skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have to be top X%. If you are single and graduating college, you will absolutely net more money in US in the tech sector, way more if you are exceptionally skilled.

After that, it depends on your living situation and family situation. Of course 200k in California with 3 kids and a house is likely going to be less than what you could make in EU.
> a bold claim

Isn't that just the definition of a vaccine?

"A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease." ... "The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and to further recognize and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the future."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine
It may not be available in your area but even being stuck with Comcast it might be available.

With Comcast I pay $100/mo for gigabit and $20/mo for unlimited usage.
Great idea, it would be cool to have attributes like that. I'll implement this.
And it's a better than ever experience for the average Twitter user such as myself, so a win-win all around!
I don't have much to say, but I love msgspec and just got started using it a month back. Thanks for making this incredible tool!
A Union Busting Chatbot? Eating Disorders Nonprofit Puts the 'AI' in Retaliation
You need that immigration since the birth rate is below replacement. Without it the Canadian economy would be in worse shape - and there would be higher inflation. Countries with low birthrates that can attract immigrants will be in better shape than countries that restrict immigration.
I don't understand why someone would choose a computing device that traps them as much as apple devices do. Every time I've tried to get a file off of one, which is something so incredibly basic it should be easy to do, it's next to impossible without using their shitty iTunes software. Why can't a file system just be a file system? Why does it need to be this nonsense?

The last time I tried this I was mounting an iPod as a filesystem and everything had nonhuman read bale names and there were a bunch of weird formats.

Why on earth is apple so hostile to users?
All those things are already true. Debate isn't about being right, it is about winning a debate. It is literally rhetorical combat. A quiz master that is wrong, how delightful! A chatbot is the multiple choice test you can argue with!

If those things are a problem, we have already failed. Because if your current education system is built upon taking things at face value, the harm is not in the shoveled knowledge but in building a student who accepts what is presented as unquestionable fact.

My child is an phenomenal bullshit discriminator. So much so that they have been correctly correcting all of their teachers in every grade they have been in. The real education is learning how to use the tools we have available to learn anything you want. And in that way, the LLM is most powerful thing we have since the printed book.
There are some libcurl-using C++ implementations out there floating around on GitHub you could probably wrap to work with a straight C API. Most didn't support streaming partial results last time I looked for ChatCompletion, but it's not a huge effort to add that if you really need it.
Yes but the rockets will only go up if the engineering is actually good.

So either he's a really good engineer or he's really good at hiring them, which means he's a really good engineer.

It's comical how much people hate this guy. He's a smart person you don't like, why is that so hard to accept.
KDE Connect. That's the feature I use most. Open KDE Connect on the phone, select the target computer, ‘Send Photos and Videos’, select the photos, and hit ‘Add’. They end up in a configurable directory on the host.

I previously used USB or SFTP apps, but neither is as convenient.
> Also apps weren’t part of the original iPhone.

So it did even less than I gave it credit for.
> I think a lot of people on here are for some reason believers in the idea that if a technology has detractors, then it must be another case of the steam engine, human flight, or some other technology that had doubters before completely revolutionizing our world.

I think that's a misinterpretation - I don't think that it's a revolutionary technology because it has detractors or because it's controversial; I think it's revolutionary because of its capabilities. Those comparisons just serve to point out that there are plenty of historical examples of people criticizing things that turned out to be revolutionary, and the same may well turn out to be the case here.
AFAIK they are not doing too bad financially any more. They've cut a lot of costs and almost all advertisers are back
It's not really even a theory, he flat out says it:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657050349608501249

>Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app.
To your latter point I did actually two tests with my girlfriend: I asked her to respond "as I would" rather than with what she thought the truth was, and then did another test where I just asked her to say what she thought. She improved when I told her to predict what she thought I would say—and that's the data I used in the article. But she was still significantly worse than the best GPT model

Re the information: I don't think so. The version of GPT that had access to only my most recent tweets performed better than she did, and she reads all of my tweets. In general, I think she has much higher fidelity data on me as an individual than GPT does.
"you'd think elon killed puppies as a hobby or something."

Well, "Hack jobs" with living, sentient beings is close enough for me:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/05/neuralink...
I don't think you need to be privy to the internal workings of Twitter, Elon's public actions make it very clear he's been extremely erratic up until this point. I'm not saying it's going to destroy the company but at the current moment it's very difficult to see his involvement as an overall positive.
The difference is that normally, the CEO answers to the board every few months. And the board doesn't tell the CEO what to do; the point of a CEO is that they can be trusted to do the right move. If they can't, then they serve no purpose and will be fired.

