skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember hearing that for a few years, the LaserWriter (or was it the LaserWriter II?) was the most powerful computer you could buy from Apple.
The Columbia River is massive - think the Siene, or Danube, or Rhine.

And the topology there is far from flat - it’s at the bottom of a valley. Trying to get that much water going anywhere it isn’t already going to go will require a project similar in scale to the Hoover Dam or California Aquaduct system.

It’s a bit like asking why we can’t ‘just’ build some walls to stop hurricanes from screwing over Florida. It sounds simple enough, right?
Isn't the entire pipeline for making chips highly toxic to begin with so what exactly does it mean to go "green"? It's not like they can change the chemical byproducts of making wafers and chips.
What YouTube's/Google's greed and hubris will likely result in, are more programmers aggressively testing ad blockers that can defeat their new approach or users more aggressively looking for alternatives to YouTube.

And I'm totally amazed that execs at YouTube/Google haven't figured out that maybe a cheaper tier premium service for just no ads, might be a viable enough solution, versus thinking they are going to bully and intimate their customers. At least give it a try, and give users more options. Make a new basic tier for maybe $15 dollars a year, where there are no ads. There are just too many programmers in the world, to think "aggressive intimidation" is really going to work.
I can see the evidence that some parts of the oil companies tried to hide the concept of global warming and oil's impact on it. However, considering the fact that global warming has been well known to the public for decades, and we still haven't taken any kind of drastic action to prevent it, can any damage really be attributable to the oil companies?

Should the oil companies have hid the data on global warming? No. Would the world be any different if they didn't try to hide the data? Also no.
UBI would be rad if they weren't going to link it to a CBDC - but they will simply because labour has no more bargaining power in that sort of world. You'll get what you're given and you vill like it.

I reckon that a software developer has built a certain mental sophistication within themselves that will always be one step above the rest of the prompters because a brainlet in charge of AI prompts is still a brainlet.
That's exactly why you write tests. You want to be sure future changes don't break present functionality, especially if the future changes are being done by someone who doesn't understand your part of the system.
> While it was news it was worth covering. Now, if you're a journalist and you're still covering it

I hold the opposite opinion. I think that covering it when everyone else was covering it would have been a waste of time because there is only limited information out there. Covering it 2 weeks or months later is much better and more information will have emerged and you can weave a narrative to tell the story better than some AI-written articles that just repeat the same 3 sentences from the Coast Guard.
Decoy Defenses: How Honeypots Sweeten Cybersecurity Strategies
In the same sense that learning about cognitive biases can equip people to become even more entrenched in their own beliefs. Being able to claim that others are falling prey to "confirmation bias" whenever confronted with evidence that conflicts with their own preconceptions does a lot to shore up the Semmelweiss reflex. It does make one think about how much education actually helps people think better; the simple heuristic of "more learning = better" doesn't seem to hold up to real scrutiny. I would hypothesize that some forms of pedagogy would instead calcify incorrect ideas in people's heads, and predicting which would do that is nontrivial considering we don't actually know much about why people learn in the first place.
Not a compelling response. I'm going to have to award the point to the "if you ban porn you should ban Bibles" argument.
It's not a mistake if it's verbatim. The [sic] is usually to show that the mistake isn't by the publisher but adding an additional space in a company name probably isn't egregious enough to warrant it.
The fact that this blog post can coach people about how to get to 200k yearly comp shows that you can multiply your salary by a lot more than 1.5 by moving from almost anywhere in the world to the US.
Hanford has almost no relation to nuclear power at all - it was a nuclear weapons development and fuel processing site.
System Design Interview – 101
You would think so, but we have several SANs at dayjob that are coming up on 10 years old...
Exactly, and the amount of cruft in there is indeed stunning! And broadly, not needed -- though there was a moment when we really wondered about KBRST_L, the ancient input to the CPU to indicate a keyboard reset! (We recounted this story on our "Tales from the Bringup Lab"[0], which is a must-listen if you haven't heard it.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhji-kP3Lhk#t=1h12m56s
Honestly it probably has more to do with the decision to basically shut down API access without exorbitant fees than it has to do with AI startups or whatever.

