skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to see how many of the remaining 23% are in the slice of society where a military career makes financial sense. When I joined the Army I was going from having been fired from McD's last month to making $1K a month with food and shelter taken care of. That made sense at the time. My kid is plenty skinny, mentally stable, and drug free, but he's also a successful college student and budding entrepreneur, so he's not going to be wearing a uniform unless we go full WW3 conscription.
Melbourne, Australia. Best decision ever. Should have moved sooner.
It's like a conference, but there isn't an attendance fee or pre-scheduled presenters. At the beginning, there's a big board with a grid of timeslots and rooms. If you want to give a talk, you write down your name and what the talk is about on a sheet of paper and stick it in one of the grid squares. If it sounds interesting, people will show up.

BarCamp started as sort of a reaction to an O'Reiley event called FooCamp which was invitation-only, and in Portland it ran for a number of years until it got replaced by Open Source Bridge which ran for a few more years. I'm not aware of anything like it in Portland now, which is a shame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Camp
Well who cares if it's toxic. If your PTO was truly "unlimited" you could take every day of the year off et voila... no toxic culture for you at all.

Oh right, it's not actually "unlimited" by any definition of the word because you'd be fired ten times over for taking all the year off.
Re: #2 that’s ridiculous. Diagnosis like ADHD might as well be diagnosable personality traits.
Not practical, if you spend the majority of your waking hours working, as most Americans do.

But having interactions outside of work is also important, and this is where 'go outside' would be helpful.
> I have never met someone who actually likes going to the office more than working from home

That would seem to be a comment on the number/type of people you meet more than anything.
There are days I'm happy to WFH but I'm very glad I don't do it 5 days a week any more (and I used to ~18 years ago, as well as through much of 2020 and 2021).
> What does the games industry look like if it takes 1-2 more years to create the same products

Healthier. An industry where people can work for a career instead of a 3-5 year stint in their 20s and then quit for something resembling a sane work life balance.

We have to take a step back here. If the games industry can’t exist without mountains of unpaid labor then we already can’t afford it. The idea that devs and artists should apparently just volunteer the extra 40 hours for the benefit of daddy corporate is insane. And the fact that one of the only paths to getting paid fairly is forming a union is total failure of our existing labor laws. Something something wage theft outweighs all other theft combined.

These kinds of things don’t and shouldn’t need a union but it’s the only tool available when your government fails you (or let’s be honest captured by corporate interests). I guaran-fucking-tee you that eliminating the overtime exemption would overnight kill the desire to these workers to unionize.
I'm not sure this addresses the nature of internal resistance, a strong anti-motivational force that seems to shut down productivity even after you've started working on something.

Of course, if there were a "one-sentence solution to all procrastination" that was actionable then there wouldn't be thousands of self-help books and web site posts on how to overcome it.
West Virginia's 70s Automated Personal Rapid Transit
It's pretty straightforward to build something like this.

Pseudo:

embedding = OpenAI.generate_embedding(some_question)

embedding_matches = pinecone.query(embedding)
context_strings = embedding_matches.context_strings

OpenAI.chat(some_question + context_strings)

You give OpenAI's chat API something like:

"""
This is my user question, how old is James bond?

using this context answer this question:

{{from doc: james bon is 19 years old}}
"""

Really powerful, really useful - but really simple to create.
We have twice their population and double their propensity to incarcerate, so it’s our top 25% versus their total gen pop. America wins again.
Open source == ease of changing it. At least with software, and I don’t see any reason why we shouldn’t have the same expectations for open hardware like 3D printers.
How are airline points a trick? I've literally saved thousands without changing my spending habbits. Well actually one of my habbits is now reading about airline, hotel, and credit card points as a hobby, but it's still not spending more.

With very minimal effort you can literally have an effective 25% rebate on all flights.
The obvious response to this is that for many people, remote work is not isolating, in fact they get to have much more of a social life based around home and community.

If you can’t envisage having this without an office, it sounds like you might need to work on that.

