skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd certainly like everything to be easily canceled online.

Having said that I wonder if that example with the Boston Globe is sort of the old "Be Radiohead" example. In that situation Radiohead sold their album online for whatever you want to pay. It was touted as a good way to do business, because Radioheads sold a lot.

Later someone wrote satirical article telling other bands how they could do the same. Step 1 was "Be Radiohead".

In reality the reason for all the sales were ... they were Radiohead.

I wonder if the Boston Globe is at that scale where they can do that, while other places might not see any new subscribers.
Absolutely, and that's toxic to the market the same way as US corporate consolidation is.
Raise the overall productivity of working-age people, and ensure these productivity gains help finance pensions, instead of getting stuck in billionaires accounts in some tax evasion heaven.
I've been working on something very similar in the past three weeks. Just out of curiosity, what have you used for the layout?

In my project I used reactflow for all things graph and dagre for the layouting (together with some custom hooks to make it work with variable size nodes).

I'm not sure if I will try to monetise it or if I will simply open-source it. Probably the latter because when building time is over and marketing time starts, I get very bored and lose interest soon.
> Why is there no discussion on users losing their private keys?

I think that's best handled through some iteration: We don't need to flip a switch and make the whole world change to this system overnight. Instead, we could roll it out in managed environments, like companies and schools with IT departments.

I suspect that, for consumers, something like a (the horror!) government agency could handle this. Or a bank. Or your ISP. Or your phone service provider. Or the AAA (who handles passport and license renewals in the US.)
Fair, but the sandstone and clay in that area is generally pretty awful. TBH most of the ancestral Puebloan structure are crumbling apart despite being protected by overhanging rock "roofs".
> It's very hard for anybody to be persuaded about any set of ideas where you see a large part of the discussion shut down.

The problem is that any discussion involving gender, sexuality or identity will sooner or later devolve into flamewars, with zero arguments backed by serious research - particularly the "conservative" crowd tends to aggressively stick to "there are only two genders" while ignoring every single research piece to the contrary.
For Americans, if you use Lynx or any Gopher client on desktop or Lagrange under Android, you can head to gopher://magical.fish to read the news.
Based on the salary range, you're probably right.
Ruby is going through some kind of renascence age, I'm seeing allot of Ruby articles lately.
I thought I was the only one silly enough to do something like this! I've got a Nova 227 tucked away in a corner room of my home facing inwards connected to Magma (was Open5GS).

Did you run into the bug where the default Open5GS bearer rate limit (1Gbps) somehow triggers a bug in the Nova 227 and causes it to run super slow (~7Mbps down/100kbps up)? I found that setting its rate limit to anything else seems to solve the problem and I get 100Mbps/10Mbps with TDD2/SSF7.
The singularity probably wont happen under the current limitations of power/cost per transistor/latency.
I'm not a football fan but that 3pm Saturday Blackout thing is so archaic:

"The football blackout is the rule that no Premier League, Football League or FA Cup matches be broadcast on live television on Saturday between 2:45pm and 5:15pm. Games may be played on that day and on that time, but they are forbidden to be televised – with Saturday televised kick-offs mostly occurring at 12:30pm or 5:30pm."

"This follows a rule set in place since the 1960s, when Burnley chairman Bob Lord successfully convinced fellow Football League chairmen that televised matches on Saturday afternoons would negatively impact the attendance of lower league games."

"He was convinced, for instance, that if Manchester United were to play Liverpool on Saturday at 3pm, fans of lower division teams would instead opt to watch the match on television instead of attend the match of the team they actually supported."

"As a result, the financial income of lower league football would be reduced."

"More than 40 years on, the rule is still in place. Foreign matches are also affected by the blackout – a broadcaster would not show the first 15 minutes of a match in La Liga that kicks off at 5pm UK time, for example."

Source: https://archive.is/DQwsk#selection-1539.0-1601.218
How about: 4.) Cutting their massive bureaucracies so far back that the actual students once again outnumber the administrators?
The trending story on the Microsoft gaming division side is how badly Xbox is doing. I don't think Microsoft is doing anyone a favor by acquiring gaming companies at this point. It's evident that Microsoft is where game development studios go to die.

Bethesda's acquisition is extremely demoralizing due to this. I hope Starfield succeeds as it's my most anticipated game of all time.
our entire culture revolves around pushing women into the workforce instead of encouraging them to have children

its nice to have more people participating in the economy but why should their most fertile years be spent getting bureaucratic requirements just so they can struggle to find a job that gives them maternity leave? if that's what they want that's one thing, but they aren't really offered any other choice

i want a serious quality of life study on women who chose to have kids at 20 vs having no kids at 30, we're doing things wrong and its only going to be a more painful realization because population collapse is exponential, not linear
Long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by prototaxites (2013)
Ok, try another example.

