skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen this argument over and over again, as if "more expensive to employ" directly causes "lower salaries". I don't think the two are directly tied. If it costs you $150k to pay $90k employee salary, for example, that doesn't explain why there are $300k+ employees in the Valley (while that amount of money is kind of preposterous in Europe, though I'm sure some have it as well).

In my mind, it's rather a combination of:

1) European employees not willing to work much more than 8h a day (whereas US folks tend to work themselves to the bone)

2) European employees living in cheaper countries (so the HR has a ready-made BS answer to "why do I earn less than my US counterparts)

3) What I believe is a bit of disrespect towards non-US employees. If the company's based in the US, the upper management's going to be US, and I often feel like the attitude is somewhat "your education must have been worse than the US one, so you'll probably be worse than US engineers" kind of a deal. This is, of course, very subtle; I've personally never felt that from my immediate co-workers, but the salary policies seem to be geared this way.

Of course, being more expensive to employ doesn't help. I'm sure it's one of the contributing factors too. But, as a European, I feel like it's far from being in the top 5 reasons for the salary discrepancies.
It takes a big person to admit it and I think this is the first.
And is code generation ability equivalent to code understanding and search ability?
Robinhood is actually making some pretty smart(or scummy, depending how you see it) moves lately.

Their latest earnings showed they make a ton of money from interest on cash on hand, while trading and crypto slid. They offer high interest for money you park in your trading account.

So now to check your balance, you see all these stocks going up and down, ripe for the buying with a click from your well funded brokerage account. Now, you can do so even in the middle of the night.

It's not a ton different than say, a casino offering high interest on a stack of chips if you set them on the corner of the blackjack table.
Cam you help me understand this? The research appears to be from a few years ago. Can this be used with Claude (for example)? How is it different to the approach many people are taking with vector stores and embeddings?
I do question it. I am happy to have substantive conversations, and improve things. You may not realize it but the current site(s) other than the Development page are the result of years and hundreds of iterations with people who expressed criticism just like yours. Including professionals. And thus what you say at this point is one data point — but you can’t please everyone.

People often point out problems in design aesthetics, and imagine that the opposite solution somehow can be realized in a consistent way that makes everyone love the result and will make the difference in platform usaage, but no. That’s not how it works at all. It’s like the people who say “your app doesn’t work” to a developer (with no details on a solution should be), and imagine that somehow this will lead to a much better app with no bugs that everyone will use.

At the end of the day, adoption matters far more. Facebook is cluttered and ugly compared to many other clean beautiful apps, but people are super used to it. Discord is totally bewildering, with tiny gifs for flair and many controls are extremely hard to discover and operate, but people are used to where things are. Craigslist is ugly but at least it’s straightforward. Many more beautiful sites fell by the wayside as they tried to take it on (remember kajiji? others?)

As for Yang 2020… your criticisms are fine but you should realize the design wasn’t ours. It was, in fact, following the design guide here since each community designs their own portal:

https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1665227124477248/Yang%20Gang%2...

You see, when you are designing a tool can be reused in many different environments with hundreds of variations that could go either way, and still has to work, then you realize that the design decisions aren’t so simple and that these may be the least bad after having gone through exactly the process you described.

Look, if Payload’s GIANT SCROLLING TEXT and white text in black over white text on black was the unavoidable result of hundreds of iterations, then I’d accept it. I personally think there are good reasons for what we have done, having tried tons of other variations. But I don’t think the GIANT SCROLLING TEXT, or making all links look exactly like the text, is necessary or the inevitable result of iterating. We HAVE been listening to criticism and THIS is the result.
Rubygems.org marked by Chrome as an “unsafe site”
Confirmation here:

https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1656743460769259521?s...
I think the 6a really illiterates the problem. Spec wise it’s fine, but as a phone you run into issues where for example battery size isn’t as important as battery life. Initially it came out at near parity with iPhone SE prices where today it’s at a significant discount. Unfortunately, it’s also much closer to end of life, and that’s the basic problem with mid range Android last years phone is already long in the tooth.

“Whether it's the smaller battery, the demands of the Tensor chip or some other factor, the Pixel 6a fell flat on our battery test, in which phones surf the web continuously until they run of power. The Pixel 6a lasted an average of 6 hours and 29 minutes, which is more than 3 hours behind the Pixel 5a's result on that same test. Even worse, the Pixel 6a trailed the iPhone SE (2022), and we consider the 9 hour, 5 minute time that Apple's phone produced to be below average for a smartphone.” https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/google-pixel-6a

That’s the trend, a new model Android phone has near iPhone prices for a device that’s comparable but will have a shorter lifespan/ worse resale price. Buy an older model and you save money today, but need to replace the phone even more frequently.
Personally I am going to start a company where the "AI" is actually a bunch of people in a business complex somewhere writing, typing, or speed painting all the content in real time.