Very many people want nothing to do with your “normal”, including many in Australia such as myself. In fact to a lot of us it looks like a very cynical ploy by office-building owners and city-centre retailers to try to buoy up their failing businesses, backed up by the local politicians they have in their pockets.

Australians were (net) moving out of the capital cities anyway, pre-covid, and the latest figures I’ve seen show that continuing.
In the main post! It's +1-650-729-9536 :)
Oh, totally agree - what you optimize for is a personal preference. I don't have a wife nor kids and that significantly affects the constraints of what I'm willing to do. And I've got nothing against anyone who chooses to work for FAANG, this is just my personal outlook: if you're concerned about money, you should take it from the people willing to pay you for your work. But if you've got an investor willing to pay you to develop something, then you better not be thinking about your own personal "total comp," because you've got (a) employees who need to be paid and (b) investors who want to see your company amount to something. As someone who's never had "a real job," I can promise you - my friend at FAANG contemplating quitting to pursue their own ideas - the grass is always greener on the other side.
Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure By Jerry Kaplan

Only the Paranoid Survive By Andrew Grove

Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation by Joseph Weizenbaum

I'm the guy that wrote https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history/ so that gives a bit of context to my recommendations.
A remotely operated lab is taking shape 2.5 km under the sea
What indications are there that the US will start preparing for this anytime soon? We’ve had decades to share the cost savings from outsourcing to China and failed to do so.

On the other hand, unemploying a large enough segment of society at once might finally force some change in the system, rather than letting it continue limping on in a slow burn where 1-2% of jobs get automated a year.
Anyone knows how to run multiline programs in the REPL? Nothing works for me (enter, alt/shift/ctrl+enter, etc) in edge and in firefox.
And that wiki directly mentions DSSV Pressure Drop because the expedition support ship of the Five Deeps Expedition has utility boats named after Culture ships: Little Rascal, Liveware Problem, and Learned Response.
Why do you assume that a rendering system that has to handle all that "bloat" from HTML, AND also XUL, is going to be faster?
Feature creep definitely bloats and slows software in meaningful ways, but it's not via checking feature flags.

In the worst case, a feature test would be a cache miss, requiring a read from main memory. That's somewhere in the ballpark of 50ns. So, you could test 1000 different flags, every single one being a cache miss, and you'd still be 100x faster than what humans can generally perceive. In reality, almost all of those reads will be cache hits unless you're doing something pathalogical, so you're probably talking on the order of 100ns for the whole lot.
It's still apt, even as someone ostensibly in that category.

It does require some abstract thinking to comprehend sets of zero measure, negative measure or complex measure in mathematics. A "zero length object" is also encountered pretty often in practice:http://docs.autodesk.com/CIV3D/2013/ENU/index.html?url=files... and zero-length files come to mind.

The euphemism ends up working out fine, though likely not the author's intent.
only if it knows your PIN number...
This is probably why there is a lack of construction then. In my city (small European capital) most new properties are marketed as investments - with the idea you buy and after a few years sell for more than you paid or rent it covering the mortgage. The real estate market here is still not amazing for the lowest earners, but for anyone even remotely middle class they are doing ok. On the supply side the number of properties is growing at a consistent rate.

The biggest issue here is the total mortgage interest you pay is already 5% and EURIBOR is set to continue growing (mortgage interest is not fixed, it's recalculated every 6 months). For a lot of apartments in the city centre, the rental price is less than the equivalent mortgage payments if you were to buy today. A crash is likely coming, and the first thing that will be cut is new construction.

However most people want apartments in the city... Last year I moved 20 minutes drive / 40 mins by bus into the suburbs and bought a 140sqm house. The price I paid was less than a new 50sqm apartment would cost anywhere close to the main parts of the city.
Moving can help a lot. There is a huge difference in home ownership rates between US states. A lot of people in Iowa have been buying their own homes.

https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/homeownership-rate-...
Lots of people without kids are happy with remote work as well though. It’s not some family/childfree divide.
Other ways are:

1. air launch, which boils down to using the O2 in the air rather than carrying it with you

2. mass driver, which needs to be in a vacuum

3. gravity slingshots

But, yeah, we need a fusion drive.
RFC 9405 – AI Sarcasm Detection: Insult Your AI Without Offending It
Does "drug use" include coffee? Alcohol?
Very true!

