skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The others might be bad, but they are not Enron (EY Germany = former Arthur Andersen Germany) and Wirecard bad.
>Todays threshold for lonely is yesterdays busy.

The world, media and HR are run by extroverts.
do you have a link to the interview? sounds interesting
When I was an undergraduate mail to "tzs, 1-59, 91126" would have probably got to me.

91126 was the zip code for Caltech undergraduate housing, which would have been sufficient to get the letter to the Caltech post office. The Caltech post office would have recognized 1-59 as the building code for Ricketts House and put it in the bundle of mail for Ricketts. The carrier there would have put it in the "T" box in the mailbox array in Ricketts lounge.
I'm type 3. When presented with a problem, I will not stop with W-questions until I think I found the root cause. I find it super interesting to understand the behavior of others. That's often a great way to find new business opportunities. Example: My company (https://WunderGraph.com) has a discord server with roughly 700 users. It's an absolute Goldmine to find new business. People being a problem, you ask for their use case and that way, you might learn where your company really creates value for someone else. I'd consider this "type 3" as the business engineer. Using software as a function to create business.
They may affect the degree to which youtmr theory is true. Also, they may not be a constant over time, like in physics, so your intuition may be misleading.
Here in the Netherlands I'm starting to smell and hear about lots of people warming their houses by burning wood since the natural gas prices have skyrocketed. Personally I'm not too fond of the idea of breathing in more fine particulate. But trying to ban wood fire heating would be political suicide.
Human and AI co-author the sci-fi novel:“The Nexus Fallacy”
I think the results speak for themselves. Rockets: Yes. Electric cars: Yes. Software Driven Social Media Companies: No
Anything outside 70-130 is suspect in practice, as the tests aren't well calibrated beyond ±2σ.

I'm not sure what intellectual performance is even supposed to be implied by any given IQ score, given that the scores commonly used today are just a linear mapping from standard deviations above or below mean.

That said, on the low end at -3σ I would expect a serious deviation from a normal distribution just from the effect of dementia.
The Constituion says Congress has this power in order to promote the progress of "Science and useful Arts." If it doesn't fulfill this purpose then there's no entitlement of the power.
I wonder if there is a way to bridge the gap between them and find a balance between simplicity and robustness. I think type 1 and type 2 are not mutually exclusive, though. Maybe they are more like tendencies or preferences that can vary depending on the context and the problem. Sometimes, it might be more appropriate to focus on the technical aspects and sometimes on the human ones.
Once you exhaust the dataset of all written language, the next step is multi-modal — images, audio, video. What will next-token prediction give us on such a dataset? Better versions of what we have now — style transfer, summarization, captioning, translation, prompt-based generation, etc., but with synesthesia.

There is still plenty of improvement ahead but I don’t think anything genuinely surprising will come from the current regime of feedforward models. What is missing is action — an interactive feedback loop between agent and environment. Progress in RL and robotics has been very slow by comparison and unless we see a breakthrough there, I would guess the GPT phase plateaus in the next 5-10 years.
The Maltese gambling regulator did something like this back in 2016. While the idea is good (and I support the practice in principle), it was a dismal failure in aggregate. Devil's in the details.

The regulator pre-negotiated approved rates and vetted a bunch of companies, all of which had to had presence in Malta. The audit reports have to be turned by mid-June, IIRC, and they can't really start until the accounts for the previous year have been finalised. So in practice the audits must take place between late February and mid-May. At the time the entire nation of Malta had about 450k people in total, and each audit blocks two accredited people for approximately three weeks.

Turns out there are a lot of gambling companies registered in Malta, and each pair of auditors could only process 5-6 companies within the allotted time. The country would have run out of auditors ... so they licensed a whole lot of local smaller shops as accredited gambling auditors to make up the numbers. Many of whom did not have the technical knowledge to actually even assess, let alone understand the businesses they were assigned to.

And I can say this from painful experience: there is real value having the same team of auditors for 2-3 years running. They will get to know how your company operates, and any good ones will figure out entirely new questions to ask you from year to year. By all means, be an adversarial assessor, but at least please be clued in.

Disclosure: on the receiving end as a key person in technical audits since 2015.
What happened last time they tried to sort it out:

https://youtu.be/kMKvxJ-Js3A
That looks like consequence of extreme poverty and can probably only be fixed with psychotherapy.
you realize, babies aren't as impressive as a PhD. right? I mean they're cute and impressive in how they learn and pick things up, baby AGI is kinda like that. the hype is basically going gaga around a baby.

but it will grow up and before you know it.
Both Type 1 and Type 2 describe engineers who acknowledge that their software is part of a larger system run by humans for some purpose. Type 1 and Type 2 make a different decision about where to draw the boundary between the software and the people.