Surely there are some colossal archives of all tweets before whatever date floating around that those startups are using instead.
President Emmanuel Macron decided against establishing a state of emergency to handle the law and order crisis. Instead, the French government sent a further 5,000 cops on Friday night (June 30), increasing the total number to 45,000.
Why do Ivy League students self-sabotage?
For someone such as myself who has accessed Reddit through a web bowser since its founding in 2005, I don’t get the outrage. So some people can’t access it through their favorite app? I’m more annoyed mods are shutting off access to a valuable resource that millions of users including myself contributed to over the last 18 years.
When Twitter's working, just search for any tweet where he says "Interesting".

Or Google "Elon Musk conspiracy" and click the top link. I don't know if you'll be able to read the tweets they reference though.
Absolutely concur here. So-called “news” is so heavily selected for outrage generation and/or clickbait potential that I avoid it completely. With the exceptions of Bloomberg for financial and business news to help me with investing choices. Everything else—I mean, even if my country were going to war, my perspective is irrelevant since i won’t be consulted for my opinion anyway. It all falls into the category of things I can likely do nothing about anyway, so why increase my blood pressure reading or thinking about it?
Those two questions require a whole bunch of additional context. Has it ever been written down anywhere, or does it exist only in the heads of members of staff who understand those decisions? If the latter then yeah, there's clearly no way an AI could ever guess those things.

Part of the trick of making good use of LLMs is having a good instinct as to what kind of questions they will be able to ask and what kind of questions they are likely to mess up.

As a quick demo, I threw quite a gnarly real-world SQL query from this notebook - https://observablehq.com/@simonw/blog-to-newsletter#sql - into GPT-4 just now and gave it the following prompt:

> Explain this SQL query four times: first, as a high level explanation of what it does. Secondly, as some pithy highlights as to clever tricks it uses. Thirdly, as a step-by-step guide to exactly what each piece of the query does. Finally, provide some advice on how the query could be improved.

Here's what it produced in response: https://chat.openai.com/share/47b2f1c5-6b88-4ff2-b6d1-8f58da...

The high level explanation is, I think, excellent. I wrote that query and I'd forgotten the detail about how it sorts with entries first.

The tips for improvements are the weakest part, since they make assumptions that don't hold for this particular query (for one thing, SQLite doesn't have the ability to run stored procedures).
Thanks, yes it is the same thing.

Tabserve adds a few extras:

- No need to install a CLI, safer as it is in the browser sandbox.

- Use the Chrome dev tools for observing requests.

- Config multiple reverse proxies on different browsers remotely.

- GUI.

The cloudflared tunnel also supports any TCP/UDP traffic, tabserve is just for http.
We'll end up fighting which professions deserve H1Bs.
I am curious to see if a Coast Guard report gets published on all of this. I am particularly interested in the decision making that lead up to the event.
It probably was - nuclear weapon fuel production and processing was mostly done at Hanford, and the things they’ve done to do it quickly and ‘easily’ have been pretty horrifying. Being able to classify everything has helped.
Well, I live in Eastern Europe so even $120k+ ($10k per month) is rare as hens teeth. Actually the market rate for my skill, seniority and all is half of that so $5000 per month gross.

Now I do get $120k on occasion, as long as it lasts (doesn't always last for long). But how I do it is my competitive advantage, like trading strategies there's not zero but negative incentive for me to generously share it with "everyone". In this area it's everyone for themselves :P
I actually didn't see you'd referenced the Andrew Tate article as well in your image (full article: https://jsavage.xyz/2022/09/28/why-we-need-andrew-tate/)

I was referring to this statement you'd made: "I'd claim the mission is a failure right from user #1: https://i.imgur.com/57BhkkJ.png - the quality standard of ad-hominem soapboxing is already near rock bottom."

