skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few of us in society do work that truly matters. Work is like a colouring book: A complete waste of your time (though work might be less fun, YMMV).

It would be lovely to give up the charade of the importance of work.
A lot of B2B startups can technically the cloud API to provide value added applications to Enterprises, but often the banks and healthcare companies will not want their data running through startups pipes to OpenAI pipes.

We provide a low code data transformation product (prophecy.io), and we’ll never close sales at any volume, if we have a to get an MSA that approves this. Might get easier if we become large :)
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$1,500? For a field recorder?

That's not a crazy number for a digital synthesizer. It's eye-watering for a pocket-sized mixer. For a microphone though? This is madness. You carry a cell phone with you every day - if you need more, you buy a Zoom handheld for maybe ~$150.

There's no shortage of pissing-and-moaning about Teenage Engineering hardware, but goddamn. They are really betting on people not wanting to open the Voice Recordings app on their smartphone with this one.
The steerable rotors amateur radio operators use with large directional antennas might be of interest. The EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) and radio satellite communities in particular have many automated antenna rotation solutions.
The economic benefits of mining asteroids are also too large to ignore yet here we are, levelling villages to dig for coal.

Just a few manufacturers hold the effective cartel monopoly on LLM acceleration and you best bet they will charge out the ass for it.
100% this

The idea that work is “over there” and life is “over here” is not only unique historically, it’s also the reason workers have no power. By failing to demand that companies and organizations adjust to us and telling them “this is how we are going to live and companies need to fit into that” then we tacitly let them collude to keep labor power down.

If you are alienated from your work, and accept and lean into that alienation, then you have no personal drive to make work serve you and your community rather than you serving it.

It’s a race to the bottom of alienation and the paved path of capitalism is basically scraping the bottom at this point.
because the jedi aren't the good guys
No, as you can see by my posts, I'm a strong supporter of min wage, but there is no need for 'job guaranteed by the state' or 'UBI' - in fact, doing so would lead to economic collapse.

All of the UBI supporters need to do the math on it, it's 'extremely expensive'.

The 'economic collapse' part happens when 'not working' becomes normative, and socially acceptable - and be assured that it will.

The idea of 'working for a living' when you can just 'do whatever you want' is a bit glib. I suggest the only reason people would work, is to pay for that 'special thing' they want aka 'trip' or 'iphone'.

The ideological problem with UBI is the same as any broad social welfare program and that it doesn't reward material output. That is 'extremely bad'.

Finally - I do suggest that it may be possible to 'very simplistically means tested welfare' for people (to get rid of overhead) - and - to allow some of those people to have jobs so they don't get caught in that trap.

In fact, I suggest for people 65+ we'll need a program like this because they can still work, and frankly, working may be very good for their health, and they can do things that are 'extremely needed' right now, such as help to take care of the very elderly.
Ah, the good ol days of sex scandals in America - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gczkM8cL2hs
"Some" people are comfortable paying 1million for a car...

But overall, the market is that people are not willing to pay a lot for delivery, or perhaps if they order very rarely. Here in the UK I think you'd hard pressed to find delivery beyond £4 on, say, Delivery and average is lower than that.

Since delivery is factually low productivity wages cannot be anything but very low and this is compounded by the use of a middleman (the platform).
At least “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of…” essays are no longer unreasonably effective.
I am a software engineer.

I struggled to find meaning in my work for the first few years of my career. I used to lie (unknowingly) to myself "I love my job", "I am passionate about my job", "It's my passion" and I was always disappointed.

That is until one day, after many years and barring many details, I decided to tell myself that "I push buttons on a company laptop in exchange for money and I happen to somewhat like it from time to time". I immediately became better at my job as it improved my mental health. I started seeing my work for what it was.

As for "passion", I started looking elsewhere for it and eventually found it. I can't make living from it, but that's another story.
https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/child-a...

The U.S. Is the Only Country Among Its Peers in Which Guns Are the Leading Cause of Death Among Children and Teens
> Or people could pay the pittance that it would be if just a fraction of users chipped in.

If only there was some way to gather and organize this rich fraction of users' contributions. Maybe we could create some kind of assembly where we discuss and vote on how to do so.

>Why is "the government should pay for it" always a comment in every thread on HN? Is there something I haven't understood about this community.

Because the purpose of government is to organize and manage society and that requires funds to do so? I'm not sure how to answer such a simple question with such a self-evident answer. How old are you?
In an ideal world yes, but the incentives are not there. For example, many governments benefit from media being sensationalist, within and outside borders. They don't want less sensationalism. I think this "attention to negativity" is something inherent to humans, and now that we have opened the door, I doubt it's gonna close by everyone paying more to journalists.
We were kids so don't look for anything deep, but their stuff even to my fashion-unconscious eyes looked ugly and it had a poor reputation for quality. Audio products definitely wasn't as good in sound quality as Aiwa and other Japanese companies.

