skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But dynamically updating the set of components for an entity in order to "send it" to some other system, and relying on the ECS as a query database to coordinate all this, seems like questionable practice to me.

Indeed it is. The idea of components is to decouple systems. Where systems generally operate on few components, and own a disjoint set of components. It is not a communication channel, just like any other database should not (primarily) be used as a communication channel.

You can combine an ECS with any number of different patterns to make your communication work: events, agents, messagebus, you name it.
The people afraid of AGI are usually the same people who believe that our own intelligence is just mechanistic automaton written in biology.

That explains why I'm not afraid of AGI, I know that our consciousness is quite simply not that (but I cannot prove it).
Absolutely. where the TSMC plant is going there are several things that make it perfect for a fab (I'm a little biased, since I drive by it quite frequently):

- Phoenix is in located inside a water district, meaning there are many restrictions on water usage and an extremely conservative approach to resource management. Fun fact, many of the wells in our area show increases in water [1] to the aquifer from the lows of the 70's/80's (meaning we are putting more water into the aquifer than we are taking out). Additionally, there is a large artificial lake reservoir and the central arizona project canal runs right by the site. Like others have mentioned, the vast majority of the water gets recycled.

- There is an existing high-tech manufacturing base (lots of aerospace, defense and semiconductor infrastructure).

- There is great transportation. There is a suitable airport (KDVT) ~5 miles from the new TSMC plant, which can accommodate jets capable of international flights (for example to taiwan) if they need to fly wafers to offsite packaging. Additionally, I10, I17 and I40 are all readily accessible.

- There is plenty of space for expansion. The site that TSMC located in has a massive amount of space for expansion, its essentially 5 minutes from town, but has miles of open area that can be utilized for future needs.

[1] - https://www.azwater.gov/gwsi/Hydrograph.aspx?SiteID=33384411...
There is also Virtual Payment Address (VPA) attached to account wiht legit number and bank acct which is good enough to use (share /scan QR code ) with merchant/user name.
People really need to learn if you get a huge pay day via fraud, then take your cash and head over to a country on rocky diplomatic terms with the US and no extradition treaty, and be generous with your hosts.
I got my current job via a post on Who's Hiring. The company is wonderful, and it turns out the past 3-4 newest engineers were also hired this way!
>be industry

>send everything overseas in the 90s due to "cost savings", eliminating tens of thousands of jobs post dotcom

>cry that analog cannot compete with taiwan foundries

>now wants these same citizens to fund their return to the states

If electronics are this important to the country and the military to be subsidized by taxpayers, maybe it should be nationalized with open source and open hardware. No patents, no offshoring, no importing, and no exporting allowed. Let the people become producers and create their own mini-semi conductor products with open standards.
It's not all speculation. Students are using AI for coursework. Financial services companies are granting credit based on AI output. Models are being trained with copyrighted source images.

Four years ago, DHH posted this on Twitter:

> The @AppleCard is such a fucking sexist program. My wife and I filed joint tax returns, live in a community-property state, and have been married for a long time. Yet Apple’s black box algorithm thinks I deserve 20x the credit limit she does. No appeals work.

A few tweets later he writes:

> So nobody understands THE ALGORITHM. Nobody has the power to examine or check THE ALGORITHM. Yet everyone we’ve talked to from both Apple and GS are SO SURE that THE ALGORITHM isn’t biased and discriminating in any way. That’s some grade-A management of cognitive dissonance.

These impenetrable black boxes are producing output with real world consequences.
This feels like the type of thing I want human expertise on. GPT can be too inaccurate for something like this. I'd also be concerned it was trained on writings from people that misunderstand the science.

There's already tons of expert written and reviewed content designed to teach science. Go buy any textbook on the subject. You can usually get them very cheaply if you don't mind older editions. Libraries will also have these types of books you can checkout for free. Once you've exhausted information found in textbooks you can start actually reading the scholarly journals these pop-sci articles are written about. Once you've read enough scholarly journals, you might have your own questions that aren't answered yet. Then, you can conduct your own science......

Books are great for looking up quick tidbits of information too. Chapter titles and indexes are great for jumping to relevant information.
You meant gluons instead of photons? Because the things analogous to electrons and the nucleus are the quarks.

Anyway, the similarity is only on the level of "it's a bunch of moving things locked together by a force". Those things are about as similar to themselves as they are to planetary motion.
I'm in year five of building companies, three years doing it full-time. I don't have regrets but there have been extreme low point - primarily tied to other people. Firing others. Having investors pull out last second and forcing us to shutdown. Having cofounders quit, or worse, intentional sabotage the team. It takes a certain type of person to want to continue doing this long-term. Most people don't have that.

One thing I wish someone told me early was that being consistent is the key. I spent the first ten years of my tech career looking for hacks to just realize the best hack is to just doing things consistently and speak to new people all the time. Once you have your pace set, just running with it and sticking with it results in things to start happening.
Yes, it's answering a different question.

