skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloudflare is indeed absurdly fast. I haven't been impressed with Netlify's speed, although I am using the free plan (don't think it makes sense to upgrade if I'm already not super happy with performance).

When you say paid Netlify is as fast as Cloudflare do you mean the Pro plan or the Enterprise plan? AFAIK the enterprise plans run on a different network, with more distributed servers, although I could be wrong.

It seems at least part of the noticed difference in speed has to do with my region, as pagespeed insights gives me sub-second FCP and LCP on my Netlify website [0], which feels a bit better than what I get at home (with 500mbps fiber). It's possible my ISP is at fault, but I'm not sure how I could diagnose this much better.

[0]: https://archive.ph/IF0t5
It means something different in every location, and I’m just using Australia as a random example. The fact is that channeling your payroll through an offshore company doesn’t allow you to skirt local labor laws. It would be more like you selling me a faulty iPhone, then after realising that my country had consumer protection laws, you were forced to fix it.
you mean you dont recall your stale shares in United Hay?
Exactly, humans learning is a manual, individual process of improving oneself,
upskilling, and hopefully contributing back to the same field at a higher level.

The other is industrial strip-mining of all information in the world for the benefit of a corporation and bulk de-valuing of human creation and contributions in the process. "Take all you can give nothing back".
you mean a reciprocating saw?
I mean, that basically describes a telnetable bulletin board system, and those definitely run off an RPi.

This is a common problem with tech-adjacent types: believing that technology is the solution to all problems, including social ones. If someone isn't using your preferred social networking solution, the problem isn't necessarily that you're not using the latest whizbang language and hardware....... maybe you just haven't given them anything to do on your network. Put another way: the telephone arguably didn't catch on as a utility with obvious use until after the 1878 Tariffville Crash[1]. If you want to start a new network, you need a social nucleation point... whether that's you writing interesting stories, composing music, making artwork, whatever... SOMETHING that people can participate in and interact with in some fashion. Without that you've just got a communications device with no one in particular to reach for any reason.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1878_Tariffville_train_crash
COVID-19 forced businesses to cope with remote work and a work force that insists they'll never go back to the office, so it might just start panning out this time.
> It should be interesting to followers of EY because all of these traits are things that cult leaders do

It's not really because it's glib pattern-matching. It's roughly "Is the NIH a cult?" https://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1217 level. Go compare Eliezer to say, NXIVM, to see what a real cult looks like.

> It's made me very sad to see extremely smart people, who I once looked up to and really found very interesting (you're included in here!) fall victim to the irrational fear of AI spurred on by Eliezer. You can create as much literature as you want, and you can create as many hypothetical scenarios as possible, but it's not going to change the fact that dedicating your life into controlling AI so that you can "logically" justify your own life is nonsense...You're an extremely smart person. I love your blog posts, and I love the depth and time you put into them. It's incredible how disappointing it is for me to see you become another "rationalist" obsessed with a fantasy of AI doom.

I feel I should point out that you have not seen me 'become another rationalist' because this is what I have been since around 2004, long before I started any writing or even was 'gwern'. 'AI doom' has always driven my writing (even if I sometimes wander quite far afield before eg. concluding that nootropics are a dead end for intelligence augmentation that might help with AI risk - on the bright side, I think DL scaling may have helped answer why nootropics have been such a bust in general). I just thought we'd have way more time.

> Someone who is wealthy and has nothing to lose quitting his job to join the cult of AI doomerism is, in no way, proof that AI xrisk is meaningful. I trust you are smart enough to know why this is awful logic.

'some wealthy dude' is not the relevant description here for Geoff Hinton. I trust you are smart enough to see the problem with your even glibber comment there.
Stability AI buried the lede a little: open models specifically reduce the negative effects of mass structural unemployment. Public scrutiny is good, but not cutting the public out of the entire economy is better.