What I was trying to articulate is that a bed slinger motion system requires a much larger enclosure than a core xy motion system or other fixed/z axis bed designs. So that if you have any real estate constraints and want an enclosure, bed slinger becomes non viable. :)

I agree that the fumes are bad, I use a spare bathroom with always on ventilation for mine.

The unfortunate thing is that the volatilized chemicals/ and particles in pla and petg are also not super great for people, they’re merely less terrible smelling
There are more miles of coastline with legally mandated public access in the US than in France. It’s simply handled at the state level not the federal.

https://beachapedia.org/Beach_Access
I wonder how service in the National Guard or Coast Guard compares to the other branches. Or even the Air Force.
Quips are what I’ve got
Everyone has their own experiences but I will say that joining the Marines was the best thing that ever happened to me and I would openly recommend it to any young man.
The reason it doesn't exist is business model, not regulatory. (In fact the only reason that API or other conveniences such as PSD2 in the UK would exist is regulatory.)

As the SVB episode has most recently demonstrated, in fractional reserve banking, an individual with a deposit account is not a customer of that bank. They are a creditor. More importantly, as with users of free services, they are the raw materials from which banks create the actual products- loans- for their actual customers- businesses- usually- to whom they lend.

Consumer banking, ironically, is not a business any bank actually wants to be in. It is a loss leader, complicated, and inconvenient.

Individual level API access to deposit money is on no bank's top 100 (or 1000, or 10000) to do list.
Yeah, I would have saved a fair bit of money if I had gotten the sovol 6 as my first machine (though the sovol 5 is a bit more rigid and space efficient)
Keynes is probably the most influential economist of all time. I disagree with some of his ideas (for likely different reasons than you do), but I can't see any basis for him "admitting defeat" - he's many things, but defeated is not one of them.
How can you gauge sentiment of a broad group from a self-selecting sample?
> Confirming 3, everyone needs to take a look at the comments on the latest recruitment ad on YouTube to gauge the sentiment of young American men towards the government and military:

Because we all know the vocal minority commenting on youtube videos is a sample-set free of biases.
This is already occurred, in some limited from. See quicks mode [1], for instance. Also there is WebAssembly, which should be the replacement for JS. At some point a good-enough UI toolkit for it will be written, and then that could replace HTML/CSS.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Quirks_Mod...
Coffee: no

Alcohol: It includes a level of alcohol abuse, but I'm not sure how they draw the line.
We don’t assume “reliable delivery” in AP or eventually consistent systems. We assume “once all messages have been delivered…”

So if you have all messages and the two properties above, a total order can be derived.

You’re correct to say that causal order != total order as such but with the use of correct primitives, like Lamport Causal Clocks, we can get a nice and clean linear order of events :)
Looking at the size of the rocket that went to the moon vs the size of the rocket that came back from the moon says it all. It seems completely unrealistic to colonize the solar system from earth.

The only way is to set up industries on the moon to build the ships and equipment necessary to expand through the solar system.
https://archive.is/qBAsK
Companies need to adjust to WFH to make sure everyone still feels like a team. People will bellyache about it, but you need regular video calls and the occasional meat-space meet-up or you just feel like an anonymous cog in a big machine. Some people prefer keeping their coworkers at arms length, and that's fine for them. Others need to be on the look out for a culture that helps you feel like part of a team.
Someone can develop it, but it won't be me.
The majority of stock / bonds is held by pensions, individual retirements, and as collateral for things like life insurance and annuities. Billionaires own a small percentage and often for the companies they themselves founded and own.

