skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that US universities charge exorbitant fees, and that creates a problem for exchange programs with (continental) European universities. American universities are mostly unwilling to waive fees for European students who are used to not paying any significant fees, and European universities are not going to pay for it on behalf of the students.
China is world leading on renewable production and installation, EVs and EV busses, Lithium, LFP and Sodium battery production, Hydro, HVDC, nuclear, high speed rail and a bunch of other stuff.

It's not just a case of them being happy to dig nasty stuff out of the ground without care. If anything it's because they lack a specific type of nasty stuff to dig out of the ground and so their government hasn't been totally captured by fossil fuel interests.

The west actively abdicated their early lead on all these technologies.
They literally study viruses that don’t infect humans but they purposely mutate them so they can study the “what if they mutate in real life” - this is cover to study bioweapons
That’s pretty nihilistic. And usually written by people who don’t have to suffer from climate change consequences like mass migrations. And by the way in 500 million years the sun will boil the Earth anyways, so let’s just give up completely and do nothing.
Maybe I should start tipping deliveroo drivers.
There's joke amongst PHP companies that modern PHP has finally, completely become Java.
Just goes to show that you'll never stop the march of science.
They take up real estate that I need for more suggestions because only about 1 in 50 suggestion is good.
Amphetamines are "medication" in the loosest sense. The pathophysiology of the underlying condition is ill-defined, and most users of amphetamine-like drugs get the same focus-enhancing effects regardless of "condition". These drugs are dangerous, of questionable therapeutic benefit, and are schedule 2 (or banned in many countries) for a reason.

They are over prescribed, especially to below average performers who want a boost. Everyone wants to believe they are actually really really smart but have a "condition" which makes them underperform. Don't worry this little pill will "fix" your brain.
js is pretty lispy. Crockford is pretty compelling that the reason js survived (and beat Java which was the heir apparent) is because of the attributes it inherited from Scheme.
To me, dependency management is a part of software maintenance and it's not always just 'running in place'. Updates bring security patches (sometimes not publicly explained or disclosed), performance improvements, and new features that could enhance the value generated by the said software.
Can you point me to some sources that back up your claim that neurons are damaged first and only later hair cells are lost as well. I always thought it’s the other way round.
I feel the same way about the AI ethicist people. We are mostly just guessing that AI will look and function like the sci-fi books we’ve read and how it will integrate/impact society. Not just in the “will we get real AGI” tech sense but even most so in how humans will learn to adapt and protect ourselves. Especially when it involves crippling our primitive AI R&D today for some indefinite future possibility.
I needed to read this. Seeing posts about having gpt “write apps from scratch” vs me trying to get it to spit out what I want has been tedious. I’m assuming what’s not written about is the hours of just how tedious this process currently is, and how much “from scratch” is your own human brain doing the prompt edits bc you have a very good idea of what coding step comes next. It’s a lot of work, and not faster than me just concentrating hard and doing it myself.
Open source at America's famous Los Alamos Lab: Pragmatism as its nucleus
If it can’t do that, then what is it good for exactly ? Please provide citations for your claims.
Having spoken to a few of them, I doubt they think of those things any other way. Someone who is trying to think of the big picture necessarily has to abstract a few things. They know that a planet is not an orange, and can describe it in detail, but in the grand model of the big picture, a planet gets modeled with simplifications (to make reasoning possible) that reduce it to a big orange. Many people don't deeply interrogate these simplifications at all to understand whether they are correct.
I don't think anyone knows Bill Gates IQ. Online it looks like it is all guesses, and I can't imagine Gates taking a test, much less publicizing the results. He's smart enough to know that it could only hurt him, not help him.
They are not confused. "OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact."[1]

[1] https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai
We should warn these agencies that gain of function research is like playing Russian Roulette, but it would go in one ear and out the other.
Please post it on HN because I won't remember to go looking for it.
Microsoft often pays less than half what the other big tech companies pay, so it's actually not that hard to beat

Or you could take a tiny pay cut but go 100% remote and move wherever you want in the world

Another thing to consider is that most companies are working on much easier stuff than the type of problems you face at a company like Microsoft. My first tech job, we had an ex-Microsoftie there. The dude basically just sat around surfing the web all day, worked maybe 4 hours total between Monday and Friday. He was still the most productive person at the whole company, and he taught us all a lot in the process.
Which thinkpad model?

If you want to learn, https://erfur.github.io/2019/03/28/down_the_rabbit_hole_pt3.... is a good guide!
The idea at the turn of the century is that Java Applets would be the way web applications would be developed. That was a disaster for security, ux, etc.
> ask why those b*stards aren't helping us

This is an important question. Just like with AI, future generations don’t need us because history and the arrow of time has already caused them to emerge — there’s more risk for them in changing the past (our current time) than just let it be. How much do you care about going back in time and help your 10 generations ago ancestor have better access to clean water?
I can’t tell how to interpret this. Doing gig work doesn’t pay well, but respondents are doing an average of 28 hours of work per week.