Many years later I worked with a very neat voice recognition system of theirs, limited in scope but astonishingly low CPU use. What documentation they provided was nearly useless and I could never get it to work properly. They had something really amazingly good for the time, and they didn't know how to develop it or pitch it or sell it, they just didn't have a clue.

And we here again: somebody had an idea for which there seems to be no market testing, and frankly no common sense behind it. I mean, what need is it supposed to fulfil having a second mini-monitor latched onto your main monitor.
personally i'm not interested in seeing the news rewritten by gpt as it stands. but if you could automatically find the least sensational article on the subject, and then send me to that site, along with a plugin that just highlights the most salient points, and fades the worst parts to grey, that'd be interesting.

i'd also like to see a service which shows me the news about subjects which have managed to stay in the news for at least a week. just drop all the 24-48 hour rage/hype cycles.
> The entire point of working for someone else is to attain enough money that you don't need to any more and you can treat it as more of an optional thing.

If that were the singular goal/point, then most people should simply give up working entirely because they'll never reach it. They're working their own version of the sunk cost fallacy.
I appreciate your input showing the hypocrisy of the act along with its positive possible outcome.
Sounds good to me, I was disappointed when I learned that wasm didn’t do this already. (It’d be nice to have tail call optimization too.)
Maybe this model can finish Winds of Winter and the rest of GoT for us...
But grueling and desperately dependent on broader trends.

I wouldn't want to bet on "lots of work for a chance to get incrementally better."
Mosaic wrote about their new model here. https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b It was trained on 65k inputs and has decent performance working with 80k+ tokens.
> Where would you even go if the US defaulted?

Longer-dated Treasuries. This is a technical default, and when threatened in the past, other Treasuries rally. The problem is if someone needs liquidity in an affected issue, or if this prompts a general risk-off mentality which then leads to rising capital costs across the private sector.
I'm not trying to attack you, I was dissecting your intentions, which I'm now noticing came off as super rude and I apologize for that.

But let's be frank... It's clear through your verbiage that you were either thinking about this politically or were actually just curious as I stated in my previous message.

I never said you were lazy, there are many reasons why you might not be able to try out the product right now and it's totally normal to ask questions when you assume others might have answers. It's also possible to do selfish things, or think selfishly at times and not be a selfish person, I was not trying to antagonize.

Sorry for misunderstanding your intentions, for some reason when you asked "What does desensationalize exactly mean?" I read it particularly negatively.
You don't like 1984?

Star Trek would be my pick
Please allow me to pay you so you can focus on this full-time.
If you already have an existing, functioning codebase, adding types is not saving you time (right now). It's akin to adding a lot of unit tests. You gain time later, and often indirectly from others not making mistakes your types would prevent.
> IRS is the one criminal cartel you can’t mess with

Many actual cartels literally behead people.
Wouldn't worry about it. Congress isn't worried about it either. If they were we would not be in this situation for the uptienth time. Enjoying life, tending to my own circumstances just like they do.
The thinking was Japan, like Germany, had to unconditionally surrender. Whether that was from firebombing, nuking or a land invasion. Germany took a land invasion by both fronts. I'll agree that morality goes out the window in war. You try to win and then justify what you had to do to win.
I'd figure that for most people FTX would be part of an investment strategy (or gambling), not any kind of bank. So these are not depositors, they are investors, probably lowest on the priority list. They will get wiped out.
> The only reason I go to work is for money. I don't care about the products we build for someone else (why should I?)

You should care a bit, because ultimately whatever we produce ends up directly or indirectly used by other human beings. That is at least my motivation to care about the product - thinking about that person on the other side that will be directly affected in their daily life by the choices I make.
x230 is easy, just install coreboot instead of messing with bios patches.
I would not try to compare pharo with the usual mainstream ways. It's a different world. There's a very very good mooc to explain various aspects of both language and environment/culture. It's really worth a try (and I say that after hearing a lot of high praises about Smalltalk, I wasn't disappointed)
I don't remember when I first started using BBEdit. Perhaps not long after the demise of MPW. I still use it for everything but Lisp development.
Which is worse, having no debate partner, editor, or quiz master? Or a debate partner who insists they're right when they're wrong, an editor who injects false references and made-up citations, and a quiz master whose accuracy is essentially random?
Except they can get paid for that too.

