skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it suffices to respond that I attach some importance (not all the importance, but some) to estimates of the likelihood and cost of global climate catastrophe generated by thousands of specialist scientists working on the problem, and zero importance to the probabilities Bostrom attaches to technologies that don't exist today and the impacts they will have on society.

Later

The rebuttal in the blog post you cited previously is weak (it depends on the claim that Bostrom is discussing a hypothetical "standard utilitarian", when he uses similar logic to attribute the same conclusions, with some "modifications", to (what I'll call, because he's pilfered the word "standard") "normal" utilitarians. But that's neither here nor there. The Bostrom article he cites does a fine job of making my point for me.
I guess PaLM2 is competitive with GPT-3.5 so for people not willing to pay it will be an attractive offering.

I'm not sure that counts as 'great' though.
> Had a lot of karma collected, then a comment with different opinion against point of view of HN wasted it.

I was under the impression a comment couldn’t get you more than four negative points. Apparently that’s true for the comment itself but further downvotes keep subtracting from the user’s karma¹. I’m curious for the rationale.

If you’re willing to share I’d be interested on a ballpark figure of how much karma you had and what the comment was². Your case is the first I’ve heard of such a situation and seems quite extreme. I’m wondering why the comment wasn’t flagged, for example, which would have stopped downvotes.

I frequently see differing opinions on HN (one need only look at the AI discussions, with top comments both pro and against) so I’ve never been convinced by this idea of the HN hive mind / groupthink.

¹ https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...

² Presumably we’re well past the point where it could get further downvotes.
I don't think it's as much of a band-aid as it first appears since this roughly mimics how a human would do it.

The problem is that humans have continuous information retrieval and storage where the current crop of embedding systems are static and mostly one shot.
Looks like the original URL is at the top of every story.
Genuinely curious - what specifically were they not getting? Are you maybe referring to CDI failure?

Growing up in Russia I had the impression that Philips were OK TVs and VCRs. Then they came up with built-in ambilight (not available in the US last I checked) and it just blew my mind. I know projects like Hyperion exist to make ambilight experience available on arbitrary tvs but I never had the time to play with it.

On topic - I could see myself using this display to see reference docs on the side but probably not at the price of 850$. Google sez that's how much they cost in the markets where they are available
While the overall isn't as high as 50%, at $200k, your marginal income tax rate is 42.75%, a sales tax rate of 10%, and a property tax rate of 1.25%.

So, after $185k, while you've probably already paid 7% ($14k prop) on your home, and probably another 1% (2k sales), leading to what could be considered 50.75% tax.
> and finally confusion and drama with moving to modern ES modules. (...) Nowadays all that drama is settled and the core of modern JS is quite nice. I like it more than python to be honest.

Using a mixture of old, deprecated versions of Webpack, Angular, Babel, and Typescript, and a very big pile of code with plain bad (if not plain wrong) type annotations I wish that statement applied to me.

Constantly attempting to keep all this nodejs stuff without vulnerabilities while migrating the least ammount of stuff at once is a daily challenge.

And that comparison is pretty low bar, everything involving say pytorch is a flaming pile of bad waiting to explode.
I caved and purchased a license of Fetch some 3 years ago after shamelessly pirating it for something like 15 years. It's such a fantastically simple piece of software and really filled the void WS_FTP created when I swapped from Windows to Mac.

When it came time recently to start from scratch when I purchased a new (used) MacBook Pro, I finally just caved on the license.

One of those I told myself I'd 'purchase when I had the money eventually' and actually did, heh. Zero regrets.
Its possible you just picked the wrong career. Time for a change?
> Industrial farming isn't environmentally friendly. It's only cheaper because the environmental damage is considered an externality.

Then we regulate it. And anything you can do a large scale operation can do better :)

> If everyone became a communist, you'd be desperately figuring out how to revert it? Absolutely bizarre. Why are you so obsessed with taxes? There are other, much better, ways to distribute wealth.