But it puts the onus on the user to decide what they want to happen in those circumstances rather than leaving on Telegram to decide whether such and such person is living or dead.
Just picked up a MX Master 3S recently. Big thing I love is that you can use it on up to 3 devices, so I can have it on my MacBook for work and then click to setting 2 and switch to the usb dongle on my gaming PC - no need for extra mice/cords!
I'm not sure I follow this answer. What are the entirely new paradigms? Writing is still the initial step. If text editing remains a core part of the workflow, why restrict the user's ability to edit code?
The increase due to demonetization cancelled out afterwards. The grown we see now came organically, later
Honestly, I understand why they’d be limiting Xanax, but limiting Adderall is a little over the top. Xanax is probably the most dangerous drug in a pharmacy besides opioids, but Adderall is harmless compared to Benzos and opioids.
Are any subtopics particularly interesting to you?

Mechatronics, Computer Vision, Control Theory, State Estimation, Path Planning, etc?
Your benchmark was Rich. Rich is a relative term, it means more money that everyone else.

If everyone owns 5 houses, to be rich you have to own 500
> $175M could have easily paid for a bunch of domains to run MX servers. You don’t even have to keep the email. Just accept it and send it to /dev/null.

You don't think it would be at all suspicious that most of the emails in the customer list are using weird custom domains rather than the popular ones like gmail.com or outlook.com?
It's certainly what the longtermists I've been exposed to believe. Or say, anyway.
So that's where all those stupid fuddy duddy quotes by old fogies came from like "a fool and his money are soon parted", "not all that gleams is gold" and "there's a sucker born every minute", but what do those old jerks know. We live in the modern age!
It sounds antithetical to the analog nature of vinyl, but has anyone experimented with digital audio on vinyl?
Well - apparently according to a newly published theory by Stephen Hawking - it evolved.
Don't forget your basic organization sabotage field manual: https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManualStrateg...
I believe if you compare the overall efficiency (including food production, transport, storage vs. battery production and electricity), e-bikes are in fact more efficient than traditional bikes. Coupled with the fact that they are also more convenient, I believe they fill a niche that is important if we want to make progress towards minimizing our dependence on cars. I do agree that they cannot be just another consumable item since that destroys the efficiency. But, that is generally how production is oriented these days, so it's hard to make a comparison. For reference, I manually cycle ~8k mi a year and do not own an e-bike, but am thinking about it.
Professors – submit your AI immune assignments
The simulation runners got angry with the banning of ChatGPT in Italy as it risks diverting from the most fun universe-simulation mainline and have started to send signals to get us back on track.
Isn't blockchain a kind of distributed proof? You can now say that this user in reddit is related to this post in hackernews via blockchain. Of course, there's no way to prevent a bot to create multiple accounts in multiple websites but I am to understand that there's a cost to this.
That was my thought, yeah. It's either the case that I'm simply reading too much into it, or the author was trying to be suggestive as to a link between Workman's departure of the company and what's purported to be an environment of racism within Tesla.

Workman claimed to have left Tesla in a better position than when she'd joined, which while vague, doesn't to me suggest that she left because it was an inherently racist environment.
Was that a neighboring mountain to the Eyjafjallajökull volcano?
Goddammit, I had no idea Amazon owned Book Depository. Their service was great and it was the best way I had to buy technical books when i lived in Brazil.
This JavaScript seems to work. You can run it from the browser console or from node.js.

(async function () {
// see https://hn.algolia.com/api
console.clear();
const posts = {};
var page = 0;
var oldDate;
while (true) {
console.log('fetching page', page);
const r = await fetch(`https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=story,author_whoishiring&page=${page++}`);
const res = await r.json();
if (res.message) {
console.log(res.message);
} else {
for (const h of res.hits) {
var match;
if (match = h.title.match(/Who wants to be hired\? \((.*)\)/i)) {
var date = match[1];
if (date != oldDate) {posts[date] = {}; oldDate = date;}
posts[date].wants = h.num_comments;
if (posts[date].hiring) posts[date].ratio = posts[date].wants / posts[date].hiring;
} else if (match = h.title.match(/Who is hiring\? \((.*)\)/i)) {
date = match[1];
if (date != oldDate) {posts[date] = {}; oldDate = date;}
posts[date].hiring = h.num_comments;
if (posts[date].wants) posts[date].ratio = posts[date].wants / posts[date].hiring;
}
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Yeah I am always astounded at stories like this, you acquired a company for 175 million dollars and didn’t even peak at some real data?
FWIW :)

I used to despise the incredible amount of time we could spend on a single powerpoint slide sometimes.