Okay, you're at home and you want to be downtown. Open the app, wash the dishes from last night, take out the trash, by then someone near you wants a ride downtown. You get paid, and then you're downtown where you can get paid again right away.
I completely agree. "Considered Harmful" is one of my biggest pet peeves. It irrationally irritates me.
My condolences, outside the US is definitely harder. At least you can still invest in the S&P 500.
I think that if we lifted billions of people out of childhood poverty and they had access to quality food, healthcare, and education starting at a young age, we would have 100x more people producing top-tier scientific output.

So no, I don't think it's absurd to really care much more about the people in cotton fields and sweatshops, even if all you really care about is scientific output.
Yep I've had that Korad for years and it's great. I'm sure there are far better power supplies out there but this one is great for hacking on digital stuff and maker projects that aren't demanding or sensitive to the PSU quality (which is like 90% of projects).
Thanks for doing this. This is something I've been looking for since ChatGPT was unveiled generally. I wish Feedly or a similar RSS/News-aggregator would add a feature like this ... it would make so much sense.
I found the best resource for myself is Anders Ericsson's The Road To Excellence. The biggest problem I keep finding throughout my own career is I keep losing sight of where I need to focus to push my game forwards. Most of the online resources are aimed at the overcrowded beginner and mid-level end of software development, so after a certain point, you're writing your own syllabus to advance. Or you can just go broad, which I think is pointless. Ericsson highlights deliberate practice, the idea of finding your discomfort zone, where it most matters. I think there is a lot more to it than he writes in the book, but it's a good introduction on the topic.

The thing about ageism is just a simple matter of interests. It's reasonable to think managers and teams are looking for the best talent, but it's more like the game show Survivor in that people are looking for talent only up to a point, people need to feel your talent isn't going to expose their weaknesses. So as you get better past a certain point, it really gets worse for you trying to break into new groups.
I would posit the minority of people are drawn to more "boringly" presented news, and as such, it wouldn't make much sense to have it be the primary artifact. (for better or worse)
Another use case in the arts: interpreting literature and finding connections within and between books
Datadog was started in 2010. Even though the cloud existed, it was relatively immature in that it frequently required ssh into a box to fix something. Devops was big. This is why SaaS worked and was so valuable.

I've started thinking SaaS is over.

Most startups will still do software as a service, but that alone will not create a defensible moat with crazy high growth rates. The green pasture is gone and the fences are being torn down.

Something else like network effects, proprietary data, foundation models that are truly excellent, etc. has to be part of the offering now.
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I've also been thinking about processing news with LMs, but from a different angle.

One big complaint I have for reading news through RSS, is that there's no natural hierarchy/priority to the news. There's no front page, no headline, no size in RSS feeds. Given the way news agencies generates those feeds, there are _tons_ of repetition, tiny updates, some insignificant one-liner interview about some significant events. Not to mention the "no update at this point" updates. Entries that are not informative look exactly the same as---but often outnumbers---the entries that are informative.

An ideal news feed processor to me, would be one that reads through last weeks RSS feeds, and merges the all those tiny updates into coherent articles, ranked by the significance of the event. Sort of turning newspaper into a journal.

The merging and reflow should be well-within an LM's capability. However, I'm not sure if OpenAI's API can swallow an entire week's worth of RSS, or produce multiple full-sized articles, but this is something that I'd like to try when I get some free weekends.
Agree in full.
Not all plants have the growth patterns you describe. Many monocots and gymnosperms (cycads) either don't branch, or do so irregularly (they'll look "messy", think Joshua trees or branching palms), and cuttings aren't a viable means of propagation.

Whatever the definition of a fractal (seems contentious), these plants aren't clearing the bar.
> what about the users of the platform

Mixed precedence [1]. Where assets were ringfenced, the courts are treating those users as asset owners.

Unsecured creditor is the default. Lowest rung. This is true pretty much across web3/crypto.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/a87860bf-a8bf-4669-a152-de465c83a...
Green name, and an absolute stereotype of a name at that.

I think this bugger is grade AAA troll.
Over at 30-something? Damn, it's time I started enjoying retirement!
I have long wondered why rowers row in sync. That causes a burst of speed and power when they all drive and then a lull in speed when they all recover. That burst of speed raises the force of resistance from the water to the cube power.

Rather, why not split the rowers into 2 groups? Have drive while half recover. And vice versa. The speed curve of the boat won't be so peaky. And the cube law resistance from the water will be much lower.

Seems like that would more efficiently turn total power into average speed, and waste less power on overcoming water resistance?