> Is this a joke? You really expect IRS agents to seize produce from community vegetable gardens (given away freely already), and believe this is a productive use of time and resources?

> Where would these vegetables go, anyway? And for what purpose?

In the USSR they would take everything and redistribute it as needed. The point is that we need a way to collectively pay for things that does not depend on good will. Our IRS agents are going to take your food and distribute it to high skill workers and students that need to focus on their speciality.

> hahahah are you for real dude? non-profit community food programs are tax evasion?

If it's all a community garden, hope you won't mind the IRS coming to take 30%~100%.
The only way I do that is with git.
Whales are dying, but it’s not because of wind farms
Great to see someone writing this as a structured thought. Thank you!

I would add one thing that someone recently said to me and I felt it was the core reason of why I write blog-style docs (for my team or the general internet populace): "These are notes to myself so I can structure learnings and not repeat my own mistakes."

Similar to your thought on "Distilling information" but a bit of a nuance that I think is worth highlighting.
As a US citizen, I have always wondered if those in other countries invest in US securities or securities of their home county. Do they buy US securities through an ADR on their local stock market?
This is interesting. What might be some ways to put governers on that? Maybe you get to keep whatever money you make while producing, but do not get to collect a tax on all future earnings of other people?

That would imply no such thing as owning part of a company. But then a moral equivalent would probably just pop up in it's place. Instead of owning shares, investors become mini lenders collecting interest on their loans.
Got fired after 2 rounds.

Well made!
>and it's not possible for the particle to already have a pre-defined up/down for every possible angle

With hyperdeterminism it is. The direction chosen by the scientists is predefined every time.
So, I think what you're implying is that lower costs are good for everyone, right?
Add some localization to include country specific news and theme filters and I'd pay for this without hesitation. Free me from this cacophony of ever repeating "content" news.
Big +1, work on something that bothers you in your personal life or something that interests you in your personal life. It will always undoubtedly be more fulfilling compared to simply "working for the man."
How would I go about finding/identifying those opportunities?
ChatGPT3.5*

It's still below GPT4, but it is closer to 4 than 3.5
Here's my free advice on the internet (aka worth nothing). Don't be productive, be accumulative.

If every day you do one thing that makes thing easier going forward, gives you another option, makes a job easier in the long term, adds a skill, gets you a reference or a connection, pay a dividend or royalty, etc.. in the long run you will be fine.
We readily make available the source article on both iOS app and website. We want to serve as the stepping stone for information about an event that would encourage people to seek out more.
I feel like this is a normal thing for any language that becomes this ubiquitous.
Python, C++ , Haskell, Java don't run in the browser the way JavaScript does. They don't have the same requirements that the JavaScript ecosystem does.
"$600K per MWh" sounds like the cost per peak (initial) storage capacity; as the batteries can be recharged something like six thousand times before wearing down to half capacity, that's more like adding $100 per MWh ($0.1/kWh) if you throw them out at that point or $50 per MWh (5¢/kWh) if they keep wearing down at the same rate until they're negligible.

> And are there that numbers of batteries available

Not yet — but there are enough people investing in each stage of mining, processing, and making battery factories, that this is probably not going to be an issue.

> Currently dependent on availability of cobalt, lithium,manganese and nickel with China as the main supplier of these and world’s largest producer of graphite, the primary anode material for Li-ion batteries.

Technically, I think, yes; but that's just where we are today rather than a fundamental property of world geography.
Presumably you believe the rate of inflation is unrelated to the rate of currency issuance. This seems incorrect.
> You either get the fundamentalism of hardline scripturalists or you get the corruption that comes with a hierarchical institution that requires people to offloading some of their critical thinking.

