skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat important look into the industry & whats afoot. Cautioun tbough, can be even handed, but also let's through a significant sprinkling of personal affinities the author seemingly has too (in favor of the Tech Right, for example a very sharp rejection of anyone at Universities).

I am a bit confused by the early track shift. The article starts by talking about TESCREAL:

> coined the term TESCREAL, which stands for Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism

But quickly shifts to talking about the the "Tech Right"? There's definitely some significant overlap here, some places more than others. But it seems to me there's huge freedom in how a lot of these varied TESCREAL systems can be followed/practiced/believed.

That there are more authoritarian & more democratic versions of socialism, which believe/disbelieve in the rest of humanity, which horde or share power, seems a near parallel, a frame we could use here to see broader possibility.

At it's best, the article does describes a seemingly well known but underrecorded & very critical culture of the world, spawned from tech, & one that already has clawed out a massively disproportionate share of human power.

Side question, do people readily associate Extropianism with the belief that we'll live forever? Personally this is new to me, took me by surprise, and I say this as someone who thought I knew & kind of respected what I saw as the values: a belief in iterative ongoing improvement of life & living.
I believe the estimate is 18-20%. This is roughly 86 billion monthly active users. More than enough to populate an active community. I hazard to guess that third party app users are also more active.
> I know that we tell ourselves this story about management just so we can justify doing the bare minimum as employees.

> But where does that leave us as a society?

The problem is the structural incentives, not the fact that workers respond rationally to them.

To fix the problem, fix the incentives, don’t try to guilt trip workers to ignore them to give unrewarded gifts to their employers in an upward transfer of wealth. Because, if we encourage people to do that, where does that leave us as a society?
I would think that they're referring more to the rumbling sound of a small two-stroke engine idling as opposed to a chainsaw running at full throttle while cutting wood. Here in the southeast US, at least, it not unusual to describe the sound of an engine idling as "purring" or even "purring like a kitten."
> You don't pick up your house and move it every time you need to go to a grocery store

You are to your house as your car is to your driveway. You don't dig up your driveway and bring it with you every time you drive somewhere.
Exact same pattern at my AI start-up. Custom Stripe Radar rules seem to solve the bulk of the issues, but inevitably real customers get caught up in the mess as well.

There is an infuriatingly high amount of obviously fraudulent charges though with a very low Stripe risk score that only custom rules catch.

Thank you to the Stripe team for finally taking this seriously and stepping in to resolve this. My guess is that prior to today, this was never elevated to the proper people for real action.

Until then, if your name is Jake Minas and you're trying to get a subscription: I am sorry.
To me it's a collection of both, so the title makes it sound that it performs better than GPT-4. I don't know who those people are exactly who only hold GPT-3.5 to that meaning.
https://blog.cloudnativefolks.org/ebpf-for-cybersecurity-par...
While the barebones aspect of Lisp is appealing, there is no way I will commit again to a language that's not statically typed.

There is a difference for a language between "readable" and "understandable".

To me, languages that don't have type annotations (ideally with type inference) might look pleasing to the eye but they are a nightmare to maintain and modify because so much vital information is missing.
Americans don't seem to live in sardine cans compared to the world. They mostly seem to transport themselves and work in sardine cans, though. Not very different from the remainder of the developed world, where people do live in sardine cans primarily.
Updated: https://archive.ph/WEoa2
As someone in a US state with blackouts to our power grid, I'm wondering what more developed things you might be referring to and I might be missing out on.
he's canadian iirc (i think the richest one right now, actually)
I don't think it is inappropriate. I was clear about what I wondered so the discussion would be around that.
Its not a static world. Things are always changing. I have some faith Google(the ad tech part) will start crumbling. Chat GPT has given them a jolt. And there are more jolts to come. Not less. From the Regulators. From the advertisers who know most of the views they get are from bots or totally worthless. And that they don't need to be spending what they are spending.
> What there is no evidence of this in any reality.

Here is the state department talking about how they are worried that Russians will acquire the US funded biolabs in Ukraine: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5005520/senator-rubio-questio...

Reporting on the US funding via EcoHeath Alliance (same people behind the Wuhan lab, some evidence indicates may be a CIA front): https://expose-news.com/2022/03/18/ukraine-biolabs-and-conne...