Humans are not the only animals capable of learning. Do you think it's fair to say a crow learns how to crack a nut via compression and abstraction?

I think it's a combination of community and pattern (structure). Sure, once the LLM is trained, it can pattern match. Once the crow watches another crow, it can crack the nut, but the crow that does not exist in the community of nut cracking knowledge-sharers will not learn to recognize the pattern merely off its structure alone. In other words, compression (or, induction) is a part of the story, sure, but it is not the only factor.
I agree with the literal wording of your reply but disagree with the connotation.

The vast majority of trans people don't get surgery and basically no one (I don't know of a even one case) gets surgery without socially transitioning.
Shizhoupian
Lacking not only the incentives but also the skills to care about portability is a symptom, not a need.
but is a great proxy for internal manufacturing costs. Elon typically quoted raw material costs as a goal to push towards in all his products.
For some reasons that might be related to the 2nd issue, even though it says resolved, I am still seeing network errors in GKE nodes, located in Singapore (asia-southeast1)

Warning FailedToCreateRoute 4m59s route_controller Could not create route fc61a148-b428-43fa-xxxx-xxxx 10.28.167.0/24 for node gke-xxx-xxx after 16.320065487s: googleapi: Error 503: INTERNAL_ERROR - Internal error. Please try again or contact Google Support.

Any facing something similar?
I didn’t understand the title until I read the post. When you put “Lead” next to “Magnet”, my mind thinks “the metallic element”, not “possible business opportunity”.
HN is a very Silicon Valley focused website. $150k in SV isn’t very much at all. You get more than that even at startups as a senior engineer. New grads at FAANG will get at least that or more.
> but are they going to auction off the flooded hardware?

I wonder how many inches/feet we're talking here? The hardware on the top (unless it experienced electrical short) is most likely fine?
Some countries maintain special segments of highways specifically for aircraft operation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_strip

Apparently they are uncommon in US? I guess there are enough general airstrips and open space to make them not necessary
From https://cloud.google.com/docs/geography-and-regions#regions_...

> Regions are independent geographic areas that consist of zones. Zones and regions are logical abstractions of underlying physical resources provided in one or more physical data centers.
> (...)
> A zone is a deployment area for Google Cloud resources within a region. Zones should be considered a single failure domain within a region. To deploy fault-tolerant applications with high availability and help protect against unexpected failures, deploy your applications across multiple zones in a region.

You should use "region" and "zone" as abstract concepts with shared properties like network topology, local peering, costs, and availability. AFAIK no cloud provider discusses (nor provides guarantees) against specific threats or correlated failures.

There is no guarantee that a given risk will not impact multiple zones, but this risk is lowered by the implementation of various safeguards (for example, rollouts are not happening in multiple regions at the same time).

Google doesn't say "put your VMs in more than one zone because you can be sure we won't have all zones in a region down at the same time", but rather "by putting your VMs in multiple zones in the same region, you can target better SLOs that the SLOs in one zone".

Note that it's different from the concept of "availability zone" of AWS which explicitly says that AZs are physically separated:

> AZs are physically separated by a meaningful distance, many kilometers, from any other AZ, although all are within 100 km (60 miles) of each other.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio...
Orders of magnitude smaller, but I don't think Sony should be buying game studios also.
> Harvard and Princeton charge tuition at all!

Wealth redistribution / market segmentation.
Because they don't have a lot of competition. They publish a very specific type of journalism for a very specific audience. Why shouldn't they fuck you? What are you gonna do about it? Quit doing business with Bloomberg?

This is really what a lot of bad customer service issues boil down to, telecom is a classic example (I'm looking at you Comcast). There has been a lot of consolidation in American media in recent years and it doesn't really take a formal cartel, it just takes these guys at the executive layer looking at their competitor who is not much different, looking at their giant cash hoards, maybe buying each other a few nice dinners in New York City, and shrugging their shoulders as they light up another Cuban.

When it's having a populist moment the political class especially in the EU will take the issue du jour and talk about crafting a law to deal with it. But in a lot of cases we would be better off if they just enforced antitrust laws that are already on the books and got more zealous about that topic in general.
> We don't know what self-driving cars will mean for urban transport, but we know it's going to be impactful.

