skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenAI is roughly 375 people, I don't know how big Anthropic is but I assume similar.

I think the person you're replying to is wondering why the other 25 million of us aren't doing the same.
This is the best way to do it. The biggest blocker to folks taking advantage of the unlimited PTO is "my peers aren't doing it", which required PTO circumvents neatly.

And forcing people to take PTO (especially in 2+ week chunks) is also a good thing for the company: it helps the company identify and fix single points of failure in their employees skills and knowledge.
Even without (foreign) investment, it s a trap. Sweden has 63% homeownership rate and these people tend to like regulations that make their homes go up perpetually, and they vote accordingly. Happens everywhere in europe.

Best solution is deregulation. Housing is a primary need of humans, and we have been building our houses for cheap for most of history except the past 2-3 decades
Looks like the mmap functionality was done by the same person as https://justine.lol what a great hacker!

Edit:

Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35393284
Hard disagree. Everyone's mentioned the toxic workplace thing, so I won't bother, but I will say that I loathe having some limited number of vacation days per year that I have to ration out like a starving orphan with a slice of bread.

Do I skip the 4th of July beach trip so I can have an extra three days around New Year's? Should we leave on a Friday to visit the grandparents, or should I save that day in case I need it in the fall?

And in December, suddenly half of my coworkers realize they have two weeks left to spend 9 vacation days they didn't think about, that won't roll over and get paid out - and now, it's me and one other person having to split the on-call shift to cover.

Give me unlimited PTO. I'll fight for it in a toxic workplace, and/or get another job.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35393284
Doesn't sequestration also capture the things that the carbon is bonded with? Which is oxygen.
Article removed due to editorial conflict of interest.
> Once you have a machine that can automate and mimic social, political, cultural, and personal interactions, that's it - that's the political singularity.

The machine can mimic, but it is still completely reactive in its nature. ChatGPT doesn't do anything of its own accord, it merely responds. It has no opinion, no agenda, and no real knowledge or understanding. All it can do is attempt to respond like a human would, but it cannot reason on its own. Ask it about its views on a political issue, and it won't think about its stance and the reasons for taking it, but it will just produce what it has trained an answer to that question ought to look like.

The panic about the machine takeover is completely overblown, driven by people who don't really understand that these machines are and how they work. We are still far, far away from points where AI would be capable of actually making political decisions.
When a person reveres the writings of their society's founding fathers and considers them virtually infallible, it's helpful to understand that they were raised with a belief framework shaped around apostles and testaments.

When a person is certain that an all-powerful entity will arise, and that a single person will shape and bind humanity's relationship with that entity through legalistic discourse, it's helpful to understand that they were raised with a belief framework around prophets and messiahs who bargain with an all-powerful god to define covenants.
Green Hydrogen Systems has shipped the first X-Series prototype electrolyser
In relation to the Porsche E-fuel plant from this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35403940
Countries by suicides per 100,000 population:

US: 14.5
UK: 6.9
Germany: 8.3

The problem IS NOT tall structures. The problem is something about US society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...
Honestly there’s a contingent of WFH-or-die tech people that are as much an unjustified stick in the mud as the elusive bums-in-seats-or-die middle management stereotype.

Multiple years on from the widespread proliferation of WFH, I still see a large contingent of people who are completely unwilling to even consider that physical colocation brings something to the table that can’t be replicated online, even during onboarding where building that sense of social cohesion is most important, and a management style that would otherwise be considered ‘’micromanagement’ is more justifiable.

Ultimately it seems like people (on all sides) aren’t willing or able to separate “I prefer this” from “this makes me a better worker”. Don’t get me wrong. Remote work has its advantages. I say this all as someone that works remotely. But I also say this as someone managing a remote-first team.
From people I've talked to, SpaceX pay isn't any better than "old-space" companies (even before you look at the hourly breakdown) and their equity isn't very liquid.
Market theory is like lambda calculus or turning machines - it's a framework for describing/framing arbitrary emergent behavior whose power comes from its expressiveness.
Indeed.

The only way to know whether something is true is to integrate it with your experience and/or experiment some more if needed.

BUT some content is designed to induce you to do that. Consider whether the source of the content has an incentive of making you waste time engaging with them (i.e. governments distracting you from real issues, or content farms publishing something wrong on purpose).
He's closer to the truth than you're letting on. People do want to be free from being forced to work to meet rent and buy food, and all the associated stress that comes with it.
It makes sense. When food brands initially took off (1950s?), my impression is that grocery stores were much more regional.

There certainly wasn't anything at the scale of Walmart, Aldi, Kroger, or Publix these days.

Consequently, it was easier for General Mills et al. to use economies of scale to sell quality, profitable products.

Now, it's the grocery stores that can do that.
If it’s unlimited PTO, why not take 52 weeks off a year?

