in fact expect pastors to be more religious on average than their congregations[1], though not particularly more moral. And I would expect professional ethicists to be more interested in ethics than the population at large, though again not particularly better.

[1] It would depend a bit on what sort of pastor and what sort of congregation.
Oh yeah I know somebody who makes 2 million and disagrees. And he's twice as correct as your guy.
> or circumventing copyright protection

Exactly, you just named a subset of all the things you could do to a machine, partitioned by copyright protection. I'd agree with your general point in the context of power users, but it's worth noting that the average Joe will try to faithfully follow company policy as well as the law.
> The USD has never been 1-1 backed. Still seems to work just fine.

Others have mentioned the problems with this statement, but I'd like point out that it's also literally untrue. The coinage act of 1792 created the US dollar:

> Dollars or Units - each to be of the value of a Spanish milled dollar as the same is now current, and to contain three hundred and seventy-one grains and four sixteenth parts of a grain of pure, or four hundred and sixteen grains of standard silver.
Ah, ok so you are considering the latency rather than the throughput. I was thinking that being able to perform the update within 16.6ms should not be too hard - there is a sibling comment about SSD latency but the working set should fit in RAM.

Sure, so there will be latency, maybe 4-5 frames with input lag. But this is normally bearable in a game so I'm guessing that it would work fine for an office app. It would be difficult to remove, but 80ms response time from an application that can always hit its 16.6ms deadline should be workable.
Indian students face exit from Canada over fake papers
> Saw a post on Paul Graham’s twitter about this, turns out white, liberal female teens were the most depressed, for whatever reason, that’s a strange specific group to be extremely depressed imho.

That’s…honestly, exactly the combination of race and gender I would expect to be most depressed right now, even thinking only about expectations people have been raised with about the direction of progress for their own conditions and how the reality currently manifesting clashes with it, and that’s without considering how concerns for conditions other than their own might play into it.
Visualizing capacitors on a PCB: exploring PDNs
Nix and NixOS
Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Lightspin (Cloud Security)
I've got the same issue, particularly with PlayStation Plus, where there are countless games available at minimal cost.

My previous strategy was to begin a game, that would be my main game, while sampling others on the side. If one of the side games caught my interest more, it would take the main game's place, and I might return to the original game later.

This approach was low-pressure, but it often took me years to complete many games.

I used to handle my side projects similarly, starting numerous projects but rarely bringing them to completion. Lately, I've been making an effort to stick with a side project long enough to at least show it to friends.

Now, I'm pushing myself to stay committed to two games at a time. One game is from top of my list that I really want to play. The other is a shorter one. This way I can enjoy that satisfying feeling of accomplishment more frequently.

I'd never considered making a spreadsheet for this, but now I'm intrigued by the idea!
My first time seeing it. Not sure why it bothers you so much.
Hey, just pumping my tDCS project. It's going to be better than anything on the market.

Patrik.
The TVA is bad like IAEA is bad. They're just trying to prevent the crazy.
It really depends on which type of finance you mean. I've worked at some of the world's biggest hedge funds, as well as banks, and they are WILDLY different.

Hedge funds

* Pay can fluctuate pretty drastically depending on what you do. Your value add in this space is to understand the financials more than other software devs. Remember their main goal is to generate money from money, NOT software development. It's a means to an end, so the more you can understand, the more valuable you are.

* Intense working environment - there's no real 9-5 here. High turnover, and there tends to be a lot of early turnover, so you either make it or exit quickly.

* Fun - generally given the intensity of the environment, you get to know your team really well and becomes a tight knit group.

* Expect weekends / holidays when things hit the fan. The amount of money on the line makes it very likely you will be pulled in for emergencies, which will happen.

* Deep tech knowledge and moves quickly.

Banks

* Bureaucracy heavy. You are more likely to find yourself managing paper work than doing software development. The software dev requirements are low, given the complexity is also low.

* Aging tech - given the heavy regulations things move slowly. Very slowly. The sense of urgency is replaced by reducing risk of getting something wrong. Often times they compensate with manual procedures over technology.

* Very high pay - Banks will pay someone who can understand technology, manage the process, and stay there for a while, very high salaries.

So, depending on what you're looking for, YMMV.
> now fuzzers are being written in rust, as if that translates to better quality bugs being found.

