skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is more like the US is held by corporate business interests while China is under firm control by the Party. They both however end up having opaque government apparatuses for surveillance and control (with differing characteristics of course).
Maybe not what you are looking for, but I do it the manual way. Low-end, but reliable once in a while: USB3.2 external SSD
(example 60usd on NewEgg for SanDisk 1TB)
AI-generated academic science writing can be identified with over 99% accuracy
Price is even more easily gamed than reviews, i don’t care how bad reviews get, pricing will always be a terrible signal
> use "Alice" and "Bob"

why are you using stereotypically white names? this is exclusionary!

> use "Jessica" and "Guillermo"

why are you using stereotypically nonwhite names? this is racist!

it's just impossible to win with you people isn't it?
> Those people who say that they're much more productive at home must be a minority of a minority, and the rest of them just lie because they want to slack off.

This reads as though you called about half of the people here liars.

If you didn't mean to imply that most of the people here arguing for WFH are really trying to preserve their chance to slack off, I would read back over your post and consider changing your language, because it's pretty obvious that most people who read it took it that way. You can't blame other people for misinterpreting you when that misinterpretation is the most common way to read what you wrote. :)
I generally agree with your point about the benefit of talking. I think there are many cases where someone would probably benefit as much from just talking to a close friend. But there are also many cases when a therapist can provide objectivity, discretion, insight and experience that friends just can't match.

This goes especially for actually severe mental disorder, because the thing there is, those patients have things going on in their head that most people can't relate to or understand(like irrational fears for instance). Psychologists however have a lot of experience talking with these people, reading and interpreting abnormal body language. And they know the sort of things you definitely don't want to say to a patient.

As for your point about social media, my personal view is that you're mostly right except I do think real mental illness is increasing, because loneliness is such a strong cause of depression especially, but also social phobia.

Throughout my childhood most of my interactions with people outside my family consisted or bullying by other kids and neglect by teachers. Because of this, it's deeply instilled in me that in any social interaction people are catalogueing my every mistake or negative attribute, or just ignoring me. No amount of conversation with other people(or medication btw) has helped me overcome this, but the only progress I have made was in therapy. What I really needed was help to understand why my brain works this way, and how I can be more aware of my own irrational thinking. This has helped me to obsess a lot less about social situations. Though I still have a deep mistrust of people at my core, I've at least been able to let some people in and learn to trust them. And accept that they really do like me for who I am.

While a bit rambling, I hope that provides some context on what a good therapist can do compared to speaking to friends and loved ones.
These are all decisions you make. You could live closer to work, work closer to home, or work closer to a train station. In Netherland, lots of office parks are close to train stations exactly for this reason.

Outdoor sports? Depends on which one, and on whether you want to bring your own gear. Cycling doesn't need a car, unless you want to do it in exotic locales. I used to take public transport to where I rented a sailing boat.

Of course every choice comes with trade-offs, but so does a car. It's good to be aware of your options.
I explained why "twitter and reddit bad" isn't a good enough argument.
>I'm struggling to think of _any_ ML-ish thing in the human-imitating space which has gotten all the way to virtually perfect/as good as human.

Go?
Anyone have any experience or knowledge of this VS pinecone?
C'mon that extra year makes all the difference ;)
>alright, we'll let you fix our broken shitty site but only if you take a vow of poverty.

What a fantastic way to put it, thinking about it so much of the 3rd party tools for reddit are about fixing the site. Bots, because moderation tools aren't powerful enough for the job, RIF in the browser because even old.reddit is kinda crappy, and 3rd party mobile apps because the 1st party one is notoriously bad.
The Inverse Conway Maneuver
Only links to other articles. Nothing worth discussing from this link.
Very, very, very infrequently. These are VMs that I will upload once and then not think about them for years in case my local machines die.
I Played a Giant Robot in Scrabble
Some may discern the taint of dualism in this (very amusing) dialogue.

https://radhesiam.com/bhagavadgita-quotes/bhagavad-gita-9-24...

There is this possibility to consider. Another Muslim Saint, Junaid (R), said “Water takes the color of the cup it is poured in”. The Prophet (SAWS) said “There is no I but Allah”.

You can always fashion a new cup to suit your contingent condition. But the spirit of Sacrifice, and the Enjoying of the pleasures is eternal and immutable. Is it possible that ritual sacrifice, however distorted by the understanding of ancient people, is an intrinsic impetus of the conscious knowing, feeling, desiring (and at times afflicted) being known as Human, guiding us to detachment so that we may too enjoy without attachment, like God.
You should had a remote filter!
>> But how would the Beatles catalog be different if George, Paul, John, and Ringo needed day jobs? You’d imagine they might produce less and maybe even very different music.

