skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think firing 70% of a company is sane? How about alienating your advertisers? On an advertising funded platform.

Railing against work from home and then stopping paying you office lease? The first eviction was ordered today. How long till the flagship office doors are chained shut?

No part of the twitter debacle is sane. Modeling any part of one’s strategy on it would be laughable.
for devshells use https://devenv.sh
This doesn’t have to be for complex or really critical tasks to have value.

Just having it able to work a smart home or do basic things while talking natural is a big deal and a big increase in useful interface.

I really like my Alexa - I love the _idea_ of a conversation interface, except an Alexa isn’t that. It’s a call and response only. I’d love to be able to talk to a computer out loud conversationally that can take actions / give me info.

Even convos as simple as

‘Hey what’s the weather tomorrow’

‘Tomorrow will be 25c and raining’

‘What time will it rain?’

‘Not until 4pm’

This simple stuff is currently WAY outside the abilities of any ‘smart’ assistant.
My main question is how you kept focused and motivated to work for two years on this project, especially at the beginning when no one was aware of it. What steps did you take to make sure you kept motivated?
> When I pressed the guy he was pretty clear that there were participants in these studies that has pretty bad outcomes and would have been in bad shape if there wasnt a medical team on hand

Are you aware of source-able examples of this?

I’ve been paying attention to the field for awhile, and I was under the impression that between pre-screening (people at risk for psychosis and a few other specific psychiatric issues should not participate), and proper set/setting, negative outcomes have been rare, and there is a high percentage of extremely positive outcomes.
Reddit also wasn't ready to absorb the outflow, it was pretty small at the beginning. It grew massive with time, just as the current Reddit alternatives might.
You can make up definitions to mean whatever you want to, I see that rhetorical trick all the time.

It doesn't work with me, though.

> Affirmative consent can not be given in worker/employer relationships. Which makes the entire contract predatory.

Another rhetorical trick: A is not equal to B, therefore A is not equal to B.
I dunno... I'm not sure if the US sending all of its tech to China over the last 20 years has really been a positive thing.
No, but they might just spend 2x that amount on a new Android phone.
Get it here:

http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.h...

Just looked at it again.

Has a lot of good features and positive comments.

Including, "even used by Microsoft".
Got a induction set in the driveway literally waiting to be installed but am curious about this. Not sure I've interpreted your post right but your saying some veggies can help the body get rid of benzene?
Except you run a separate tomcat instance per app or better yet, embedded tomcat anyway.

Source: Someone who runs two dozen Tomcat containers.
The problem is that it was flamebait, not whether it was pro-American or not.
Lots of users use 3rd party apps. All of them care.
Metal futures have been traded on the London Metal Exchange since 1877, and before that at other venues on Threadneedle St.

The Dutch (and after the idea had crossed the Channel, the English) were trading debt from the invention of exchanges.

The CME might have started with FX futures in 1971, but they're hardly the first non-agricultural use.
They have indeed cut staff.

https://fortune.com/2023/06/06/reddit-layoffs-job-cuts-stall...
No, the dev tool works differently, it does not use the OTP release feature I’m talking about. If you hot upgrade stateful modules you have to supply migration functions when the structure changes.

https://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/release_handlin...
I'm not sure if I am able to, because it is very ambivalent. I think on one hand they looked up to him but on the other hand they found him alien. It would be easy to think that they admired him in the beginning but later were disgusted and felt screwed over, but my interpretation of the documentary is that they don't feel like that. It's more like they always had and maybe still have mixed feelings.

Just my take away.
TBH being willing to get to know Elon on a personal level knocks Carmack down a few more pegs for me.

It's clear to me Carmack lacks empathy, so his slide into American right-wing adjacent views is pretty on par.
As someone who worked 10-14 hour days in their 20s, I know for a fact it made me more effective and I achieved more. I also scaled way back in my 30s to have more of a life. I don't regret either decision. What Carmack says maps to my own experiences. People making ad hominem attacks at Carmack for why he's wrong are just that may be in for a rude awakening in life.

What I think is really at odds in the comments is this: people want to work less and feel like it's ok, but don't feel like it's appropriate to come out and say that.
I don't find the authors points to be very convincing. There's a bit of a self-contradiction in the arguments being made -- namely that if you want better generalization, you need more parameters (which equates to higher energy consumption in training).

However, the obvious retort here is that if you train a model that is good at generalizing, then you don't need train more models! A show of hands, who has used GPT or an open LLM vs who has trained one would yield a vast disparity. If you don't need generalization, you don't need huge models. Small models are efficient over narrow domains and don't require vast compute/energy resources.

Secondarily, it's a self-solving issue. Energy isn't cheap, and GPUs aren't cheap. If you're going to burn 10's of thousands of dollars in energy costs, you should probably have a decent reason to do it. But those reasons are quickly diminishing as things that have already been _done_.