The US government should be giving Stability (and other open AI companies) research grants conditioned upon public model weight releases.
It's the ones that like being able to see and experience their power over employees that hate work from home the most.
Show HN: Simple Vector Database with Deno and SQLite
Thank you! Too bad 23andMe does not pull that SNP.
Demand? Steam offers it. It’s about expectations. How many video game’s legitimately expect players to be completely done with it under 2 hours? If that is your target audience then maybe steam isn’t the best platform for you to sell on. I’ve never refunded a game before, but I also see no issues with this policy.
perhaps the headline here should say 'trichloroethylene'
It's decent competition for sure. Significantly higher spec versus Deck on paper but they are pushing the envelope for powerful x86 machines in this form factor. Seems like you can melt the battery extremely quickly if you try, since the Ally is a 1080p device. Seen benches around the 50 minute mark. Really no different than running Deck for 90 minutes playing Elden Ring at 800p.

Ally works with Asus' proprietary eGPU enclosure, theoretically can expand horsepower even more. Again though only so much you can do with the form factor. I get using a dock but dedicated accessories seem like they'd provide diminishing returns versus conventional PC hardware. Especially at the price point. Base model Deck blows this thing out of the water value-wise.
No? They're not forcing, or even encouraging, people to help them. People just... Want to. It's not narcissistic to say "Oh... Well I was planning to work on this myself, you can help if you want, but I have my own vision that I don't want to diverge from"
> deprives you of something you had before.

it does in some sense - your exclusive knowledge of the subject matter is now transferrable via LLM or some sort of ai model.

For a human to achieve the same, they would've needed to undertake similar amounts of training, effort and dedication as you had. The number of people who would do such is currently small.

So realistically, your value as someone who has this unique expert subject knowledge is diminished.

However, these individual losses are offset by the greater good that the LLM/ai models would generate. It is exactly equivalent to the luddite's arguments about why they would not want the textile machines to replace them.
While you laugh, watch the interview with Nial Ferguson and you might learn a thing or two. I don't want to guess as to why reality escapes your conclusions. Are you going to say that places like Berkeley are balanced? Yes, that's an extreme example, of course. Academia, in this country, is decidedly on the left. The people they graduate are deeply influenced by this.

Here, let's use another metric to get a sense of the ideological leanings of our STEM graduates.

Source:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/most-liberal-tech-companies-...

Summary of employee political donations:

Democrat Republican
Netflix: 98% 2%
Nvidia: 93% 7%
Adobe: 93% 7%
IBM: 90% 10%
Salesforce: 89% 11%
Google: 88% 12%
Microsoft: 85% 15%
Apple: 84% 16%
PayPal: 84% 16%
Cisco: 80% 20%
Amazon: 77% 23%
Facebook: 77% 23%
Intel: 68% 32%
Broadcom: 68% 32%
Oracle: 67% 33%
TI: 60% 40%
Qualcomm: 50% 50%
https://archive.ph/usrB8
My internal model lacked data post-2021! I was hallucinating.
After living and working in a place for 10 years you no longer have "a place to go back," the new place is your home, regardless of whether USCIS and US immigration laws categorize you as a "non-resident alien."

Uprooting people's lives, including that of US nationals (10 years is long enough to meet someone and have kids, even people that do not have a US citizenship or permanent residence either) is not humane. Visa holders have since 2017 a 60 days "grace period" in which H1B Visa holders have to find a new job, while L1 visa holders have that time to pack up and leave.
Clarifying Some Things (DAW Front End Development Struggles Cont.)
I uploaded my 23andMe raw data to promethease.con and searched for the gene.
https://learningmusic.ableton.com/make-melodies/make-melodie...
> runs windows

