skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pay for the Guardian and I think it’s easily worth the money.
Companies rarely ever get PE because the people running it were doing a good job, it’s usually a bad option among bad options, so it’s not surprising PE is associated with vultures looking to “ruin” a good thing. Most people aren’t privy to how shitty the finances are at some companies, that could put it in such a position. Usually employees are oblivious to it because the executives hide it then all of a sudden a new owner is chopping it up for parts.

That said apparently the track record for companies that succeed after getting PE is higher than the straight up losses where it gets sold for assets. At least that’s what I remember reading in some pop business/finance book I read long ago. Maybe someone could correct me here.
Curious to hear success stories you can share from leveraged buyouts.
Ask HN: Will AI put an end to high school math contests?
If AI can soon do well in these contests, then why have them? It would be like having arithmetic contests.
A World Beyond Us: On Adam Kirsch’s “The Revolt Against Humanity”
But not the ones who underestimated decommissioning costs by a factor of 4 vs. Germany's estimates, and about a factor of 10 vs. UK. France is not the paragon of nuclear efficiency it is commonly portrayed as being.

It's not just that NPPs are expensive to build, and unpredictably priced in ways that make the price of power generated uncompetitive. They are also a large and hard to predict liability after they stop generating power and the income from selling that power.

There is no example of "this is how to do it." New designs have to emerge and be proven before it is possible to build new NPPs with as much cost certainty as other kinds of power generation.
Area 51 – Stack Exchange
It is indeed a very famous quote: Cal Newport (OP link) also quotes it in his book “Deep Work”
>Making something people want, charging them money for it, and earning a steady profit for a long time should be seen as a successful business.

Yes. But it can only be counted as a success if your profits allow you to reduce your debt. Manufacturing goods can be quite capital intensive, which is why companies often have to take on debt to make things.

>pump up the stock price and enrich the current shareholders.

The problem here is that doing anything else as a publicly traded company is illegal. But also consider that shareholders loose everything they invested if the stock price goes to zero.

>We used to call the latter a Ponzi scheme and put people in prison for it.

That is not a Ponzi scheme.
There's those who view the insurance industry as a form of gambling...
> Of course not, but empathy in communication (not in action) is full of fluff. It almost requires it.

Empathy doesn't require fluff at all. (Think of all the short, poignant messages you've sent or received when someone is upset.)

The corporate need to not give ground on a complaint is where all that reassuring, repetitive, empty BS comes from.

> All "genuine" affirmation for the sake of empathy sounds cringe to me. I'd rather the doctor devoted their time to doing their job well instead of trying to make someone feel heard and validated - especially in an ER scenario where they are juggling critical patients. This tech can help with that.

Honestly with "for the sake of empathy" it sounds like you really don't place a high value on empathy (which is not unusual, or necessarily wrong). But if that is the case you're quite obviously not the right person to assess whether ChatGPT and the like can "help with that" in that context! :-)
ISTR that is how a modern CPU will boot, before the DRAM interfaces have been calibrated and brought up. The initial startup code uses cache as RAM.
> To be honest the far greater threat to your job is an increase in the ammount of programmers plus an increase in individual productivity

That productivity increase by a level of magnitude is from AI tools or ChatGpt. The field is gonna get a whole lot more competitive, the salaries will suffer as well but maybe it will be for the better routing jobs to other fields other than programming.

What Im worring most is increasing inequality and the class who will wield most power from AI
Same situation here. I don't think I'll be eating these price increases. Never tried a domain transfer before. First time for everything I guess.
The wiki above explains it. Technically they are supposed to purchase a shift algorithm.
:( thanks for information
Ten years ago they were warning anyone who drove for a living that they'd soon be out of a job. I'm sure the day will come, but I can't help but feel that LLMs are in that same area where we can watch them do impressive things, but they are still a long way away from real autonomy.
Oh yeah, I mean 1 req/sec per domain of course.