It’s unfortunate there are layoffs but this is the process of weeding out bad companies and encouraging good companies. If we let the zombie companies continue on all of society would be damaged.
Also, I thru-hiked the PCT which was significantly longer than this. AMA anything about getting into this. I think this is incredible and closest to a spiritual successor to the best parts of the PCT. The best parts were the alpine segments, so why not have a trail that is mostly in the French Alps?!
What if the military-industrial complex declared war against the food industry to increase the ranks of viable recruits. A great lobbyists' war.
Not a big difference, but I note that this is without a waiver. There is a process for getting a waiver for each branch[1]. There aren't a ton of waivers issued - only between 50,000 and 80,000 [2]. But the DoD is reviewing what can be removed as disqualifying (at least 38 disqualifying conditions) and multiple reports have been issued signaling out ADHD and marijuana as potential criteria to eliminate[3].

Personally I think it should come down to the role and risk. There's plenty of jobs where you're not seeing combat or dealing with inherently risky or critical tasks, and thus shouldn't be held to the same standard as those doing critical tasks. Just as one obvious example, somebody with a desk job doesn't need legs.

[1] https://www.operationmilitarykids.org/military-medical-waive... [2] https://serialpodcast.org/maps/number-of-waivers-given-to-us... [3] https://www.rand.org/blog/rand-review/2021/10/army-enlistmen...
I'm reading The Dream Machine now (just got to the part about PARC), and I agree, it's very good, especially in its descriptions of the social and cultural aspects of the innovations that led to personal computing. The recent Stripe Press reissue [1] includes some of J.C.R. Licklider's writings at the end, a nice bonus.

[1] https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-machine
Little different to how it often played out in the office, but minus the politics and the few odious characters who make office life so unbearably banal.

I’d rather do my socialising in the local community, head out to grab a sandwich from a local business, and not have to spend half of my remaining waking hours travelling to and from a place I don’t really want to be in the first place.
The problem is how they blur news with opinion. Yes, they reported the election results accurately that one night. It's the weeks and months that followed, where they broadcast false claims of a dirty election, that's got Dominion's dander up.
> Isn't this impossible by definition? Nothing can be more convincingly human than humans, or else it would be something else.

Why isn’t it theoretically possible for an AI to pass the Turing test so hard that more than 50% of the time humans think the AI is the real human? That would effectively be more convincingly human (to humans) than humans are.
Human Brain isn't just electricity signals but then LLM is just token predictor?
Given a benchmarking standard, LLM has shown decent intellectual and cognitive abilities.

Tasks being done by human that cannot be expressed within 1000 lines of if-then code, are now being accomplished by LLM.

Is LLM actually a legit proof to show that human brain is just as simple as a bunch of electricity signals flowing around, as now we can replicate certain amount of its functionalities?

Is the judgement for LLM consistent with human brain's?
Offensive use of a military is a very different thing.
900 years ago there was a CPU which stored pointers in special registers and trapped if you loaded a pointer with an invalid segment. And so loading the pointer into a register to compare it would crash.
the missing word in all these comments is inflation
Just ride a Segway.
Wealth != income. Someone who bought a house 10 years ago could easily be wealthier than someone pulling down $200k today.
I wonder if this is the source of a Jack Handey joke: "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."
Quite literally survivorship bias. Anecdotes aside, the statistics are damning.

https://stopsoldiersuicide.org/vet-stats

> Over 40,000 veterans are homeless on any given night

> Veterans are at 57% higher risk of suicide than those who haven't served.

> "Depending on branch, up to 31% of service members develop PTSD after returning from combat." ; "The rate of suicide for veterans in the LGBTQ+ community is up to 7x higher than for non-LGBTQ+ veterans." ; "More than 40% of female veterans report experiencing military sexual harassment or military sexual trauma."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/us/911-suicide-rate-veter...

> "Suicides among post-9/11 veterans are four times as high as combat deaths, a new study finds."

> Since 2001, more than 114,000 veterans have died by suicide (first citation link indicates this is now 125k+)

You would recommend something that leads to these outcomes? To young adults?
Slimvoice never sold out; your data was never shared or sold for any reason
That YouTube video specifically appears to have been raided by 4chan so I would be careful drawing conclusions from the comments.
I think we all simply want full control over whether we go into the office or not, on daily basis. I am not fully home office either but ultimately home office is superior because you have more control over your life.
So say someone walks in and argues that the BJP has no power other than adding a tag to names in an election, and we should rather talk about the actual policy makers making decisions? Seem like a fair argument to you for why the BJP is not a real political entity?