Then one day when going over same slide for the 5th time with my boss and mentor, I realized:

* This slide will be seen by a person in power

* they will make a decision based upon that slide

* I would like to spend 3 hours explaining them the intricacies of my project/architecture/problem/whatever

* But they have 10/100/1000 other projects, and they have 20/10/5/1 minute to devote to me before they make a decision

* A slide or set of slides might therefore have an impact across 1/10/100 people over week/month/years due to a decision based on a slide or set of slides

* therefore, it can at times be rationally logical to spend a lot of time word-smithing a slide in order to help the right decision

As programmers, we understand that we might spend 10min/hour/days/weeks on a small but crucial piece of code, because we need the computer to understand it and do the exactly right thing in a complicated scenario; and we do not consider it a waste of time (though our management might! It's a curiously symmetrical situation :-)

Sometimes, slides are exactly that, but for people - distilled information to enable executive stakeholder to do the correct thing.

Same with other items - diagrams? They can be phenomenally useful! A good diagram can spread understanding of goal and ensure we all build the right thing. Bad diagram can set 100 smart people on divergent paths!
Can we really trust an AI summarizer to summarize a report on AI which may reflect poorly on AI?
What was the end game here? Is there any universe where someone does something like this and gets away with it?
Britain, Australia, and India would be my guesses. And Canada if we haven’t annexed it yet.
For a few months now, whenever I looked at the "Who is hiring?" thread I couldn't help but think "truly, who is?"
I did something similar, so there you go... now you have three "random" anecdotes.
Anyone can by pseudoephedrine, but there’s a system that checks to make sure you haven’t exceeded your monthly limit, and if someone is talking about meth or makes a joke about meth while buying pseudoephedrine, it might raise a red flag, but generally pharmacies sell it to anyone since there’s really no workaround the the monthly limits.
I don't think the integration with vscode would work well here. We're ditching a lot of existing workflows for a completely new interaction between the developer and the agent. It's not like copilot at all. E2b is more like having a virtual developer at your disposal 24/7. You write a technical spec and e2b codes builds the app for you
This isn't a proxy. Say you use ChatGPT to assist you while you write code... there's a lot of copy paste action in that workflow. It gets old.

promptr gets rid of the copy paste. That's a much better developer ergonomic (IMO)
Since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there have been a significant number of commenters here who have, for whatever reasons, advanced opinions that align very closely with Russian propaganda.

Some of these seem very reasonable—things like "shouldn't we try to push for peace?" "Should we really be arming the people of another country?"—and others might seem reasonable if you don't know a lot about the recent history and politics of the region—like "the main reason Russia invaded was because they were scared of Ukraine joining NATO".

I would not seek to impute specific intent to any particular commenters here; while it's entirely possible that a forum like this has some genuine Russian propagandists on it, I would say it's just as possible that they either don't know or don't care about HackerNews. Either way, it's clear that a lot of this propaganda has made it into the general conversation, and some people believe it and spread it for various reasons of their own.
Do you use it for developing?
Date | Who is hiring? | Who wants to be hired | ratio

Jan 2019,966,265,0.27

Feb 2019,847,197,0.23

Mar 2019,880,246,0.27

Apr 2019,881,324,0.36

May 2019,1020,286,0.28

Jun 2019,800,232,0.29

Jul 2019,907,479,0.52

Aug 2019,861,284,0.32

Sep 2019,724,180,0.24

Oct 2019,905,406,0.44

Nov 2019,760,270,0.35

Dec 2019,907,271,0.29
I think you overestimate how many people in the world can back up their will to participate in discourse with disposable income. Or you underestimate how much people will be willing to automate moving some bucks to go around your scheme.

Depends on how much you think would work. My point is, it wouldn't work because you get either scenario depending on going too high or too low.
It seems to really get to you.
Ah, step 42. Well done.

I was wondering why all these steps were generally GOOD things to do instead of the BAD things that all the previous steps were (1-15). And I was wondering why they all sounded the same.
Ahhh they meant ELVLF PEPS. Why didn't they say so in the first place?
This is a very American attitude. In many nations part of getting a business license is a statement that you will operate with public society's best interests in mind, even if it reduces your specific profitability or business success.
And how many will be created?
Counterpoint - what if AI automates away that labour and _nothing_ replaces it for the people who are automated away? Our history has not been kind to people whose jobs have been obsoleted, why would we assume any different this time, that because the technology that is obsoleting jobs is AI that the beneficiaries of that enhanced efficiency would choose to spread those savings back around? If they cared about that in the first place, why would they even chase the efficiency of replacing people with AI?

I think this is a bridge you have to strongly consider if we want to cross _well in advance,_ given that it is likely to set on fire and fall down behind us if we do, trapping us on the other side whether we like it or not.
> I wonder if pets in households with those talking buttons ever use them to communicate with each other, or if they never choose to because it's so much less efficient than natural conspecific communication for most of the things they would want to 'talk' about.

