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Felt is the best way to make maps on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. Climate change and the resulting natural disasters are forcing even more people to become map-makers, and Felt is here to meet that need. It's the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping software, founded by a team of technologists with a proven track-record. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

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[4] https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/31/felt-maps-15-million-serie...
[5] https://felt.com/blog/public-beta-15m-series-a
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The main challenge for the Google quantum supremacy result was that calling it a computer or what it does a computation never made any sense.
But it’s pronounced What The Fuck.
Location: Tokyo, Japan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but I will work weird times

Technologies: Wasm/WASI, Go, Prolog, C, Rust, TypeScript

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I am looking for WebAssembly related jobs. My ideal position would be working on language runtimes such as porting languages to WASI, or creating libraries for various languages that integrate a Wasm-based core. I am also interested in anything related to Prolog.

I have experience porting languages to Wasm and creating libraries that use embedded Wasm including deep browser support (see GitHub). Are you a Rust company but nobody wants to maintain the ugly C glue code or Go library? I will gladly be "the C guy" who takes care of that.
https://www.energystar.gov/products/smart_home_tips/about_pr...

That kind of thing already exists.
> We tell them what to do. The AIs by themselves don't need to be feared, we need to fear what people with lizard brains use them for.

Even if so, there will always be that one person which wants to see the world burn.

If suddenly every person in SF had a nuclear bomb, how long do you think it would take until someone presses the button? I bet less than 5 minutes.
This is such a surface level article it's barely informative but did not know the Nissan Leaf is air cooled - not quite sure what that means though compared to other vehicles.

The "miles" the battery lasts makes sense to me but I'm curious about "time" the battery lasts while dormant etc.
C doesn't have namespaces.

The only sane way to deal with name collisions is either to use C stdlib types in library APIs (e.g. uint8_t), or use a library specific prefix (e.g. mylib_u8) - which is of course even more awkward than just using the standard uint8_t.
Would building CSRF + CORS into local apps solve the security issues addressed by this?

I have a handful of personal apps that I run locally and have started thinking about this concern as I prepare them for commercial distribution. I've been thinking about that + OAuth to grant access where we actually want to integrate with 3rd party apps, eg. via browser extension content scripts.
But, for the Less-Wrong'ers, is it as scary as (gasp) Roko's Basilisk?!?
Not for photonic quantum computing. Only detectors require cooling, and it is possible to build adequately sized quantum computers with constant number of detectors using loop based architectures.

Even more realistic architectures are very very cost effective on the number of components https://quantumfrontiers.com/2023/06/21/what-is-the-logical-...
“Normal distribution” doesn’t mean evenly distributed. Most being in the middle is a normal distribution.
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Yes, that is inappropriate. Flagging should be reserved for spam and overtly hostile post
I am finding it pretty useful. It is not a magic wand that will do all the work right away. But if you keep on chatting with it and providing it feedback it does what you want.

I no longer search google for programming question. 8/10 times gpt4 gives me code snippet that I can copy paste without any modification. It is like stack overflow on steroids. I can also discuss different system design tradeoffs with it.
No, that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

There's no problem if a company with 2% of the market merges with another company with 2% -- it tends to lower prices by removing inefficiencies. It's only a problem when prices rise or innovation stops when there are only ~2 competitors left, or when the a single player has 40%+ market share.

Also a large proportion of mergers have nothing to do with market share -- they're acquiring a supplier for vertical consolidation, they're buying a product because it's faster than building it in-house, etc. These are generally entirely legitimate as they enable companies to compete more, not less -- which is good for consumers.
This kind of refactoring also greatly improves robustness and stability, very worthy if the company values those qualities in their product.
Oh this is clever! I guess it’s actually very similar conceptually to a vector clock. (In that you have partitioned the space of natural numbers into K countably infinite sequences).

If you wanted to (practically speaking anyway) overcome the requirement that K is known, you could borrow prefix based counting from the p-adics.
> In the Netherlands, companies brag about a 7 or 8 out of ten as proof of their amazing customer service.

Huh, could you give an example of it? I am new to the Netherlands and hadn’t realized this yet.
> HN has had a consistent approach to this for many years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989.

> (From the link above) In the future, when someone doesn't understand this, please politely direct them to this thread or to HN's FAQ [1], which now makes this explicit.

Oh wow...in my case it's even worse!

Tweets that are now inaccessible; they get redirected back to twitter's main domain page!

Does it mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 it's not applicable anymore Dang?
I am often tempted to flag tweets, US propaganda, and blatant self and corporate promotion but it's pointless (even wrong) because it's like 50% of the content on this site. I don't even hit the hide button. Can't fight it. Better learn to ignore it.

Sorry for the defeatism
Yes we are. AI will be useful for some things, society will need to adjust a bit, and we'll move on like whatever. Think the power loom, the computer, and all the other major tech innovations. With the benefit of hindsight, it'll look inevitable. Your grandkids will ask you about the (supposedly) exciting life during the 4th Industrial Revolution, and you'll tell them something in the lines of "eh, life is life".
> If you read the survey

Not a nice way to engage in debate. I've spent more time listening to and refuting these arguments than most. Including debating Eliezer.

