skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, it just uses OpenAI.

https://github.com/steven-tey/novel/blob/62d32be43dae8aa40fa...

...and has a 50-request limit per day.

https://github.com/steven-tey/novel/blob/62d32be43dae8aa40fa...

...and trims the content to, um. 500 characters?!

https://github.com/steven-tey/novel/blob/62d32be43dae8aa40fa...

So past a certain point you'll get the same completion repeatedly / a completion of the start of your document, cut off.
Why do I want a headphone jack on my phone?

I don’t. It’s all Bluetooth now. I like wireless headphones.

But you should be free to buy them and we can both vote with equally with our wallets.

Go buy phones that have the 3.5mm jacks and send the signal that consumers still want plugs invented in the 1950s. If that’s what you want to signal. You have a great way to tell Apple if you like what they are doing! So do I.

Maybe Europeans like wired headphones over wireless? That’s news to me, but they should vote with their wallets. If you like what a company does, but things that company makes. If you don’t, don’t.

It bugs me to see a government meddle with what customers want to buy.

Don’t rig the system so you get a bigger voice than others. That’s not fair.
The US isn't the only country with tech companies. You may have heard of China, Japan, or Korea.

And every country regulates cell phones in particular, since they use shared airwaves, have rare earth metals in them, sometimes have exploding batteries etc.
I wish there was more thinking along these lines. Almost all governments must publish there secrets. Total transparency can help in many situations. I wonder what political maneuvering would be like.
You don’t blow the $2M. You invest it in relatively safe funds and live on the returns.
The English language lacks a word to properly capture the genuine evil and depravity of the FBI.
It's not that they are pretending it has full value. They keep (some) loans on their books valued at "to maturity" not "to market". That's perfectly reasonable.

The main problem is if they switch any loan from "to maturity" to "to market", every loan has to switch or none.
Cuz there wasn't a way to de-AMP it on my phone.
Good point. The flip side is that allowing anyone to transact in options makes the pricing far more efficient.
Tracking breaches of the 1.5⁰C global warming threshold
> I bet you'd get very different answers with "if Russia would invade your country, then would you be willing to serve in the army to defend it?" And even that would be biased, because such a hypothetical question comes off as very different if it's not all that hypothetical.

Sorry, I don't quite understand – what do you mean, “biased”? Are you saying it should be "if Russia would invade your country...”, or what? If so, then that's silly. Asking the question in the shape of what might happen in stead of what with overwhelming likelyhood won't isn't “bias”, it's just common sense. Or realism, if you will.

But maybe you meant some other kind of “bias”?
People being free to say things you disagree with — including “MAGA bullshitting” — is representative of a return to free speech principles.
That seems like a use that Ford is already embracing with things like the lightning.

My comment was more in line with using cars as energy storage infrastructure. I think most car owners don’t want to use their car batteries as grid infrastructure.
> And here I thought the whole point of micro-dosing is the dose is too small to feel anything at all.

That is not the point of micro-dosing. What would be the purpose of taking it, if it does absolutely nothing at all?

The idea is that you are taking a very small dose, to cause a mild effect, and not so much that you trip out and start hallucinating.
Matt Levine (Bloomberg) has discussed recently, how it is not entirely out of the question that the basic idea of any bank "investing long-term" (i.e. loans, T-bills, etc.) with the money from short-term deposits, might be dying. The deposit money is far, far easier to pull out now, and since bank-runs are self-fulfilling prophecies...
The problem is that it's not working for Elon either, Elon is just insulated from bad decisions because he can pay for them.
All we have to do is keep the spent fuel around, and feed it into fast reactors later.

Besides that, seawater extraction of uranium is already just five times more expensive than mining. With fast reactors getting a hundred times as much energy from the same amount of natural uranium, seawater extraction becomes easily economical. Uranium mining today is a small portion of nuclear cost.

With fast reactors fueled by seawater uranium, we'll have enough fuel for millions of years.
Like many "thought experiment paradoxes" I think this makes perfect sense if you get out of the habit of thinking too abstractly.

The mathematical assumption is that for the urn with the unknown number of red and green balls all distributions are equally likely and so P(red) = 0.5. But why should I assume they're all equally likely other than that it is part of the problem construction?

The reason I prefer the known distribution is because this is a contrived game and my experience with contrived games has conditioned me to expect a "trick" such that I am somehow disadvantaged to lose in a way that is not clear to me. Perhaps whoever set up the game knows my favorite color is green. In probabilistic terms I have a Bayesian prior influencing my choice.

In order to answer this paradox "correctly" I need to rely on my experience contrived problems like this to recognize I'm expected to abstract the problem and pretend that my prior does not exist. I find if you resist the urge to abstract in this way a stunningly large proportion of philosophical paradoxes cease to be paradoxes.
I said nothing about not being paid.
well, nail me up too i guess, but i’ve thought that for at least 5 years.
Reminds me of excess calories chess players burn when playing.

