skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it isn’t a problem if the a CEO of Twitter doesn’t care about their tweets. The proper task of any CEO is maintaining the company as an immortal entity.

If the general public cares about the CEO’s tweets, then necessarily there will be a danger that the death of the CEO will ignite a crisis in the general public; e.g. Steve Jobs at Apple.

The producer is not the star.
Only the tech industry thinks of itself that way.

Outside the tech industry, everyone thinks of us as investment bankers - overly paid, out of touch clowns surviving largely on cheap money.

You should see the sheer glee online after every round of layoffs.
Its and apples and oranges comparison of combustion chambers. For purposes of combustion, the relavant pressure is the exaust of the rocket engine where combusion is complete. The burning gas within an ic engine is, at the point of combusion, at a very higher pressure. The ic equivalent of a rocket combusion chamber would be the blast wave starting at the spark, which then moves through the fuel. This difference become more important when discussing the new tech of pulse detonation rocket engines.
Are you a woman? I expect the number of people wanting to birth 10 children is far less than the number of people wanting to have 10 children.
Cyberabad is a cool name.
> I can think of exactly zero other reasons to have engineered the privatization of a charity, other than greed.

The question has recently been asked by Lex Fridman and answered by Sam Altman. This is the clip: https://youtu.be/qQdqFZFZQ6o

To quote: "We learned early on that were gonna need far more capital than we were able to raise as a non-profit" (you can listen in on it being expanded over 3 Minutes)

Now, since I can almost feel the goal-post-shifting coming, this seems like a good time to align: You claimed you could see no reason. Their reason is: They had a model. Then they figured it was wrong. They adjusted their model.

This is not an insane or unreasonable process. This is how we know things get adjusted all the time. We agree with it on principle.

Now, of course, there are a lot of possible, unfavorable interpretations, even if we can agree up to here. A couple:

a) Despite the process making sense, that's not what happened. Sam might be lying or deceiving. He may be leaving things unsaid, or it could all be a long-planned con, etc. All of this might be entirely possible, and I did not do the work to disprove this option. BUT: as a general rule, we always agree that the burden of proof is on the accuser, in court and in civil discourse. Walking up to people and saying "You stole!", them being irritated, and you saying "Well! Prove me otherwise!" is just not how we do things. I am aware that in practice we often are willing to apply different rules to the very poor, the very rich, or people we just dislike.

b) Sam is incompetent or delusional. Someone else could have made it work without going the route they did. Maybe it would have worked, and he is just... bad at math? Certainly a possibility. Similar to the above, if you want to make this claim without discrediting yourself: Show your work. Reason us through it.

c) This move was illegal. I am not a lawyer, but since I wouldn't rate this thought as particularly groundbreaking, I am okay with assuming someone raised the concern during the transition, lawyers were consulted, and it was a legal option.

d) It's simply immoral to go on, at best the exploitation of a loophole, at worst the biggest treason to humankind. If "open" cannot mean "open source" anymore, before making this transition, letting the company fail was the right move. This is an entirely understandable position, and I can empathize with the feelings it triggers. It requires no evidence, and it requires no claims about greed. It's an opinion piece. Fair enough.
Nobody skilled is going to voluntarily do consumer-level tech support where 99% of support tickets involve the user being an absolute idiot (and you're not even allowed to swear at them).

You do tech support out of necessity when you don't have any other options, and you look to get out as fast as possible.
> We already have a socioeconomic system that treats people differently based on the color of the their skin.

No we don't. We have a socioeconomic system that treats people differently based on their class. There are many thousands of black millionaires in the country and a few black billionaires as well. Meanwhile, show me how some poor schlep in a trailer park or in the backwoods of Appalachia with no running water or electricity is being benefited by the color of his skin. No education, generational poverty, no opportunities but he's got that magical lack of melanin so it's all good? lolwut

The math doesn't back you up. The majority of poor people in the country are white. And if you want to look at the per capita rates of poverty, then you have to deal with that fact that asians outperform whites in every category per capita. So the whole idea that whites are outperforming everyone due to some inherent white supremacy built into the system is demonstrably false.

> This true, but I'm guessing you don't really understand that neoliberalism is just another word for conservative. Neoliberals hate DEI.

Not quite, the majority of Democrats and Republicans have a neoliberal worldview. The people on the left and right in the US who don't have a neoliberal worldview are a tiny minority. Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both neoliberals. So was Obama and Bush. To find US politicians that aren't neoliberals you have to look to Bernie (who isn't even a member of the Democratic Party) and maybe a few others on the left. On the right, probably the closest you can get now is Rand Paul who is Libertarian-Lite. Maybe Justin Amash is a better example when he was in office, but he got chased out of the Republican Party. You also had Tulsi Gabbard who espoused non-neo-liberal views from the Democratic Party but she was chased out of the party for it too. There are maybe a few others I'm forgetting but there are very few non-neolibs in office in the US.