Maybe, for pop music. And maybe music in general would be a very different affair if it wasn't such big business. In fact, in many ways it already is. See, I've always listened to metal music and I've played in a couple metal bands. Those were the typical small-time bands that are basically just a bunch of metalhead kids come together to play the music they like. And we did. With one of those bands we even had a bit of a career, playing gigs and getting people headbanging and stagediving in a venue away from home. This was in a mythical land, in a sprawling metropolis under an ancient citadel and you will never know the names of the bands that became legend, because they were local, locally grown and locally forgotten, legend. But these were good times, and they continue to be. This was music from the people, for the people. A real folk music for the 20th century, the kind of thing that big corporations will never soil with their greedy, all-withering touch.

And none of those bands were professional, and this was their strength, and what made them valuable. The value of the recognition of the big-name bands is not to be dismissed, because, ultimately, what all we kids really wanted was to be stars, ourselves, to stand on a big stage with thousands of fans at our feet, like Halford or Hetfield. But we didn't really think that would be the outcome, and still we played, and enjoyed ourselves, and made music magickal.

And still do. Have a look at the Encyclopedia Metallum. I bet 75% of the bands you'll find there have never seen a dime from their art, and they all have day jobs - day jobs that support their music. Because who cares? Just make the music you want to listen to.

Proof:

https://youtu.be/lq4dh_bAWoQ
I think you're supposed to have a backup off prem in case of some disaster so you're not just losing everything at once
I had to try to ask it to rewrite this to 15yo text speak, and while I 100% agree with you, it clearly needs some more detail prompting to get a result that doesn't sound like an adult trying and failing to pass for a teenager. Funny, though:

> So like, for real, ChatGPT doesn't spit out stuff that sounds like those super boring academic papers by default, which is like totally no shocker, right? I mean, you could even compare it to us teens textin' and all, and you'd find out that ChatGPT vibes are different, and, honestly, who's surprised by that? Lol.
You have been banned, from life.
The query engine works on top of an Entity Component System (ECS) storage that stores entities and their data in cache coherent (SoA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AoS_and_SoA) data structures.

With any kind of database - even in-memory SQLite - there is a query interface between you and the data. In ECS you access data directly, which is at least an order of magnitude faster.
You may already have some free storage from a service like Google or Apple (iCloud). You could use something like that and rsync. Otherwise, a cheap desktop +/ NAS in basement with rsync might be the cheapest option.
What threats are you trying to mitigate against? Only primary hard drive failures? Ransomware? User/application error? Fire/Flood/Earthquake?

If you only want 90% and don't care about local concentration of risk, it's going to be really hard to beat a $50 used computer with a SATA hard drive turned into a Linux box in your basement.
Security in the US is defined by the Howey test, and other jurisprudence. Bitcoin does not meet the definition any more than collectible trading cards do.

Any crypto that imply some kind of stake or ownership of something that exists outside of that instrument are securities. This includes all stablecoins, all defi, and probably plenty of other things I don't even know about. But pure currencies that are backed by nothing other than scarcity and other people's expectation about their value are not securities. They are either commodities or currencies. Which of the two they are is still unclear and will probably have to be litigated at some point, as this distinction has other tax and regulatory significance, but neither option gets SEC on your ass the way unregistered securities does.

This is in fact an argument against the usefulness of crypto/blockchains in general -- unlike some proponents claim, you really can't actually use tradable crypto to do anything interesting, like name resolution or whatever, because if you can freely buy and sell the tokens, as soon as you can do anything more interesting with them they probably become securities.
Is there a job board where I can take half salary and work 20hrs? Because I'd do that in a heartbeat (and probably work harder)
Isn't this basically how autoencoder models are trained?
Do you realize that what I said is completely valid and true?

Managers: Do not discuss your ex-employee’s work in public. It’s risking their reputation and unprofessional.
> you can no longer manually type the passkey in on random devices that don't have your password manager on it

This answers a question about them that I've been unable to find a clear answer for anywhere. My passwords are all randomly generated and stored in my password manager. It's cumbersome to type them in on some device without my password manager and I don't do it often, but at least I have the option!

I really don't like the idea that my passwords/passkeys are some thing to just be abstracted away to the point that I have no idea where they are or how to access them manually if needed.
Atmospheric CO2 is currently around 421 ppm. Cognition is slightly affected at 2x that, and health largely unaffected until 5x or so. I believe even the weaker climate goals are under 1.5x, so if atmospheric CO2 concentration hits 5x, we'll presumably see a lot more than a few CDC recommendations.
Do you have any recent figures for job placement?