Seriously question the media you are watching that told you "no evidence" on this.
A physical analogy is an azimuth-elevation mounted antenna tracking an object that flies over the zenith. When the object is near the horizon, the angular velocity of the azimuth actuator may be near zero and the elevation actuator may be small. Near zenith, the angular velocity of the elevation actuator may be small and the azimuth actuator may be near infinity.
I have hyperacusis (hypersensitive to noise) and insomnia and I wish all noisy things would go away. I’m one of those people who’s health is severely impacted by noise and I spend a lot of money trying to get away from it. I know that most people don’t have these conditions so they don’t understand how inconsiderate they’re being. It is unrealistic of me to expect others to be more accommodating. If anything people are getting much noisier. I would be exceedingly happy to live in a place where electric cars are the biggest generators of noise pollution. I’ve lived in Europe in walkable cities with little car traffic and it’s worse with drunk revealers singing at the top of their lungs at all hours, parties going until late at night and barking dogs in the early morning. Makes me pine for a HOA controlled gated city suburbia with strict noise controls. Most traffic noise, and especially electric car noise, can be covered up by a noise generator. One place I lived installed an artwork that lit up to different levels depending on the noise pollution, instead of encourage people to be quieter it did the opposite as they competed on who could make the most noise.
Because it was expensive to run such servers. Imagine dedicating 50-100 Mbps of constant bandwidth just to Usenet, and then explaining to management that 99.9% of Usenet was alt.binaries. We outsourced for a while, but even that cost was difficult to justify and none of our customers would admit to wanting it.
I can't wait until there is a standardized ChatGPT Bible to guide this emerging machine-priest caste. And these posts will be the equivalent of the dead sea scrolls.
I've built several massive-scale k8s systems for prior companies, all scaled using the underlying built-in primitives without extreme cost.
Where do you get the improvement metrics from? For instance: "5x faster deployments"
Umbrel pivoted. When it launched it actually was a Bitcoin miner, and then they added other apps, and then made the Bitcoin miner optional. And yeah, I don't know the details about the internals but a friend of mine was not thrilled with their approach. I think one specific point was that they don't support using HTTPS on the local network at all.
I'm pretty sure these ads actually convinced people to vote FOR the bill. The almost comical fear-mongering simply proved that manufacturers really had no actual counter-argument.
> Americans don't seem to live in sardine cans compared to the world. They mostly seem to transport themselves and work in sardine cans, though. Not very different from the remainder of the developed world, where people do live in sardine cans primarily.

You misunderstand. It's an alternate universe headline.
Anyone have a link to the proposed rules? I couldn't see a reference to the text in the EFF release.
Exactly, and even my company, we have had to let go of people because we couldn't afford to keep them. Loyalty doesn't enter into the equation, in many cases these are people you genuinely enjoy working with. But it's more about, can you afford to keep the staff you have or not? What do you do for the health of the company (and the employment of the people that remain)? It doesn't just have to be a dichotomy between "cold-hearted" or "loyal" – sometimes you just can't afford it and don't have a choice if you want to keep yourself and others employed.

I will agree strongly that in my interactions with dozens of small businesses, the way we do (and want to do) business is in the minority. There was once a phone call with a small business to explore a partnership and I messaged my exec team on slack "I don't like how ___ lied about something as small as ____, don't really want to get into a partnership with businesses that have such red flags" – but that is sadly too common. Call me naive, but I have to feel satisfied at the end of the day that we tried our best to do the right thing in our little corner, even if that limited our growth (and it certainly has).
This is what the data is based on. I've read the book and it's totaling all square footage in the country devoted to parking lots vs. housing. Essentially after the math, each car has more than just one space allocated to it.
From your explanation, I knew it must have been Justine before I saw the link in the post. Her work is nothing short of amazing.
The "colleague" was one of his students. Apparently the kids had lots of interactions with American GIs who were stationed in the area, and picked up code words from conversations they heard. When their headmaster, who created the crosswords, asked them for words that would fit his skeleton, some of the words they suggested were these top-secret ones. The headmaster had no idea of their provenance.

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Cross...
Please don't perpetuate nationalistic flamewars, or any flamewars, on HN, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Surprisingly good summary given the sites url:

> The nuclear industry will have to address the cost challenge with urgency if it is to participate in the huge growth opportunity that low-carbon power presents. At current levels, the cost gap is just too great for nuclear to grow rapidly,” said David Brown, Director, Energy Transition Service at Wood Mackenzie, and lead author of the report.

> The current costs of small modular reactors (SMRs), which analysts and governments believe could be the future of nuclear power, is even higher than the current generation of PWRs and much higher than wind, solar, natural gas, and coal power generation.

> The promise of SMRs is that it’s a shorter-cycle approach and could avoid some of the manufacturing and commissioning pitfalls that giant PWR projects have encountered, WoodMac notes.