You seem to be claiming that the quality is low, so I was wondering if you had any specific counter-arguments to anything stated in those two comments/articles you referenced in your image. Or did you just want to criticize the 1,800 word and 540 word articles because you found the language not to your taste? Personally I'm more interested in the content of one's arguments rather than simply the presentation, but to each their own.
The usual rule of civil lawsuits is that you sue whoever has the money.
Cold-related deaths may outnumber heat-related deaths by a factor of 20.

Source:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
This is great. Now when I really need to watch something important, I'll deal with the ads and for the rest of the junk, it'll piss me off sufficiently to stop watching it. Fantastic news - thanks Google!
So, I don't disagree in the abstract -- but in this case, the presence of these abstractions are functioning as real obstacles with respect to platform enablement, and we found it be a tremendous win to not only eliminate the abstractions entirely.[0]

[0] https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...
> An appreciable number of people benefit from all the inefficiency in delivering health care.

Not anything close the the number of people who suffer from the all the inefficiency in delivering health care, but guess which has more money to bribe lawmakers with
I listened to the whole sample video. At the end, the (Indian sounding) telemarketer (assuming it’s real) calmly says “I’m here to fuck your daughter. I’m here to fuck your wife and daughter” before hanging up.
I know it might seem like it, but there's just not that much in it. All video, USB, "console ports" can be driven from a small chip using a couple of watts. Some do all that on their BMC SoC, even. And if your requirements include redundant power supplies, then that's what you get, and if they don't you get something without them. And the boot and runtime firmware might be complicated and have its own issues, but there are not large runtime performance overheads in that either that you can just "rewrite it all" and get a big speedup.

Proof of the pudding will be in the eating I guess. Does Oxide talk about performance advantages at all, or have numbers?
Photos of the recovered debris show an intact titanium end bell being lifted by a strap through where the acrylic porthole was. No sign of porthole or carbon fiber tube. Not yet clear what failed first, the tube or the porthole.
Who knew that firing all of your software engineers could make for bad software.
At my last start-up, there were 3-4 times the number of engineers and yet they failed to do basic testing and engineers ended up do that job too. Funnily some of them were paid more than engineers
I love how QR code was obfuscated.
Dumb Question: Is there an ADA lawyer salivating or is Reddit in the clear?
Unless they gave their oil away for free, they already did.
> AI articles will probably be less bullshit than the current site.

I'm not so optimistic. Its all in the training. I'm expecting BSGpt that will be trained to produce exactly the kind of nonsense these sites produce and their consumers like.
Is it wrong to assume there's many other wavelengths of these waves?
Make completely changing product against the rules, let customers report it and ban sellers if manual review proves report was correct.

Sprinkle some AI to it, and it becomes manageable.
Tools like Swagger, they generate demonstrative UIs on top of your API, used it many times when exposing Rest APIs was necessary.
Maybe one day they will ban fake products like this $49 1TB drive that corrupts your data: https://www.amazon.com/Gulloe-External-Storage-Computer-Blue...
you are correct, its supposed to generate code for things that are discussed in the paper. the app starts with an example paper, but you can give it any arxiv link. it works best when the task you tell it to implement is actually discussed in the paper, or else it will hallucinate random things. its no where near good as of now but we are constantly improving it
I'm going through this right now in my job, having built a tool to manage vulnerability tickets for my team, and having it's first use be deleting every vulnerability ticket, despite my protests. The person executing this is more concerned about looking good on paper than actually improving security.
The biggest raise I ever got was by accident. I was making $105k and knew I was underpaid but no raise was coming so I started looking around. I told a recruiter I was looking for "upwards of 120" and got the response "that's pretty steep
... The max for this position is $90/hr, can we make that work?" I said I'd consider it. I got that position at that rate.

