skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure; every company effectively does, by way of the "cost of capital:" https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/cost-of-capital#:~:text=Wha....

But regardless of whether any big tech co. needs loans or not, the cost of any investment they make, as well as the referred-to-present value of any payoff from it, are anchored to the interest rate. And the recent upward movement in the interest rate -- not to mention high inflation -- has drastically (relative to the ~0% interest days) raised the costs and lowered the payoffs.

Tech (both Big Tech & startups) is also getting hammered hardest first here mostly because those are the ventures that attracted investment of the lion's share of 0%-minted dollars, and that investment is vaporizing at the same time that the ROI (payoffs - costs) on lots of those firms' WIP has gone negative.
I don’t want to hijack a mastodon thread for an alternative, but because it is invite-only and still very new if people here want to try out Bluesky, send me an email at: sam at elborai me. I just got a whole bunch of invite codes and I’m happy sharing them with fellow HNers.

It’s late in my time zone, so don’t expect a response before 8-10h, but I read all my emails in the morning.
> N95

Did you read the article? No you didn't.

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But, wait, hold on. What about N-95 masks, as opposed to lower-quality surgical or cloth masks? “Makes no difference — none of it,” said Jefferson.
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Do you think that COVID is the first virus ever to come to humanity?

Do you think that nobody ever thought about the effectiveness of face masks?

Do you think that somehow face masks lost effectiveness after 2020 but before they were effective?

No. No. No.

Scientists knew all along that face masks didn't work.

Edit:

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Compared to masks, N95 respirators conferred superior protection against CRI (...) and laboratory-confirmed bacterial (...), but not viral infections or ILI ...[influenza-like illness]
<<<

COVID-19 is a virus, and an ILI.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/65/11/1934/4068747
I checked the date on the linked article and it's from yesterday. online "geo-ip" stuff always says i live in georgia, dallas, or oklahoma - and one time tacoma!

I'm not sure this is as solved as you envision.
they had to change every import for an icon in 60 files. Wouldn’t it have been better if a PR was done against Rollup to fix this “bug”? probably much more difficult/not possible?
Like I said, they're too small of group to really effect the numbers. They would still be included in the BLS data though.
Perfectly SFW example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2G44D7_p50
It's a shift to partisan totalism.

If you look at the policies of the Biden admin, almost all of their bills caused capital outflows of red areas, professions and demographics and into blue areas, professions, and demographics.

The new logic of american politics is to not bother courting those who wont vote for you and instead seek to minimize their raw numbers(population), vote impact (dilution), wealth (jobs), and recruitment (deplatforming).

The "culture war" is built on two fundamentally opposed, zero-sum worldviews and they're starting to realize that.
> Usually, US has maybe half of the profits as the Asia counterpart, while EU has half of that.

But is this actually the case with Activision? Aren’t most of their games banned in China (this shrinking the Asian audience massively) and don’t they charge a lot less?
The US plant was very much "have your cake and eat it."

Not that big or leading edge, but plenty big enough to tout.
It's substantially better.

I've compared the same prompts between both, and GPT-4 is always better, except when you need speed or it's a very simple task.

For complex tasks, especially requiring some sort or social understanding (I'm building a group AI sharing tool) it has a capacity for nuance which is sometimes surprisingly good. ChatGPT is usually more straightforward.

If anyone hasn't played with gpt4 yet I'm looking for testers on my platform and I have access.
You mean, the API access that is explicitly prioritized by how much free labor you provide to OpenAI?

I don’t think “fair” is even part of the idea.
The US government will backstop intel if need be. Losing the ability/access to manufacture high end silicon is near the top of national security concerns. We can't even do the cutting edge right now, and that's why the chips act was passed.
That’s not the question. The question is what share of revenue it is for Activision.

Edit: found the numbers here https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-d...

Americas: 1,211

Europe and Middle East: 742

Asia Pacific: 381

Total: 2,334

So Asia is 16%.
> Good thing that since then we've gathered extensive evidence supporting their effectiveness.

The US conducted zero RCTs, so we don't actually have high quality evidence supporting masking. RCTs conducted in other countries showed a small but not statistically significant difference with masking. When I say masking I mean those silly cloth and "surgical" masks, not N95s and similar which definitely make a big difference.

> The crook of our arms aren't filtering viruses like an N95 mask would but somehow it still helps.

Maybe it helps with other common viruses that spread through large droplets on surfaces, but for an airborne virus like covid that spreads almost like measles it might not at all.
You'd be hard-pressed to find much that's going to stand with Game of Thrones on production values.