> many concerned researchers don't believe we're at a 90% chance of doom, but e.g. 10%.

A 10% chance of an asteroid hitting the earth would result in every country in the world diverting all of their budgets into building a means to deflect it.

> So, this type of response wouldn't be rational.

This is the rational response to a 10% chance?

These are funny numbers and nobody really has their skin in the game here.

If I believed (truly believed) their arguments, I would throw myself at stopping this. Nobody is doing anything except for making armchair prognostications and/or speaking to congress as an AI CEO about how only big companies such as their own should be doing AI.

> especially if research continues in places like China.

I like how both sides of this argument are using the specter of China as a means to further their argument.
> ban all M&A

That makes about as much sense as banning marriage.

M&A is fundamental and important.
That's Twitter for you, these days.
The predictions I was hearing weren't far off. We did know Elon was full of shit, but a lot of people thought we'd be further along by now.

5 years ago I was hearing 10-20 years. This was from people who were connected and knowledgeable in the industry. Now the same people are singing a different tune.

Maybe in 20 years from now, but it's looking pretty impossible in the next 5-10 years.
Given that the article is on the Washington post, it's worth pointing out that that is another thing that Jeff Bezos owns.
This was the desired result, right?
> When operating at Apple's scale, at least a decade of roadmap if not more was already planned in depth.

I highly doubt that considering that web app / native app store debacle.

Also was there any real reason to not support 3g from the beginning? A lot of “dumber” phones had it so it seems more likely that they just made a mistake.
Cellphone traffic in downtown San Francisco is now 29% of pre-pandemic levels
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Fullstack developer with 7 years experiences (4 as a Freelance). I worked with french tech companies as a frontend, fullstack or lead developer.

Recent Work: I have contributed to an open-source spreadsheet to bring a collaborative tool to the french administration. The tool (grist) is maintained by a New-York company and I had to work with their developer team and our team (contractors working for the administration) to ensure we could develop the features we needed following their workflow and their code guideline. Their codebase was in JavaScript and Python and for the frontend, they use the GrainJS library which is not common.

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I didn't recognize him but figured something about that bunch of overweight white men said Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, or WV to me.
Not giving substantive comments makes it sound more honorable than what was actually said. I actually prefer them exposing the nonsense that corporations spew, so that their disingenuity is in plain sight and on the record.
Blue Origin looks to expand beyond US with international launch site
Trying to impute the motives of ones interlocutor is dumb and boring. How about we discuss the first-order issue instead. Here's my argument for why x-risk is a real possibility:

The issue is that small misalignments in objectives can have outsized real-world effects. Optimizers are constrained by rules and computational resources. General intelligence allows an optimizer to find efficient solutions to computational problems, thus maximizing the utility of available computational resources. The rules constrain its behavior such that on net it ideally provides sufficient value to us above what it destroys. But misalignment in objectives provides an avenue by which the AGI can on net destroy value despite our best efforts. Can you be sure you can provide loophole-free objectives that ensures only value-producing behavior from the human perspective? Can you prove that the ratio of value created to value lost due to misalignment is always above some suitable threshold? Can you prove that the range of value destruction is bounded so that if it does go off the rails, its damage is limited? Until we do, x-risk should be the default assumption.

What say you?
Good idea. Maybe YCombinator would back it.
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> My argument is: engineering is not about best in absolute terms, but about best given constraints.

I usually agree. But laziness as the primary constraint should feel appalling to anyone who would willingly call themselves an engineer. Perhaps I actually mean to use a different word for engineer but I don't know what it should be

> I am not appealing to popularity. I am offering a counterexample. It seems electron is not the problem (I showed a counter-example), but priorities are.

I think you are, indirectly or inadvertently, citing electron and arguing in defense of it as a reasonable choice/option does do that.

> Software engineers did not wake up and decide to make programs slow. The economic incentives decided that it was not "worth it". For that to change, the incentives need to change. Just claiming it "should" be like this is not as insightful as it may seem.

Laziness is a choice. There are known better options, but software engineers *DID* choose to make it slow. The common axiom good, fast, or cheap; pick two. If you choose ease of development over fast you chose to make it slow. The people who build in python over C because they can write python faster, chose to make runtime slow. I guess you could argue for ignorance as a reason, but once you realize your software is slow, and refuse to do the work needed to fix it. You've also made the choice for it to be slow.

> In the same way we could complain about programs not being formally verified for correctness, instead of not being as fast as possible. Probably that is a worse offender.

Good engineers are willing to make the right trade offs. and I still believe that laziness is a positive trait in software engineers. But great engineers find a way to have both/everything, and people acting ethically don't prioritize their comfort or convenience over what's in the best interest of users.