It's very easy to end up with tens of thousands of not-quite-closed connections while crawling, even with SO_LINGER(0), proper closure, tweaking the TCP settings, and doing all things by the book.

It's a different situation from e.g. having a bunch of incoming connections to a node, the traffic patterns are not at all similar.
Some examples of good ones?
This was a bug, I'm sorry we broke your app. We stopped migrations when we hit this issue and wrote a bunch more tests. I know this doesn't help you specifically, though.
Apple would comply with a Chinese takedown request of American content if the threat was 'do this, or we destroy you.'

People don't realize how close this is to actually happening, I'm surprised it's not priced in on Apple stock. Xi is a true believer.
Just wait till speed running adds a category for keeping a block of uranium inside your computer case.
True, PE can be good when it takes a long term investment proposition. But mostly they take short term ones and everyone except them suffers.
Anthropic's Claude is neck to neck in quality with GPT. Bard is probably the next best proprietary one.
I don’t know what the future will be and I can’t control it, so no point in worrying like OP is

One thing I will add is that many people are considering it a given that chatGPT will keep progressing at the same rate
You didn't have SARS mate
A commonly repeated (was going to say 'believed' but I'm not sure that's actually true) misconception.

Why there is a large contingent of people who think nuclear doesn't need storage is a genuine mystery to me. There's been more storage built for nuclear than for any other power source.
As someone who's lived all over, the primary difference in the south is that there are large African American populations.

Try being black in South Dakota or Maine.

Racism and othering exists everywhere, but physical proximity and interaction with the class in question moderates it heavily. It's harder to hate someone you know personally: that's why segregationists were such staunch opponents of any social integration.
Here are the best hidden ChromeOS features on Chromebook, how to enable and how to use them
I'm not sure I see any criticism of DO in OPs post. They said _their_ setup was dodgy, and _they_ aren't proud of not checking the inbox. Other than that they just explained what happened, no? Looks like a bit of misunderstanding to me
The coronaviruses being studied at WIV included RaTG13, one of the closest relatives (96.1% genomic match) to SARS-CoV-2 ever found in the wild.

But a key difference between SARS-CoV-2 and it's wild relatives is the spike protein with affinity for the ACE2 receptor, so it would have had to have evolved through an intermediate host with a human-like ACE2 receptor. For example, ACE2-transgenic lab mice.

This does not itself rule out the wild-origin theory, but no wild host that could explain the missing link from RaTG13 to SARS-CoV-2 has yet been found.
This is correct to a degree, but consider what doors GTP is opening.

Its slow erosion of our responsibilities. If AI can do some of your work with minimal supervision then sooner or later managers will figure it out and reduce you job scope. Get an intern to do it.

We are certainly not at level where you can talk to chatGTP and give it requirements to generate code, but who knows where we will be in 5,10 years.

As a reason for my 'doomerism' consider digital artists industry right now.

I can imagine that if you are concept artist at game studio, you are probably seriously worried. AI will not replace all artists - you need specific and consistent art assets to be created, AI doesnt understand fingers etc - but some of the workload can be done by pretty much anyone. Or have artists take AI generated images and touch it up.
Went to the UK for a visit few years ago and the amount of gambling/betting adverts in public places in the UK was flabbergasting. The fact that every ad featured a macho dude with a buzz cut half-threateningly peddling his betting venue of choice didn't help much either. "Like an addict to addict, here's the brand I prefer" type of thing. This left a really bizarre and lasting impression for some reason.
If you can't insure something, that's a pretty strong market signal.
> The google search function is also limited. For comparison, SerpAPI masterfully scrapes Google Search using a proxy network and very intelligent parsing. In experiments using SerpAPI in combination with Microsoft’s guidance module, I got much farther than AutoGPT.

Thanks for your kind words. We are working on SerpApi integration for Auto-GPT: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/905
Cal does actually address this in his book “Deep Work”; unfortunately in this blog post he takes a fairly myopic view, perhaps just to reiterate the value of deep work, for those for whom it makes sense.