Dark, I'd agree, faded in terms of the plotting as it got kind of all twisted up in itself toward the end, but I still liked it quite a bit. And you could say similar things about some of your other picks, like Mr. Robot (or Game of Thrones for that matter). Sustained excellence season after season is really hard to achieve.
Nowhere to move to. I've lost too much skill to pass a code screen.
Or you must be measuring something more than just the memory Linen uses, like measuring how much memory the tab itself takes, which is Firefox + the application.

Doing a heap snapshot will give you a better view of the page memory usage in isolation, without involving the browser itself.
Keeping an eye on CO2 is really interesting. I recently moved from an apartment with an electric range to one with a gas range, and CO2 gets as high as 3000ppm when I'm cooking (compared to a baseline of around 700 or 800). I don't know what the effects of this are, but the monitor reminds me to ventilate during and after cooking.

(I have my Airthings monitor bridged to HomeKit with Home Assistant and it seems severe enough for Apple to send a notification to my phone about it, by default. So I open windows and am happy to be able to notice air quality issues that most people will miss. I did turn off the notification though, I know I'm cooking ;)
How would they know if your project benefits humanity? Perhaps the best way to go about that is by ensuring you give tool access to people where you already know their output, and ignore others.

Why is total fairness a prerequisite for benefiting humanity?
No where is he quoted advocating for wage controls. If anything his actual conversation is explaining why changes in wages do not impact inflation.
There are a lot of people who know what to do to fix this and turn around the entire situation and make everyone happier.

Netflix refuses to hire those people and instead finds the exact opposite kind of person....
I'm definitely burnt out. There's no road to recovery though.
They abandoned that mission ages ago.
> The time scale for new species adapted to a completely new climate is many millions of years, not a few thousands. What we destroy today won’t be replaced while humans as a species as we know it today even exists.

When it comes to changing climate (and some degree of pollution) instead of newly evolved adaptations you get migrations or selection for particular alleles. Adjust up and back down and you can end up with diversity constraints on both ends.
It’s far better at producing workable code, logical reasoning, keeping a train of thought, etc. Their benchmark breaks it down.

https://openai.com/research/gpt-4
VC game will get crazy. Most VC backed products will have their end day like Twitter has almost.

Initial and middle Investors kept passing the pie to the next bigger fool and the last bigger fool is now stuck with a very expensive web property desperate to recoup the investment let alone a 10x return.

Sounds like a Bitcoin food chain.

And then - aggressive monitization, price hikes staff cuts, SLAs adjustments etc.
SpaceX Starship explosion sparked 3.5-acre fire, Fish and Wildlife Service says
Thanks for giving it a reread. I edited my post quite heavily to spell out my point and avoid language that might induce knee-jerk reactions to the idea.

I think I broadly agree with what you are saying. The zero sum part comes into the picture when people consider it in terms of stack ranking, opposed to total suffering or deprivation. To advance from last place in a stack, someone needs to go down. Unfortunately so much of the conversation is mired in this framing that it is difficult to escape - so I am glad to find someone else willing to look beyond it.

I do think there is a fundamental conflict between merit and an expectation of equal outcomes. How could there not be given the massive harm and intergenerational legacy of slavery. That is to say, we must deal with the world as it is, and this incudes real differences in merit, not because of genetics, but due to a harm so great the impacts are still persistent today. By way of metaphor, you can't beat someone bloody today, and expect them to perform with average merit tomorrow.

The sad but inescapable truth is that this damage will persist for generations to come, no matter how much we tilt the scales of competition or break the rules.

It is my personal opinion that we should double down on blinding our institutions to race, ensure equality of competition, while doing our best to help the poor engage in productive society, independent of race.

I think many people would find this disagreeable, but I think it is the only solution compatible with treating people equally as induvial humans.
Past Struggles
TIL some people pronounce "neural" as /nɝəl/ (ner-al) instead of /njʊɹəl/ (new-ral).
I was thinking of this one, I believe, but it's pretty old:

https://github.com/OffgridElectric/rails-data-migrations

This is maybe a more modern one I found:

https://github.com/ilyakatz/data-migrate
Directly from the Wikipedia article you linked:

Although IQ differences between individuals have been shown to
have a large hereditary component, it does not follow that
disparities in IQ between groups have a genetic basis.[11][12]
[13][14] The scientific consensus is that genetics does not
explain average differences in IQ test performance between
racial groups.[15][16][17][18][19][20]
Yeah, all kinds of applications.

Fully generated and high quality voice acting for games. Likely much more realism and ease to open world generation, without using traditional procedural generation techniques or hand creating everything.

Extras in movies and TV shows adding realism on a low budget. Voice overs of all kind.

Virtual friends who give you attention without asking for anything in return. Human like AI to play games with.