I don't think it is fair to say the latter leads to "corruption" or "offloading some of their critical thinking". This phobia is largely a feature of radical individualism and the lack of humility that the notion of radical self-sufficiency (intellectual or otherwise) entails. The paradox of individualism is that it actually weakens the ability to be an individual. Human beings are social animals whose lives are relatively short and therefore whose experiences are limited. And because individualism atomizes the individual, the effect is that this social animal becomes subject to greater levels of fear and stress about his isolation, and when isolated from the social and from tradition, he becomes easy prey for weird ideologies.

In this specific case, scriptural canon was compiled by the Catholic Church. You obviously cannot appeal to the canon to codify the canon, so some extra-biblical body of knowledge and understanding must exist that would allow such a canonical body of scripture to be identified. This body of knowledge and understanding is called Tradition, and it is guarded, refined, and transmitted by an unbroken chain of authority found in the apostolic succession. (Tradition is the basis for the transmission and development of all knowledge in human history; there is likewise a scientific tradition without which there could be no science.) The notion that an individual could do better alone without relying or drawing on tradition is belied by the presence of over 40,000 Protestant sects in the US alone, each claiming to be able to interpret scripture. And how do they interpret scripture? However they want! In most cases, it means interpreting it according to whatever happens to be fashionable at the time. So much for "critical thinking". This is very visible in the mainline Protestant churches that, not so incidentally, are shrinking very rapidly. Where this Protestant mindset has leeched into Catholic circles, it has produced the same deadly effect.
Do you not live in the US or what?
If you don't brush and floss, you'll get an abscess – same with MySQL updates
You present only the two options to offer labor to 1) an organization in which you’re not compensated in proportion to your output, vs 2) a solo practice where you’re forced to bear the burden of scaling/resource/etc costs on your own. You’re ignoring option 3) where you offer your labor to a collective organization of which you are granted proportional ownership as a condition of employment and can participate in setting the rules of your own compensation and expense burden democratically.

In option 3 the system benefits from every member’s labor contributions, AND every member benefits from the “context of a system created by someone else”
Even a small startup, a researcher or a tinkerer can get a cloud instance with a beefy GPU. Also of note, Apple's M1 Max/Ultra should be be able to run it on their GPUs given their 64/128GB of memory, right? That's an order of magnitude cheaper.
OBTF Cascade: The military unit where Russian elite get to ‘play war’ in Ukraine
Go back to 4chan, please.
I'm all about testing especially at the unit level but I've never personally seen TDD implemented successfully. I won't lie, I'll write my code, write my tests, refactor based on new learnings, check coverage stats, and PR for feedback. I'm also 40+ too.
Bevy v2.0 – The Simple Python Dependency Injection Framework
You should use conversations. I guess it's best and open-source also. Now getting some major overhaul
South Africa Supplied Arms to Russia – US Ambassador Reuben Brigety
With quadratic time complexity for context size, that gets expensive.
I’m not sure IP address can be used to identify a single person. That argument has been shot down again and again regarding piracy cases
Those are rookie numbers, I once made an app in 4 hours that made $1800 a month.

Now my side project is making computer chips. The hobby is a bit more expensive than playing golf. But I guess hobbies are always expensive.
It's funny, if you say this duringg an interview "Why do you want the job?" "Money" you won't get hired. So it becomes a performance artist act.
Work ethics dictate a duty to other humans, not to corporations.

The two are sometimes the same, and sometimes very different. To the plumber point, if you work for a plumbing corporation which requires you to up-sell unneeded repairs, you have no ethical obligation to do so, and indeed, you have an ethical obligation to subvert that particular requirement.

On the other hand, you do have a duty to do plumbing right.

Capisce?
Private Access to the AWS Management Console is generally available
Programing Best Practices 2023
Oh god help us, the HN tech bros believe they're doctors now.
I did not say it was.
> I personally get really anxious when I'm "wasting" time

One could argue that this is the problem. Not that you spend your time doing activities others wouldn't consider leisurely, but that you feel compelled to because otherwise you become "really anxious." Some anxiety can be a propulsion, but too much can be a pathology. I'm certainly not fit to evaluate your own, but by your own words I'd suggest it's possibly worth further reflection.