In the book, he has a section “what about Jack Dorsey” where he explains that the role of folks like a CEO is to make lots of small decisions fairly quickly, and therefore they’re constantly interrupt-driven. But most people get interrupted more than necessary and do focus work less than they could
You never said this?

> And this thread is littered with all of the usual conspiracy head-nods.

> I think we should know more about the origins of COVID but I haven't seen a single discussion of this that doesn't immediately dove-tail into various other conspiracies or whistles.

You literally said "I haven't seen a single discussion of this [the lab leak theory] that doesn't immediately dove-tail into various other conspiracies or whistles"

So where are the head nods and dogwhistles in this thread? At what point did this discussion, just like every single lab leak discussion you've seen, dove-tail into conspiracies and whistles? Because I don't see the whistles and head nods in the current thread about this (this being the lab leak theory). They're all either deleted or flagged at this point for me.
Fresh details on the flash that sits inside Mars Perseverance Rover
I'm less sure about that. Back in 2007 or so, our company was gobbled up by Oracle. Part of that process, I was the propeller head they sent with the suites to be screened by Larry. Very first question: Why you wearing a suite? He knew our Java app, knew the space, and really asked good questions. One of the more intimidating interviews I've ever done.

The nature of Oracle is they are willing to evaluate if things are working or not. They build in house, they buy where they think they have a gap. The two units will be kept somewhat separate while they compete. Eventually there will be just one. To the outside world, it is a bit of a WTF on the overlapping product list. You see the same sort of competitive, aggressive nature with their Sales folks. Hunters, not farmers. What I don't see Oracle doing is pulling a Rooster.com. They likely will figure out the 'next big thing' by making sure there is a market for it, building internally and then buying up the talent that flew just a tad too close to the sun - and make something that gives a maintenance stream. When you see them doing it, you can bet it has hit the point where it will be profitable for them.
I've been through all those (started working in '99 at a company that failed in Jan '01). Seriously, it was 80% y2k bug work during the first year of my career.

This has me far more concerned, as I went into detail in another comment in this thread.

Much of what I see in this thread feels like platitude-driven myopia, which brings to mind the famous Upton Sinclair quote "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"
Yeah, exactly, the PE vultures come in to a bad company, carve it up (sell and refinance their assets, debt-raise to pay themselves, cut staff), extract a bunch of money and then sell and leave them for dead with no accountability.
for the sellers of insurance: it is

but as a purchaser of insurance you're giving up a risk in exchange for a fixed loss, which is the exact opposite of gambling
Ads for adults is hardly better...
Have you read the brace of Science papers that analysed the market data
I think they meant their own setup is dodgy, not DO's
Kitchen gadgets are an interesting market, it's massively influenced by fashion and media. Get your new gadget on a morning TV magazine show during a cooking segment, sell it for between $100 and $300, and you have a hit.

The limiting factor for a business, not the idea, is that you will eventually end up competing against cheep copies of your product. There is a shelf like of something like max 5 years before your dominant, first mover, market position is completely destroyed.

On top of that, most people have limited space in their kitchens, and these gadgets tent to be all roughly the same size. That limits the market, how may of these things can someone get in their cupboards without throwing out the least used one they purchased.

In relatively short succession we have had an explosion of "instant pots", air fryers, sous vide, "George Forman grills", toasted sandwich makers, bread makers, ice cream makers, slow cookers, pressure cookers. People have run out of room for them all, I suspect that has had a massive impact on the market.

Just casually looking back, instant pot and air fryers are circa 2010, Anova sous vide circa 2013, George Forman grills are circa 1994, and I remember ice cream and bread makers getting popular in the early 00's. So effectively we get a "new thing" every 5-10 years, I wander what the next one is?
Yeah, if you aren’t going to use AWS managed services then what are you doing on AWS? EC2 is great but if that’s all your using your probably overpaying.
You don’t know that there are BTC/USD markets?
The golf game Qwitzatteracht always makes me chuckle.
Here is what Chat GPT (3.5? the free public version) says about your post. It's rather annoyingly generic for my two cents.

