skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it a worse customer experience or just a worse customer experience when something goes wrong?

I find large companies to be superior in nearly everything, particularly availability of online services, except exception handling. And even there, plenty of larger companies have chat support. Many smaller ones merely have the phone.
_why offered a vision of computing, art and delight that we could maybe use more of nowadays. For more reference see “This Hack Was Not Properly Planned” here: https://web.archive.org/web/20080512050317/http:/hackety.org...
Mirror: https://archive.is/wsqXY
But there are easy resources available to them to determine that. Google Maps alone would indicate that it’s pretty much impossible. I am actually surprised that their system even would suggest something like that.

For fun, I asked ChatGPT (gpt-4)…

Prompt:
Can I get from Terminal C in IAD to DCA in 40 minutes?

Response:
Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) are two separate airports located in the Northern Virginia area, near Washington, D.C.

The travel time between these two airports is approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour by car under normal conditions. However, this can vary depending on the time of day, traffic, and other factors. Furthermore, this timing does not include time for potential issues such as returning a rental car, waiting for a taxi or rideshare, airport security, and other possible delays.

Therefore, a 40-minute window to travel between these two airports and catch a flight is not realistic and highly risky. It's recommended to allow a much greater time buffer when scheduling flights with a transfer between these airports.
I wish the author had addressed the two translation choices that strike me as most unexpected: “strange” instead of “dear” wife, and “destiny” instead of “fate”.
Ask HN: Recommendation for PR and SEO Companies
Dear HNers, I am looking for recommendations for individual companies / contractors specializing in PR and/or SEO for consumer software/apps (Windows, iOS, Android etc).
I am not looking for press release distribution companies.
Strange. There seems to be no mention of vast.ai in the GPU Cloud Providers list, but they're definitely cheaper than all of the options listed.

Perhaps the writer kept them unmentioned in an attempt to reduce demand?
Zero emission is a lie. You are simply shifting the emissions up or down the chain. Batteries are horrible if you look at how they are produced. Wind farms too. Diesel is better than electrical when you look at total cost vs benefits.
It is called "heroic" due to the amount that you take. Usually taking >5g is considered a heroic dose.
Yeah but jupyter notebooks suck at providing reproducible data science. I encourage my team's not to use Jupyter for data science.

Our preferred toolchain is based on make to build data science pipelines. Every step is scripted, and make ensures that upstream changes or script changes trigger downstream changes, ending with charting with gnuplot or similar. Our output charts all are not only timestamped but have a git commit id. And our source repositories contain a data manifest so we have commit IDs right into ETL stages into the DB.

End result is that in a couple of months, when the CxOb asks about some piece of work and pulls out a chart, we can trace the entire data pipeline used to create it, and reproduce it if required. That saves so much hassle!
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Programming, objectively speaking, is nothing like balancing equations. When balancing equations, there is only one right answer. When programming, there is a goal and a series of subjective choices need to made in order to reach the goal. There are many right answers. The art and craft is in those subjective decisions. You might not care about the craft in those decisions, but, objectively speaking, I don’t think you can reduce programming to something like balancing equations.
Amazon shipped 4.75 billion packages in 2021 in the US alone [0]. So it's obvious why they didn't talk about percentages.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1178979/amazon-logistics...
Hey, isn't this the Peloton model?
> Building components that are small enough to fit in highway lanes, on the other hand, are manufactured in centrally-located, capital-intensive factories and shipped to their final destinations, just like cars or electronics. Think: boilers, doors, windows, air handlers, etc.

The elaborate on your idea, there are a couple startups that do work in "real estate" if you can even call it that, they ship ready-made prefab aimed at people looking for separate mancave/home office from the actual home.[1] Those are things you can ship in highways and load in with a crane. But that's about it. These startups had their boom during COVID but you don't hear much about them now.

[1] https://www.dwell.com/article/prefab-home-office-accessory-d...
What's missing from this IMO is any explanation of why 5% is the magic number that makes this possible.

If the socially beneficial aspects of local banking are funded by the spread between what the bank pays its customers and the market rate of interest (in the Federal Funds Rate/the 4 week t-bill/money market fund yields/etc) why does the spread have to be so high? Why can't the bank pay its depositors 3% and do this stuff with a 2% spread?

A 5% spread is the highest in at least 15 years and local banks seemed to be doing fine throughout much of that period.
Exactly. And is why I'd expect them to be roughly the same, all told.
Can't tell if sarcasm or not... Yeah, it's those local tradespeople living in their mansions and driving Lambos that is the real problem with building costs, so of course we should import desperate people in unstable situations to compete against them.
Yes! News page here: https://openworm.org/news
> It's just that people don't like the idea of children being transgender, probably because it reminds them that they could potentially have a gay or transgender child.