I'm not sure if you're being facetious, but this is a classic straw man fallacy[0]: you've constructed a nonsensical motivation for the authors' use of Rust, then argued against that motivation.

There is superficial similarity between (1) "the authors wrote the fuzzer in Rust" and (2) "the authors wrote the fuzzer in Rust because it translates to better-quality bug findings", but the paper's authors did not claim (2), nor would any reasonable person claim (2).

More likely is that Rust is a useful language for authoring fuzzers because it is fast and supports modern abstractions while eliminating multiple troublesome categories of bugs. Fast performance, zero-cost abstractions, automatic memory management, and concurrency safety are useful language properties regardless of their relevance to security bugs.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Similarly, I am by no means educated on workplace whatnot in general or the Nadler-Tushman Congruence Model

What does this mean?
I really like the idea of going through the list of common warning signs for a Ponzi scheme and still having to weasel around like "well technically if you squint, this one doesn't apply to every cryptocurrency."

Unfortunately cryptocurrency and NFTs fit exactly the definition of a Ponzi scheme and it's quite easy to see why:

> Pon·zi scheme

> noun

> a form of fraud in which belief in the success of a nonexistent enterprise is fostered by the payment of quick returns to the first investors from money invested by later investors.

Literally the entire basis of deflationary speculative "currency" is a Ponzi scheme. It has no value if new people don't buy in.
WWDC23
'Ultramassive' black hole discovered – bigger than the majority of galaxies
I would love to explore Reddit's influence on this phenomenon. The timelines seem to sync somewhat and it seems like a perfect vehicle for adversarial nation states to use to influence public opinion.
As someone who runs one of the most global APIs in the world, I promise you, I do in fact sleep
You just sent me on a research adventure. I have struggled with chronic neck tension and pain for the last 15 years with no obvious origin event, and sometimes take 2-3 ibuprofen every day to take the edge off, when it's at its worst.

Thank you for bringing this up!

Background for me for those interested:

Within a few years of struggling with chronic pain and tension headache episodes (vomiting, catch-my-breath level of pain for hours), I had my first "vertigo event". I was sitting in a chair in an office in front of a whiteboard, writing and thinking and chatting with a team, nothing special or different. Never had an inner ear issue before this moment.

Since then, I have struggled (seemingly randomly) where I have ear fullness (almost entirely without hearing on left ear for a month about 6 months ago, then everything slowly came back, for example), varied tinnitus levels, light-headedness, unable to turn around too fast without losing balance... and it waxes and wanes.

Now I am wondering if any of the waxing or waning of these symptoms have anything to do with my usage of ibuprofen. I found a study suggesting this back from 2010 just now, and wonder how I've never connected these two dots.

Of course, I have to mention neck tension and inner ear related issue, aren't the only health issue I've had in the last 15 years. I've gained GERD (probably not surprising), hashimoto's and vitiligo, as well as sudden onset of mild astigmatisms after the first few years.

I have tried my best to avoid using ibuprofen at all, but it is the only thing that can take the edge off of the neck trouble before it turns into that awful, torturous headache/barf session.

PS) I know most folks will see "neck tension" + "inner ear problems" and jump to pinched nerve, spinal damage, ergonomics, posture, etc, but even after a great deal of lifestyle changes, reduced time at an office desk, yoga, Feldenkrais method, numerous physical therapy stints, I am confident that it is not the cause and "how good I am doing posture/movement" has no strong correlation to pain levels or inner ear trouble on any given day - it is seemingly random.

PPS) Definitely open to suggestions or ideas, but I will be surprised if something is mentioned that I have not tried or looked into.
I graduated high school around 2010, before all of these dramatic declines in mental health seem to take place, and even back then I remember there being a lot of unhappy people in my peer group. Maybe a certain % of miserable teenagers is guaranteed due to the nature of puberty (and humans).

I hope we find a way to mitigate or reverse the trend these studies are highlighting. Schooling is essential and we can't allow it to become unbearable.
I just mean distributing software exclusively through 1 channel (or at least only officially supporting 1).

This wouldn't be the worst situation (devs needing to more time preparing myriad distribution formats is a valid problem) if the specific 1 channel being used wasn't a broadly resented channel.
The MCU hasn’t been under Perlmutter’s control since 2015.

Hey, can you explain exactly what you mean by preachy woke propaganda with some specific examples?