We will be the first AI company whose final product is based fully on the Wizard of Oz model.
Indeed I believe the LLMs are an excellent tool to education. Especially because you can ask it questions until you understand.

Also, some things are not need to be known anymore, like phone numbers or the inner working of a car. There are plenty of things to learn even if automation made some of knowledge beneign.
re P.Thiel: I experienced the same thing on HN.

I would welcome HN providing visibility into the nature of the downvotes (how many up total, how many down total, when).

I also want to know why something dissenting/controversial/unpopular is downvoted.
I remember months ago when the majority believed ChatGPT was useless because they coded faster without it.

I never liked that argument because it can assist in something where you are not well versed. Like gamedev if you're a webdev.

Maybe GPT4 caused the sentiment change.
Is https://www.engine.is/ an industry lobbying group? That's what it looks like.
San Francisco keeps responding to calls about non-existent poop on one street
The Safire plasma has self-containing magnetic fields and does not require artificial magnet infrastructure. Safire plasma can stay "lit" at under 240 watts of power input almost indefinitely.

Here is some raw video of plasma in a Safire chamber vaporizing a tungsten rod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y46wMAHnsI
I use https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/ as a starting point, but it can be hit or miss depending on what you search.
nit: psql is the command line client. postgres or pg are the more common shortenings of PostgreSQL.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/app-psql.html
These trading services are becoming more like roulette tables. They encourage addiction by providing intermittent Skinner-Box-style rewards, they show inconsequential information to create a delusion of expertise for the marks (e.g. previous roulette numbers vs. a plethora of charts), and now they're both open 24 hours.
Designing Human-Machine Interfaces for Vehicles of the Future
And from there a lot of it presumably has flowed into cloud and advertising spend.
LOL, Roberts takes a shot at Kavanaugh on page 26:

> JUSTICE KAVANAUGH’s solo concurrence in part and dissent in part says the quiet part aloud: California’s market is so lucrative that almost any in-state measure will influence how out-of-state profit-maximizing firms choose to operate. ... But if that makes all the difference, it means voters in States with smaller markets are constitutionally entitled to greater authority to regulate in- state sales than voters in States with larger markets. So much for the Constitution’s “fundamental principle of equal sovereignty among the States.”
This is Emperor's New Clothes level silliness.

"But it's art" - Yeah, well, lots of overpriced art is ugly and stupid; serving only the noble purpose of separating wealthy fools from money.

If people want to pay €1500 to show me they're a complete rube, they can go right ahead. I'll be here judging them, briefly and against my better judgment, before moving on to actually enjoyable and productive pastimes.
Why do you think that made the financials viable?
The landing page says "Easy integration via standard APIs Claude can be incorporated into any product or toolchain you’re building with minimal effort." Then there is a big button "Request Access", which for me right now just does nothing. OpenAI has really faced the pain to make their product available via an API to the general public at scale, but Anthropic/Google/etc. don't quite seem to be there yet. It's frustrating.
> there was some hand-waviness claiming that GUSD was FDIC insured

This should be piercing-the-veil fraud if true.
Absolutely! I find it nuts to see so many people defending giant corporations - it's so backwards.
I used to watch them playing by my great grandfather’s house in Carmel when I was little. Glad to know they’re still there and doing well.
“Sir, here’s your half of a cheese burger and your milkshake shot glass” - not a satiating option to deal with caloric density.

And while it reduces the quantity of sugar, it doesn’t reduce its rapid absorption
> I wonder if we will see more of the network layer move into the application layer, like what I think happened with QUIC.

https://lwn.net/Articles/169961/
I think there will be an art to these "information summarization" products. You want just enough summarization to accomplish the reader's goal, while also minimizing your hallucination surface area. Summarize too short, and your user won't get what they came for. Summarize too long, and watch user trust crater as the hallucinations pile up.

I don't think there's a generalized solution to this problem for all information domains, so when search engine companies implement it it'll be low quality. What remains to be seen is if the money is in being a curator/aggregator within a niche, as Boring Report aims to be; or if it will be in selling the specialized summarization tech to the content creators directly - for use by them when they publish. I think the latter leans B2B and will have higher quality since the content creator signs off on it. But we'll see. Either way, the right mental model for LLMs may be to treat them as memetic compression algorithms.
The EU seems to do more "back end" technological developments than it does visible consumer brands. Less Apple or Google, more ASML or Nokia Networks.
I think rather it highlights the hypocrisy and double think people have when they see the word employee.

They have completely different expectations for two cab drivers doing the same exact job if one is an employee and one is incorporated.