At this point, given the challenges that we can see in front of us, we do not know that self-driving cars will ever be genuinely practical. Not in the "can drive anywhere, under any conditions, with no more danger than humans" sense.
I've always had a lump on my balls, like since when I was a kid. I think it's just where my vas connects? I don't feel anyone else's balls so I have no idea whether this is normal or not. I suspect there's a lot of other men (and if this study is to be believed, a lot of fellow spacemen) in the same situation.
How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it
In the 19th century the USA had plenty of innovation and a widespread growth mindset even though the population was much smaller and less dense.
I was just using that as an example, though I'm not sure 14 million would actually be too few to have that kind of separation of responsibilities. Assuming no genocide or catastrophe, by the time human population gradually dwindled back down to that level, we'd have hopefully settled on a fairly sustainable and automated existence.
There's not many studies but they generally show that the brain reflects the gender (i.e. a trans woman's brain looks more like a cis woman's than a cis man's), see e.g. https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/131/12/3132/295849?lo...
I'm replying here to megous, since I can't reply directly to his comment. You have only one hardware key to backup, so you've got two keys in total.
Not faster than Maven, that doesn't depend on a slow scripting language, the reason the daemon was created in first place.
Same – was unable to create new VMs in all regions between 7:15am and 11:41am UK time. Not limited to France.
Microsoft said that it wouldn't have an incentive to withold games from other platforms in 2021 when they acquired ZeniMax.

>"[Microsoft] submits that Microsoft has strong incentives to continue making ZeniMax games available for rival consoles (and their related storefronts)."

2023/01: Hi-Fi Rush is exclusive to Xbox and Microsoft Windows.

2023/05: Redfall is exclusive to Xbox and Microsoft Windows.

2023/09: Starfield is exclusive to Xbox and Microsoft Windows.

So yeah, I'm gonna err on the side of "they'd probably restrict a lot of games afterwards". Maybe some big existing properties like Call of Duty might be available, much like Minecraft, but I don't foresee Microsoft-ABK being a win for competition.
Whataboutism at it's finest. Instead of trying to engage with the original commentee you try to steer the discussion towards "hey, but what about these places". Of course the working hours of the average American "paycheck-to-paycheck-working-three-jobs citizen" are insane but that is a direct consequence of hyper-capitalism.

It is a matter of fact that the working conditions of the average salaryman are not well suited towards building families. There are more than enough statistics to support this fact, however, you need to be careful about the target demographics of the workers. Additionally, the social and cultural pressure to spend time with your coworkers and your boss after work means further time spent away from your (possible) family.

I don't really understand why it is so difficult for you to accept the fact that Japanese working culture is not suitable for the 21st century. Automation and effiency is increasing accross nearly all white-collar industries and Japanese traditions still see it fit to mandate "arrive before your boss, leave after (sic!) him".
There is 20% chance person gets raped at college. No degree is worth that!
Or a Nintendo Switch if you have an older hackable one and you install Android on it
This is nice. I'm not sure I'd use it for the occasional post, but I could see it being useful for someone who posts a lot. How long have you been working on it?
SMS requires a phone number which is an excellent user tracking signal. I don't know why ad companies like Google and Microsoft would want to give that up.
Apart from Denmark, few countries have enough wind turbines installed to power the entire country. Certainly, countries like Germany, The Netherlands, UK, don't come close. The Netherlands does come close to having enough PV to power the country during mid day on a bright sunny day.

So at the moment there is not a lot to export, and there is not of excess electricity from sun/wind to store.

The next thing is that, for example, The Netherlands needs a lot of green hydrogen for industry. So quite a bit of new wind turbine installations may go to powering that.

Germany has an other problem, building enough transport capacity within the country.

There is a big difference between transporting electricity all the way from Africa, including the question if it is smart to depend on those country for your electricity needs and transporting electricity between countries that border at the North Sea.
Can anyone please say how much value there is in learning the fundamentals of LLMs for someone who uses them in practice?
That, and/or the employer isn’t strictly in the business of monetizing outrage clickbait.

Kinda makes me want to … subscribe to it…
immigration is a bandaid, not a solution, to population collapse

i honestly don't want to see countries import large swaths of people who don't agree with their culture and values the way europe has, its sad to see it happen

the americas are much better at handling immigration, but eurasian countries should probably not try to copy it too hard. a better solution is to fix the culture and encourage women to have children
What a disaster. A datacenter made out of wood, what could go wrong ...
Nothing will change. It will only get worse. There's also people leaving the country. Short of a miracle nothing can fix Japan's issues. It's deep in its culture.

It's not a merit based society. Even if someone wants to do things differently it's almost impossible to push for it.
Yes actually. When IBM acquired Red Hat there was some last-minute hijinx involving getting Brazilian (IIRC) regulatory approval.
And the fact that pi is irrational means you will continue zooming out getting ever closer to rays, but never actually find rays - you’ll always have a slight spiral.
I have slightly similar example with subscribing to mail letters. I did it when I was young because they say that young programmers are better to be involved in mail discussion but I have never read it. Now my mail has more than million letters which I can not even delete because this is just letters from some dudes which are not tied by anything I can select them all and now my email is 99% full.
The savior mentality is strong here
Yes yes all that too, sorry I forgot to point out all the other possible concerns in my post. My bad.
Good article. The rise of "prompt influencers" is frustrating, since it makes it a bit trickier to find the signal of interesting AI content through the noise. I miss when the influencers were all just hawking altcoins. Guess I'll stick to watching Two Minute Papers[0] and reading papers that ak[1] tweets.