A shallow dismissal, a perfectly reasonable argument against irreversible action for changing children’s genders is that many of them aren’t so sure as it seems and later want to transition back.
And then there are the fake reviews left by shady reputation management services. $previous_company (which was very small) had many negative reviews pop up in a short time frame, which at first was thought to be a disgruntled employee making multiple accounts, but then a reputation management service "came to the rescue" just at the right time and offered to get them removed. IIRC, Glassdoor did actually remove these eventually after being contacted, but whoever offered to get them removed was told to fuck off.
But wouldn't adding a payment terminal to a tesla supercharger add another point where it could break? I think the future are chargers without any interface at all, as well as no apps, the car just negotiates payment when you plug it in.
I'll grant you they might want more, but they definitely require more than they _need_, like those two examples I mentioned: as long as I get its mail it's none of its business where I live, and it should definitely not have anything to do with church funding.
To be clear I'm also not defending Google. I just wish Germany had a higher standard for privacy vis-a-vis the public institutions.
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A lot of regional banks were capitalized by deposits, once SVB collapsed the fed opened additional opportunities for regional banks to be capitalized by the fed. In general, the fed acts as a lender of last resort and charges excess interest rates.

First republic had a moment where bigger banks deposited ~$30B into it, but even that was a small percentage of their overall depositor base. As deposits continued to flee they had to rely more on the fed (and then failed).
https://wints.org
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Cool, so we're approaching the peak of inflated expectations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
On a serious note though a person with an IQ of 150 can't clone themselves 10k times.

They also tend to have some level of autonomy in not following the orders of idiots and psychopaths.
They actually broadcasted a video call of them fixing it too, but they removed that as well.
This has nothing to do with anything digital - interstate banking was effectively illegal in the US until the 90s: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/interstate-banking.asp

Banks have consolidated ever since.
> That is why the whole unlimited vacation time scam is so popular.

It's a legitimately better choice for some of us. I take more vacation time when I don't have to ration it out like something scarce and precious.
I agree that the article over generalize several aspects of High School education. High School in most cases is the last chance people will be able to share each other experiences/lives. Afterwards people dive into the compartmentalized world of their careers and social status. Learning is just one part of the whole thing.
Django is so boring, stable, and well-understood, and there are so many solid code examples, that ChatGPT is basically a super-powered coding assistant when you're working in Django.
Code for wormsim.org is here on Github btw: https://github.com/openworm/org.wormsim.frontend -- contributions welcome!
Would you mind explaining why you think I said that?
My suspicion is that we're collectively becoming accustomed to ChatGPT failures. These failures cause problems, and become more annoying with time. The same thing happened with voice assistants.

That being said, the safety filters have definitively changed in OpenAI. ChatGPT is definitely more prone to reminding me that it is an LLM, and it refuses to participate in pretend play which it perceives as violating its safety filters. As a trivial example, ChatGPT is less willing to generate test cases for security vulnerabilities now - or engage in speculative mathematical discussions. Instead it will simply state that it is an advanced LLM blah blah blah.
Nah. This is a comically unrealistic idea for a number of reasons:

1. AI vendors do not give one half of a rats ass about AI ethics or transparent pricing. They might pretend to, but that is blatant marketing because ignoring both is a competitive advantage. Making the cost of their infrastructure more apparent is the parametric opposite of their business strategy.

2. The current status quo around payments already does exactly what AI vendors want. They just want your money and the ability to control everything past that point. There is zero reason to adopt a cryptocurrency that limits their freedom to abuse the market. Using USD gives them plausible deniability points that are valuable when running a business with dubious value. Integrating cryptocurrency paints a red target on your back for happy-hunting regulators.

3. The Lightning network is a consummate joke of a currency, and I say that having used Cryptocurrency for a decade now. All Blockchains are scams to some extent, but the Lightning network isn't worth it's weight in piss. It's an L2 diversion net that destroys Bitcoin's main net to marginally improve throughput and underpay miners. If AI advocates were going to pick a platform, it wouldn't be one that's prone to collapse at any moment. It would be their own crypto (and likely their own L2 chain) that facilitates all the evildoing the USD stops.