The employee is morally entitled to a minimum income and all sorts of benefits while the Incorporated one is responsible for taking care of themselves. This is understood and expected and the only difference is a piece of paper filed with the state
Actually, same for me in California, USA! If I click the google result, it opens properly. If I click the direct link, it doesn't.
Add Berserk to that list.
Risk to return is non-linear, and at a system with a floor of 0%, 7% is an insane claim. Granted, this requires a reasonable amount of financial literacy, and plenty of people think they have that but don't.
It looks great!

I was wondering if there are any plans to extend this feature to other sections and comments.

Also, I was curious about your plans for expenses if you're using GPT-3.
I think you have assumed the worst from my comment.

A culture where both men and women are expected to work and have the same roles and responsibilities is the worst treatment. It does not respect gender differences and strength differences.

You asked me to quote birth rates so I looked up birth rates of Russian minorities. I could not find any but I did find this: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/26/world/mother-russia-makes...
Friends don't let their friends choose Mysql :)

A super long time ago (decades) when I was using Oracle regularly I had to make a decision on which way to go. Although Mysql then had the mindshare I thought that Postgres was more similar to Oracle, more standards compliant, and more of a real enterprise type of DB. The rumor was also that Postgres was heavier than MySQL. Too many horror stories of lost data (MyIsam), bad transactions (MyIsam lacks transaction integrity), and the number of Mysql gotchas being a really long list influenced me.

In time I actually found out that I had underestimated one of the most important attributes of Postgres that was a huge strength over Mysql: the power of community. Because Postgres has a really superb community that can be found on Libera Chat and elsewhere, and they are very willing to help out, I think Postgres has a huge advantage over Mysql. RhodiumToad [Andrew Gierth] https://github.com/RhodiumToad & davidfetter [David Fetter] https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidfetter are incredibly helpful folks.

I don't know that Postgres' licensing made a huge difference or not but my perception is that there are a ton of 3rd party products based on Postgres but customized to specific DB needs because of the more liberalness of the PG license which is MIT/BSD derived https://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/

Some of the PG based 3rd party DBs:

Enterprise DB https://www.enterprisedb.com/ - general purpose PG with some variants

Greenplum https://greenplum.org/ - Data warehousing

Crunchydata https://www.crunchydata.com/products/hardened-postgres - high security Postgres for regulated environments

Citus https://www.citusdata.com - Distributed DB & Columnar

Timescale https://www.timescale.com/

Why Choose PG today?

If you want better ACID: Postgres

If you want more compliant SQL: Postgres

If you want more customizability to a variety of use-cases: Postgres using a variant

If you want the flexibility of using NOSQL at times: Postgres

If you want more product knowledge reusability for other backend products: Postgres
FTX probably did have unpaid taxes, but could they have gotten to a $44B dollar unpaid bill? That implies revenue or payroll of order-of-magnitude $200B. I don't know FTX's finances but that seems extreme, even for them.

The article also only mentions what half the bill is. $20.4B of partnership taxes and unpaid payroll, but no info on the other $23.6B of taxes.

Edit:

From a random googled article: $1.02B of revenue in 2021. It seems like a long jump from that to a $44b tax bill - even if they had perfect accounting they would never have been able to pay that much

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/20/ftx-grew-revenue-1000percent...
I don't think there are many truly luxurious options in the category of everyday items. The ultra wealthy have the same options as the middle class in terms of apple corer, mobile phones, tablets, toilets, or streaming services.

Luxuries would be things like hiring personal assistants, hand-made/customized items, art collections, etc. An emperor wouldn't have a golden hoe, because he doesn't farm.
There's a whole industry catering to that niche. Magazines like Luxury Launches [1] or Robb Report [2] and retailers like James Edition [3]. You can tell them apart from normal retailers because the menu will have categories for jewelry and helicopters.

For example, here's a $990 100mL bottle of Balsamic vinegar I found on Robb Report that's aged for a century [4].

Most of these are for private concierges and assistants, though, as very rich people don't usually bother with this stuff themselves. They get their staff to source it online or find someone to hand craft a custom piece to spec. "Personal shopper" is the generic term

[1] https://luxurylaunches.com/

[2] https://robbreport.com/

[3] https://www.jamesedition.com/

[4] https://giusti.it/en/prodotto/giusti-100-100ml/
> As more and more sites block access to Firefox's rendering engine

Citation please
the paper was written at a time when public safety warnings were first mandated to be put on consumer products, stuff like "smoking considered harmful" on a pack of cigarettes. It was a clever and winking reference to the zeitgeist, just as hyperventilating about tone is today, something like "Wirth and Dijkstra were guilty of privilege escalating themselves to microaggress against FORTRAN programmers"
Ah, so anarchy. No continuity in government. What rational thinking. I too was a big anarchist when I was 15 and there was a fun punk scene in the Bay Area.
Probably not so much actual poor people but I expect some non-trivial number of not-rich people bet money on cryto that they couldn't really afford to lose either from simple greed/FOMO or because they convinced themselves that their only ticket to the good life was to gamble.
I would like to see a live example using a text of your choice with no login. For example Alice in Wonderland or maybe the US Constitution. Just something to give a feel of how it reacts.
"never learn", give me a fucking break.