No thanks.
Does download and install time count towards the 90 minutes because for some games that is all you are going to have time for.
It's really doubtful whether a labor constrained labor market helps _all_ local workers. Sure, some may see a benefit. Others might see employers cancel projects and reduce planned investments, due to more expensive inputs driven by higher labor costs.
Doesn't matter to me if Apple did laptop speaker magic, I want my next laptop to be comparable. ThinkPad X1 Carbon 7th gen (and newer), ThinkPad Z16 have good speakers for example so this is definitely doable, just enough people have to want it to happen.
I like knowing how something feels, there's a reason people buy more expensive laptops without better performance. There are other reviewers who can provide this information. Since it's subjective I'm happy to hear as many voices as possible.
Anyone can join! If you are in the area. I was gonna say msg me

but HN doesnt have that feature. I gotta build it lol

Email me
I hired a team in Colombia and they've been nothing but great. Till the recent tech burst, demand there also was going through the roof and some US companies reportedly started paying in USD to give extra stability to workers there who deal with high inflation. I hope for them that demand there keeps rising and their comp gets closer to US. Great devs and excellent time zone!
What about foreign investors? Or citizens with foreign investments?
Neat! Building your own pinball game is 90% mechanical, 90% electrical, 90% artwork, 90% software, 100% labor intensive! Good luck in completing it, and maybe take it to a pinball show that features home-brew games.

I got to help building this one:
https://youtu.be/mbntYbjoYk8
I'm 52 and hung out at the arcades 40 years ago. So the same people?
I don’t believe those numbers, economics is terrible at measuring ‘but for’ conditionals. Statistics will tell you whatever you need if you torture it enough. As a former immigrant employee to the US I felt the intended wage suppression first hand. But for the large numbers of immigrants would a wage shortage lead to more taxes paid by citizenry? As I’m now an employer and not an employee I get the benefit of the wage suppression and it’s very real. It also prevents others from saving enough to do the same which is also of personal benefit for me but bad for society which I assume would be bad for me long term…
Except I'm not talking about a cube. I'm talking about the 3-dimensional representation of the outline of a square, not including the filled in bit. (Wouldn't be a cube anyway, as only 2 dimensions of what I'm thinking of would be the same.)
While CSAM is indeed a problem, it's not a technical but a societal one. Fighting this on the technical side wont't work (other countries already tried and failed to do so).

As big of a problem as CSAM may be, failing to acknowledging that tech can't be the sole solution has to be either a sign of malice or incompetence.
Thanks! Sure thing. Happy to clarify on these two topics:

- Private git repos: They work out of the box because DevPod uses regular git to clone repos and authenticate with your git hosting provider. The desktop app injects a lightweight client into the workspace and then connects from your machine to the client to inject your git credentials into the workspace. This can also be disabled for untrusted or public workspaces but it's by default on because it allows you to `git pull/push` from within the workspace without any issues.

- Credentials for providers: If you use the AWS, GCP, DO, Kubernetes or any other remote provider to provision dev workspaces with DevPod, it requires that either a) you have the credentials on your local machine (e.g. already signed-in via AWS CLI or gcloud CLI or valid kube-context/kube-config for k8s) or b) you provide the credentials directly to DevPod when adding the provider (e.g. provide k8s service account token or gcloud/aws tokens). Option a) would be my recommendation because credentials are stored safely by the respective cloud provider CLIs rather than having to trust DevPod to store them safely for you.
> Is that the value proposition of modern games? 90m of content?

Why not? That sounds like a pretty sensible game length to me. I'd even say that within some genres stretching it longer only makes games worse. The current 2 hour refund policy is quite harmful for hand-crafted unique experiences created by small studios. These days nobody wants to finance short focused games. I wonder where the next Loom or Portal is supposed to come from in such environment.
Presumably the O-1 visa
I agree, and I don’t recommend anyone take zinc before getting their zinc levels tested. Or if they know they have genetic issues with zinc and zinc deficiency.

But the side effects from the zinc could be from a deficiency as well.

If you are low in serotonin and dopamine and take zinc, it will increase these, and since you were low for so long, the reaction to higher levels will be more pronounced. The increase in serotonin is usually what causes stomach upset, and diarrhea.