The market is very tough right now, and even well qualified seniors can’t find work. The general consensus is if you don’t have a degree you shouldn’t even bother (unless you have many YoE, then only maybe) and should go to college or leave the industry. Is that true in your experience?
You can already get Edge with a different UA string... it's called Chromium!
Due to Nyquist, it will be missing specular reflections with high angular frequency, which gives everything a dull, "satin" texture. You will never see anything "twinkle", "sparkle", or "glitter" in one of these, nor will mirrors likely be accurate. You can see this right in the beginning of the video, center frame - a mirror has an odd, blurry texture. You can see it again more subtly in the kitchen - it's full of reflective objects, in a room with bright overhead spotlights, and yet we never see sharp highlights. Diffuse highlights, sure, but nothing goes 'ting'.
That's exactly how the so called Golden State Killer was caught.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo#Invest...

Video by Veritassium about the case:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KT18KJouHWg
> You also lose the ease of just walking over to someone to ask a question

Here's what typically happened in every company I worked at. I ask a question, they tell me to look at the documentation. I look it up, do what I needed to do, and at some point, it all unravels because the documentation is horribly out of date, and there was something else that needed to be done from the beginning, which this other guy knows about.

Training is always awful, in person and remote. Nobody wants to help or give any info, even when you are asking questions specific to the company product. Things that can't be googled, or things that the team would be better off just telling rather than letting the new guy struggle for a week.

No I'm not bitter at all.....
PRISM was not a backdoor into company networks, it was a system by which the companies involved submitted data that was requested through the normal legal channels. You can dispute how valid those legal channels are, but the point is this is widely misunderstood.

Comparing it against the government having "god credentials" to the entire backend is disingenuous.
It's been scraped already by every major player and likely will continue to be scraped because it has to be public in order for the site to function
What I'm saying is that I believe more people will choose to do what we are doing, because the alternative (playing the rigged game) makes less sense every year.

If it requires going to work for more than your entire life to pay for a house, people will stop buying houses, etc.
So, not 50% (which I think we all knew), but an estimated 40% of the people using Copilot (some percentage of devs), with that figure being heavily dependent on how the study was done. Are people self reporting these figures? Because you'd have to think that there'd be a sampling bias there.

Anecdotally, copilot has gotten in my way more than it has been useful, so I'm having trouble buying these figures.
> AFAIK Guix is the only project that uses Guile and has any actual users

TeXmacs (https://texmacs.org) uses Guile, Gimp uses a Scheme, and learning Guile for Guix should be transferable with little changes to other Schemes.
Haha spot on. My hang out was this broken slide at an abandon playground. Or you could climb on the metal bar in the overgrown weeds.

There is just no way I would be doing that in 2023 as a kid. It was fun at the time because the alternative was even more boring.
Is this US-only? I would love to see something similar for jobs near me.
> Requesting something and something actually happening are two very different things.

i.e., I don't have the respect of the people that are working for me.

I never had issues with people making sure chat remained in public channels.

> There is also a meaningful difference between an in-person group chat and a group chat that will remain visible to the whole team for months or years to come.

One can be referenced later with a simple text search.

The other could have been an email. And will probably end up with people forgetting what exactly was said.

> requires everyone involved to adjust to the idea that everything they ask can be later analyzed without the context of the moment, and this has a chilling effect on the kinds of things that people are willing to ask.

i.e., I work at a toxic company with toxic management.

Because those same people were speaking up regularly during in-person meetings and weren't being judged there.

Also, let's forget about video/audio.

> Accomplishing what the parent comment is talking about requires far more than “please use the group chat.”

Sure. It requires effort. No more so than what was required before. The difference? We blindly accepted what came before as the way things were.
Cloud storage is a massive ripoff. Just go buy a 2TB drive at Best Buy for $120 and stick it in an external usb-c enclosure from amazon for $15.
But this wouldn’t make any difference for Apollo right?

Pretty much every sub I’m on has decided to strike for at least 2 days and there’s quite a weight behind indefinite
Restic is the tool and Glacier is the service if you want it cheap.
I filtered for India and saw Infosys in the list which is one of the the lowest paying employers in India.

Not sure how this data is sourced but it's clearly inaccurate.

Also most jobs didn't have a salary so not sure what "high paying" really means.
This is rad! Its so simple to use and I love the idea of making things composable and building off everyone else's code, I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the different ways to use this. Keep up the good work!
If it was so simple, everyone would be doing it correctly. Even you don't give a simple account of what needs to be done. What you have done is talk down to someone else. All in all, I think your entire argument would be a lot more sympathetic if you made it by giving a concrete example of your own beliefs (what do? Is that really simple?), otherwise you will have to get used to folks not listening to you.
See my reply to your sibling comment. Bitcoin is not a security, because there is a legally well established definition of security and bitcoin does not meet it.
An opaque process of secret courts with secret decisions may be different legally, but in spirit it does not seem that significantly different to me in terms of preventing overreach and abuse.
> People fight wars so they can align voting with location.