In this structure, Elon is embedded in the decision making loop directly. The CEO normally is responsible for the company, but instead, Elon has decided that the CEO will deal with making money while he makes all of the decisions as to how the product works. Which essentially cuts the CEO of of any decision making aside from business partnerships, making her more of a VP of Sales than CEO.
> after years of work, BioNTech says that they can get it down to less than $100,000/dose. I'm sure it can be driven down further, but this is highly unlikely to ever be cheap. They also got an anti-PD-L1 antibody and a four-component chemotherapy cocktail (those last two have already been tried in PDAC therapy without the vaccine dose, to unimpressive effect). The vaccine was administered across nine doses

Wow, $1mm to save a life. (This math works in the rich world.)
Never saw one until he took over
Listening to the Largest Tree on Earth
Cloudflare also has D1 as a serverless database based on SQLite. Haven't tried it out yet but could be useful to reduce processing time even more! it doesn't have transactions though :(
This is pretty fun - used it to generate diagrams for my book!
One of the biggest problems in AI for the last 60 years is the grounding problem. The ability of a model to be rooted in objective reality. In other words, for one of these LLMs to understand when they are being accurate vs hallucinating. None of the current crop of LLMs has come close to solving this problem. On the contrary, they make the problem blatantly obvious. No LLMs will achieve AGI until this is solved sufficiently that the answers of an LLM can be depended on without complete independent secondary verification.
I follow artists and developers who post interesting things they’re working on. It’s the best place online I’ve found for this content.
I agree 100%. Since I'm getting gpt-3.5 to apply the tags, it happened to choose ML for Machine Learning. But I can fix this by adding more context to the prompt.
Not sure why you got downvoted. But I believe you’re right. I did read that you should not take the otc pain reliever before the shot but can do so when symptoms develop after the shot.
If it's less than 98% complete he could still stop it, start over and still finish sooner.
Zelda looks extremely close to this with a different art style. 15 year old game for sure, on par with God of War 2/3.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll improve the home page.
Interestingly, Ford put his money where his mouth was and dropped the price of the Model T by 5x over the production period. Very hard to imagine today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T#Price_and_product...

> I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one – and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.
I guess they built upon the Voder [1] (Homer Dudley, Bell Labs 1939 as well. But that was played manually, amazing ‘instrument’?

1: https://youtu.be/5hyI_dM5cGo
That's pretty much what I've always done (well, the ETF equivalent VTI), even when I worked for S&P500 companies like Walmart or Apple. I wanted to hedge my bets a bit and make sure that even if the company went a bit pear-shaped, I would have my money stashed in whomever was there to pick up the pieces.

You know, I never even considered that maybe I should have disclosed that to employers until right now...
Too bad the font is unreadbly small on mobile.
Sure, wait to jump into The Singularity. It'll wait on you. /s

By Singularity, I mean a time when tech moves so fast nobody can keep up with it.
This book had such a big impact on me. Really helped fuel my love of science and gave me a sense of the scientific community as a special group of people.
There’s no need to do mental gymnastics around the definition of the word “womanizing” as if all criticisms of Feynman’s behavior can be reduced to that single word and then dismissed by opining over the definition of that single word. In reality, there are a fair number of much more specific claims about his behavior that are not reducible to that single word and can be described without even using that word if one finds it impossible to move past that word.
I am sure there are lots of comments across the internet about this appointment, good bad and ugly. I hope none of it is personally derogatory towards her.

but my first thought was that this is just boring business as usual - someone takes over as a CEO at a company - two paragraphs in the business pages if you are lucky and the editor owes your PR guy a favour.

Software has eaten so much of the world, it is becoming ... boring.

Good.
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More on the port workers: today you'll find that skilled union port workers are extremely well-paid. Workers in the cranes that pull containers off the ship, for example, are paid >$300k.

They are quite skilled, but so are many other skilled tradespeople. Electricians and machinists for example do not make that kind of money despite their skill. So why do crane operators make so much?

When containerization, and subsequently other types of automation, hit ports, the union resisted fiercely but ultimately had to work out a deal with the port operators.

That deal was to reward the most tenured union tradespeople with much larger pay packages, at the cost of the less experienced tradespeople, who would have to find different work.

This agreement became agreeable to both sides, since the operators could still massively reduce the workforce, and the only price they'd have to pay would be high salaries for the union workers who remained. And the union was able to reward their longest tenured members.