>Robert Sapolsky, who studies stress in primates at Stanford University, says a chess player can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament, three times what an average person consumes in a day.[1]

[1] https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmaste...
Alternatively, don't sell your youth to Google, facebook, Microsoft or Netflix.

Travel the world. Party with friends, within safe limits do sex, drugs and rock and roll.

Get a job at a company you like, learn stuff, educate yourself, better yourself, become an awesome software developer.

Buy a car that's too expensive, crash it, be stuck with the loan for six years.

Try to start your own startup, fail, go back to zero.

Have 20 girlfriends/boyfriends.

Have fun, live life, and at 35 don't sit around regretting that you gave the only youth you'll ever have to online advertising and increasing the ridiculous wealth of Larry and Sergey.

If you do that, you'll have an empty heart where your soul was meant to have been forged.
Searching code in GitHub now requires to be logged in?
Am I the only one finding this very frustrating? When did that change happen? How did it go under the radar? Now even OSS is gated behind credentials.
Exactly how I've been reading it. "The New Normal" is that "normal" is no longer a thing (if "normal" ever even really existed outside of mathematics/statistics).
Though the Swedish one is pretty much a sham.
Assange, Manning and Snowden was a huge focus of Ellsberg's work for the past 15 years or so. Basically every time he appeared in the paper he was opining on that subject and for many of us it's how we first heard of him. You would expect it to be there if you thought him a hero who had somehow fallen in saying these things. You would expect it to be there if you thought it was his heroism continued. You would expect it to be there if you had no opinion about it just because of how much media coverage it gathered.

Leaving such a significant part of his recent life out of the obituary seems utterly bizarre, deeply not normal and it's hard to imagine how it's not deliberate.
> the wise old age of 36

Ha Ha! That really is pretty funny, and extremely telling of who actually is reading this stuff.

Thrust me millenials, you still have a long way to go... What you're calling "all grown up" is still not even into middle age.

But, the gist of the article does survive a forensic analysis even decades after the age of this author: discovering compound interest at a young age is indeed a major source of accruing financial success.

Of course, for most people this can't really be taught. I've been trying to tell my mid-20s son to invest 20% of his take home into a ROTH for years. Trust me, there is no satisfaction in being told "yes, you were right" once it's too late...
I wonder if it's still true. I'd assume there still has to be some delegation in order to keep a second strike viable, otherwise the entire nuclear arsenal can be rendered useless with a decapitation strike, or the person with the 'nuclear football' jumps off a bridge or something.
The CEO edited user comments. Why brigade? Just fabricate results.
This has been researched; I highly recommend this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_on_Earth_(novel)
The Most Perfect Super Mario 64 Speedrun Ever
Sure, in general, and I'm not saying that this is a bad deal for everyone. But I bet your parents managed to have a real life in that time. There's something to be said for that.

I wouldn't do it for two reasons. First, it would be working at Google (which is a work environment I would very much dislike). And second, I have a temperament that allows me to start businesses. My first profitable business was five years of working (admittedly) more than 80 hours a week. I personally made a little more than $2M from it.

That return wasn't monetarily worth my sacrifices, but if we're talking about giving up my life for money, I'd do that instead of doing it for someone else's company.

All of which is to say that everyone is different! Just, to me, the question was "am I willing to not have a happy life for 13 years in exchange for $2M". No, I'm not. If the alternative is a life of making minimum wage, but living, I'd do that.
Britain is currently governed by the UK Conservatives and elsewhere this was already taking place under previous centre-right governments (enormous increasing in housing costs took place under Trump in the US and under Harper in Canada)
For a long time it was common to get manufacturer-subsidized 0-1% financing on new cars.

Then supply chain stuff exploded and rates went up but it'll come around again eventually.
I think the question should be 'why not'? The default should be the government doesn't do things and only does things that it is uniquely able to do.
> If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Ha! That quote is also at the bottom of the Netflix Culture memo: https://jobs.netflix.com/culture#summary
You can set NS records for subdomains though... I have done this for a couple of domains where i have internal.<domainname> and that points at Route53. I also use Route53 for my Reverse IP lookups, since Cloudflare does not seem to support this (unless i missed something).

On an related note, what does Route53 give you that you cant do on Cloudflare?
Controlling water in machines is not new, neither is phone design. It's been done a million ways and all of those ways have certain trade offs. It's just another design challenge and the flipside of your comment is a suggestion that there isn't some person other than me that is up to the challenge. Customers can make their own judgements about looks and size versus (replaceable battery) functionality as they always have.