I actually went back to the first company a year later but negotiated properly and got a good bump from even that. Realizing that jobs outside the Bay pay people with my skills that well was a game changer.

Edit: I should clarify this was a W2 contract position. I was an employee of a contracting company that "loaned" me to the client.
Interesting. I did Wifi once but used an RP2040 with some sort of ESP32 flahshed with some firmware designed to let Android sketches use Wifi. (The actual wifi was done by another ESP32. BOM efficient? Nope. Easy? Yup. If $1 per part ever makes a difference to me, I guess I'll just use C.)
I want to do same thing with smart plugs. There's not a single smart plug on market that won't connect to cloud to control plug from anywhere. I don't want to control from anywhere dammit. I just want control on my LAN.

Edit: At least on amazon.in I could not find any.

https://www.amazon.in/s?k=smart+plugs
I don't think people are disputing that oil companies were/are useful, rather that the externalities haven't been taken into account.
That's because most people aren't rich. Your post has a statistical problem :-/
It’s decayed significantly into less radioactive elements in the mean time. As long as no one is playing in the dirt under the building, it’s actually not a bad place to leave it while it ‘cools’.
In the spirit of Douglas Adams, The Lord knows. If I want to predict what’s gonna happen with AI relative to economics, I’ll go ask a designated cat.
Yes, good idea! In terms of monitoring, we have made component selection that allows for monitoring (e.g., PMBus for power rails) -- and then built the software into our SP that pulls that information and makes it available upstack via our management network.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abE_9zsAadE
Everything is an accident waiting to happen, just with different probability. Waiting long enough and it will happen.
Yeah sure wheels are a good idea. Most people aren't in the market for ideas. If you're in the market for some actual wheels to put on your car, it sure might help if the tires someone's trying to sell you are Goodyear, Michelin, Firestone, or some no-brand piece of rubber.
This makes me realize "the code base is a mess" has been so overused it could be a standard greeting in our profession.

Everyone has their horror story and extreme examples, but for any mildly profitable company that went through a decade or more of operation, I think it's kinda of a meaningless statement.
Good on you. Most other customers of your computer manufacturer aren't the same.
The link rot resulting from this will be pretty bad all over the internet.

Sad they didn't manage to be sustainable.
And definitely no one that was paying them or writing the rules.
Hmm, I was thinking it still applies in the sense that the many many duplicate retries are hitting many of Twitter's servers causing unnecessary duplicated load when a single successful response would satisfy the client and reduce the traffic.

In my mind, it is much closer to needlessly asking every server for the same information because the requests are most likely load balanced, but I guess it's true that I don't know the load balancing strategy. Even still, is it not more likely than not that those retries are hitting multiple servers?
Hilarious. Bravo. Nothing is real.
It takes a tightly closed mind to not glean some insight from (or sense the import of) a one-in-a-billion story that touches on class, tech, and trust.

Five people died in an unprecedented fashion due to a rich con artist sending maliciously incompetent engineering to the bottom of the ocean. Stretch a bit, please.
I heard pressure testing of the carbon fiber wasn't done. They relied on sensors to detect delamination instead. In software engineering, a component is both created and unit tested with tests on relevant functionality. Delamination sensors are poor compensation for a missing test. They probably didn't test the delamination sensors, either.
To be fair, most modern software engineering doesn't directly lead to someone dying, so in a lot of cases, it makes economic sense to try and push out that additional feature quickly rather than combing every line for potential bugs.

Most customers are going to go with the product with more features even if there are a few more bugs, compared with one with zero bugs and much less functionality.
I'm not 100% sold on ATProto, but the fact that my identity and content can live separately from an instance is an insanely huge advantage over ActivityPub. I do not want to run my own Mastodon server (though I do) but I also don't want to use someone else's server and put my account at the mercy of the operator. It's maddening to think about how I could build a following or amass a ton of quality posts, only for the server to shut down or pull a Twitter. I simply can't stand the thought of it.