Check out Four Thousand Weeks for some recent musings on why that anxiety may be best ignored rather than heeded: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54785515-four-thousand-w...
Discounting all the power consumed planting, growing, cutting down and delivery of the logs to the power generator.
So no answer to my question. In the US can anyone be a corporate board member? Or is it gated by myriad social factors such as having attended an elite B school and proving yourself as a loyal servant of Wall Street bankers?
This is a great concept! Thanks for sharing. I do have to wonder, though, if this is a Band-Aid over the problem of sensationalist reporting. Assuming there is a market for “boring” news (I think there is; I’d like to read it!), wouldn’t it be cheaper to pay journalists to write less exaggerative pieces in the first place?
Did it enhance your empathy for her work?
If you don't already, try working out 30 mins a day!
Non-Paywalled: https://archive.is/JgDN5
Ask HN: Are there any notable Chinese FLOSS projects?
Where is the Chinese open-source community?

Maybe it's because I only see the English-language internet, but I'm curious if there are any notable free software projects that have originated from China? I believe OpenResty was originally developed at Taobao and then later on taken up at CloudFlare. Are there any others?
FDIC to hit biggest US banks with $16B bill for SVB clean-up
That's a given, the concern is still valid that the asymmetric nature of the competition may be "unfair". One is an adopted open source standard of a small but diverse ecosystem and the other is a well-funded, seemingly more popular, more closed than open with a lot of vested interest in crashing the open source ecosystem.

Especially when it feels like the "more closed than open" is presenting itself as "open source" in what feels like a bait-and-switch to piggy-back on the goodwill of the actual open source ecology with a goal towards moving people (back) to more closed, corporate controlled tools.

("bait-and-switch" was the word I think I was looking for here.)
> The vitamin D levels in these mushrooms soared from 100 IU/100 grams to nearly 46,000 IU/100 gram

Isn't 46000 IU well into the dangerous range? This procedure sounds like an easy way to poison your liver.

The number I found says 4000 IU is a recommended max. You could say that you should only eat <10 grams then, but how much variability is there in the amount?
Also, see MLM.
> I am very disillusioned by our industry, it seems half the revenue was generating by techno-cheating laws.

Well, most 'disruption' is actually tech exploiting a regulatory loophole.
This to me highlights the many delights of freedom of speech. You can choose what level of chaos to permit. To enforce a global ethic this way seems kinda snooty.
And even less than half…paying over $200K is still more than your average senior CRUD/Enterprise developer makes in most major cities in the US.

That’s not meant to be an insult. I spent over 2 decades as your average CRUD developer and only fell into BigTech in 2020 because I added cloud to my toolbelt

Now I wouldn’t have move from my big house in the Atlanta burbs where I was making $160K for the mid 200s. And the only reason I was even interested in my current job was that it was permanently remote.
Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password
You are making similar logical errors. You speak as if the most recent layoffs were simply firing the lazy employees.

AFAICT, companies are both jettisoning entire departments related to bad bets (or bad business models) and preparing for anticipated recession-level revenues.

Skills are not perfectly fungible. Managers making layoff decisions based on the roles/skills they need to keep and what budget they can afford. This necessarily means that some underperformers will be retained and many overperformers will be cut.
Not a single person has claimed that 100% of all writing will be done by machine and that AI is already superior to the best writing ever done.

LLMs will replace writers the way cars replaced horses. People still ride horses, and there are plenty of things horses can do that cars can't, but the typical person trying to go from A to B is probably not going to ride a horse there.
I'm generally excited about something I'm calling "English to English translation" - and this is a good example.

Previously translation has focused on going between languages.

I think there's just as much benefit to translating within a given language.

* Translate corporate speak to plain English.

* Translate passive aggressive to calm and peaceful.