It's hard to fault the union for this: the alternative was likely both huge reduction in workforce and less attractive pay, so they at least got good pay out of it for the remaining workers. But it made a lot of the less tenured union workers resentful because they felt the union sacrificed them in favor of the union 'insiders'.

The book 'The Box' by Marc Levinson is a great coverage of this topic, if steel shipping containers are the sort of thing that get you going.
So if Twitter fails, she’ll be the one to blame. If it succeeds, do you think she’ll get the credit or will people assume it was all his doing?
Similarly, the existing tech was better.
Morons, maybe?

Thing is, there will always be morons. LLMs are just the latest thing to be moronic about. That's why I really don't appreciate these downer articles very much. I think LLMs are awesome and they've now become a part of my everyday life, but it's a little much to say they're the "holy grail."

At the same time, ChatGPT does deserve hype. It's an achievement that we've essentially invented the ship's computer from Star Trek, and have it available for free or at an affordable price to everyone. When people reduce ChatGPT down to little more than statistics, I don't think they actually understand the technology or cognition at even a basic level, and a lot of the critiques towards ChatGPT come off as butthurtedness.
Crypto IS a nothingburger.
If it's your life, it might be worth it.
Hey! I'm trying to come up with a similar daily puzzle game, did anything help you come up with the idea? Also, do you generate these unrelated words daily and then vet them before releasing the daily puzzle, or is it all pretty much automated?
My favorite is still the MacSoup Usenet client.
IMHO, Twitter has so much network effect that it kept frozen in time lacking features. It's one of the best study case on MVPs as Craigslist, Reddit, Slashdot, 4Chan...

Musk just showed us how a "not anti-capitalism" product management, from top down, could make Twitter catch up and keep up on the Zeitgeist of Internet User Experience.

Twitter and part of the public discourse was saved, Musk companies can benefit a lot from the same leadership and governance model spearheaded by Google on the 'Alphabet move'.

It's sad that people just want to buy the media buzz and witch-hunting because 'it is too much power in one person's hands'. I don't see this amount of critical thinking about Sergey and Larry, Besos or Zuckerberg.
Give xz and zstd a go. You'll love them.
The difference here is that steam engines were "less powerful than a horse" in an easily quantifiable, easily diagnosable way. They produced fewer newtons of force. You could tell this was the case because your mechanism just wouldn't move when you wanted it to. Most new technologies followed this pattern, they quantifiably underperformed alternatives until the field matured. But AI doesn't act like a dumb human who's missing information or is inept at the task presented to them. It doesn't refuse to answer if you give it a question that's too hard for it or requires info that it doesn't have in the training dataset, it confidently makes stuff up and then covers up for the fact that it made stuff up by burying it in marketing copy and extraneous info such that you need to be an expert in the topic you're using AI for to even tell that it failed. Better AI models do help with this, but they simultaneously improve the AI's obfuscation abilities to the point where fatal flaws in its output are going to be even harder to catch than they are now with human review. It doesn't have the same risk calculus as a human, it doesn't care whether the marketing copy you're writing describes your product as wonderful and perfect or if it's providing you completely bogus legal advice that'll land you in jail for a decade if you follow it.

And this is all before we even bring up the topic of prompt injection, a problem so intrinsic to the technology that OpenAI doesn't even take bug reports on it because bug reports "are for problems that can be fixed".
... all complicated by the need for energy storage and upgrades to transmission.
The US is one of very few (<2, inclusive) countries that has this "debt ceiling" malarkey. It's a political tool in the US, that's ita only purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_limit
That doesn't really address the question, though. Even if this can't be solved with individual contributions, it's still likely that any societal changes we could make would have enormous impacts on our lifestyles. Think "cutting meat production/air travel/personal automobiles/etc by 95%". That's what OP is calling "Malthusian doomerism" — saying we need to instead look for solutions that don't involve drastic measures. Except there's not really evidence that such solutions actually exist.
that's because Apple, instead of using glass uses sapphire for its camera lenses.
> I think the MMU was introduced with the 68020

Apparently it was possible to use MMU even with 68000. A few months back someone on HN was describing on how they implemented it, even if 68000 wasn't designed for it (?) -

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34762508

"The Sun-1 workstation used a Motorola 68000 CPU at 10MHz. This was paired with an in-house designed MMU. It had 256K zero wait state memory with parity, and 32K EPROM memory."
It also seems that this direct integration would only be suitable for a limited number of (very simple) use cases. Not to mention it'd prevent you from leveraging some form of caching which ought to be factored in.
as long as you upgrade with a minor version, you will have the same experience with postgres.