Something is missing from the picture. If the takeaway is that gig workers are struggling to pay living expenses, I would expect that to be reflected by working 50-60+ hours per week.
try a nanode from linode. $5/mo and as bare-bones as they come. no bloat there.
Yeah took a while trying to find the actual thesis among all the preamble.

My biggest issue with this article as a whole is that every philosophy falls apart when applied in extremes, in fact the examples here are basically the same as the arguments against pure unflinching utilitarianism.
counter example: we won't know how to fight a robot apocalypse unless we go ahead and develop some super-intelligent kill bots ourselves, so we can train against it and develop strategies. Given enough time and random variation, someone or some government is bound to create them, so we should not stick our heads in the sand or let fear-mongering stand in the way of research.

In reality COVID-19 required several key mutations to be as harmful and to bind as effectively to human cells as it did. The likelihood of all of these mutations occurring naturally, in animals only, without intermediate variants to observe and develop immunity against, is very small. If only 64 amino acids must mutate exactly correctly to create the deadly variant then it would require 4^64 or 2^128 mutations, which is a large number. Assuming it mutates 100B times per year, that's still more years 3e27 years.

For example, this experiment on more transmissible HIV requires hundreds of acids (600-1000, and a 32 amino prefix).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836558/

The point being that creating extremely unlikely events to "see what would happen" is only justified if the risk of the observation is less than the natural risk of the event. If the risk of a world-ending pandemic is 1e-128 per year, and the risk due to human-made viruses is 0.1%, then "not sticking your head in the sand" has raised your risk by an astronomical factor.
I suppose Senior developers, my self included, enjoy fast paces straight to the point learning resources. One of my favorite websites is https://egghead.io/ but some people do complain about behind a bit too fast. Overall, there is heaps of great tutorial on youtube.

If you're looking for an online community mostly you'll be facing many people who are learning how to code. I would choose a specific software and look for paid/free courses that have a community on slack/discord.
Regardless of your age, sometimes changing the company you work with can help a lot because you'll on the hunt for other companies using modern stacks. You could also try to convince your company to adopt new tech.
Do not be afraid to join younger communities, there days people don't really care about your age as long as you have things in common and a beginner spirit.
There’ll be a bunch of people here saying that capitalism is vicious and people should earn more. But actually what will happen is that they will get automated and then have no job. When automation is the alternative, collective bargaining is not a great option.
No, you wouldn’t because the stock price would keep going up so you would sell less and less each time and when the price got too high, the stock would do a split. Every time a dividend is paid out, the stock price drops by an identical amount. It’s the same thing as selling. This wouldn’t be a problem unless you have BRK.A, for the other 99.99999% of stocks it’s fine. Do the math yourself and see.
I've had enough problems with WP installs that I won't ever touch it again and I don't even want to list specific issues, but it's all about quality. So for a while it has been the same story, over and over:

- non technical someone wants a CMS
- I tell them I'll build them what they need, then give them a quote
- non technical someone doesn't like my quote and installs Wordpress and a gazillion shiny plugins, because "it's easy with the shiny admin panel and I can install it anywhere for cheap and all the functionality is already covered in plugins"
- things break, because plugins are meh
- things go real bad, security issues, loss of data, shitty performance, the whole piñata
- non technical someone cries over the phone "can you fix my website ???"
- I won't fix their website because I like to build things, not clean up someone else's mess. Feel free to fill that business opportunity but I want to do something else.
It's a citeable headline.
Beta-blockers give me tinnitus. Unfortunately you can't choose not to take them when it's convenient...
The gig economy provides a way to mop up excess labor rendered unemployable by minimum wage/benefits laws.

The people doing gig economy jobs are at the margins, due to the circumstances they find themselves in, and those gigs are a lifeline.
The article seems to suggest that the SG cell is also getting regenerated. See

> The new cells contained transduction channels that relay sound signals and the ability to form connections with auditory neurons — processes essential to hearing.
Please let me know if this worked for you!
I'd be interested in some of these industry use case stories if you could share something.
Key takeaways...

- A study led by the University of Bristol reveals that 52% of gig workers in the UK earn below the minimum wage.

- The average hourly earnings of gig workers were £8.97, approximately 15% lower than the current UK minimum wage.

- Work-related insecurity and anxiety were experienced by 76% of gig workers surveyed.

- Many gig workers (28%) felt their health and safety were at risk, and 25% experienced pain on the job.