The problem isn't if we can or can't make it fast, or correct, or user friendly. 55GiB/s fizzbuzz proves if you care enough, anything can be fast. The problem is people don't care, and that others who also don't care throw up their hands and say good enough is acceptable. And sure by definition it is acceptable. But I'd argue everything is awful, on fire, trash, user hostile, bad because too many people go ehh good enough you can stop trying.
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Is there a non Elmo version of this pdf?
Those tests are not the implementations of the tests, just specifying the test case and the few options. But I found the implementations. I am not sure if this is all of the simulation tests, but it seems to cover the basic cases.

https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/tree/main/fdbserver/wo...

> Someone could probably integrate this functionality into a Kubernetes operator or something so that outside engineers could run large scale simulations reliably. But it is really expensive and CPU/compute intense, no matter how you go about it.

Maybe this.

https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-joshua
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Seems like it

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Verb tense. Should have said "would have."
iPhone users to soon get satellite-powered internet and voice calls: Report
You're not modeling or predicting anything though. That's like saying "what if I built a bridge that failed on the first day? A computer would need several days to calculate all the forces that led to the failure, but my bridge failed just fine without any computer help".

Well... yes. But try building a bridge that doesn't break.

Or to keep with your scenario, try to predict exactly where and how your stick will break before you break it. You can't.
As far as we know these companies won't refuse to produce in China and hand over IP.
Personal electronics are still just a small fraction of all the energy humans use.
If or when AI is capable of doing all the great things people proclaim it to be able to do, then it will also be capable of doing immense harm, and we should be putting more work into mitigating that.

Like it really is that simple. AI generally, LLMs specifically, and certainly this crop of LLMs in particular might end up being inert pieces of technology. But to the precise extent that they are not inert, they carry risk.

That's a perfectly sensible position. The optimist position isn't even internally consistent. See Andreessen on Sam Harris's podcast: AI will produce consumer utopia and drive prices down. Also, there are no downside risks because AI will be legally neutered from doing much of anything.

Is it legally neutered or is it transformative? The skeptical case doesn't rely on answering this question: to the extent it's effective, powerful, and able to do good things in the world, it will also be effective, powerful, and able to do bad things in the world. The AI skeptics don't need to know which outcome the future holds.
It’s not clear we will reach that before we will reach direct brain interfaces.
Yes, but I'm trying to stop living in a world of "shoulds."
How about we make things actually work? I know thats extremist talk in 2023, but I believe that its possible to make things that actually work.
I know, and its very broken.
The Big Penis War
You've totally imagined my emotion and somehow taken 4 posts in discussion as "Adamance" as if having an opinion of this device and talking about it on HN is outrageous.

You're outrageous. It seems to me you're the one outraged that someone would do anything less than praise it breathlessly.
what would that be? "If you ever release something under GPLv4 you must continue publishing updates for all time, and you must provide free build support for all other people/organisations who have ever used, shipped, or repackaged it"?

As far as I can make out all RH has done is said "we're no longer spending our own money to support downstream projects and forks of our products", and everyone seems to be saying that they should not be allowed to do that. Which seems to be a very clear statement that RedHat should be required to spend time and money writing code to support other projects, whether or not those projects contribute anything, or are well funded.
I don’t think amazon gas touched their UX much since 1998 so it’s not like Goodreads is receiving unpreferential treatment
Nope. How am I supposed to get a job there? How about getting the money together to afford to move? I already live in a "low cost of living" area with less than half the population of Columbus, Ohio. It's still expensive as hell and there isn't a great housing situation.
> using them as desktop monitor replacements is feasible. That alone is a great use case.

For some, maybe, but not for everybody. I certainly would never use them for this, no matter how good they were at it.
#60 has a picture of a map, so I don't think it's being filtered.
But lots of people have deep refrigerators, which cause exactly the same usability problem ("most of the stuff in the fridge cannot be accessed, because the stuff between it and the door blocks it").
I really love this comment -- it "feels" like the right criterion -- but I guess I'm wondering what criteria (if any) researchers actually use right now. Do they have any criteria for this?
The difference is that employers at least *try* to pick the best candidate by ignoring characteristics such as attractiveness and height. For race and gender, it's the opposite: employers actively give preference to certain races and to women.
Perhaps, but I doubt it. Never attribute to malice what can instead be attributing to stroking massive egos.
Are there easy ways to surrender a baby in Texas?
So they shouldn’t do this?
Fake news. 350 people including the top scientists from the top labs signed the petition. Your local univ AI researcher rolls his eyes. Not the guys working at OpenAI or anthropic or deep mind.
Joe Biden’s $400B Man
"Jigar Shah, who runs the Energy Department’s loan program, is trying to hand out a lot of money for green-technology projects, while navigating an unforgiving political environment"
> So what happens to the mom and pop hardware store that's been running for 30 years when mom and pop want to retire? They just have to shut their doors?

They could sell it to another mom and pop? It's only an M&A if the shop is bought by / becomes part of another business.

If nobody wants to continue running the independent shop, it doesn't make much difference to consumers if a chain buys it, or if it closes down and the chain just opens a new shop there.
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100% agree on Macs. Personally I have never had to play IT support when my parents had a Mac. Now with Windows, it’s basically whack-a-mole. Some days the camera stops working and some days WhatsApp doesn’t startup. And they are not power users by any means. So they don’t muck around with their setup either.
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