If ActivityPub wants to keep riding the wave it has now they should start investigating ways to support this. I think more and more people are getting fed up with centralized platforms / not owning their data.
I'd be very interested in the testimony in this case as it seems that the plaintiffs argue that 100+ deaths during 2021 PNW heatwave were caused by global warming.

I'm not sure what argument you make. Climate is different from weather and there have been extreme temperature events throughout history. Furthermore, how do you account for natural releases of methane or the whole cow farting angle? How do you establish responsibility, etc.
To add to all of that, one of the biggest powers of advertising is normalizing a particular product in everyday life. This is evident in your given examples about local religions.

Coca-cola is an accepted and normalized aspect of daily life. Because of the extremely effective marketing - it is viewed as 'safe' and something everyone should have, so parents buy it for their children - despite the obvious and well-known effects as well as becoming subtly addicted to caffeine that is in them. The kids are being primed to become lifelong caffeine addicts.

Do you drink caffeinated drinks regularly? Have you tried going without them? It's a bitch.
You are telling people who are being abused that it's their fault that they didn't leave. This is victim blaming.
Managing servers/infrastructure also? AFAIK Twitter has a couple of data centers.
Why is this post so long?
> It's not a mistake if it's verbatim.

Yes it is (and [sic] is specifically used for verbatim quotes[1]). Companies often take their style guides pretty seriously, so an extra space can be a big deal. But in any case, The New Yorker has extremely high AP standards, so that's why I'm surprised to see even such a slight mistake.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sic-meaning-us...
I'm astounded it took this long to finally die. All those Twitter engineers who were harassed by Elmo's very online fan club, and were treated with such cruelty and disdain on their way out, clearly did an incredible job. Hats off to them.

The curse of IT Operations: if you do everything right, management grifters never think you did anything at all. Why do I need you? Everything works fine!

Most Internet platforms are put together by popsicle sticks and bubble gum. If Reddit didn't have 2000 full time employees babysitting that steaming POS, it would be offline by the end of the week. But Twitter was like a chicken running around with its head chopped off, and it didn't stop running for 9 months. It's a testament to how incredible those engineers were.

This collapse at Twitter should have happened by January. It's a real shame it didn't. How many thousands of tech workers were laid off because Musk's fellow parasitic oligarchs saw Twitter running "fine" after the lobotomy, and followed him off the cliff like a bunch of lemmings? How many billions of dollars has the economy lost because of this one despicable man?

Elon Musk is a fraud. He is not an engineer. He's a lazy bum who mooched his whole life off his groomer daddy's apartheid emerald money. He would be nothing without that disgusting, incestuous old man. Despite his enormous financial privilege, Elmo was too lazy to enter the US legally. He was in the US for many years as an illegal immigrant. He only bothered to get off his lazy ass and finish his Economics degree because the risk of his deportation was becoming a real problem for X.com. That crooked philistine doesn't know the first thing about hard work, engineering, or finance. He's a damn good conman, he's good at shitposting, and that's about it. He has no other skills. He is not an engineer. He has no STEM degree. His only real accomplishment in life is proving that you can, in fact, spend billions of dollars in one lifetime, if you simply buy a bird app, run it into the ground, and salt the earth behind it.
If you work for a large company anything you do in software is directly competitive.
Consumer complaints, for one.
It’s not like you can’t train a lora on that.
> Mostly because I like my job and the goals of my organization even if it makes bad decisions.

Keep in mind that Musk intentionally turned Twitter completely upside down. Anything that people there liked about it before Musk is likely gone—coworkers, WFH, perks.
say what you will, they at least are chicken friendly ethicists:

> However, one issue on which ethicists not only held stronger normative attitudes but also reported better corresponding moral behaviors was vegetarianism.

(from the article summary)
Is Silicone Biodegradable? No. But Is It Eco-Friendly? Maybe. (2022)
Who is going to maintain the AI?
Good read. The problem is even worse with legacy Ivy league students.