> “SMRs are designed to be modular, factory-assembled and scalable. They are expected to be quicker to market, with a target construction time of three to five years compared with the ‘nameplate’ 10 years needed to build a large PWR,” Brown says.

> The key to at-scale adoption of SMRs will be how fast costs could fall and potentially make this type of nuclear energy generation cost-competitive with other forms of energy, especially renewables.
IMHO The point of this project wasn't for practicality; it's for fun in the process.

For a hacker like the author, anything is a good learning practice and thus good time spent.

That being said, you have a good point -- For people really looking for a serious alternative to computers, they shouldn't look too deep into Xbox 360. Thanks for putting the warning about RROD here. You've added a valuable warning sign to the original content.
I don't think the problem is that they're "corporate-approved", but agree with your sentiment.

* Luca - Cute visuals but the story was not aiming very high. Huge missed opportunity with the underwater world, which was bland and almost like they ran out of time to flesh it out.

* Onward - A mess of a story that never got refined. Lots of ideas loosely coupled. When the most memorable aspect is walking pants, you have a problem.

* Soul - This one came so close to greatness. I definitely felt the creative team pouring themselves into this, but it somehow didn't click like its spiritual cousin Inside Out (a hilarious and tear-jerking masterpiece, Pixar at its best). The "core" of Soul was a bit confused, I thought: you search for a purpose, but you don't really need a purpose, and you should let go of your purpose...?
> Can't mention this question here or it will get fixed

Why is that a problem?
The reaction I've seen from some clueless managers has verged on: "Wow he knows C++! He must be a genius!"

It's surprisingly easy to fool people with just words. I think this is why we have so many incompetent people working in tech. Most people don't know how to qualify people.
They listed prozac that is fluorinated

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoxetine

But I’m unsure the line where perfluoralkylated is reached. I’d think if the compound had alkylated chains instead of a fluorine-linked head group.
[Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We asked you this at least once before.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
A diverse auditing ecosystem is needed to uncover algorithmic risks
See also:

• Graphical User Interface Gallery <http://toastytech.com/guis/>

• GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery <https://guidebookgallery.org/>

• Museum of UI <https://ui.codexpanse.com/>

• The History of User Interfaces <https://history.user-interface.io/>
True. Other day I saw a provocative challenge on LinkedIn Whats stopping you from doing 336 hours worth of work in 168 hours of a week? To be honest I had no answer.
Thankfully ADHD for adults is being taken more seriously now.
The "Take Action" buttons take you to a page with both the rules and a way to comment on them.
Sandstorm is really good at security. I would absolutely encourage you to download a copy and try to identify an exploitable security vulnerability. As a Sandstorm user, I'd really like to know about it!
I don't think a "kill file" was the same as "moderation".

A kill file is "User X is tired of seeing User Y, so X stops reading posts from Y". Everyone else can still read Y.

A moderator is "Moderator is tired of seeing User Y, so Y cannot post to Newsgroup anymore". A much stronger action.

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Its been a few decades since I was part of any Usenet though. So maybe I'm mis-remembering the lingo. Or are you saying that the moderators used kill-files that somehow applied to the whole newsgroup?

Because... the later would make sense. But I really don't know how things worked back then.
For me, the experience of Mastodon is worse than Twitter - essentially, either you follow the global firehose feed, or you're limited to the small amount of content your direct followings create or re-toot.
I am still confused on how to access usenet for free tbh. Everytime I've looked into it seems weirdly expensive.
Your first two sentences boil down to "why is this here?"

> what dictates whether layoffs are news?

> this was the most non-news layoff I've seen in some time and I don't understand why we are pretending it is a conversation piece, especially with this title.
Unions in Germany get seats on the corporate board, about the same number as the shareholders do. Public universities receiving NIH grants are a bit different in structure, but there are administrative government boards of one sort or the other at all such institutions, and having union representatives on those boards makes a lot of sense. This would mean researchers have more say over things like how much overhead ius taken from individual NIH grants and how that overhead is spent (for things like building maintenance, etc.).
Congratulations on the launch! It looks neat. I wonder if you're deploying your own k8s on AWS or using AWS EKS. There is value in both, the former being able to move across cloud providers that don't have managed k8s (ie OpenShift, Cloud 66, ...) and the latter improving the DX on k8s (Convox, etc)
Moreover, that's assuming that every car is a Ford F150. But what happens in practice is that the F150 gets parked next to a Toyota Corolla which is less than 6' wide and thereby has room to open the doors by extending them into the adjacent space.
> either one of which is unusual behavior for a cat.