Content is the most important and impactful thing in the average person’s life as it relates to leisure. The impact of mass deflation and an explosion in both quality and quantity of content shouldn’t be underestimated.

Much of society’s problems can be solved by raising standards of living and giving people the means to live a more enjoyable life on less money.
This article is missing one important idea - yes, sure avoid algorithmic systems when we don't control the algorithm. But what I really want is an algorithmic feed option (option being important, obviously) on mastodon!

If someone that I have been interacting with a lot had a popular post in the last 12 hours that I have not seen, and I have just refreshed the feed, I would love for that to be near the top.

That is just one simple user story but I can imagine a wide selection of options - controllable percentage of popular posts from the rest of your server or the fediverse. Controllable percentage of posts marked important by my server admin. Controllable percentage of popular posts that people I am following have liked, even if I am not following the person.

People really misdirect their grief when they say the problem is algorithms. I don't think that's really true! We all have trauma and bad memories from corporate-controlled algorithm, because that algorithm serves the needs of the corporation. Users get turned in to products to serve a for-profit system that sees us as tools to be used to extract value. And we all see those algorithms and think: "algorithms suck!" Then people make systems like mastodon with no algorithm at all - no option for one - and people bristle at the idea of an algorithm there even if it is optional. But of course it would be optional, it's mastodon!

Imagine if users had a complex panel (with a few easy pre-sets to try) for various tunings to the algorithm. I genuinely believe it would make mastodon much more useful to a lot of people. I still use both twitter and mastodon and one thing that is clear is that it is very easy to see popular posts from my friends on twitter. Unfortunately there is a lot to dislike about twitter, which is why I want to see people change their thinking - what we need are algorithms we control! Open source algorithms with lots of optional tuning and adjustment and always the ability to disable it completely.

There is some discussion of some of these features in the mastodon issues page. If any of you want to take a look, maybe there is some work you could help with!

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%...
I am likely wrong here, but I thought the term “prompt engineering” was also related to the act of building a system around generating a prompt dynamically based on limited input? Eg not just trial and error over single prompts but using broader techniques like in-context learning, chain of thought reasoning, other AI models (BERT), vector DB etc to build prompts to send to the LLM? I’m likely wrong cause I can’t remember where I read this definition, but IMO it makes more sense that it relates to building systems around promoting, rather than how a single model reacts to very limited circumstances. Models etc are going to change pretty regularly, tiny adjustments in wording will change along with it, so seem to have limited ROI. Broader techniques will become wide spread pretty quickly, how you use them all together in a system I think will be more important over time, but I don’t know, everything is moving so quickly shrugs.
Authentication is easy and solutions are more or less fungible, but there’s no obvious and easy way to do authorization. OAuth makes authentication pretty easy but all the complexity comes from authorization, which is adjacent to authentication but not directly related to it. Although it’s not OAuth’s job to help you with authorization, it’s an inevitable next step that leads to massively divergent approaches
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
My view is that there is less and less stuff on Netflix that interests me. Shows that I liked in the beginning usually turn into the typical American never ending twisting drag out. There are weeks where I don't use it at all.

While 10$ is not much for some it can be a lot for others. E.g. youth unemployment and job security are big challenges in Spain from what I've heard.

I'm not justifying the password sharing. I think it is wrong to assume that all users can be converted to paying customers.
not sure that precludes figuring out what customers want before building the whole thing

TFA says the motivator is lack of capabilities against China. If the LCSs can be easily retrofitted to add capabilities, why not do so?
It would simply not handle pretty much any case that I have used OAuth2 to implement so far.

For example - login system that merged LDAP/Kerberos/client cert/long-lived application token authentication into single system, that also linked said authentication system into all applications in the network, including making it possible to login to AWS Console using Kerberos (that one was twisty to get running, not because of OAuth2 but because of how it is handled by AWS IAM).

Also, I have used it to link in MFA systems of different kinds (it was definitely easier side than industry standard of using Radius)

In addition, this proposed system requires that every app has ability to send emails, which honestly is less simple than it sounds, especially today when sending to arbitrary public emails.
Every price includes an interest rate derivative, even if you pay with cash.

If interest rates are high, then buying something has a higher opportunity cost since you're forgoing earning interest on your capital. As patio11 put it in https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/banking-in-very-uncer..., "when interest rates rise, all asset prices must fall."
Waymo has developed the modern autonomous vehicle from the ground up. It's basically a matter of scale now. It's a mindblowing tech stack. The first time riding in one is much more otherwordly than using GPT for the first time. The value of the technology is far greater whatever PR they have generated (not many people know about it)
They can’t know. Eventually it will be open to everyone like cloud providers are today.
>Preserving culture at all costs for its own sake is backwards and it prevents progress

I dunno. Lots of groups even within the US lament their culture being overrun by US pop-culture or mainstream culture. Are these people wrong and counter-productive?
> many embedded things still don’t.