This is a needless digression, and it's clear you won't change your mind. But FWIW, this is 100% backwards. Wars are over "location" because by definition it's not possible to fight a war to win voting share or opinions[1]. War can win territory, period. That's all it does. So we've traditionally aligned our political boundaries with whatever lines were drawn up by the last conqueror to come through the region.

That's a bug! Democracy is the fix for this disaster. You're claiming the disaster is a feature!

[1] It is possible, however, to use the tools of war to affect demographic distributions. We call that "genocide", and I really don't think you want to be aligning your logic in this direction.
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/part-time-tech

Not perfect match but did exist once
The GEDMatch database has frequently been used for this purpose.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=gedmatch
Finding a part time dev job is the holy grail. I think free lancing is the only way to do that
Hard to argue with. We have already found the consequences of disposable goods and need to include recycling and reusing in future designs of all mass produced goods.
So you're familiar with both quantum mechanics papers and psychology papers? Give me a break...one comes across terrible papers in all fields but in psychology and sociology, you see terrible papers along with the science journalism that follows it, plus the whole replication crisis. Whole field looks like a mess.
To my knowledge nobody said they were 100% remote, you are in a remote role, and are now reneging. If they said they’re remote then they’re still remote.
I this idea of LLMs not understanding the concept of negation is false.

Both if you ask ChatGPT (GPT4) to explain the concept of negation or ask it to do a task that leverages negation, you get sound results.

Example of a conversation leveraging negation:

User
Hello GPT. Could you write me a sentence longer than 6 words ?

ChatGPT:
Of course, I'd be happy to help! Here's a sentence for you: "The sun set behind the mountains, casting a stunning array of colors across the evening sky."

User:
Now, could you write me a sentence not longer than 6 words ?

ChatGPT:
Absolutely, here it is: "Cats quietly nap in the sun."
would be cool to be able to sort by salary
Ere by Fate or Happy Accident. You have stumbled upon the major pain point all of us "cloud architects" are having today. Dumping VMs to cloud store. We end up paying a 100x premium on what disc actually costs today for the privilege of "infinite" persistence. There's gotta be a better way ;)

Forget data centers, DNA is the Future of Data Storage

https://interestingengineering.com/science/dna-data-storage-...

DNA storage in thermoresponsive microcapsules

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-023-01377-4
Household debt continues to rise.

> What I think is novel now...

Not novel. Just the return and normalization of usury.

Here's a brief recap, beginning with South Dakota's Gov. Bill Janklow dismantling of consumer protections from financial predators in the late '70s:

A Short History of Financial Deregulation in the United States [2009] https://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/dereg-timeline-2...

(Just the first useful hit I found. There are many, many such analyses. The worsening financialization of household debt has continued almost uninterrupted.)

Elsethread, u/Red_Leaves_Flyy notes some of the additional current co-factors. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36237547
Restic (only backing up important data) to Backblaze B2 has been the sweet spot for my use cases. If the full VM goes down, I'll spin up a new one and restore my data.
Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
It gets a boost because it is posted by a YC founder
I do all my grocery shopping online - I have not been to a supermarket in years. I can specify time between 6am and 11pm and have it delivered at that time, for free (there is some minimal amount I have to buy to get free delivery but it is so small that I always get over). I am one of those people who never owned a car and grocery shopping was a bit inconvenient years ago (although for me mostly because I hate standing in lines even if it's just for 45 seconds - there was always some decent store close enough even before online grocery shopping was a thing). Nowadays I would not bother going to the store even if I had a car that runs for free.
Lawyer who used ChatGPT faces penalty for made up citations
Famous doesn't mean current. Don't think anybody is following Lacan, Freud, Jung today. They were earlier pioneers. Just like physicist don't believe in the 'ether' anymore. You are citing current physics and how great it is, but then cite old psychologist as if they are current.
And then make sure to scrub it weekly to make sure the bits haven't rotted, and move it to another location every night to be sure it doesn't die in a house fire.
It is more along the lines of: we are not all the same. We are all wired in different ways. Different things make us tick. I don't particularly enjoy social interactions. Frankly, I am drained by them, but to others those same draining experiences are a source of energy. I assume there is some sort of solution, but right now it remains a tug of war mixed in with a weird game of chicken.

In other words, there should be a way to accommodate everyone. In fact, there is one. We just seem to want to do it.
I use backblaze.com - less than $100/year for unlimited backup on my main machine. Their business backup is $5/TB/Month, significantly less than S3.
I think this POV is the _opposite_ of selfish! It's advocating for a system in which everyone gets to individually decide for themselves what working environment they want. Instead of the pro-remote or pro-office crowd trying to impose their preferred working environment on the whole industry.
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