Third, overparameterized models are becoming less of an issue during inference with efficient quantization techniques. Distillation, though harder, is another option. Again, you do can these things one time after training.
I haven't deleted anything recently. Delete not working temporarily could just be denial of service or the scripts may not work anymore. Reddit made it a lot more difficult for autodelete scripts a while ago, it's not something new or some recent intervention.
Assange can leave Belmarsh whenever he wants.
> A lot of reddit user seems to be under the misapprehension that reddit is a co-op.

Yeah, people tend to listen to others in charge of companies too much. In this case, Huffman previously stated things like:

> GQ: One of the big turning points in Reddit’s history was Digg’s collapse. It was your biggest competitor and imploded almost overnight. Is there anything about Reddit that makes you worry something like that could happen to you?

> Huffman: I think the problem Digg had is that it was a company that was built to be a company, and you could feel it in the product. The way you could criticize Reddit is that we weren't a company – we were all heart and no head for a long time. So I think it'd be really hard for me and for the team to kill Reddit in that way.

And people ate it up, bait and everything.

> Reddit wants users to use their app so they can accidently click on ads

It's about more than just that, otherwise reddit would just force 3rd party apps to serve ads, just like the official client. Instead they seem hellbent on removing 3rd party apps fully.
Once cheap Sriracha now sells for $29.99 in some Bay Area stores
I believe those liquid cash barons are now all international conglomerates. Also, I can tell you that the LCBO is actually quite a bit cheaper than BC Liquor and NSLC. Though compared to Alberta it is way more expensive.
> pulling 80 hour weeks does get shit done faster than working 35 hour weeks.

sure in the short run that holds true. its just not sustainable. most people will burn out spectacularly after a few months of this and prolly leave the industry entirely.
What You See, You Won't Intuitively Get?
"Most people" don't get to choose, they're stuck with 40. (Or more, for some salaried positions.) The idea is generally "all of your time".

In principle they can just not do those particular jobs. In practice most "careers" expect "full" time.

Some fields are inherently quite flexible, like some doctors/dentists can decide to not schedule anything for a week.

In the linked comment JC said "I am deeply appalled at the thought of trading away individual freedom of action and additional value in the world for that goal."

But the point is that freedom is ephemeral. The world has all sorts of incentives that promote race-to-the-bottom behaviors (cf. https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Meditations-On-Moloch )

In the good ol' days at least a family might likely have the mom at home with the kids even if dad gave blood to Moloch every day.
Interesting to know, but the very notion of control characters seems very odd to me, there's no typewriter or printer with a bell around anymore. Will we ever get rid of this?
Why does it matter that he flew to Russia? How does that effect the legitimacy or the illegitimacy of his leaks?
Couldn’t open the GitHub link on my phone.

Here it is: https://github.com/steven-tey/novel
The Great When? A London-through-time quiz
This is correct. The only time you will get a chance to do this with a non-commercial loan (like a massive loan on a factory, etc) is if you got a loan that was so short term that the bank didn't bother selling it, and kept it in house.

Then there is a slight chance that you can convince the bank to give you a bonus for refinancing with them.
See my reply to takinola.
>> Nope, "violent mobs" are something that if it exists and rich enough modern democratic societies (and others) that is effect of some cause that needs immediate fixing, even beating them just down is maybe too much - I know I'm a bit too idealistic and romantic (:

So a devil's advocate question then:

If a riot control gas-equipped drone was available at Washington DC on Jan. 6, 2021, should it have been used?

By what criteria do you define "some cause that needs immediate fixing"?

Where does one draw the line between "valid civil unrest" / "protest" and "a violent mob"?

>> let us not starts with robots/machines fighting our own society

Should human police officers be used then?

Or should the "protesters" / mob be allowed to roam freely?
> So the question becomes: what else do you get out of it?

You nothing. But John, John gets it as share owner. He wants employees to work longer hours because he gets any benefit of it but the employees pay with their health and personal life the price. Externalization is called.
> devastating level poverty

It is not a "devastating" level of poverty. The US is not a 3rd world country and the 3rd world poor are desperately trying to get into the US, literally by the millions.

The US poverty rate stopped declining in 1968 when the government began subsidizing it.
Or since the 18th Century in Japan (and I'm sure other places before 1859).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Djima_Rice_Exchange
What should we talk about then ?
Galaxy S5 did it just fine
Is it worth putting maximum effort into your job if it causes depression and burnout (making you less effective at your job), makes you sick because of stress (making you less effective at your job), ruins your marriage (making you less effective at your job), and gives you less time to educate your kids (making the next generation less effective at their jobs)?