- Gig workers expressed the need for basic rights such as minimum wage rates, holiday and sick pay, and protection against unfair dismissal, as well as the formation of unions and platform councils to represent their interests and influence working conditions.
As a 1%er, member of the e-commentariat, I'm happy to have had the opportunity to set an example for the LLMs and future AIs trained on my comments.
How the user mashing random keys a SW defect? The SW does what you tell it to do.
Correlation is the mother of conspiracy.

"they would stop doing it so that the cases would go back up again" is quite the statement. How about this instead: "Extreme measures to slow down cases had obvious down sides and were used as sparingly as possible, and eased up when not as necessary"?
So the median wage is the minimum wage, which sort of makes sense in terms of what would incentivize people to take a gig job over a minimum wage job. It does come with some more flexibility or course which some might be happy to trade off against absolute earnings. Takeaway to me is gig jobs are a viable alternative to minimum wage, but nothing more.
Thanks for this context. In this light, I am reminded of Emerson’s “Self Reliance.”

> Trust thyself
Tell HN: Suspicious pricing for text-to-speech on AWS/Google Cloud
Google's WaveNet TTS service, and Amazon Polly's Neural TTS services are both currently priced at $16/1M characters, with a free 1M characters per month [0][1].

First, it is odd to me that these are priced completely identically. Given that these are entirely different backends, I'd expect some price variation. Second, these prices have not changed since at least 2018 in the case of Google [2] and 2019 in the case of Amazon [3]. I'd imagine that costs would have significantly decreased over this time, considering how much faster and abundant TPUs have become at both of these companies.

Does anyone have insight here? Are these services artificially expensive? For context, I'm currently running a FOSS service [4] for myself and my friends that scrapes articles, converts them to speech via GCP WaveNet TTS, and plays them via any podcast app. The average article costs me about $0.10, which is a pretty noticeable sum, even with my limited user base.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20180617113243/https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20190819070148/https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/

[4] https://github.com/rozbb/readtomyshoe
There is r/ExperiencedDevs but some people join with a definition of "experienced" as two or three years.
Have you seen someone use tiktok? attention spans are dead
Choosing an Analytics Tool: Metabase vs Superset vs Redash
Backup cards only work so long as the backup card doesn’t expire.

The bigger issue is that if your registrar sends a lot of spammy emails (ahem godaddy) you might miss the message reminding you to replace your expired cards.
One scary thing that's been becoming uncomfortably evident to me lately is that a lot of things are fragile. Things like countries are very dependent on uncoded, informally agreed on standards of decency. And it takes surprisingly little to throw the system into chaos if there's a group that wants it badly enough, or the people maintaining stability relax too much, or the wrong crisis happens at the wrong time.

Climate change affects many millions of people. That can easily cause mass events like famines, economical crashes, mass unemployment, war and mass migration, and those things quite easily affect countries around it and so on.

So I'm not too optimistic about seeing it as a "pinky finger". The best outcome I see is something like ruining the wine harvest. Yeah, not ideal, but we can live with that. But it's unlikely to stop at that, because millions of unhappy farmers won't just sit quietly and can make a very big mess.
Disclosure: I work for FusionAuth, a competitor.

Yes, OIDC is quite important for the central identity hub, especially when you get beyond custom apps. If you are building an app, Supertokens with their SDKs and APIs might be a great choice.

As soon as you start wanting to integrate with other COTS or OSS applications (a forum, help desk software, slack/teams), you'll need OIDC (or perhaps SAML, depending on the age of the software) support.
My gut agrees -- and yet my head says that if we offload writing tasks that we don't care about to GPT, we might not lose much of value.

By contrast, if we offloaded journaling to GPT, that does seem like a big loss. It also seems impractical, though, since as soon as you've told GPT what to say, you've basically said it. Moreover most people don't journal anyway.
“A major factor contributing to low pay rates is that this work involves spending significant amounts of time waiting or looking for work while logged on to a platform.”

Well sure, if you include time not working in the denominator, the pay rate is going to be low!

Seems like the title should read that gig workers would make more nominal dollars if they spent their time waiting for gig work working a minimum wage job…
Ha! I thought of doing the same with a motor driving a cam shaft hooked to a foot pedal with a potentiometer - the harder you press the faster the blast beat. Also thought of clutches or stops to change pattern or instruments.

Perfect setup for a one-man death metal band - just add guitar and mic. Kinda like Joe Buck Yourself or Pandiscordian Necrogenesis.
Disney+ loses 4M subscribers amid exodus in Indian market
Agreed, there should be an exemption for part-time work. Why is there a gulf between "unpaid" and "minimum wage" - what if someone wants to just ride the bike for fun and make a couple of pounds as a bonus?
Orthogonal doesn't mean opposites, it means they're perpendicular i.e. unrelated.
The underlying concern isn't complicated, and it's stated succinctly in a single sentence in the middle of the article, quoting Bostrom:

"[E]ven if there is ‘a mere 1 per cent chance’ of 10^54 people existing in the future, then ‘the expected value of reducing existential risk by a mere one billionth of one billionth of one percentage point is worth 100 billion times as much as a billion human lives[...]"