The fact is gluing is simpler and cheaper but most importantly it reduces the repairability of phones by third parties. Quite often trying to repair a phone will cause it to be destroyed, making replacing a battery more risky and difficult. Companies would love not to have to use glue, but <design excuse>! Nothing at all to do with built-in obsolescence.
You can get that today with ChatGPT plugins aside from the voice part. But I assume OpenAssistant can do it now if it's properly configured.

Certainly with a weather API and the new ChatGPT API functions thing you can build that in a few days or less. Combine it with Whisper or Google voice input and Eleven Labs very realistic speech output.

I think there are quite a few groups with demos that can handle that particular weather thing and basics like it now.

Actually Google Assistant probably can handle follow ups to some degree.
> Why are you only selectively recalling what I wrote, despite the fact that what I wrote is literally inches above this quote?

Because again, those are your strawman attack points. I never claimed it was Reddit, nor did I claim it was widespread. I was simply presenting evidence that it was happening.

Maybe reread my post which is literally inches above your comment? Hmm?

Again, glass houses.
Many 'randos' like you have lots of money and would happily buy the contract in the hope that they win out, and would be not bummed out completely if they lose, unlike the farmer, for whom such events could be existential.
If I'm passionate about something I can code non stop for like 2 days in a row without sleeping (been there done that) I'm not saying my code will look right at that point, or that it's a healthy thing to do, but I don't think the upper bound of maximal throughput + quality is at 7h a day either (or that you should even aim for maximum throughput + quality).
yes they use websockets
I suspect Carmack is atypical, which is probably why he achieved great things.

We're all different. I certainly know people who can be focused for more than seven hours a day (some colleagues, me when I was younger, my family doctor, my dentist). Personally, as an introvert, what drains me most is interacting with people. I think I could be coding 7 hours on my personal project and still be rather fresh. But this isn't what my job looks like, unfortunately.
Agile federal government? I don't know. I'd settle for one that wasn't 100% calcified, though.
>Since the post is tagged 2016, I think it is also more likely than not that John would agree with this now; it's very possible that he'd also agree with it then, but I didn't go beyond the linked comment.

He completely agreed with his 2016 self in the Lex Fridman podcast he did last year.
I read these articles and it's apparently because of high stress + breathing. Not because of using one's brain. :(
How does this stuff get past a prosecutors office? I get law enforcement being idiots but there's whole teams of lawyers putting these cases together too. Are they really that desperate for work?
I’m currently going through process of freezing my credit. The real kicker here is all three bureaus freeze processing services are down… Imagine that
I think that just invites parasitic loss into the system through profit seeking, but maybe this is in fact by design, and us laborers are merely a means to another's greatly yielding end.
> those articles about the 4 day work week actually being more productive to my personal experience.

They are conflating diminishing returns with less total work and it leads to ridiculous propositions. If you can get more work done in 4 days it means the 5th day of work is a negative output.
Of course, nobody is supposed to know this, but reddit actually sells astroturfing to clients and controls a large number of sockpuppets that will no doubt be deployed in this endeavor.
The livable part of the US is pretty much neighbors with the livable part of Canada, in my yankee opinion.
One thing I really struggled with as a beginner was determining which parts of a tutorial were intrinsic to the language, and which parts were arbitrary text.

As an extreme example, I can remember the first programming tutorial I did at about age 15, which was not aimed at beginners at all. It started with something like “Let’s create our first Hello World”. I thought, great, what’s that? No explanation. Straight into printing “Hello World” to the console. I can remember trying to figure out whether Hello World was some sort of special code that did something within the program. And then the tutorial ended, and I had no idea what I’d just done, or why.
I like how this guy has written two books on completely different subjects - Money and Wine
Tangent: On the note of web based text field for "normal users", what's the best UX you can get while also trying to be as no-JS-friendly as possible? Are there CSS-only tricks to make editing in an input field nice?

I'm making a low-JS site, but it also has a lot of input fields, user content generation, etc. In "modern CSS" i feel like Input boxes should be better than they are. Is JS the only way?
Also a curious question is whether they FBI have any experience in grooming people and then letting the plot go to completion.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr has been doing the rounds and it really begs the question. The FBI has no problem with grooming people and entrapping them. If it is willing to plot half-measure attacks and destroy lives, where would the confidence come from that they don't also sometimes plot full-measure attacks and destroy lives?
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> discovering compound interest at a young age is indeed a major source of accruing financial success.

THIS!

I didn't listen to my parents when they tried to teach this to me, and I wish I had. If I had, I would not only be wealthier, but would have lived a happier life too.

I picked up on it in my late 30s, and while it still served me well, it would have served me exponentially better if I'd listened to my parents in my teens.
>just need to keep that Slack dot green and appear "responsive."