So it’s probably better for people who haven’t taken zinc who are deficient to start slowly.
Hahah love it. Don't believe you for a second though -- that's not the kind of mistake it makes.
AI is Silicon Valley's last-ditch attempt to avoid a stock market wipeout
Volumes should be given in units of cubic acres.
It's just such a waste of time, resources and talent, when it would be vastly better, and presumably easier, to stop the extinction of vaquita, black rhinoceros and other subspecies, saola, tiger species, leopard species, elephants and sub-species, gorillas and subspecies, orangutang, and hundreds of species of fish, frogs and insects. We don't need fake mammoth. Save the vaquita. And save the Amazon Rainforest, and whatever is left of every other forest.
medium.com thinks I've read enough of their articles already, maybe it's true
Most industries don't cause outsized losses. A chemical company that causes tens of billions in damages has to pay tens of billions of dollars or it goes out of business.

Nuclear power was given a special subsidy because nobody wanted to run the risk of running a nuclear power plant if they actually had to be on the hook for it.

I never said we should require insurance for nuclear power, although that's not a bad idea. Plenty of states do it for cars, after all, so you could make a case that it should apply to bigger things. I am just saying that nuclear power should be priced fairly, which would include removing the special liability cap for nuclear plants.
I honestly think Elon just wanted a robot. I don't think there's much reason for this to exist, and I bet it'll get dropped when he finds something new.
Looks like we don't have any evidence of success of this project.

Having other people help your project might be bad for your ego, but it's also a great way to grow as a developer.
Altman wants to be the good guy so bad and instead is turning into the poster child of everything that’s wrong in Silicon Valley.

His personal goals have always been very laudable. His stance on Universal Basic Income for instance stems from a genuine belief that its adoption would eliminate poverty altogether.

But then the reality of both technical challenges and money implications kicks in and everything turns to shit.

OpenAi may want to build an AI that helps all humanity, but it turns out that the thing they stumbled upon was a chat bot that makes shit up. This great technology unfortunately cuts both ways, and the edge that’s facing us seems way sharper than the other. And then the money that’s required to run the thing is so huge that they had to compromise everything they said they wouldn’t do.

Meanwhile the Orb’s UBI experiment is only funny because its ridiculously dystopian technology has zero chances to ever catch on.

At some point, the industry really should try and figure out what the fuck it is we’re trying to do. Cause right now, it really looks like computers only brought us two things: corporate databases and TVs we can watch on the toilet.
> and why N₂O is both an anesthetic and is dissolved in cream to form whipped cream.

Whipped cream is cream with colloidal air in it. Mostly regular atmospheric air, but any gas that is safe to eat and has no flavor would function equivalently. If the air were dissolved in the cream, it would just be cream, not whipped cream.

Wikipedia says that the purpose of nitrous oxide in commercial whipped cream canisters is to be stored (dissolved) at very high pressure so that, when the pressure is released, it can whip the cream by undissolving from it. (And that the secondary purpose is that the nitrous oxide doubles as a preservative.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipped-cream_charger#Culinary
I've never used CF for anything. is there a way to say "If my bill goes above $X just cut me off and send me an email" ?
> and they will do the same work for a fraction of the price.

For a while. I worked with some excellent remote developers in other countries, but it always felt like a revolving door as the pivoted from one remote job to the next so they could get a $5K increase here and a $5K increase there. Eventually we had applicants demanding salaries equivalent to MCOL United States salaries, so we just went back to hiring local for a lot of the roles. Hiring and managing remote workers comes with a lot of financial and managerial overhead.

Once companies catch on, it's just to easy to go in and snipe entire teams from one company by giving them nominal raises.
I am getting old. But in the old days when you asked on IRC a question that could be answered by reading the manual you got the answer RTFM.

Then there was stackoverflow where everyone got used asking questions and people obliged to answer even those. All just to get karma and/or badges.