Not really. Depends on the cat.
Might be too late, but 3rd party apps should should reddit content and 3rd party content
Fair enough, didn't interpret the second line as also being an alternative universe.
Then why would you not block all cookies except for those from Kagi? That is trivial to set up.
Same here. I loved OW and its Tab layout. But after its demise I went to Safari.
This is just the most recent decline in stackoverflow 8-(

Ever since the posting system was turned into a social score where people are mostly conncerned with increassing their score versus answering questions, stackoverflow has failed it's users.

Just another example in the very long list of for-profit plaforms doing what's best for profit over what's best for the users...
If there were evidence that a substantial percentage of people would simply opt out of contributing to society at all but it still required considerable levels of human labour to support the standard of living a UBI is expected to provide then I would absolutely be against it. I don't believe the former is true though, and the latter will continue to become decreasingly so, to the point automation etc. will generate more than enough goods and services than we need for everyone to enjoy decent lifestyles.
The site that exists now is much closer to Joel's ideal site than Jeff's ideal site.

I'm not sure how you can say Joel lost.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/09/15/stack-overflow-lau...

> What kind of questions are appropriate? Well, thanks to the tagging system, we can be rather broad with that. As long as questions are appropriately tagged, I think it’s okay to be off topic as long as what you’re asking about is of interest to people who make software. But it does have to be a question. Stack Overflow isn’t a good place for imponderables, or public service announcements, or vague complaints, or storytelling.

While its a bit more refined than that now, that is a different ideal than the one posed in https://blog.codinghorror.com/introducing-stackoverflow-com/

> Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming) meets wikipedia meets programming reddit. It is by programmers, for programmers, with the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum total of good programming knowledge in the world. No matter what programming language you use, or what operating system you call home. Better programming is our goal.

The emphasis on "good" in "with the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum total of good programming knowledge in the world." is in the original.
Not really if you include the driveway too. A parking spot without access in/out is useless. When an aisle has parking both sides, this space is shared, so only 50% allocated to each space. But if you ever see an aisle with parking on only one side, you might be surprised how much more room cars need to get in/out. Even with shared aisles, it is ~100sqft. 300sqft for a parking spot really is a bare minimum. And that's before you start adding up common spaces like ramps, etc.
> Explicit lifetimes

I never understood that one either. There is always only one "solution" that will make your program compile, so why not just let the compiler figure it out?
Is it really not possible to write unit tests for a spreadsheet with Office Script?

> and have a formula accidentally replaced by a static number on line 87456

Surely this specific case could be validated externally with a script too.
They used to have an option to permanently block sites from your google results. They quietly dropped it even before they dropped reader.
This got 41 points so far and worega from Cloudflare acknowledged and fixed the issue. And yet the post was flagged.
Cars 2 was also pretty great, so my point still stands.
If only unions in the US worked like their European counterparts! :(
But the maneuvering space for your driveway is the road, which was there anyway.
I think they actually will tbh, I don't think the US has any fight left in it.
The calls for regulation are rallied around what is called AI existential risk. I am taking umbrage with these calls for regulation by stating we are no where close to artificial intelligence (current generation is content generation, no logic, no truth) and that it poses no risk.

There is a further argument that even with actual AI, which people have written volumes of sci-fi tier essays about how it will kill us all, that there has been no demonstrated risk, only speculation.
Ask HN: Why has my launch been successful on other platforms but not on HN?
I've released a framework last month, getting a decent number of GitHub stars (400+) and some hardcore fans. It was very well received on Reddit and other communities, but didn't get a single upvote on HN. Anyone has any tips? I'm guessing it has something to do with target audience, but the difference is astonishing.
How would that work? The problem here is that chroot needs to run using a different CPU instruction set. qemu-user is exactly the right answer here.

According to e.g. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd-nspawn "no hardware emulation is taking place and unlike QEMU and Virtualbox non-native CPU instruction sets are not directly supported".
These expectations are calculated into the funding obligation. They may be off, they may be overshoots. The last couple of years life expectancy receded by a couple of years to what it was on average in 1996. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-life-expectancy-in-t...

At least for the next few years they're unlikely to pay less than is necessary per employee (and in fact pay much more than is necessary). In my job the employer contribution to the pension is about 14% (with the employee contribution about 7% - 9% depending on pension tier), which is making up for a period of time in the late 90s when the contribution was low single digits (IIRC). We're unlikely to see those underfundingly low contribution rates anytime soon.

A pension is an annuity, and should be calculated like annuities when determining the benefit received on a per-employee basis.