I got a job offer from a company that offered unlimited PTO a few months back and wish I had accepted and then given that a shot.

Edit: If you’re downvoting me because “of course unlimited doesn’t mean unlimited”, you’ve just stumbled across the reason why unlimited PTO policies are nonsense.
The problem is when this is the only path to growth. You basically cap out as Senior Engineer.
Nixies don't emit light by heating, it's closer to neon tube
I'm not arguing it should be used in a particular way. On the contrary, I am specifically not insisting that the Telugu speaker and his grandparents' less specific use of kura is incorrect simply because it resembles the mostly more recent (and seldom pejorative, FWIW) use of its British English cognate.

"Chips" is an interesting example to bring up, because the word means completely different preparations of potatoes in different parts of the Anglosphere...
If you have enough memory, I the entire file eventually is in memory because it doesn't need to be paged out. If it takes up less memory (because your memory is limited), it'll still need to page the file off disk when it hits the cache bounds.
Tom Peters
What is up with that site giving me three seperate popups warning me that the site uses cookies
Yep - like the article says, he didn't hire backhoes and trail crew to build new trail. The route as a new linkup of GR's opened last year due to the creation of the app. Planning the route of 3,000 km with water sources, road crossings, camp sites, towns, points of interest is a massive amount of work though. Think of building a Google Maps-level rich display of a path across the US starting from just paper maps and Wikipedia, knowing that users could potentially be in danger in the wilderness if the information is wrong. This is a huge effort and I have no doubt that this will become a very popular route because of his work. This was a heavy lift in GIS!
Synthetic fuels done right are carbon neutral, a much better option than burning petroleum and adding more carbon to the system.

Formula 1 plans to move to synthetic fuel in 2026:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/61942876
I grew up in a village in the mountains where the closest neighbors were 500m away. At age 14, just before moving, I counted half a dozen attractive females of the same age (plus minus 1 year) in the village, that means 2-3 km away but still very much in reach on foot or by bicycle.

I have most of my extended family there and there was no problem dating, marrying and having long term relations. There is a small town 15 km away with cinema, a few restaurants, hospital, the school is in the every village and a high school is 6 km away (one in the town as well), so "country side" does not mean secluded. These days I am working from home partly from there in the summer, Gigabit Internet over Fiber is dirt cheap and reliable and even Amazon Germany delivers there, it takes a week but it works.
George Tenet and Sam Altman led national security and AI sessions at the Allen & Co. gathering in 2016.
https://deadline.com/2016/07/sun-valley-moguls-artificial-in...
>Finally, GOG announces official Linux support for GOG Galaxy

That would really be a dream come true. Especially if it could tie into Proton's WINE layer automatically. Right now, I have to jump through a few hoops to get some GOG games playable. Sometimes I fail.
Hong Kong too.
Think of democracy as multivariable. One variable is the percentage of the population that are enfranchised. The other is how responsive the political, legal and economic systems are to the needs of everyday people.

America started as an elitest Republic. Slowly, variable #1 grew and shrank in fits in starts but variable #2 changed very little. Until we get to the 1930s and then variable #2 explodes wide open. Then in 1960s variable #1 breaks wide open as well.

By the 70s we are probably at the high point of both. Since then #1 has significantly eroded. And now with the court punches at the voting rights act #2 is now under threat as well.

I don't mean it in the usual internet guy sense. I don't see America as having a pure past. I believe America was an elitest Republic with very slow steps towards democracy. To me America only turned the corner towards becoming a democracy in the 1930s. It was a bumpy up and down from there with a slump in the last 40 years.
> I'd rather that my life wasn't limited to only doing those things which have been pre-approved.

Gray area means that small loopholes in legal language don't instantly balloon into carte-blanche to commit all kinds of crime, without them all it takes is a clever reading of the law to break its spirit.

Practically, this means the government cannot regulate complex industries and situations. Things like "food safety" which are the bedrock of all modern countries are usually not possible without these sorts of gray areas.
Do you mean creating the GMail address on a phone? Trying create one on a computer seems to require a mobile phone number.
> How does the average person avail these optimisation schemes?

The Wall Street Journal often runs articles on various aspects of the tax laws, like how to do a Roth IRA conversion. I'm sure there are plenty of books on the topic, too, just check Amazon.
Don't know about US, but in many other countries there are online marketplaces where you can sell an invoice and get cash fast.
Are these folks also running their software on a real-time OS?
Only applies to genetic traits though. If psychopathy, for example, turned out to be epigenetic, environmental, or entirely psychological, it would potentially defy that pattern.
Nice in theory.

I recall a few years after leaving university talking to a few friends who worked there in the Computer Science department. They would regale me with tales of students who would constantly complain to the dean that the assignments were too hard, why where they being forced to learn stuff not currently used in the industry, and bemoan the fact that they couldn't turn in their source code as a Microsoft Word document (seriously). They were, by God, paying all this money!