Nothing about what I said was a strawman. The originator of that quote is out for direct personal gain, as are most people who promote $COIN where USD works perfectly fine.
> I am actually surprised that the US government is so happy to tolerate large US companies completely undermining their own geopolitical position just to increase profits

If this surprises you, I don’t think you’ve considered who the ruling class of capitalist society is, and whose wishes the government, therefore, naturally embodies, and what that implies its actual interests are.
I'm also curious to hear thoughts on the skill-based component of BigHoops. I consider this very important as it can level the playing field making it fun regardless of skill-level in general but particularly within a group.

A quick personal story...this hit home recently when I took my 8 year old niece along with my 10 year old nephew and 2 of his male friends to play basketball (games, HORSE, and Knockout) at a school playground. My niece is younger and smaller, and she felt left out, eventually leaving to go play on the playground by herself because the boys were older / taller / better. I feel that a skill-adjustment component to the physical game will make the game much more accessible and attractive to folks regardless of skill-level, gender, age, etc.

Another way I like to think about this is...has your 10 year old child ever beaten you (40ish yo, decent shape) at Topgolf or bowling?
Threads launch fails to prioritize accessibility
The hardware costs are minimal compared to other costs. It packs into a container.
Have any translations of the Bible actually called the forbidden fruit an apple? I thought the association with apples was an invention of artists who might have been punning on the Latin words for evil and apple, but I haven't heard of any Bible that actually translates it to apple.
Sure, but if you can get some sort of understandable result, we might learn a bit more about what the worm's neurons are doing.
Why do we need more regulation? The Titan submersible, if anything, was nature self-regulating.

Regulation is just an enabler of laziness.
I don't think it's 'charitable' when it involves a tax deduction. A lot of private enterprise takes place in 501c3 wrapping.
Is this original the chat transcript?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36635060
Location: Austin, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Languages: Python, R, C, C++, Java, Go, Rust

Technologies: PyTorch, JAX, scikit-learn, Numpy, Hadoop, Spark/MLib, Kafka, ElasticSearch

Misc: Git, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, Amazon EC2/S3, Unix, LATEX, LLVM, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rochan-avlur/, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u5m3WRkYGyvnUZG4Ab8J49Ysu1d...

Email: rochan(dot)avlur(at)utexas(dot)edu

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Who am I?

* Grad student @ UT Austin (exp. Aug '23) with research experience in sequential decision-making ML (uncertainty quantification, risk-sensitive modelling, RL & Bayesian optimization) (4 conference papers, 2 in preparation).

* I’m also passionate & skilled at solving complex challenges that arise when building highly scalable multi-node systems to work with large-scale data corpora.

* I’m self-motivated & thrive on tackling complex problems, both independently & as part of a team.

What I'm looking for?

* Full-time SW/ML Engineering & Research roles at organizations (labs, start-ups & big-tech) that value innovative & collaborative thinking.

* Next Role: Thriving in cutting-edge ML & optimization research, collaborative team, innovative industry, modern software practices.

* Want to avoid: Stagnant environments, rigid hierarchies, outdated tech, siloed teams, lack of growth opportunities.

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Anyone who doesn't has never actually toyed with LLM and received, "As an AI language model I can't" in response to an innocuous request to, say, write a limerick about a politician or list the reasons why "username2 is stupid".

But mostly it has to do with the fact that LLM do what they've seen. And if they've been fine-tuned to not respond to some classes of things they'll misapply that to lots of other things. That's why most people go for the "uncensored" fine tuning datasets for the llamas even for completely sfw use cases.
Very few people are going to add a 5 minute stop to their day to make an extra $8 every fortnight.
in case folks found the relevant submission via https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=status.gitlab.com this is the url-less submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36634089
Ask HN: How do you share API collections?
How do you share API collections across org and teams?
I was able to find Postman(quite pricey) and Bruno (open source).
You could, but in all honesty, most programmers (myself included) aren't as brilliant as Linus Torvalds, and, while I could stand up a git mirror in my sleep (because it's trivial - you should be able to as well), the finer points of coordinating work via a git mirror, when https://xkcd.com/1597/ is the level of understand most people have with git, seems to say it's not going to work. Add on the fact that the git repository is the least bit of functionality (eg PRs and pipelines), and being down is a serious barrier to progress.

http://Xkcd.com/303 but for GitHub is down.
At least for some people, it seems to be a (unconscious) way to save face after being so ridiculous with the hype and predictions and "these will replace doctors and lawyers" when this was all first trending.
Anecdotally I heard this from many unrelated people about Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona (heard similar about London and major UK cities but that's mostly from stories online). Basically all your typical big Western European cities. Pretty level with NYC.

It's a stark contrast with big cities in parts of Asia where I go. Sometimes I'm toying with an idea of moving to Europe but apart from troubles getting digital nomad visa petty crime is also a thing that scares me.