11.0->11.2 will work totally fine, with no command needed.
> it might be worth it

It’s absolutely worth it if you can afford it, which the rich world can. But personalised medicine forces us to face, in stark and dollarised terms, the inequity of healthcare access across the world.
Age and technology used:
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2021/05/cobol-jobs-ba...

Failure rates:
https://www.swift.com/news-events/news/settlement-fails-gett...

Finality:
https://www.swift.com/our-solutions/swift-gpi/stop-and-recal...

High fees and days/weeks wait times for international wire transfers are common knowledge - check at almost any bank.

The above links partly explain why this situation exists in a world where all money is basically already "digital".

It's kind of not. And the only system making radical inroads to actually improving the status quo (which has been deeply entrenched for decades) is crypto, which right now offers real solutions adopted by consumers and institutions.

Doesn't mean its perfect or that there's no dark side, just as with everything. But the media - and HN largely, on this topic - loves to play up such things, so good luck finding much accurate information there, or here.
A quick browse on your site leaves a few questions. You're based in the US but I couldn't see anywhere that it said you were open to approaches from outside the US. There is no description of the size of the grants that I could find, and there's no email to contact you. That information could allow me to rule myself out very quickly which is why I'm asking.

I saw your chat option but for privacy reasons, or paranoia if you prefer I tend not to give out my details to third parties, such as my email which you require to use chat.

If they are there and I didn't see them, that's on me. Thank you.
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I already use your HN integration to share my upvotes with friends and see their upvotes inline on the HN site [0]. Here's my feed of things I've upvoted [1]. It's the only HN enhancer I use besides hnreplies [2] to get alerted when someone replies to my comments. Congrats on this new feature! Although, I wish it looked orange like HN. Also I wish it was more condensed like HN so I don't have to scroll to see all the first page posts.

[0] https://histre.com/integrations/

[1] https://histre.com/collections/b9fqzrrh/alans-hacker-news-up...

[2] https://hnreplies.com
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Ah! Thank you for the feedback, I'll fix this soon
If electricity usage is anything to go by, crypto's already taken a bite of the economic world.
Nintendo delivered. I'm only several hours in and know that I will be spending hundreds of hours on this game.
He announced that he was looking for a CEO straight after acquisition. Twitter hasn't been profitable for 11 years straight from 2006 to 2017 and even after that it revenue was relatively low. Atm company is financially break even, so I wouldn't panic much.
It's kinda funny that some US advertisers left the platform after some rednecks were unbanned, yet they were totally okay with things before when Taliban and other state terrorist organizations were literally using it as an official PR platform (with huge success btw, if you read the articles of that time). Or the fact that Twitter has been flooded with porn made by teenagers. But that's typical corporate America))
You make it sound like installing zstd is a big deal. Which it is not.
Wait until they can watch TV to learn (I am serious). If you imbue them with competitive play, oh boy. We just gotta figure out what they think funny is.
> Ford saw the automobile as being revolutionary only if the person who makes the automobile is able to make the automobile

What is this supposed to mean? I'm not sure if I'm being obtuse or its too profound for me to understand.
Danger yes, flight risk no. If you have a pending drunk driving charge, you might skip state. But if your brother puts up a bond, it's less likely that you will let him down to escape relatively minor penalties. Or a bail bondsman can verify that you have a job / sufficient local ties to take a risk on you.
I totally agree with you. Being a kid was certainly one factor, but breath of the wild got a little boring and repetitive after a while.

There was something fun about getting Nintendo Power and the guidebooks which sticks with me as well. Super nostalgic
The "Elon had it easy because he had a fortune from emerald mining" is total bollocks. He was certainly not "rich" when he came to US and was in university here, and when he badly needed money at the beginning of Tesla and SpaceX there was certainly no secret backup of "Emerald Mine" money.

I'm not sure where this rubbish conspiracy came from but if there was Emerald Mine money there wasn't much of it. You may not like to hear it, but Elon's big start came from the success of X and Paypal which then bankrolled the beginnings of SpaceX and Tesla, it wasn't from a rich daddy.
The best reason I have heard is that the F-18 would be a much better choice, dual engine like the migs they already fly, better landing gear, Ukraine doesn't have many good runways for the F-16, they are using regular roads in many instances and the F-16 cannot handle this.
Check out Clone Wars and Bad Batch. These brought me back to star wars fandom. Don’t be put off by animation. The stories are excellent and there is lots of character development.