------

I understand that you're feeling a sense of uncertainty and anxiety about the future of your career in the face of advancing AI technology. It's normal to have concerns about job security and how automation may impact the field you've dedicated years of expertise to.

While it's true that AI and automation are transforming various industries, including web development, it's important to remember that technology also creates new opportunities and demands for skilled professionals. The key lies in adapting and continuously learning to stay relevant in the evolving job market.

Here are a few suggestions to help address your concerns:

Stay updated and embrace new technologies: Continuously learn and explore emerging technologies in your field. AI itself can be a powerful tool that enhances productivity and efficiency. By staying informed and incorporating new technologies into your skill set, you can remain valuable and adaptable.

Diversify your skills: Consider expanding your skill set beyond web development. Look for adjacent areas or emerging fields where your expertise can be applied, such as data science, machine learning, or cybersecurity. This diversification can make you more versatile and open up new opportunities.

Focus on problem-solving and creativity: While AI can automate certain tasks, it cannot replace human creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities. Emphasize these skills in your work and seek out projects that require innovative solutions.

Network and collaborate: Build a strong professional network within your industry. Engage with peers, attend conferences or meetups, and participate in online communities. Collaborating with others can lead to new opportunities and provide a support system during uncertain times.

Keep a growth mindset: Cultivate a mindset of continuous learning and adaptability. Embrace change and view it as an opportunity to grow and evolve professionally. Develop a willingness to explore new areas and acquire new skills as needed.

Regarding your concerns about UBI (Universal Basic Income) and healthcare, it's essential to stay informed about policy discussions and advocate for fair and equitable support systems for workers in the changing economy. It's a complex societal issue that requires ongoing dialogue and engagement.

Remember, you are not alone in your concerns. Many professionals are grappling with similar uncertainties. By proactively seeking ways to adapt and remaining open to change, you can navigate the evolving landscape and find new opportunities that align with your skills and interests.
Amen. The best.
>Fitzgerald said that while the victims of Megaupload included wealthy multinational film and music companies, they also included small companies like a New Zealand software firm, Stuff reported.

Given how long this has dragged on for the real victims are the New Zealand taxpayer.
We still have chess tournaments between humans. We still have track and field competitions, even though cars are faster than any human. We still have hot-dog-eating contests, even though I'm pretty sure I could build a machine that does that faster than a human can.

High school math contests are a contest between high school students. College professors, working mathematicians, AIs, and even high school math teachers aren't allowed. Just high school students. That's still an interesting contest to the high school students. If others aren't interested, well, not many people were interested before...
This reminds me of optical TEMPEST work from early 2000s, but for network gear
http://www.applied-math.org/optical_tempest.pdf
So which is your favorite techbro innovation, the illegal hotel chain, the illegal taxi company, the fake money for criminals or the plagiarism machine?
There are limits to what the current hardware can achieve. That said, a theoretical gpt8 that displays reasoning skills several orders of magnitude better than gpt4 still has to work within the tools and boundaries set by the existing frameworks and it still be using input from existing pieces of work. And a person who is not an expert at using those frameworks and familiar with existing state of the art will not be able to piece together a complex application that actually works.
Yeah those use cases make sense!
The pomodoro example seems to be updating the UI from a background thread. The TkDocs tutorial [1] advices against this and suggests posting a custom event to the main thread instead.

Using the after or after_idle methods [2] to post a callback to the main thread also works, and seems easier to me since it allows you to pass arguments.

In this particular example, where the background thread is just used as a timer, you could remove the threading entirely if you use after to let Tkinter handle the timer.

[1] https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/eventloop.html#threads

[2] https://tkdocs.com/shipman/universal.html
Place 1.5 cups COLD water into an 8-quart Instant pot.

Add in up to 16 eggs on the steam rack.