(However it's not generally supported by published crime stats so I'm not 100% sure whether to be worried)
This is an excellent theory IMO. It isn't that the AI has actually gotten much worse, it's that the novelty has worn off and they are finally starting to notice all of the repetitious patterns it has and mistakes it makes — the stuff people like me who never bought into the AI hype to begin with noticed from the start — but instead of realizing that maybe their initial impressions of the capabilities of large language models were wrong or based on partial information they are taking the Mandela effect route and just insisting that something outside them has fundamentally changed.
My experience with huge corporations is that "knowing a guy" is still remarkably effective at getting you in.

A big downside is that they are also less incentivized to train up folks. Larger corporations seem to have decided that that can all be offloaded to "the market forces" such that they can just hire new folks that are more up on current techniques.

I don't buy them being able to better scale over their customers. At face value, it seems more that they have more managed to get society to stop giving a shit about the smaller communities that have no choice but to bank with them.
Is there any smaller, local, customer respecting business that isn't "inefficient" in comparison to a megaconglomerate which can use monopoly and mass consolidation to operate with lower costs, worse customer experience after they achieved local monopoly?

Exactly.

When something goes wrong (and it will), I want to walk into a branch and have a human being fix things.

I don't want to put my money into the Bank of Google, where customer service is only given to people with nine figure balances, and everyone else has to shout into the void of social media to get help.

Some things don't scale for good reason.
Twitter also hasn't got a code base, a performance tweaked runtime, a test engineering group, or an operations group like Instagram has to borrow from.

Even with all that, Threads was launched conservatively. Not in Europe at all. Threads got 10 times the expected sign-ups. It scaled up faster than anything ever has. That's pretty remarkable.
From the EV manufacturer’s perspective, I imagine it’s likely easier to convince 1 “transportation manager” in your example to buy 50 school busses (single purpose vehicles) compared to convincing 50 consumers to buy 50 EVs each user with different driving patterns/needs. Likely also easier and cheaper to do maintenance on a 50 school bus fleet compared to maintenance for 50 individual consumer cars.

The business case can be well defined as expressed in your example, which makes solving for that problem easier. Selling en mass to the general public is a harder feat for an EV startup IMO

Tesla took the route of selling low volume luxury and then went down market. Seems like Rivian is taking a strategy of special purpose fleet vehicles (and I imagine eventually broadening their focus to consumers) - both are pretty smart business approaches to growth IMO
It depends on who you hire...

Most jobs take bids and so many people hire the lowest bidder. Because of this, a lot of contractors price their bids as a best case scenario... Or they bid an exactly what was asked and nickel and dime for everything extra.
the one for their url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36634430
different title now ("Amazon has 5,000+ Rivian EV delivery vans on the road"), but these numbers seem... infinitesimally small.

maybe it's a bigger deal because the first Rivian trucks just hit the road a couple of days ago when i thought they first hit the road a couple of years ago?
Two users I talked with mentioned bad experiences with them. Not that it's always bad, and they mentioned that it can be good and I know the pricing is often great, but they noted bad experiences with unreliable instances. Therefore I don't want to recommend it to most people.
That's a nice way to phrase it! Google tells me this quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson, who himself was deeply influenced by ancient Indian thought (see [1], e.g.).

[1]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2709649

(edit: replaced [1] with a better link.)
> FPS is a way to let the steam off

We would all be horrified if it were suggested that say, rape simulators functioned as a release valve to divert energy away from real life sexual assaults.
This is demonstrably false. Even new Jeep Wranglers and Gladiators come with auto start/stop, and those are about as far removed from hybrids as it gets.
But isn’t it just “two phase”? I.e. how “true” two phase would be different?

Ok, help from our new common friend:

Yes, your statement is essentially correct. In the United States, residential electrical supply is typically a single-phase, 240-volt system that is "split" into two 120-volt legs. Each of these legs are 180 degrees out of phase with each other, which allows for both 120-volt and 240-volt circuits within the home. This arrangement is often referred to as "split-phase" electricity. It's not technically two-phase because a true two-phase system would have two waves offset by 90 degrees, not 180.
Just a normal day with microservice.
Banks can borrow from the Fed but at current rates. Problem is that banks are in the business of borrowing at lower rates than they lend. But borrowing from the Fed is at like 5% now whereas most bank books average a return lower than that. They can access cash but at a cost that is the opposite of how a bank’s business should run
What you fail to understand is that when the political winds change an ever increasing basis of activities will be deemed to be money laundering and illegal and you will have nowhere to turn to.