In my experience there are far, far more Type 3s: Software engineers that completely ignore the system that the software is a part of, and myopically assume that the only solution to any problem is more software.
I don't understand why it's called the singularity. Shouldn't it be called the event horizon?
Harry Potter by Balenciaga – Step by Step Tutorial
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Please don't do this. I've used S3 to host static web pages and adding an additional service would add complexity and cost. Also, I'll point out that even a couple of years ago, AWS made it rather uncomfortable for me to expose pages to the public. IIRC, each time I changed the html, I needed to also remind AWS that I wanted the file public.
They have ATM's...looks like a practical joke...
https://brr.fyi/posts/mcmurdo-automated-teller-machines
The publishers didn't sue without the NEL; they had lots of opportunities, but CDL wasn't worth the fight to them. Shortly after the NEL, they sued. It's clear that the NEL was the triggering factor.

From publisher's/authors' perspectives, there is a massive difference between "controlled digital lending but we respect copyright" and "digital lending, and we can choose to dispense with copyright restrictions whenever we think it is justified".

One of those was an uneasy peace, based on the idea that IA - while it disagreed with the publishers on some issues - was at least acting in good faith. The other one would essentially have gutted all copyright protections, making respecting IP rights purely a matter of choice. Whatever you think of IP and copyright as a whole, publishers were never going to accept that massive change in approach.
Can you still get Technic kits to build machinery? All I seem to be able to find now is replica vehicles, albeit some still seem to have pneumatic parts.
I assume that every problem is hard. There's been enough times I've worked on codebases where even changing a string was a headache, thus it's difficult for me to give an estimate that think will represent reality.
Can… but how long until they actually do provide it?

I’m a big fan of PostgreSQL and it’s constantly an annoyance to find cool new capabilities provided by extensions I can never use since I’m not going to manage my own database in a critical environment for a lot of reasons… I’ve done it before, I know how hard it is to do well, and I don’t want this to be my job anymore… so when I find cool stuff like vector search or graph traversals but can never use them it’s just a constant disappointment.

Does this “trusted” state actually translate into greater adoption by cloud providers or is it just something the developers behind this effort hope will happen?
Housing shortage, at least in the US, isn’t really a problem of capital availability. It’s mostly due to local zoning regulations that make it very difficult to actually create housing, regardless of capital availability.
How to think about game bundling?
Audits can be very expensive and finding the optimal depth of auditing is difficult and unlikely that a public trust would be anywhere close to optimum amount. Financially savvy people should already know that the audit process is flawed and should not simply be accepted on face value. How flawed is usually stated in the audit, checks are split into controls testing and substantive testing. Usually the cheaper the audit the less substantive testing that is done. People need to trust audits less not more. If an organization is unable to pass an audit then it’s a really bad sign, if they have to hire EY to pass an audit then that is also a bad sign.

Also have you ever tried to stop something that makes a ton of money? It is damn near impossible. If governments had that much power the people who would lose their money have a very strong incentive to invest a large portion of that money into regulatory capture. So any solution that uses government must be predicated on a non-corruptable government which do not exist, at least not for very long. A variation of auditor’s prudence. A lot of our traditions and institutions that are resistant to corruption were designed and maintained that way to support wealth extraction via expansive empires, as you can’t export wealth if it all disappears into corruption. And empires must export wealth from colonies in order to compete with other burgeoning empires. Without such an empire to support the resistance to corruption erodes as the mechanism to reward those who eschew corruption disappears. It becomes increasingly difficult to acquire power without first being corrupt.
In AI, is bigger always better?
ChatGPT: Who owns the content generated?
It fits better with the language. It doesn’t cost much (anything?) and in simple cases (errors with no dependent fields) returning it is akin to returning an error code.
Seems completely orthogonal.
Sure, but the point is that 180 wouldn't make sense even if the test were perfect. There aren't enough humans on earth for that many standard deviations to exist in the first place. 180 IQ could as well be 2000 IQ, the sky is the limit when the scale makes no sense.
What Engineering tech/AI tech do you think could make the process more thorough but not proportionally expensive?
How do you offload to silicon periodically creating a new private key to sign your future releases, but keep it far away from your builds until you actually will use it, but put its public key on the builds.
"OK, so here’s how I think it goes" what do you mean "you think"? It was presented to the American Mathematical Society, there is no guessing here, you show what they showed. Why laud their background and then immediately dismiss their finding by not showing their proof? And then you can't even be bothered to draw a right angled triangle as a right angled angle, something literally any drawing program with straight lines will let you do? Forget you, buddy.
How about three types?