Human effort is burstable, sort of, but for most people it's taxing to burst up to maximum effort. Apparently this isn't true for Carmack, but I have doubts.
Fortunately the technology behind renewable energy and batteries is following an exponential growth function :)

At a minimum that means it is feasible for us to hit 83% over the next 30 years - if not the next 15.
Yeah, I'm mostly with you.

I do think that most people won't produce more (of the same quality) working 80 hours/wk unless they are exceptionally motivated.

However, with the right motivation, people will. I'm guessing that what that motivation looks like varies from person to person. For me, it's when I'm starting my own venture.

I'm willing to sacrifice to such an extreme degree for that. I cannot imagine any other company being able to come up with sufficient motivation to make it possible for me to work productively 80 hours/week, though. It's not a matter of me being willing to do it, it's a matter that I wouldn't be able to do it.
Things that are off-topic and illegal aren't the only ones that get downvoted, though. HN is unusual in the sense that it's discouraged to downvote things you dislike; that's the effective status quo in most other communities. In your proposed system, you'll have some people side-voting those comments, and you're going to have others downvoting them.
Is this supposed to be a retort to the post you’re responding to?
your saying some veggies can help the body get rid of benzene?

Yes, specifically veggies in the cruciferous family. [1] link to the family of veggies, not the studies on benzene excretion

I should also add that increasing the intake of cruciferous veggies can also cause an increase in immune response which can be a positive and/or a negative and something to generally be aware of, especially those that already have auto-immune disorders.

[1] - https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/d...
IBM Suggests their Quantum Computer will have an application within 2 years
As opposed to simply being locked into openai api's as the only option?
The second option is better.
To win you have to bet that the second ball is the same color as the first ball.
The second option could have 30 and 30 (worst case) or it could have 59 and 1(best case), so almost any ball mix is better or equal than the first option when you only have about 50% chances of wining.
Are there any examples of something similar that has the ability to seamlessly interact with tables as well?

Notion seems to be the only player in the space that effectively uses its tables as linkable databases, most similar products seem to either lack table functionality or they're just simple formatted text.

So much of my daily work revolves around databases and Excel, I would love the ability to have multiple views of database tables embedded in a text editor, varied by context, with full backend control over the database itself. Bonus points if I could easily have scripts run on them in the background, almost like a programmatic kind of Excel.
It seems like the big reveal here is that we can see reports from Tether's banking partners (previously reported at https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2023/02/10/tether-re...):

Deltec Bank Portfolio Report: https://downloads.coindesk.com/legal/C1%20Attachment%20A.pdf

Ansbacher Portfolio Report: https://downloads.coindesk.com/legal/C2%20Attachment%20B.pdf

Capital Union Portfolio Report: https://downloads.coindesk.com/legal/C3%20Attachment%20C.pdf

For folks who thought, "The Commercial Paper market is a small market and everyone knows each other; no one claims to know Tether." Here you can see some details about Tether's holdings with Deltec Bank.
FBI groomed a 16-year-old with “brain development issues” to become a terrorist
I left a very good job 7 years in (digital design) to go out on my own. That was more than 2 decades ago. I could write paragraphs of the rookie mistakes (business-wise) and the financial ups & downs, but one thing has never changed...

The "temporal freedom" I have in my work (Gad Saad, if you don't know the name). I love being the master of my own day, of my own time. I don't sit in Zoom meetings or have daily standups. I can get up at 5am and work until 11am, and then go hike, play with my dog, get ice cream with my daughters, workout, etc. and then work again from 7pm until midnight or whatever.

Having (almost literally) full control over my daily schedule, week-in, week-out, year after year, is invaluable to me.

One disclosure: a few times a year I do very hard things where I have very little freedom, but they allow me to have lots of freedom the rest of the year.

Not to be a jerk, but I won't be elaborating. And I realize this life isn't for everyone!
Galaxy S5 did it
The exception is for “appliance specifically designed to operate primarily in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion, and that are intended to be washable or rinseable”.

I don’t think that phones can count as being specifically designed to operate primarily in such environments, unless it’s specifically an underwater phone or similar.
But to retire at fourty. What a dream. You get so much time back.

Hey, different strokes for different folks.
> W.E.B. Du Bois and the "Talented Tenth"

Thank you for the your recommendation.

Found it funny that one of the establishment's darling magazines, I'm talking about Foreign Affairs, has started doing the token racial thing when it comes to Du Bois by finding out that he had, indeed, written for them 70 to 80 years ago [1], and in the May/June issue they even re-published a July 1943 piece of his. No mention of his communism, of course, that would defeat the purpose of talking about race without really looking at what stands behind race.