By the way, this was in the mid-90s. I can only imaging it being worse today.
There are marine warnings from April 6th-April 12th.
https://twitter.com/Alexphysics13/status/1642028439539425283

Also, Elon just said "(Orbital Flight Test) More than days away, but hopefully not many weeks away"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1642273756289671170
The two links you posted are the same.
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The point is:

- curry is used in Britain (and any place they colonized) to refer to any and all spiced gravy, not just sauce.

- Kari in Tamil (widely considered to be the root of the word curry) refers to a dark, spiced sauce. It doesn’t mention it’s a gravy and it likely referred to a black peppercorn based sauce. It is simply an element of a dish like a bechamel. It is not a dish by itself.

- kodi kura is a specific preparation of chicken. Kura doesn’t mean curry, its closest English translation would be a stew. And even if it would be classified as a curry in England, it doesn’t change that it’s neither what they call curry or that other dishes that they call curry aren’t a form of kari in India.

Lastly, you take great pains to say that Hyderabad is culturally and politically independent from the British rule. So by that logic it wouldn’t even be a usable argument to say Curry is derived from those words

At the end of the day, the most well known etymology for curry is a mistranslation of the Tamil `Kari` where they mistook a single component of a dish to be the whole dish.

It was further perpetuated in the west as a stereotyped dish. Many Indians accept the word curry today because it was introduced into our zeitgeist but the concept of Curry as it is in the Uk has no foundation in actual Indian cuisine.
But that’s just an unfalsifiable argument that could literally argue for anything. “I’m worried AIs will figure out how to go back in time and kill our last universal common ancestor.” “Explain how that is even believable.” “AI will be too smart, I can’t.” That’s not an argument; the burden of proof is to at least explain why the proposed doom scenario is not incompatible with the laws of physics.

> Their brains are not tightly restricted by size and energy.

I’m not sure that’s true. Computer cycles cost real money. And the scaling required to get us to GTP-4 makes me think, assuming super intelligent AGI is even possible, it’s going to have to run up a pretty noticeable AWS bill…
Not that i know of, but you could easily create one by building a list of categories the current budget applies to and then allocate chunks of it to the different categories to see what ends up where.
80% percent of code writers probably never heard mmap, and might less than 1% ever use that.
> Editor’s note 4/1/2023 6:30 pm ET: This story was removed after WIRED learned that Porsche paid the author for his travel to Chile, a violation of WIRED’s editorial policy.

Here's another article from a few months ago:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/12/porsches-synthetic-gaso...
[deleting my comment as not relevant]
Well, Firefox's default JSON view is miles better than Chrome's JSON view.
If you want to estimate causal effects you need a randomly assigned treatment. When studying the effects of wealth a lottery gives you exactly that.

The critique would be that the findings don’t necessarily generalize outside of the lottery participating population, but why wouldn’t they?
I'm in Vancouver working remotely for an EU/US company because I couldn't get anything here. At $100k CAD, my partner and I wouldn't be able to afford a modest upgrade to a 1 bedroom condo... anywhere in the city (from a tiny basement studio) without significantly increasing our take home. The place I just visited would require $4000/m after a 20% down payment (which I don't have). If I double my savings in the next year, assuming I don't get laid off next week and go broke again, I'd have enough for a 5-10% down payment and hypothetically require mortgage insurance, plus still not be able to afford the mortgage.

But hey, at least the cops won't arrest me for openly smoking crack on the sidewalk, so that'll help me deal with the stress of trying to be a high performer.
This is why we should just tax the land - ya can't hide land.
I think you're agreeing while arguing against my point :-)

Like what is collective action, really? It's as you say - a series of individuals interacting, setting a course in a feedback loop, and then more people getting on board with that. It doesn't just happen, it takes individual instigators. It also doesn't just self-propagate. You need individuals, typically the same individuals, to show up regularly and consistently and make sure stuff happens and people are doing what they need to be doing.
I can remember two questions from Michael Seibel:

1) He asked something about if I was going to find a co-founder or not. I think I said that we started getting traction pretty fast without one and I wasn't going to wait for a co-founder to appear -- cofounders are not something to force. I think this is how he observed that I was "young and hungry."
2) He asked about why I thought open-source was a key differentiator. I said it wasn't, it was just good marketing, and thought you can build the best product without being open-source. I think this turned out to be true. Some arguments for open-source are that it is better for extensibility, privacy, and community. Obsidian does a great job of these 3 things, arguably the best in the networked note-taking app category, despite being closed-source.