* Translate sensationalist to neutral (like the OP).

* Translate implicit and heavy with subtext to direct and assertive.
Could be. Though I see lot of Canadians coming in US for employment or even just for weekly shopping in border states. Seems nothing like quality groceries, winter clothing and Gas etc on Canada side.
>Published studies confirm that, unlike for dams, the geography for this is very plentiful (contrary to nuclear lobby propaganda which routinely and dishonestly argues the exact opposite).

Could you please link this research? I have yet to find a thorough evaluation of pumped hydro resource availability anywhere.
Ah, so it takes the problem and dehumanizes it.
Is there any path towards folding tokens into the actual model? That is, continual training rather than the current "training first then just tokens after"
I see "self-healing" cutting mats all the time in tech videos, with the measurement grid and angles printed on top. I'd like to get one at some point.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230511174608/https://fortune.c...

inspect element:
```
document.querySelector('.paywallActive').classList.remove('paywallActive')
```
I have replaced chrome from almost all my devices. In past with 4gb ram devices the Firefox on Android use to lag. But now it's just working with unlock origin. I don't even chrome except webview is stuck with chromium i guess.
This is great, but I didn't realize that was a video at the top of the page; I think it needs the 'muted' attribute for it to autoplay.
Red Hat advances with new Enterprise Linux releases
Analogies are only useful to the extent they have explanatory power. The assertion here is that this one doesn’t: there are several distinct growth mechanisms applied in sequence, not a recursive application of the same mechanism.
I don't know. While using Phind I regularly get annoyed by long prose that doesnt answer anything (yes, "concise" is always on). Claude seems to be directly geared towards solving stuff over nice writing.
It’s not clear to me that the article actually contradicts it
why should people spend their time trying to convince you of the value of their project? they already know if it's valuable; why should they be interested in your opinion?

if it's a commercial product, they might get your money, but most projects on github aren't
They are out there - when I was looking a few years back I would ask what the interview process is like. If whiteboard, I politely refused and tactfully said why. You won't be taking any FANGG positions, but there are plenty of positions out there that pay FANGG money minus the interview overhead. I've had some pretty great interviews when it turns into a conversation about a previous solution, or a project I'm working on, which have led to almost 100% offers. In contrast, I would do absolutely horrid in whiteboard or quiz-like interviews. Some people are built for it, but that's not me.

I had several bad experiences right out of school - I would regularly do programming exercises for recruiters and wasted a lot of my time I will never get back. Some of those exercises would take 3 to 5 hours, and I was told I was one of the faster candidates :/

Once I was able to build a resume and show off projects I told myself I would never go through that experience again.

I don't know if this comment will help you at all, but good luck to you! If you are in the Midwest area I know of a recruiter or two that are great people and can help get you pointed in the right direction. My email is in my profile.
The problem is that you need a lot of money to be free of servitude.
Does it really matter? Given how much they've already obfuscated the semantics and definition of "gain of function," why should we trust that this time, they're really not doing anything resembling gain of function? And even if we could give them that benefit of the doubt, why should we? The board members of EcoHealth should be receiving federal prison sentences, not grant money.
I disagree, as I think this would be useful to people with anxiety disorders who don't want to entirely disconnect from the news. Just because they may be able to logically identify articles and headlines as "sensationalist" doesn't mean their brain won't still kick off some uncomfortable physiological responses.
We all need a reason to be productive. We have placed these jobs above our own well being. That doesn't sound very healthy at all. I would suggest finding something you are passionate about. It may take a while.
That reminds me that I did some visualisation of Erasmus data for a data-vis course in uni

https://erasmus.robinfellinger.eu/

Was quite fun playing around and exploring that dataset.
A bit of incompetence and a lot of greed. If someone says they can make you a lot of money, you're willing to ignore a lot of things. You just hope you're not the bag holder at the end. As long as there is greed there's always going to be more FTX and Theranos.