1) Engineers who work on the external-facing side of the interface (possibly involving using many interfaces to build something with a user-facing interface, e.g. many app writers)

2) Engineers who work on the internal, engineer-only side of the interface (maximizing performance, optimizing at a low level, e.g. library writers)

3) Engineers who design systems by building interfaces at the correct points in the overall design that separate (1) from (2) (network engineering might fit here).
Right--this is a demonstration of how an audit is more than looking at double-entry accounting statements and "seeing if the numbers add up." That's the point of my post.
I see this all the time in distributed systems. More often than not some oh-so-simple guy will "lead", leading to a system full of potholes due to concurrency shortcomings etc.
This about the CCP, an unelected regime which rules over the Chinese people, whom the victim herself is helping.
> And no, life is worse for millions of people around the world than it was in 1800 if for not other reason

Yeah, but not for the same people. Life in 1800 in NYC was worse than life in NYC in 2023 for the average inhabitant. Life in some places on earth today are worse than life in NYC in 1800 was, but that's not the question.

> Find the most destitute among us and see how they fare

Better. They're faring better. The data is in, and they do.
I've also used ChatGPT for "self therapy" and found out that it works reasonably well, though I would not recommend it for serious medical or psychiatric issues. I always take the feedback with a grain of salt, however, and usually when you ask such questions you are given the caveat to seek professional help.

If anything, I have positive faith in that ChatGPT or GPTn will be a great tool for therapy in the future.

As for the guy who killed himself, as sad as it is, I seriously doubt that ChatGPT made anything worse. With that said, the incident of course needs closer investigation to find out what advice the guy actually got.

A chat AI would have specific and professionally prepared training to handle people in distress, that's why I think it is in fact better that they talk to the AI rather than some untrained friend or relative.

This is of course just one aspect in how the above application is problematic, however.
I think it'd be less about being info-heavy and more about needing to reimplement everything on top of a canvas anyway. Not saying it's impossible to implement a mindmap with html, but it's possible to want mindmap features that would be much easier to implement with canvas.

Rust becomes more viable the simpler the API between it and your JS is, and "takes events and renders pixels" is a very simple API.

> Figma somehow manages to be fast, I don't think they use WASM.

Figma not only uses wasm but pioneered it. They're consulted be standards bodies, they implemented wasm features in browsers, ...
Right, we forgot to add the context on this release, thank you for the feedback!
This second point is under-appreciated. Many, if not most, skill based activities work like this. It's a weak mess for a long time then suddenly things start to click together and progress hockey sticks upward.
Really? I read through and it doesn’t seem sexist to me - it’s naïve, sure, but it doesn’t sound like it’s buying into the Stacy/Chad/Petersonian stuff, it’s just acknowledging their existence, and guessing at why they might appeal to people now. It doesn’t seem like it’s pro gender roles.
Starbucks did the same thing, arguing that -

“Wages and benefits are mandatory subjects of the collective bargaining process,” the company said. It rejects the union’s argument that it could offer the wage and benefit enhancements to unionized stores at any time.

The NLRB countered -

"...the NLRB said Starbucks violated labor law by offering raises and benefits — including increased training, career development opportunities, expanded tipping and even looser dress code policies — only to nonunion stores."*

Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/starbucks-shortchanged..., @ https://archive.ph/CrZTh
That's why I said Bitcoin.
> Here's the kicker though: it's the opposite! It's not cynicism, type 2 engineering is embracing the fact that we build with and for people and taking on an even bigger challenge of doing work despite the chaos this produces.

YMMV, but I've run into plenty of Type 2 engineers who absolutely use it as an excuse to not do something or draw out what is often just a 15 minute conversation and a 15 minute coding session. It sucks to work with them.
Is there a "law" (razor in the philosophical sense) that states until proven otherwise you should assume all dichotomies are false?

What the author gets at though I do think is important. I've seen a lot of programmers fall into what I'd call the bureaucracy trap. Bureaucracy is often very attractive to a certain type of engineering because it's essentially programming the behavior of other humans. Even if the tradeoff is that overall, an organization is less productive but more consistent that's a very attractive proposition to these engineers. Anything that makes other people behave predictably is welcome.

Of course humans are, at best, faulty in their rule adherence (there's a subreddit called "malicious compliance" for a reason). So engineers who assume that everyone will just follow the rules end up surprised when someone breaks them. Part of being a "hacker", at least in my definition, is being able to diagnose the actual dynamics of a system whether technical or social.

That doesn't mean I submit to the view that you should go around paranoid forsaking the tool of bureaucracy entirely. Nor do I think there's any social status conferred by openly breaking rules (a mistake that I see a lot of young hackers make). As XKCD (https://xkcd.com/1494/) might say, "That cool hack you just thought of is called fraud and we already know about it."

Rather I'd suggest that if you feel inclined to write formal rules or policies for the behavior of humans you should instead write guidelines, define principals, and create incentives. Focus your time on aligning everyone on the goal not the process to achieve it. Accept the things you can't control.
1-10µm is a size, not a mass or chemical property. Maybe tire PM2.5 stays aloft the same amount of time as smoke PM2.5, but I don't see why that is a given.