This is why you have Wall Street which is a Republican stronghold, fully embracing DEI. DEI fits nicely within the racially divisive neoliberal worldview.

> LMAO bruh, judging people by the color of their skin was institutionalized 150 before DEI was ever thought of. The United States had FUCKING SLAVES based on the color the skin. Stop being a racist shit. Its been less than 50 years since the federal government *had to outlaw racial segregation because racist ass racists wanted racial segregation*.

So you're trying to convince me that racially discriminatory policies like most DEI initiatives are a good thing by giving me all of the historical examples of why racial discrimination is a bad thing?

Uh, thanks for making my case for me bruh.
Is he still hurt someone once told him to learn to code,
> I think the main difference between my faction and the main trans activist faction is we don't think honest misgendering (done due to an earnestly held belief about the sex of the other person and some moral convictions against white lies) should be a firing offense.

This seems counter to what you wrote earlier:

> I also think that excluding such a person from your conversations may be sensible.

Let's say your a customer of a company, and an employee "honestly misgenders you", even after you've repeatedly asked them not to. What can the company and you do to exclude them from your conversations, without firing them?

Should a company also accept a racist employee calling customers the n-word? Is it acceptable to fire somebody for that?
Unfortunately it’s getting more common there too. I‘ve received a few spoofed caller ID calls by now informing me of my "identity theft case with Interpol".

It‘s not nearly the same extent as in the US, though.
Twogler and ex-founder here - I ping-ponged from entrepreneurship to Google to entrepreneurship back to Google again.

I take the opposite approach, but with some caveats. Your financial success in any market is going to come down to information advantage - you need to have better data and better insights on the success of your investment than your competing investors. In general, you have much better data and insight into the risk factors and success probability of your own startup than you do into any startups you angel invest in. You also have better data on your own startup than you do on startups you work for, but probably have better data on how a startup you're employed at is doing than the investors in that startup do. Therefore you can make better choices about where to spend your equity (either sweat or monetary) when you're working for the company.

The major caveat - and one that took a lot of hard lessons for me to learn - is that you have to actually pay attention to that data. If your gut tells you it's not going to work out, cut your losses and find some other opportunity, regardless of sunk costs, how much you might be emotionally attached to the company, how much you love your coworkers, your fear of letting them down, etc.

But similarly, you also end up with a much higher-resolution model of the business world from actually experiencing work at several different startups than you would get from angel-investing in startups. So unless you've previously experienced worked at or founded startups, your angel-investing is basically going to be spray-and-pray, and do a lot worse than investing in your own company stock or even index funds.
How much maintenance have you done on a toaster
This is mostly the question of tastes. I lived in Sofia for two months, mostly in the city center. For me an international mobility is important and I don't drive, so the well connected airport and good means of transportation towards it were paramount. Thus Plovdiv and also Varna and Burgas are not an option for me. But from the business perspective it is a real tax haven. Also, there is an IT community there, and offices of large companies including Microsoft and Uber.
Ukraine has great fighters and great spirit. But fighters and spirit can take you only that far. Without the Javelins and Himars, Ukraine would have collapsed in a matter of weeks. Without a doubt some of the tech that goes in those Javelins and Himars was invented at MIT.

This is not whataboutism. This is how you stop tyranny.
c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
A History of Modern Computing, Second Edition by Paul E. Ceruzzi (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262532037/a-history-of-modern-c...) is a joy to read and a masterpiece, only second to The Dream Machine imho.

He has a new book on the topic, A New History of Modern Computing (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542906/a-new-history-of-mode...) but unfortunately, I have not read it yet.
In what way would I be trolling? It's true, look it up.

Besides, I very much doubt that the Manhattan District Attorney would go to all the effort of prosecuting a former president only to have not noticed that the statute of limitations has expired.
Asking out of ignorance: Why build a data center in prime/contested real estate instead of some desolate, crumbling town in eastern europe (within the EU)? Could benefit from cold climate, cheap labour and real-estate; might even be green (if powered by soviet-era nuclear plant)
Current state of the world:

You live in constant uncertainty that your source of food, source of existence could be withdrawn at any time by corporate whim

Question: Who do you think the police work for? Hint: It's neither "citizens" nor is it "the government" They work for corporations. Go look at how they act. The whole goal is to provide security for private property holders (aka not you) and increasingly they are private mercenaries that have day jobs as city/state/county policeman. Ask a cop where their "overtime" pay comes from and it's typically protecting some business.

Economic and political power should be dispersed as much as possible into the hands of the citizens, not anyone who was able to wrest as much control as possible from others - which is how we apportion it.

Do you ask "how did this company I'm applying to get to this position?" If not then you're not doing anything different than picking a political party without due diligence.