For home IoT, Matter uses IPv6, and may start picking up this year. (I worked on some IPv6-related things for it for my then-employer.)
Nice! Bookmarked for later reading
This kind of corporate behavior is common. Subaru for a while offered free SCCA memberships with purchase of a WRX so you could autocross it, then you do an autocross and they try to get out of any warranty work because you autocrossed it.

Certainly tire/brake pad wear shouldn't be covered but they were more ridiculous about it than that.

Be sure you know what autocross is before you type up a big lecture about wear and tear from racing. Also I already know.
> Atlassian just acquires any competition and guts it

Did Atlassian “gut” Trello or Bitbucket? I was using both before Atlassian acquired them and don’t fully understand what you’re talking about.

Can you elaborate a bit more about your theory？
Two words for you: predator drones
How about they start the "acceptance" at the BOE. Cut their salaries.

Then, cut all MP salaries.

Then, cut government employee salaries.

Then, tax the wealth of the rich (and not just income).

When these noble people "accept" poverty themselves, that ought to bring inflation down.
Apparent footage of the inciting incident. Sucker punch attack in the dead of night. https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/beating-of-ex-fire-c...
When demand is higher than supply there will always be strong pricing power from the supply side, you can't fix that with price controls, you'll end up with shortages.
A Trustpilot-like platform for creators
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Related discussion yesterday: Authenticator cloud sync: Google can see the secrets, even while stored (378 points, 126 comments) which is from the Mastadon version of the twitter post quoted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35708869
That gets some key details wrong; even though designed to supersede the M113, the MICV was always about a combat vehicle, not a personnel carrier.

The original concept was that fighting in a post-NBC world meant infantry would have to fight from inside a sealed area. This means the firing ports were part of the earliest designs, not added as a suggestion during the Nixon administration.

I should also note that several the very early prototypes were amphibious; I think this was mostly scratched (timeline wise) by the point where it is joked about being added in the film.

The added scout role is true, and coincides with cancellation of the ARSV, and did follow somewhat along the logic of the movie (roughly we need a fast, armored vehicle, this is a fast, armored vehicle).

Though it predates the unveiling of it, the MICV only got serious funding because of the Soviet BMP-1. The BMP-1 was used in combat before the Bradley was out of prototype stage, and had enough deficiencies that the BMP-2 was made, and the designers of the Bradley prototypes also reacted to it.

A lot of the changes were made because the development of it was slow enough (partly due to it often not being a priority) that the vision of what battlefield it would appear on changed.
Thank you, that does set some nice context.
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One of the weird things about Postgres MVCC is that it is "optimized for rollback," as one person memorably quipped to me. This is not to imply a design principle, it's more a description of how things ended up, and the general argument behind this quip is Postgres lacks "UNDO" segments.

On the one hand, this does make the model Postgres uses admirably simple: the WAL is all "REDO," and the heap is all you need to accomplish any kind of read, but at the expense that stuff that normally would be copied off to a sequential UNDO log and then vaporized when the transaction commits and all possible readers have exited remains comingled with everything else in the main database heap, needing to be fished out again by VACUUM for purging and figuring out how to reclaim numerical space for more transactions.

There may be other solutions to this, but it's one unusual quality Postgres has relative to other MVCC databases, many of which sport an UNDO log.

There are downsides to UNDO, however: if a read needs an old copy of the tuple, it needs to fish around in UNDO, all the indices and synchronization need to account for this, and if there's a rollback or crash recovery event (i.e. mass-rollback of all transactions open at the time), everything has to be shuffled back into the main database storage. Hence the memorable initial comment: "Postgres is optimized for rollback."
I can't resolve how Facebook is spending tens of billions, and how Horizon Worlds still looks/plays like it does.

Spore Galactic Adventures (2009) is far ahead in many ways.
Exactly.

Just goes against their mission, if that’s still a thing.
> At a time when America is desperately trying to re-shore strategic industries like semiconductors, we need a broad workforce with basic numeracy even more than usual. The more we refuse to teach our kids math — not the well-prepared upper crust, but the broad middle of the distribution — the more we’ll be dependent on immigration to run the fabs.

Americans need to readjust their attitude toward math. People just say “oh I’m not good at math” because nobody will shame you for not being good at math. It’s not considered a personal flaw. There’s no social pressure for the middle/upper middle part of the workforce to bang their heads against it and get good as they can at math.
> 4. They believe they can automate existing jobs and/or replace them with AI.

Yawn. It's more about disciplining the workforce.