I understand there may be physical issues with long oars not cycling in sync. But perhaps there's a boat design that could solve this?
not sure I approve. I spend enough time in Visual Studio that the tight spacing is an asset. I don't really have to think about or look at the icons too closely, it's more muscle memory than anything. Also, I use keyboard shortcuts as much as possible so the times I use menus I can afford an extra 100ms or so.
What's a top 1% salary in the UK?
Just finished this last week. Great read. Truly fascinating in understanding the complexity and sheer breadth of what's involved in getting these out there at scale. Recomended.
Any that lets you take RAW pictures is as close as you'll get to "no post processing" (which isn't really a thing strictly speaking). That should include iPhones.
When it comes to usage in heating, burning fuel is as efficient as it gets. All the chemical energy (available in that oxidation reaction) is converted to heat. Electricity involves more overheads in generation and transmission.
I'd rather that dev not waste their time on something that won't be used much, and go do something more productive.
The lockdown was significantly worse in most European countries than in the US for a long time.
History is littered with companies that went dead because they focused on things that don't matter (open source, anti-microsoft, pro-linux).

There will be a time when those things matter when it hurts the bottom-line (Dropbox), but to prematurely optimize for that while you are finding product-market-fit is crazy and all companies are finding product-market-fit in the new AI era
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I've expended an inordinate amount of effort trying to get a rewarding job, more-so than at any of the jobs themselves. It's not a given. If you've taken a career trajectory that employers find don't match the pattern they are most familiar with and place a premium on, you will have a doubly hard time, as you're competing with those who haven't.

Free time is what there is for me, and though I don't think of it in "productive" terms, I do think it's important to bias towards action rather than passive consumption.
Yes they are just creditors. So IRS is basically trying to take from the users by filing it in this way. Great way to serve the public...
Work on that is happening here https://github.com/dart-lang/web. I expect it will be fully baked by the time Dart 3.1 drops and in-line classes are a thing as it ends up making a big difference as far as I can tell.
I have owned a Concept 2 Model D for quite a while. It has been one of my best investments. It just works. There has never been anything that has come close in dollars per work, no gym, no other equipment, not even running shoes.
The difference between $200k and $80k soothes the ache of that $7204 quite nicely, I suppose.
Think of it like the NTP protocol to for machines to sync wall-time. The idea is that there's an authoritative source of data, in this case the local time on the server. Your machine also does its best to independently track and maintain the current time. But it may be fast or slow, or experience some other issue that causes it to drift. And the longer its left by itself without syncing to an NTP server, the larger that potential drift.

So the server and the client are both independently calculating the state. But whatever the server calculates is authoritative, and the client's version is just a local simulation that is very accurate, but not 100%. Especially when it comes to other players, where your client is typically just executing under simplistic assumptions of things like constant forward movement.

However, luckily for the client, it receives a data sync from the authoritative server several times a second, so all that potential drift gets quickly corrected while the differences are still extremely small. For your own actions, where your client had access to all your input, the differences are probably even too small to notice. For other players though, it will be more noticeable, especially if there's an abrupt change in input.
I love the idea! I was thinking about doing sth similar to my medieval content farm (https://tidings.potato.horse/about) but as a personalised feed, where I can apply different “soft” filters to different types of content, eg. remove garbage tech-bro language, provide outlines/shorter versions of sensationalised content, reference related articles from different sources. Essentially, I was thinking about replacing my poet/editorial team personas with different user personas.
A simple example I ran in to was I asked ChatGPT to generate me story in madlibs format for my 4 year old daughter. They're in the format "The young _____ went to the ______, ...", and she fills in the blanks with silly nouns/adjectives.

As she kept asking for more, I prompted "great, do another one" and eventually my original instruction fell out of the context window. It continued to generate a children's story, but with no more blanks.
Context: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Programme
I wrote a small utility to send the AP news feed to GPT and ask it to judge which stories are important based on how many people they affect and how time-sensitive they are. ie. Will this story still be important tomorrow?

Only the passing ones are then delivered to me.

I'm not releasing this as a product, it's too simple, but it works surprisingly well, and it's trivial to add criteria for what you deem to be important, or not.
Carriage as in the horse drawn variety
D3 is more effective in raising serum levels of vitamin D (87% more efficient according to [0]). However, D2 still helps and can be fine for people who aren't very deficient.

Also, there is D3 from non-animal sources. Although most D3 supplements are from lanolin (the fatty coating of sheep's wool), there are some plant-based D3. Most of the ones I've seen are derived from lichen (ex. [1]).

[0] https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/96/3/E447/2597204

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Deva-Vegan-Vitamin-5000-Cholecalcifer...
So let's be real. https://www.xda-developers.com/ios-features-borrowed-android...

"Clearly what the Android phone needs is a real competitor. Apple's got a lot of great stuff going on, maybe they should pass the phone baton to another company."
Are you really trying to say people couldn't build complex apps before TypeScript? I know of hundreds of examples that were made before TS...

Complex apps still had lots of tests, which basically solve the same problem as TS is trying to address, without having to write a different language than what gets run by the browsers.