The act of consolidating power destroys the ethical standing of the institution
Oh man. I hit my head while riding one of those as a teenager. Ruined my whole night at the fair. Never again.
> Every post you've made here is so clealry stemming from emotion and the need to be defensive. Maybe put that aside and actually deal with facts and figures, and not perceived slights.

Are you a shrink now?

> No, they didn't.

What are these, alternative facts? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35409029

> And I could provide a lot more links and provide a much mroe compelling argument

Why didn't you do it in the first place? You refuse to put in any work into your comments, and then complain that people don't take you seriously.

> I'm not trying to make India look bad and have nothing against India

I don't think you are. I just think your worldview is informed by a hyperbolic narrative than actual facts.

> I made none, rather it's you and others making incorrect assumptions and jumpting to be defensive.

For the third time: You made a factually incorrect and entirely irrelevant comment about rape being endemic in India. You're dismissing people refuting your claim with easily found facts and figures as being defensive.

> And why would I bother to engage you in actual debate when you're being so clearly biased and emotional thorughout the thread?

So, no actual argument but just crying the victim?

> My initial comment could have led to productive discussion,

Your comment was:

> It's baffling to me that India is putting so much money into being part of the next space race, when they still have such vast and prominent problems on the ground.

Vague, dismissive and low effort. Predictably it did not lead to a good discussion.
The problem is most people simply aren't rich enough. The effective tax rate of our current, and richest, prime minister was only 22%. I'm on the low end of the higher rate bracket and already pay more than that, before counting NI/loans.
I prompted GPT-4 with this and I think it solved it. The first time it assumed the words were generated with random letters and solved it like a math textbook problem. Then I prompted it with this:

Ok, I see you calculated the probably using randomly generated "words" from the letters of the English alphabet. I am interested in the actual probably of two real words in English that are 5 letters wrong share the first three characters.

I am a Python developer, so I will understand it if you give me a Python script.

I gave me this which looks right to me:

import nltk
from collections import defaultdict

nltk.download('words')
from nltk.corpus import words

# Get the English words
english_words = words.words()

# Filter the words to get only five-letter words
five_letter_words = [word for word in english_words if len(word) == 5]

# Create a dictionary to store the count of words with the same first three letters
words_dict = defaultdict(int)

# Count the words with the same first three letters
for word in five_letter_words:
key = word[:3]
words_dict[key] += 1

# Calculate the number of pairs with the same first three letters
same_first_three_letter_pairs = sum((count * (count - 1)) // 2 for count in words_dict.values())

# Calculate the total number of pairs from the five-letter words list
total_pairs = (len(five_letter_words) * (len(five_letter_words) - 1)) // 2

# Calculate the probability
probability = same_first_three_letter_pairs / total_pairs

print(f"Probability: {probability:.4f} or {probability * 100:.2f}%")
+1 on this book. It made me realize how brittle ARPANET (and the internet, by extension) was at its inception
Google Voice indeed seems to be much better at spam call detection than anybody else. Most of them don’t even make it to the "spam" folder in the app for me; they must be rejected at some lower level due to very high confidence.
Net metering is a bad deal for utilities, though. The “delivery” part of the cost of electricity is more than half; it accounts for the maintenance of the grid etc. People dumping energy into the grid doesn’t lower that cost.
Isn't there a little law of thermodynamics here about doing work and dissipating energy?
> Why would a model that is better than us at predicting what words would occur next in arbitrary text not be an AGI?

Because it is just predicting text at this point? Sometimes laughably poorly?

Because the appearance of intelligence may only be that?

Oh and the best one…

Have you been paying attention to how often humans royally fuck something up within inches of the finish line?

There’s a lot more to it than math.

But that’s not the same as your first question. The leading one.

The tweet said December. That’s a long ways off, relatively speaking. We will see.
Some people enjoy the process of hardware and software tinkering. I personally like to "cost golf" all my home gaming PCs, by taking advantage of great deals, auctions, and some judicious part selection.

I have a lot of fun doing so.
AI isn’t the only concern of philosophy. There are plenty who know about ML at least: some in formal epistemology and some in philosophy of cognitive science.
And none of those come with the support and reliability of Prusa.
The point is that Europe does not have energy in general figured out. If I am being told I can be fined for having my thermostat higher than 19C (true for children school also), than we are far from that statement.
+1. Came to recommend the same.

I’ve searched for every Engelbart-related book I can find, and this has been my favorite by far.
I used to think of him as Chaotic Good. His handling of Twitter employees (especially that recent guy from
Sweden) convinced me that he has flipped to evil. Not irredeemable like Trump, but taking on a delusional air of persecution like many dictators before him.
(I'm not going to count my time in academia)

1. One nightmare CEO in an early stage tech startup.

2. A dozen managers at Mozilla, which ranked from "should have remained a dev" to "great managers". One of them was politically-minded, everybody else was truly attempting to make the team and the project work.