Because that misses the points just as much as it does in describing the WEF. There is coordination going on beyond the official powers of the organisation. The organisation exists to coordinate political action!
Ah, yes, I flubbed -- this one requires aggregation as you go. It's tricky. Ideally you could have a decent aggregation data structure for the path that lets you select a distinct sequence (path) of middle points. One could write such an aggregation function, I think. Lacking that you have to limit the length of all paths between any pair of points to the longest possible path (which is the number of points minus one), which is annoying, and then you still have to fix up each resulting path to remove any repeating suffix.

sqlite> .schema
CREATE TABLE edge (src text, dst text);
sqlite> with recursive paths (src, dst, len, path) as (
...> select src, dst, 0, src || '->' || dst from edge
...> union
...> select p.src, e.dst, p.len + 1, p.path || '->' || e.src from paths p join edge e on p.dst = e.src where p.len < (select count(*) from (select src from edge union select dst from edge))) select * from paths;
Hawaii|San Francisco|0|Hawaii->San Francisco
San Francisco|New York|0|San Francisco->New York
San Francisco|Houston|0|San Francisco->Houston
Houston|New York|0|Houston->New York
Houston|Hawaii|0|Houston->Hawaii
Hawaii|Houston|1|Hawaii->San Francisco->San Francisco
Hawaii|New York|1|Hawaii->San Francisco->San Francisco
San Francisco|Hawaii|1|San Francisco->Houston->Houston
San Francisco|New York|1|San Francisco->Houston->Houston
Houston|San Francisco|1|Houston->Hawaii->Hawaii
Hawaii|Hawaii|2|Hawaii->San Francisco->San Francisco->Houston
Hawaii|New York|2|Hawaii->San Francisco->San Francisco->Houston
San Francisco|San Francisco|2|San Francisco->Houston->Houston->Hawaii
Houston|Houston|2|Houston->Hawaii->Hawaii->San Francisco
Houston|New York|2|Houston->Hawaii->Hawaii->San Francisco
Hawaii|San Francisco|3|Hawaii->San Francisco->San Francisco->Houston->Hawaii
San Francisco|Houston|3|San Francisco->Houston->Houston->Hawaii->San Francisco
San Francisco|New York|3|San Francisco->Houston->Houston->Hawaii->San Francisco
Houston|Hawaii|3|Houston->Hawaii->Hawaii->San Francisco->Houston
Houston|New York|3|Houston->Hawaii->Hawaii->San Francisco->Houston
Hawaii|Houston|4|Hawaii->San Francisco->San Francisco->Houston->Hawaii->San Francisco
Hawaii|New York|4|Hawaii->San Francisco->San Francisco->Houston->Hawaii->San Francisco
San Francisco|Hawaii|4|San Francisco->Houston->Houston->Hawaii->San Francisco->Houston
San Francisco|New York|4|San Francisco->Houston->Houston->Hawaii->San Francisco->Houston
Houston|San Francisco|4|Houston->Hawaii->Hawaii->San Francisco->Houston->Hawaii
sqlite>
Cyberabad cops nab man who stole personal info of 66.9 cr people in 24 states
Ask HN: What if AGI isn't that close?
What if transformer models are the totally wrong approach? What if we're about to spend ten years iterating on a fancy parlor trick? We might invent something that almost seems like AGI but really it's just calling a bunch of APIs invented (and maintained) by humans.

What should we have spent the last ten years researching instead?
I appreciated the author adding "What is (was!) XUL layout?". Goodbye XUL. I used you mightily but didn't even know your name. :(
He was also one of the earliest Bengali science fiction writers[0] having published a story in 1896[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_science_fiction

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose#Science_...
I'm the founder of a 1 person company. If the company ever grows to 2+ people, I hope to give my teammates the freedom I wish I had as an employee.
All the ones commenting on youtube are the drug using overweight people you mean? The ones that actually wanted to serve “the country” already enlisted.