Personally I still prefer to run through documentation...
EB-1 ("Executive") or O-1 ("Genius").
I believe the idea is that you undo their move and they have to play a different move instead. A lot of fantastic chess moments are about one player finding the only move that’s good, and high level chess is largely about creating these incredibly tense board positions where there are a lot of possible moves but only a few are safe. For example, Sesse’s analysis of the last championship game http://analysis.sesse.net/ (can’t link to a specific move, use the bar chart or the Previous/Next hyperlinks to go to “analysis after 58… a3”). This is 50+ moves into a fast paced game and according to supercomputer analysis it is a perfectly tied position. There are two possible moves that keep the game tied or close to tied, and one more possible move that only give up a very slight advantage (0.5 points is roughly “half a pawn’s value” and is close to the limit of what a human player can confidently detect, this moves gives four tenths of a pawn). Every other move gives up 3 points or more (roughly a full piece, like a bishop) - not always immediately, maybe five or ten moves down the track.

Nepo, playing white, makes one of those “bad” moves, theoretically losing the equivalent of almost four whole pawns, a terrible blunder in the eyes of the all-seeing computer. But use the Next link to look at the position in “analysis after 59 Qc7”. There is one move, black Queen to g6, that takes advantage of the “blunder”. There is a second move, black Bishop to f8, that completely cedes the blunder and returns to a mostly-tied position. The third best possible move loses 32 points (going from -4 to +28, which is the equivalent of losing both knights, both bishops, both rooks, and your Queen in a single move - the computer equivalent of saying “you lose the game, it just takes 20 or more turns”). Then there’s two dozen more possible moves, all of which literally lose the game on the spot.

So to recap: one move gets your opponent ahead, one move keeps him tied, and twenty-four moves loses him the entire game. Being able to cut off your finger to undo and prevent that one good move would change the entire dynamic from “a terrible blunder” to “a bold stroke of pure brilliance”.
Kind of off topic, but one thing I've noticed has become very common in recent years is for a game emulation focused hardware vendor to include an SD card completely full of ROMs, and sell it on mainstream sources like Amazon. That's illegal and I think it's uncool.
It's not like there isn't a market waiting impatiently for the product...
It depends on where you believe numbers exist, as a transcendent reality or just as “constructs” made up by people. One can see why someone pushing for control over math / numbers would be more interested in the latter view.
eh. that wouldn't have helped me out. before I was put on ADHD medication, I couldn't hold down a job or a relationship for longer than 6 months; starting the process for an ADHD diagnosis was something I'd put off doing for years. when I finally made the decision to start the process, i would show up to appointments 2 or 3 hours early and sit in the waiting room on my phone, just to avoid forgetting/being late.

getting that diagnosis was life-changing. as a funny side-effect of getting medicated, I've been able to build up a life over the past 8 years. now I have a full time job where I've been for 3 years, a long-term relationship, family + friends, pets, a house to take care of, etc. etc.
Is Prolog so low as to not appear?
I expect scam callers will be using it.
I feel like I must remind people of who they are petitioning to regulate AI. These are the same people that will throw you in jail for broadcasting FM radio. The oversight will be used to handcuff the little guy and benefit big business (their donors).
Nokia, a famous logging and paper company, is also a great example.
The only thing they care to enforce is their market share
Also: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/telly-free-smart-tv-privac...

I'm looking forward to the threads about how people are hacking these things—perhaps "exorcising" is a better word—back to the dumb screens they should be, and I am very much looking forward to the inevitable thread 1–3 years from now where HN dissects how and why Telly went bankrupt.
Big tech does have such a mechanism. The individuals laid off generally get a couple of months to find a new job within the company. In these times there are few open positions but many do get filled by internal applicants who were laid off.
FYI, if you're just looking for a Common Lisp implementation for Apple Silicon, there is SBCL (which is a fork of CMU Common Lisp): https://www.sbcl.org/
I understand perfectly. And I still firmly believe that companies should immediately and completely lose ANY access to the visa pipelines if they do a layoff.

If visa holders are that important to the company, then the company will figure out how to not do a layoff, no?

Of course, I'm also someone who believes that visa holders should be granted green card status within 24 months tops--none of this 7 years of indentured servitude bullshit. Green cards like this would shut down 90+% of the companies abusing the visa process in the US.
Bill Gates' commencement speech: cut yourself some Slack