The press on the subject also annoyingly sidesteps a direct comparison. For example, you can read that tires product 2000x the particle emissions as tailpipes, and lots of ultrafines. Notice that statement does not tell you anything about the relative difference in ultrafine production.
"Excited" is one way of putting it. If we had any chance of this working or ending well, we wouldn't get daily or weekly posts here on HN of people having their Stripe/AWS/PayPal/Google accounts banned. Look forward to "Your company has been locked, please contact your auditor AI to get no help whatsoever"...
The Creator of the First Software Easter Egg
Yes, that. But first raid the place, with no notice, in overwhelming force, and seize all the papers.
Do you not find the couches’ structures get loose before the fabric falls apart? That’s been my experience at least.
Not sure if this remains true today, but back when I was young you could go to your local LDS church and use their computers to search genealogical records. It may not be as useful today, but in the 80s it was some of the best stuff you could easily access.
PASETO is great! It's way better than JWT, for the use cases targeted by JWT. Biscuit explores other use cases, like attenuation
Good explanation and same for me.

I came to that realization when I needed to delete a file and the function call to use was named `unlink`.
AWS already makes it a massive headache with all sorts of warning flags if you try to make an object public, and this change will make it even more obvious.

S3 is great for hosting static websites for pennies a month and zero work required to configure nginx etc. There's a huge use case for allowing public access to data in S3 buckets.
I was thinking in terms of "housing is a form of capital"
I really recommend circular slide rules! Search "Concise circular ruler" on Amazon for a great quality but affordable slide rule. There's a couple of different ones so pick the one that has the functions you'll want.

Also, there's a bunch of watches with slide rules in the bezel. I have a citizen promaster on my wrist that is super handy for stuff like this.
Just put CloudFront in front of it. Then you get to use your own domain.
This is by no means a big reveal. This another day of "nude man farts while sitting on leather couch".
I think you're making a joke.

But moving goalposts is an integral part of all professional sports. The 3 point line in basketball and engine size and aspiration in motorsports are obvious examples. I don't see how adjusting chess rules to dis-favor AI competitors is any different.
Funny, this is exactly how conversations go between me and my lead where my lead is the type 1.
I see it differently. It's most of the time wrong to jump from problem to possible solutions, tech or people solutions. Without finding the root cause, any solution will just fix symptoms.
Yes, now we just need it to provide citations.
That is almost inevitable. Substack makes very little money for a company of its size. Taking a cut of 1:1 subscriptions isn't nearly as lucrative as advertising.
Something like https://www.vaultproject.io/ or similar?
[Astronaut looking at earth with the logo of superhuman AI superimposed]

Wait, it’s all just search?

[astronaut with gun]

Always has been
"basic airflow changes" "basic study". You seem to assume it's easy, but give no particulars.
Author here. Yeah, that’s fair, it is over-generalizing (and I even admit to that in the post).

I do think there might be some value (insight?) into trying to generalise things sometimes. In this case it’s me trying to split all software engineers along a single axis and seeing whether it fits. I don’t think it’s a neat split, but the more I think about it the more I think I could, if pressed, sort a lot of engineers into one of these two buckets. Not at all times, but sometimes.

Generally speaking: over-generalisation can be lazy and it was in this case — I write these posts very quickly, as a braindump, and you shouldn’t read too much into it, except that it might be food (snack?) for thought.
I'd say that if you haven't realized that as a doftware engineer, you are essentially enriching the capital wielding class and are essentially just their means to being able to wash their hands of the masses, you're probably either asleep at the wheel, see yourself as a temporarily inconvenienced billionaire, or really have no choice but to further that aim to achieve whatever your own goals are.

The push for AI isn't even trying to reach further than can be grasped; it's the ultimate lottery ticket to the well-to-do.
I'm pretty sure you're just describing type 2. At its basis, the article is just about some people being good at risk management and some having no concept of it. He connects this to dealing with humans, but that's just because humans are imperfect and illogical at times and thereby introduce behavioral risk. It's really just about learning to ask what could go wrong. You can then take that further by acting on the answer to that question and optimizing away that risk as much as possible.
> I don't think small sellers have anything to do with child labour.

This is a remarkable claim. Why would you think that?
I think the discourse makes a lot of sense if part of the purpose is to show the extent of the imbalance of power between Apple and its retail employees - even if they are able to unionize.

Apple is so enormous, and so powerful, that it's going to take more than some locations unionizing to start to level things out.
It feels like he's using her as a rhetorical device: telling her life story to add emotional weight to his own opinion.

I think his position on this would be a lot more credible if he presented her own opinions.
"Deputies" implies that they work for a county sheriff's department, not a city police department. Poncha Springs is located in Chaffee County, which has a population of 19,476 ATW.