> Being “good at prompting” is a temporary state of affairs.

Valid point. Sam A said he thinks prompt engineering won't even be a thing in 5 years. And in the shorter term, prompts that work with a specific model like GPT-4 might not work well for future models, or even updates to the same model.

That said, I see prompt engineering as the beginning of a new paradigm of "intent engineering"--where developers use AI to understand and anticipate user intent with minimal user effort. It'll be fun to see what that looks like in 5 years.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg

[1] https://twitter.com/_akhaliq
> if that's what they want that's one thing, but they aren't really offered any other choice

I was with you until here… how is it they are not given a choice? If a woman wants to have children instead of entering the workforce, what exactly is stopping her from doing that?
> Because the longform article is what will be pulled into the search summarizer that the user will consume -- they won't interact directly with your website text. If LLM search engines actually take off, people will make websites assuming that only an AI will ever visit the site.

But this is what I'm getting at. Why write the entire article. Why pad out or whatever, if an AI is going to summarize it anyway? this is useless busywork, especially if no human will ever see it.

It doesn't matter if it's easy to write long text with AI, in fact that highlights the futility of it. You're adding a bunch of information that you know is going to be discarded by that selfsame ai at the users end. But, and here is the crucial part, a summary of a sufficiently short piece is going to be almost verbatim the piece itself - the best way to influence the output would be to just write what you want the output to be, and leave it at that. Anything extra is a distraction for the ai
80% of Apple’s revenue is from selling products and 20% from services.

The gross margins on those segments are completely different - twice as large for services.

Microsoft reports three segments with roughly the same size and similar margins.
Meta: If everyone else is downvoting your comment, the problem is definitely with everyone else, rather than with the content, style or factuality of your comment...
TBH, GCP isn't operating like Google does.

I'm a long time customer and have only good things to tell so far.
I strongly believe that going to college in the US is a good financial investment and that this will become increasingly true over time. I don’t believe that it’s just, but there are fewer decent jobs for people without a degree every day.

That said, everyone should also read this post explaining why college costs so much. It’s probably not what you think: https://www.conradbastable.com/essays/the-uncharity-of-colle...
actually yes. european union declared "family policies" not to be part of their work and leave it to individuals to decide whether they want to make or no children. they even punish Hungary for doing it and call Orban a far right activist for being nationalist (like most of the world countries are). at the same time they finance foreign countries so that they can have children policies (https://twitter.com/EUDelegationTur/status/16033126425667829...).

it is obvious that european unelected leaders of the EU are favoring mass immigration vs birth/child policies and the fact that people like you and most of the media is lying about it is the proof that they don't think people would approve. in most of EU countries you don't get money/help/incentives for having children when your income is high or even average. You only get help when you are poor. this obviously tends to make people not to want to have children. South Korea took the opposite direction (too late but still) and now heavily finance child birth at all incomes.
This is fantastic, thank you for sharing.

I read Marlowe’s play by mistake when I was in university. I somehow erroneously got it into my head that it was required reading for one of my English Literature modules. Quite a happy accident as I loved it.
Real estate agency is also easy to get into, and can pay a lot. that doesn't make the median agent high-income
One of the linked papers [1] describes several approaches to this problem (known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_inference). They generally agree with the 10-15% ROI result.

For example:

- Regression discontinuity (find a college that accepts people who score >=X on a test, then compare people who scored X vs people who scored X-epsilon)

- Instrumental variables (find something that would nudge people to go to college, like living close to a college)

- Natural experiments (find an event that 'forced' many people to suddenly sign up, like 'avoiding the Vietnam war draft').

[1] Section 4 of https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics...
Even that methodology is flawed. Walmart has a lot of store manager/assistant managers that do quite well with high school diplomas or GEDs. Smart motivated people also do well starting businesses or working in trades. The incessant narrative that a college degree as the path to prosperity is tired and worn and rightly perceived as bogus imo.

University is now a business, and the product is degrees and "college experience", the customers are students. The product has suffered; degrees are no longer rigorous. Teaching faculty have suffered; tenure tracks has disappeared in favor of adjunct part time faculty. Students suffer under mountains of debt. The only winners are the legions of administrators. Some schools have as many as 1 administrator per 1 student. It's absurd.
Good grief. How is OTP unsafe?
Yeah, and it's still not easy, especially if you're talking about being in the higher income levels. It's also not enough to just enjoy learning and growing to get you there.