Cryptocurrency is just slow, bad, unregulated, pretend money. That's the reason it's so rife with fraud. If I had put my money into a boring FDIC insured bank I'd still have all of it right now. I thought cryptocurrency was a good idea, put my money into one of the more trusted exchanges, and now it's gone. I guess I could have stored my wallet on a hard drive or something, just like I could have withdrawn all my cash and put it under my mattress, but I really don't consider that progress.

So I did learn; the banks are regulated for a reason.
Huh. Well that changes things.
> The best programmers I know

But are the "best programmers" the best judges of such things. I often find they are not because they often understand their tools in a way that is incomprehensible to others. I've seen many junion engineers fizzle into disfunction because they are paired with "one of the best programmers". I've seen "the best programmers" adopt tools and patterns that cannot survive their departure because they are too complicated and too specialized for anyone else to own.

> rarely see things as 100% good or bad.

For me, I held this view most strongly when I was an intermediate programmer. I quickly moved into the "every tool for its job" phase after the "the things I learned with are best" phase.

But as I've become an advanced programmer, some of my opinions have become much stronger. For example (and this is just an example I don't want to argue about this) I currently see "the self initializing singleton" as pretty much a 100% bad pattern. This because my experience has taught me that not knowing when something is going to get setup is a weakness, not a virtue. This is an opinion I was actually incapable of developing as an intermediate programmer because I had not yet encountered the myriad of annoying bugs that come from ambiguities of initialization. I just respected the "ease" and "cleverness" of the pattern.
until someone sends a video.
Communism predates Marx (to the 18th century) and differs from socialism. Both seek to have labor own the means of production but communism also concerns itself with consumption (Marx: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs").

But really what you're talking about is what's called Marxist-Leninism as crafted by the Bolshevik in Russia in 1917 and beyond.

But what Marx is really known for is creating an analytical framework to be able to discuss these things. Abraham Lincoln's views on this pretty closely match Marx's, as an aside.

> ... those ended up being worse than the capitalist ones.

You really want to start comparing communist outcomes against Western colonialism and imperialism? The slave trade? And you can rightfully say a bunch of bad things about Stalin but he'll always get credit for killing Nazis and defeating Hitler (at an absolutely horrendous cost, as an aside).
Did it involve calling the insurance company?
First Rust code shows up in the Windows 11 kernel
I was sold until I clicked through to the store and saw the price: £1299. Absolutely ludicrous given a Zoom H2 is £149.
Burn some fossil fuels from a "national emergency reserve". Perfect is the enemy of good.
That little microphone hole at the bottom is not lined up with the other items nor is is evenly spaced out like on the iPhones. Its bugging me.
Their massive early investment in Uber distorted their reality and they expected ride sharing to be incredibly successful in other markets when it's not even successful in the USA - it's a fraud that pays below minimum wage off the backs of people who cannot do math. It has never made money anywhere ...

ARM has had a laziness problem ever since the Apple A1 chip - there's a reason why nobody uses their 6-yr old layouts. ARM almost killed Qualcomm when they adopted A57 for the snapdragon 808 using the 64-bit arm design - that chip melted quite a few phones and this gave Exymos it's start!
and I was also thinking that "no longer producing" is probably too simple. I may no longer be producing the thing I wrote a few years ago, but the company I used to work for is absolutely still selling it all day every day.

Not trying to cry that that's unfair since that was the deal at the time was salary instead of ownership. Plus what about all the stuff I spent time on that never produced any value? I still got paid and got to keep it.

Just saying as part of the theoretical conversation about other possible deals.
They're actually being sued by the SEC over this, claiming it's an unregistered security.
I've had the iOS version of Free42 in my pocket for over a decade now. My real 42S is safe in a drawer. Highly recommended.
The real question isn't if but when.
History repeats itself - from oral to written, now to AI. Fear not, it's a shift, not a shutdown. Writing didn't dull minds, it sparked ideas. AI isn't the end of thinking, it's a new chapter.
I can’t imagine spending $65M on a single vendor. And it’s just for logging and monitoring.

The Datadog account manager or sales team must have had $$ in their eyes once the CB wire transfer cleared. Even a modest 5% commission is $3.25M (before taxes).
With the "by omissions" dishonesty that most politicized news orgs go with these days, I think gathering all news, then putting it through the AI, would be ideal. There would be some chance at getting the whole picture.

I'm far more interested in what a sensational news org decided to not include.