[1] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/web-du-bois-doc...
If you alienate 99 people and get one person to say “Wow! You have exactly the same flavor of hatred for people who plant petunias that I do, but you express it so much more cruelly, I bet you’re literally making them cry, it really made my day!” you will not become the 71st richest man in the world. You will just lose 99% of the potential people who could listen to you or care about you or be your friends

but why does this work for media companies and not individuals. consider the huge success of someone like Sabine Hoffstader. what percentage of general population cares about hard physics? maybe half of 1 percent, but if you get all of them it adds up...
This dude needs to go back to CEO school.
And how exactly will they know where to steal it from? Are they going to start digging random holes through bedrock just because they might hit treasure?
The cost benefit calculation also includes the odds of being hacked. Enormous numbers of organizations are at risk but most survive by security by obscurity. Most are content to hope to remain obscure.

Especially since the cost of actual security is very high. You have to build it into every aspect of the system. It makes development cost an order of magnitude more and constrains usability... and you'll still never really be certain

When you take employees into account the cost becomes almost insurmountable. Keeping bank style security means tightly limiting access, making even simple operations more work.

That's not an excuse. That's a warning. We are at grave risk, and we need to completely reconsider how almost every piece of software is written. Competence is hard and expensive.
There is no way you replaced 50,000 lines of batch files with 10 lines of a script.
Looked for Nuke Reddit History, can't find it?
If you like the properties of Nix, but find it confusing, you should check out Devbox! It simplifies the process of creating Nix-powered dev environments:

https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox
Here's one instance where they sued over this in the early 2000's.

https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

The issue was with a hotel that numbered their rooms according to the Dewey Decimal System.
Do you really think "anti-work" is the prevailing ideology in Western society? I'd argue the current popularity of "anti-work" sentiment is a backlash to the dominant "work is everything" ideology we've had the last couple of decades.
Livable to what standard? I think you mean “developed” and the country could easily be developed to the latitude of Edmonton or Prince George, it just isn’t because the population hasn’t reached a density that has demanded northern expansion. There’s nothing that makes it inherently un-livable.
The idea came up before on HN[1], where the upshot is, banks don't do this, because if they sell the loan at all, they sell a bunch at once, and there are game-theoretic reasons not to encourage this kind of deal. But Denmark gives you the right to buy your mortgage back under that formula, meaning you benefit from interest rates going both up and down.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31189814

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32813598
> dyno types for build processes use Perf-M? Not configurable

What are you looking for here? Larger build dynos? Heroku provides the build service for free so we use perf-m dynos to get fast builds with reasonable cost (for us).
I think if you take someone like me, and really most people, and have them sit in the office for an extra hour per day, you probably won't see much benefit. But I definitely feel like there are some people who grind work all day, putting in ridiculous hours, and they do amazingly work, beyond what 1.5 or even 2 people can do. Especially when you consider career progression over time, maybe the people who are hustling will have ranked up a couple times over an 8 hour/day person, and is contributing at a much higher level.

I think you make a good point that it's more complicated than "just stay longer", but I do also agree with GP that there is some kind of compounding interest when it comes to how many hours work. Don't know how it works though.
The choice given by gdpr is, roughly, either: no tracking OR do track but ask for consent.

Those websites doing the cookie walls should have taken the hint to simply not do tracking. Instead, they chose to be annoying.
Eh, assumes copper will be valuable in that time frame. Unknowable.
I'd rather see him do it than someone who doesn't care about ethics and just wants to make money fast.
the problem that argument is that we learn how to increase efficiency as a result of using it and building a supply chain around that resource. Just look at gas engines. a modern gas engine uses a fraction of the fuel of a model T to transport more weight faster to their destinations. What you're suggestion would be akin to saying we should avoid the model T and wait till the prius is available. without a car industry, we wouldn't have ever gotten the R&D to have a prius in the first place.
I would have agreed with you until recently. It appears that much of the anti LGBT+ sentiment sweeping communities and legislatures is being driven via social media. This can easily swing the pendulum back to net negative.
It can be money, depends on what motivates you.

And I never said there wouldn't ever be conflict, though if you fail to see the value provided to you by your employer, that's on you.
De-Dollarization Facts
> our economic policies led to the great fucking depression

That policy was, specifically, tying the exchange rate of the dollar to gold while inflating the hell out of the dollar - Fed policy enacted in the 1914 Federal Reserve Act. This disconnect between the dollar's value and gold's value eventually caused a run on the banks which collapsed them, as you could buy gold for half price. The depression did not start to recover until the government halted gold purchases.

> While doing better on nearly every other social aspect.

Debatable. I've lived in foreign countries.
EVs use more than an average home's entire daily electricity budget to go 50 miles. In an emergency you could run your lights, fridge, and water heater for weeks on an EV battery. It's really not much wear and tear.

Cars are an immensely inefficient platform.
https://archive.is/QByTb
They should be - it’s nuts for a big org to do anything significant with this stuff until there’s some litigation settled.

The safe answer now is to consume services that use this tech and use indemnification and contracts to protect the business.