I remember both of these questions actually causing Michael and the other partners on the call to pause and think about what I said, because it wasn't necessarily what they expected. Expected answers to these questions might be: "I'm looking for a co-founder" and "Open-source is better because X/Y/Z" given that I had marketed Athens as "open-source Roam" for the first 1 year and throughout YC.

I thought I bombed the interview because I remember being pretty shocked and speechless when they gave me a call saying I got in.
This is debunked every time it's brought up. The "trouble makers" you're referring to are local. It is not in fact the case that San Francisco mass-imports its downtrodden.
Unlimited PTO is fine. I've had it at 3 different companies for the last ~10 years with zero issues. It's toxic work culture that is the problem.
> It's regulatory/legislative capture by the very rich of the US gov.

I'm not sure how the recent Washington State capital gains tax is the result of capture by the very rich.
This is incredibly mundane; why is this on the front page?
>I don't know anyone that leaves their home for three separate trips on transit a day. Two tops, and usually it's just one.

Is not this the problem with transit? Your traveling is so cumbersome that you seem to be restricting yourself to the bare minimum. Of course, you can also claim "that's a good thing!" but can you talk from the both sides of your mouth and claim that transit is faster and more convenient while also limiting your travel options?
Mastering Emacs Together
Yes, I support that! Rights comes hand in hand with responsibilities - I don't believe a freeloader has earned the right to steer the country in one direction or another - they should rather steer their life first before playing the rights game!
Without knowing the profit margin of OpenAI it’s anyone’s guess. Personally I’d be surprised if it’s profitable, azure subsidies aside
Ask HN: Do Twitter DMs work for you?
I tried to send a message to someone, but I got an error. Could you try sending me a message (@danuker1)? If I receive one in the next 30 minutes, I will reply.
Which is so word since the compression there leads to pretty heavy banding there, despite pretty heroic work on the part of Netflix's tech staff.
I've been looking for something like that too, for maths. Basically a group of self-learners, we set weekly goals (X pages or Y exercises from some book we'ee reading through) and then weekly meetings (online of course) for discussion of material and perhaps one person giving a presentation as well. Yours is similar but with projects instead. I've seen people using Discord and similar for things like these, I don't know if there's anything else.
We need legislation that is opt-in only when data is to be used to train models. If users feel like their work has been stolen to use in non human models then they should be able to sue and get a list of the training data .

This is a good way way to start democratizing ai.
I read it as more of a euphemism for "smart, passionate people who were previously burning themselves out in pursuit of a single man's glory" but maybe that's not accurate
It's an irrelevant question and doesn't change my point at all.

In fact crypto bros like yourself are the ones asking for regulatory clarity, to which it is you that is in need of an external authority to save you from yourselves.

Because crypto and it's industry clearly cannot save itself, that's why it needs regulation. With or without regulation crypto will collapse anyway.
There’s a fix here: a minimum amount, which you can exceed. Just because some accrues doesn’t mean the org can’t be flexible above that.
Propeller: A Profile Guided Relinking Optimizer for Warehouse-Scale Applications
Repo has a single open pull request where someone (by their own admission) just fed the code into ChatGPT then pasted the results into a pull request without actually testing it.

Has anyone seen this happening anywhere else?
I'll have to try. I've had pretty good luck with the Spruce oven method: https://www.thespruceeats.com/perfect-oven-cooked-bacon-how-...

Tl;dr - Put cold bacon in cold oven. Turn on oven to 400°F. Cook 17-20 min.
> And other than going to Canada or Mexico, you're talking about relatively expensive flights to travel internationally

You should checkout flights to Cancun or the Caribbean. Even South America is cheap, and flights from the East Coast (of North America) to Europe are a few hundred bucks.

If what you were saying had any merit, surely Australians and New Zealanders wouldn't explore outside their country much.... but they do in droves.
The equity is liquid enough.
> What's the point?

Equality of outcomes: everyone is equally poor.

Why are you not moving to another country is the question.
What a great game. One neat feature on the MS-DOS version (not sure about Amiga) was that you could plug in a second mouse and play two players on the same screen. This was very unique for DOS games.
I am very pro gun but wait for the police since they were on the way. Now the vehicle has blood and other fluids all inside the cabin and who knows if any of the rounds made it into the engine and destroyed the vehicle.
The AF (as f**k?) suffix is really powerful: it gives you 1 generation of performance increase.
This is a conspiracy theory about a global suit-and-tie version of TED Talks whose members consistently underperform the S&P 500. The World Economic Forum sounds important, like the IMF is, but it's nothing at all like that. It's a convention, in the ComicCon sense, that happens to be frequented by high-status people, because high-status people go where other high-status people go.

Ironically, talking about them as if they're engineering the future of Europe is probably the only thing anybody can possibly do to give them any kind of impact.

The solution to housing affordability is to build more housing. It's not complicated. But people who own housing today have a vested interest in preventing new housing development.