The problem, in other words, is that these people are aspiring Bond villains.
As of today, Microsoft has released OpenAI to everyone right on bing.com. Google still hasn't released Bard to the general public on google.com.

As of today, Microsoft has GitHub copilot in VScode and a bunch of other editors. Google Companion isn't released.

If Google were capable, and wanted to respond to Microsoft robustly, I would have expected both of these to be available right now immediately after Google I/O.

Instead neither have happened. I expect Google's decline into irrelevance to continue.
> it shows pretty much nothing

You would think that the commercial is an opportunity to convince people why they should want to buy the new phone. The only selling point they show the color yellow. To me this only demonstrates that the new phone is not worth an upgrade unless you really want yellow.

> Meanwhile the Google one I just watched it and I know I saw a bunch of AI features they're adding, but I couldn't tell you what a single one of them is.

I agree it's vague, but I'm giving them a break because it's not even released yet. It's not totally void of information though. Didn't you at least gather that they're integrating generative AI features into search? Did you see the new "ask a follow up" feature? Or the "make me a training plan" example?
I some of my past teams we "did". But I always found it to be a 2 hours long waste of time, without any actual outcome. Maybe I just always had scrum masters who didn't know how to do it correctly. Dunno. Since I never saw any benefit, I have my doubts about its usefulness.

The usual script was the following:

What went well?

- New team member, yippie, welcome ;) (if there were any)

- We fixed this and that bug, completed this and that (repeating what was said during standup meetings)

What went bad?

- Team member is leaving, sniff :'( (if there were any)

- This and that broke or took longer to work on (repeating what was said during standup meetings)

Action points to make everything better in the future:

- Do this and that (the same action points at the end of every retrospective. Never follow them up, never act on them)

Repeat everything 2-3 weeks later.
Perfect is the enemy of good. There are many languages much more consistent than PHP.
PacWest shares tumble 20% after regional bank says deposits fell 9.5% last week
Someone would say "business as usual", somewhere.
> A realistic set of mathematical equations to describe fern leaf or cauliflower curd development is needed

I wish the author had derived these equations -- something like the book The Geometry of Pasta

https://www.amazon.com/Geometry-Pasta-Caz-Hildebrand/dp/1594...
CCP party membership is 6.7% of the population. It is restricted and a point of honor and power to be a party member.

6.7% of the country runs 92% of the boardrooms.
I wish the btrfs (and perhaps bcachefs) projects would collaborate with OpenZFS to rewrite equivalent code that they all used.

It might take years, but washing Sun out of OpenZFS is the only thing that will free it.
Oh yes, certain countries are just in the toilet psychologically speaking. Australia, Canada, etc. I was speaking mainly about the US. I know for a fact Florida will never tolerate those measures again.
I actually think this article undersells PHP, as it doesn't mention the incredible additions that PHP 8 introduces, nor does it mention excellent static analysis tools like PHPStan.

I recently rewrote a PHP web app in Rust (https://soapstone.mradford.com/riir/) and although it was interesting, I think it would have been better staying a PHP app. As nice as the Rust compiler was, I felt PHPStan would have automatically caught a similar number of bugs, all the while feeling less combative.
if you increment each letter in VMS by one you end up with WNT
Well you’d hope it’s not just an individual figuring this stuff how but a body of research and debate among many people which is honest and open enough to cut into assumptions and challenge them. Like all good science. Although I don’t know enough about longtermism to make a critique of their ideas.
For interpreting it, basically:

- revenue = true hourly pay * hours.

- statutory hourly pay = some constant set by gov't.

Therefore:

- given revenue less than some X, we'll name it `living expenses`

- it's possible that true hourly pay < statutory hourly pay

Reading your comment, you may have also meant that you're trying to pick between that interpretation, and another one, that looks like:

Given:

- revenue = true hourly pay * hours.

- statutory hourly pay = some constant set by gov't.

- true hourly pay < statutory hourly pay

Proposition:

- Given hours worked < Y, where Y is some range, and revenue = Z, and workers continue being alive, then perhaps the statutory hourly pay is too high?

From there, to help me choose an interpretation, I'd look for more evidence of that. I'd want something damning, enough to overrule the statute / legal social contract of the population.
Might be a sign that most people have another job and just do the gig work on the side
> reduced humanity to the Stone Age, it wouldn't qualify as such in some longtermist thought, because 10^100 years is a very long term, more than enough for humanity to rebound

Practically speaking, we wouldn't have that long. Until humanity escapes our solar system, it's on a much shorter 5 billion year clock.

Which is still a lot of time, but we need to live past our solar system before we can really start thinking in trillions of years.