You need to do that? Dang, that sucks. Still "butts in chairs" attitude.
30 year mark. These LLMs will change what is attainable. If we continue to just build the same, those less skilled will be able to achieve. You can now do things that took a team. Embrace that.
I think this is exactly what Carmack is talking about: athlete engineers. It's a bit hard to see this with engineers, as you don't necessarily know how much someone contributes to something, but if you look at Academia you will clearly see that the best and most productive researchers are the one that work nonstop.

If you want to be good, achieve, and be able to compete, you will have to work your ass off. He's just right, and if you think he's not and you want to achieve something then you will learn some harsh lessons.

On the other hand, should everyone aim at being a competitive engineer? No. There's plenty of other things that life can offer.

But in America, what's the default? Making people work as much as possible. Cross the Atlantic pond and your mind will be blown at how many holidays per year workers get.
Funnily enough first LiveWire release i could find is from Apr 15, 2019 and first LiveView release is from Aug 25, 2019.

One would think that the imitations would come after the original not before.
Not the first time the FBI has done this unfortunately.

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/how-the-fbi-spie...
This is the best solution, and really what Reddit should have done.

There’s no reason they couldn’t have required Reddit Premium to access the API from third-party apps. Then the app developers don’t have to deal with the burden of payment processing, Reddit theoretically earns more than it would under the API plan (the Apollo dev estimated the monthly API cost for an average user would be $2.50 (but would be much higher for actual customers due to needing to pay the Apple tax and for development costs) while Premium is $5 per month right now and already removes ads), and nobody gets angry.

Plus then you have people’s credit card information, and thus you can avoid the regulatory issues that Reddit is claiming they’re encountering with NSFW content.

The fact that Reddit seemingly refuses to even consider this option really confirms that this is being done purely out of spite over both not being able to monetize OpenAI’s training data collection plus spite over most of the third-party apps being more financially stable than Reddit currently is.
"It's simple math my dear boy"

In retrospect, maybe I also should have chosen to make $200k USD a year for my entire working life. The choices we make, huh
Agreed, I think it was chosen because they creator comes from the ruby-on-rails world.
> We have energy for 100s or 1000s of years with nuclear, even used inefficiently

Doesn't sound like a lot to me. I believe there must be something like Parkinson's law for energy (work expands to fill the allotted time)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
Big tech companies don’t make money directly from their open source languages and tools. But neither do solo maintainers or volunteers (most of the time).

As with every open source project, you have to consider who is driving development, governance, community-building, and (if applicable) funding. Any of it could go away at any time with an untimely departure, lack of funding, or dissipation of interest.

If you’re not paying for an SLA, you have to accept that you truly are getting your software as is.
Weapons on drones is a big no-no for me, however, I'm not sold on a total ban of facial recognition on drones. Such technology can be used to catch some really bad actors, especially among the gangs in Chicago.
This is the crux of the problem. IDs were never designed to be secret. In many countries it is required by law for hotels to take a copy of your passport. That’s fine, but what isn’t fine is when someone can use that copy to take out credit in your name. ID documents should only have power when produced in person. Having a copy of the data proves absolutely nothing and banks should not allow credit to be taken out with such weak verification, let alone make it the victims fault for having their “identity stolen”.
My dentist does this in-house now using machines they own.
Except nobody in their right mind wanted to work for Apple in 1995 - it was a broken, dysfunctional company hemorrhaging a couple billion dollars a year because nobody was excited about their products. And if you had gone to work for them, you would've watched your stock grant go from $0.37 in 1995 to $0.13 in 1997. I was a die-hard Mac fan - first computer was a Mac LC - through the early 90s, and even I gave up on them when they took the MSFT investment in 1997 because I felt like they'd sold out to the evil empire. Working for Apple in 1995 was sorta like working for Twitter in 2022. (Hmmm...)
Seems like this entire thread is strawmaning in the worst possible way. Where did I say that active destruction is moral good? We can condemn both but my point was explicitly to people that don't contribute to society by moral virtue. Yet others making other flimsy strawmen.
I think the nature/feel of the quick response is likely due to the fact the completion call is streaming "stream: true" [1]. Then, they are parsing it back to text as it streams the response back.

[1] https://github.com/steven-tey/novel/blob/62d32be43dae8aa40fa...
He’s gotta be one of the people who inspired Rushkofd to write Survival of the Richest.

And I think Elmo is his role model not Jobs
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The math is completely wrong. Author didn’t notice that SmartAsset is showing semi-monthly.
Efficient Redundancy Techniques for Latency Reduction in Cloud Systems (2017)
Congratulations! If you or anyone else knows of communities of likeminded people, please share :) I.e. excited about doing their own thing that they’re passionate about, but not all about the VC rat race
Even back to J Edgar Hoover days...
Looks like someone at Google clicked the "Cleanup" button on projects.
The FBI groomed a mentally disabled kid into what they define as a terrorist. If you think the FBI isn't filled with bad actors, then you haven't been paying attention.