I haven't yet seen an example of it. I think pets learn to use the buttons to make requests or answer them, but they never do that with each other because they never really have any requests or answers for each other, if that makes any sense.
And if you use a formalism accepting general multivectors, you get 1 equation.

The fully expanded coordinate version is based on an arbitrary choice of spacetime coordinates.

Ideally you'd use a computer language/environment with a rich enough basic formalism to let you write the 1 formula in a human-legible way and have your compiler expand out all of the coordinate version as appropriate for the particular problem for the sake of doing floating point arithmetic.
For those who need to hear it, Bookwyrm is a good alternative to Goodreads and you can import your csv!
Isn't the trope that the first generation makes the wealth, the second generation maintains it, and the third spends it?
Not likely. We'll still need to pay the bills, and if the reasonable-paying jobs will be done by AI, then the lucky people will have to work longer than ever before just to keep food on the table. The others will just starve.
With this, SVB, FTX, it’s pretty clear that whatever paperwork is done for due diligence is just theater.

The real due diligence is their networks and reputations. If the people in charge say yes, then the paperwork will support whatever they said already.
> I lived near a highly ranked MBA school for a while

This is how elite colleges work. They connect elite kids with talented kids they can take advantage of.
A good historical parallel to Extinction Rebellion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Cape_Colony_fro...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nongqawuse

They had a real problem with cattle diseases -- and a more imaginary problem with Europeans in "their" land -- and somehow imagined killing ALL their cattle would help solve both problems.

(Both the Xhosa and the Europeans were recent immigrants to the area.)
Uugggghhh… “maintainable way” is again super subjective. Normally when people say that what they really mean is in a way that fits a pattern familiar to them.

If software stopped pandering and coddling developers who cannot be bothered to read code we would not need conversations like these. We also wouldn’t need a bunch of superficial nonsense most developers believe they cannot live without. Most companies drastically over spend on finding and retaining developers that aren’t qualified to be there in the first place when really in most cases it’s just about trying to put text on a screen. These companies would save so much money finding people off the street, evaluating them against minimally required intelligence and just training them to read and write code in house.
This is a 40 year old tax, in what way is this an increase? Also this is earmarked specifically for transportation so it has to be spent on things like roads, highways, and mass transit.

If you think sales tax is too high lower the “slush fund” taxes that get tossed around for political favors and empire building.
I suspect many people simply want to be seen as a "startup founder," much more than actually being one. They want to play "startup business" the same way young children want to "play house." It is akin to Gen Z's obsession with becoming an influencer, just with more hoodies, misplaced Steve Jobs quotes, and awful Medium thinkpieces.

The label is aspirational by design, and they buy into the whole culture, which explains why everyone thinks a startup has to be an all-or-nothing unicorn taking VC funding for a glorified CRUD app where they're just making up the requirements as they go while praying for product/market fit.

In short, it's about status and pop culture, not solving the problems of real users. Which is a shame, cause actually solving problems for users is really, really interesting even if TechCrunch doesn't get excited about it.
Or this is a step to ensure regional stability in the face of a superpower acting aggressive to their neighbors and the rest of the world.
Similar to the sibling commenter, I would say it's a matter of semantics. I am one of three developers at a small startup and definitely would describe the experience as fun albeit stressful. The two sentiments are not mutually exclusive. If it's not fun / interesting / challenging, the possibility of options being worth something in future would absolutely not justify the stress of working at a startup
e2b isn't like copilot. You don't really write code in our "IDE". Currently, it works in a way that you write a technical spec and then collaborate with an AI agent that builds the software for you.
It's more like having a virtual developer available for you.
That's the thing, isn't it? Fear sells, everyone (at least MSM) is stating negative views. "Independent" outlets are stating we're approaching to a global conflict, major economic shifts, etc...

What you stated is interesting since you have to dig deeper to look for these news and even doing that, you'll have the majority of people disagreeing with you. Reality is 99% of the world atm is only looking the bad things and forming their conclusions based on that. We're literally watching the power dynamics being "shuffle" and the general perception of the US being shifted right before our eyes. These news have embolden part of the world to take action and move against the US (which is scary if you think about it since the ramifications will affect everyone) and we can say it makes sense since no country can fight all fronts at once (US and Africa, US vs EMEA, US vs China/Russia, etc..).

I'm hopeful things will get better and the western world will get its "things" together.
The tool you linked looks really cool nice job! "What could possibly go wrong?" - I love it!
> naive mechanistic non-contextual machine-like reading

There's so many modifiers to 'reading' that I, along with probably many readers, are unsure what your trying to express.
Yes, and this item...

> AIs becoming sentient and causing harm for their own ends.

...tends to get a large attention share, while the others likely present much more immediate risks at least in the near term
So you received a brand new unit, and not a used, repaired one?