3. A few managers in a more recent tech startup, all of them good (albeit over-worked).
It's not nothing. Building new data centers requires investment, brings employment, etc. Objectively, large companies investing many billions to open large data centers in mostly rural areas is pretty nice overall. There are some issues with energy supply being gobbled up by these companies. But arguably even that is pretty nice since it just results in huge investments in renewable energy production, which is good for the economy.

The Netherlands has a self inflicted nitrogen crisis mainly due to intensive farming. Despite being a small country, it's one of the largest food exporters in the world. E.g. it is the world's leading exporter of tomatoes. But most of those are grown in green houses. The real problem is cattle. Cows, chickens, & pigs. Intensive cattle farming is causing loads of issues with manure and the go to solution is just fertilizing grass fields, which results in a lot of emissions and poisons the water and atmosphere. To the point where it's having health impacts. The only way out is to downsize that sector. Which is of course unpopular with farmers.

EU regulations related to nitrogen emissions are causing a need to do something about emissions. One of the results of this has been to reduce speeds on highways to 100km/h (ICE cars emit lots of nitrogen). This was done by a right leaning conservative government lead by a party that actually bumped the speed limit to 130km/h a few years before that. Additionally, until they get emissions down, a lot of construction projects along highways are blocked. And of course the government is under a lot of pressure to do something about the biggest emitters next: farmers.

So, farmers don't like this and recent election rounds resulted in a victory for a new pro-farmer party. Farmers have been protesting regularly for years and of course they are not too excited about MS and others converting their farm land into data centers while finding a way around the rules against new construction. That's not because they hate MS but because they are against the whole system of rules that is putting them out of business while companies like MS get to profit and the same government that's coming after them looks the other way.
Wind turbines are mostly aluminum, no? And the magnets in the turbines are not required to be rare earth.
In the olden days English used have billion as a million million.

For international purposes (america) this “long scale” fall out of use, with he “short scale” being recommended in the U.K. since 1974
Obvs some April 1 silliness, but I’ve always wondered if using piecewise continuous regions of hyperbolic space would be a reasonable approach to multiscale latticing. Should I take this half joke more seriously?
I tell my wife, "My brain hurts, I'm going for a walk." There does appear to be only so much paper shuffling my mind can do when working on programming problems before it requires the drawers be emptied or whatever it is the walk induces.
Reverse Engineer LED Lights to Convert Your PC Monitor to an 'Ambient' Monitor
If you’ve read the Twitter musings of Andreessen, you’d have be disabused of this notion long ago.

These guys aren’t young anymore.
ADHD is the weirdest diagnosis out there in my opinion. I know I can certainly concentrate better when I'm taking amphetamines of one sort or other. Does that mean that I have ADHD or does it just mean that that's what amphetamines do?
I just don’t see it. 3 and now 4 just seem to be an eloquent search engine. It cannot perform any sort of actual critical thinking, just regurgitation of its models.
Based on my experience, some developers might be, but executives are not. And the higher up you go in an org, the more obvious it is that "changing the world for the better" is promoted by the organization specifically to attract people willing to work hard to make a positive difference, while the only actual goal is money in the bank.

At a certain level, the person giving the speech about "making a positive impact" is lying, the audience knows they are lying, and the speaker knows the audience knows they are lying, yet everyone plays along because the veneer of altruism is still important.

See: SBF talking his big game about "radical altruism" to make people feel good about their jobs which were effectively promoting a pyramid scheme to make him and the other top dogs wealthy beyond measure.
Have you ever wished there a professional version of TikTok?
Hey guys, we are doing a quick validation for a startup idea, have you ever wanted a platform like TikTok and LinkedIn at the same time? professional + short videos?
With CacheX being involved the memory leak you mention in your parent comment might be caused by ETS holding references to your binaries. I ran into something similar a few years ago and wrote about it here[0], but the tldr is that you can use `:binary.copy/1` or use the `:copy` option in the `Jason` module if you are using it.

[0] https://tylerpachal.medium.com/tracking-down-an-ets-related-...
<in Ron Burgandy voice>

“That doesn’t make any sense”
From earlier videos and blogs, the rationale behind this move was a little more clear: by publishing complete gerbers for the electronics, they find themselves competing for parts on the BOM with other companies that are trying to manufacture Prusa's design. By opening the design documents, they create a situation where the parts shortage raises the price for everyone involved.

I do not love nor support this approach, but there is a certain market reality behind the rationale.
Right, no disagreement, that all makes sense. (Also my favorite saying as of reading it.)

But if Mowgli takes the glowing orb with a funny voice into the jungle with a Go board because the glowing orb tells him to…
Raylib is fun and pretty easy to learn. I made pong in like 30m barely knowing any C!