Place lid on the pressure cooker and set for cook time for 5 minutes on high pressure.

Once cook time has elapsed, let the pressure release for 5 minutes. Then do a quick release and carefully remove eggs from Instant Pot and place in ice/cold water bath for 5 min.

Remove eggs from the water bath.

Store in the fridge for up to 7 days unpeeled or peel and use within 3 days.
Raspberry Pi Pico W now supports Bluetooth
“Growth for the sake of growth is the 'ideology’ of the cancer cell.” -Edward Abbey
If they starve they won’t be helping anyone.
I tried to understand what vim/nvim is all about and why people love it so I've learned it a little bit. I grasped the Zen of VIM, it's actually very comfortable to navigate files and files tree assuming Ctrl is swapped with Caps Lock and you don't use ESC but Ctrl+] or jk/jj. BUT. But. but... VIM was shining when it was designed and created, it doesn't shine that much today, because for working with code you need things like LSP, syntax awareness etc. Thing like VS Code with Emacs cross platform keybindins AND WITH smartSelect is amazing for me.

Go to VSCode, put it into your `keybindings.json`:

{
"key": "ctrl+cmd+j",
"command": "editor.action.smartSelect.expand"
},
{
"key": "ctrl+cmd+k",
"command": "editor.action.smartSelect.shrink"
}

go to TS file and press keybinding multiple times to see how it grows/shrinks.
Having Emacs keybindings like C-w, C-y, C-d (I'm using it to move char left), C-S-d (word left, S is shift, I'm using right one) and more I feel like flying through things like selecting block, expression, function, moving in and out etc. I guess Emacs people using paredit feel something similar taken to the next level.

Ideas in VIM are still brilliant, the same goes for Emacs, but they both need to reincarnate in modern skin taking pixel perfect GUIs with proper animations to the extreme. In fully multithreaded and multiprocess environment.
Fears of hottest year on record as global temperatures spike
The author seems to assume that human consciousness needs more than computation. Certainly a valid point of view, but what is the evidence? If you're not even touching upon the question what consciousness actually is, how can you say a machine can't ever be conscious? I can't even be sure that other humans other than me are conscious (the p-zombie idea), how can we sure about machines?

Ironically I think the narcistic idea here is that only complex organic entities (in particular humans) can ever be conscious.
Reading the story really belies the real issue - he’s an important doctor guy who is too busy to help a couple of 70 somethings understand what he knows. I say that both in the cyclical “what an asshole” sense and in a real sense - there’s a guy having a stroke 4 bays over. That’s a sort of paradox of medicine.

I think the canned script will be handed to a less important PA or NP who will use it as a conversation guide.
I've been using Zed for a few days now, and it is really nice!

I tend to use JetBrains IDEs for development and Sublime Text for everything else, with VSCode being an "if I don't have any other choice" option.

Zed is already feeling like a great meld of IntellJ and Sublime - the features of an IDE with the lightness of Sublime, and excellent aesthetics that Atom was once known for.
It failed? In my part of the world these multi-cookers sell reasonably well, except those are cheap knockoffs. No one, including me, even heard about this Instant brand around here.
Not op but i do:

1 cup water

Eggs in egg holder above water

6 mins pressure cook on high

Wait about 30sec then release pressure

Straight into ice bath and peel while luke warm to warm.
Assuming the insurance company doesn't deny your claim.
Damus could be removed from Apple App Store
I said before somewhere else that I want to be invested in video games and their stories, characters, worlds.

I don't particularly want to be immersed in Slender or Diablo or MTG.
Keanu wasn't producing anything - it was entirely skills acquisition. If anything, it was so the production could move faster, reducing takes, reducing the use of CGI or special camera work using a stunt double in his place, etc, ultimately creating a better, more believable product.

Of course credit to Keanu for having the focus/drive to do this. He gets alot of flack for being a mediocre actor, but like Tom Cruise he is a fantastic action star. He IS Neo, he IS John Wick.