skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it ?

What little research we have of this kind of phenomena points towards this being very valid.

Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus? (https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07543)

Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples (https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06899)
All of them. State employees have very broad 1st Amendment protections.
I think it's some weird manifestation of women being culturally more often in jobs as assistants to men and men in the leading roles. That and wanting the AI to seem approachable and human.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. --Upton Sinclair
Hmm, if those servers are handling less traffic then their 'useful life' will be extended.
> Malibu vs Bel Air crash test.

Bel Air? 1955? We can go well into the 90's with many cars which were little more than sheet metal shells on a frame. My oldest friend was killed in his '89 Nissan sentra after he was hit from behind by a wreckless driver sending the little tin foil box into a pole and tree shredding it into a pile of scrap metal along with him.

> consistently hit 150,000 miles

Tell that to Merc 300D's. But aside from anomalies drive-line reliability greatly improved int he 90's after we ditched carbs and early fuel injection. My 1995 tahoe had 175k on the clock when sold and only needed a transfer case rebuild after my mother shifted it while moving (broke the fork and was stuck in 4hi). After the awful demise of my friend I sold my '96 civic (4th owner) with over 300k on the odo, it broke at 300 and I believe it was around 350-360 when I sold it. My 2004 Jeep Libery made it to 220k before it started falling apart and sold it to a guy who ran it for another few years (the 3.7 v6 in them were crap too).

> easier to maintain, consistently hit 150,000 miles, etc. etc.

Back in March my friend woke up to find that his less than 2 month old 2023 Kia Sportage hybrid stone dead in his driveway. Dealer dropped off a 15 year old loaner and took 40 days to find and fix the problem. They told him it was a "bad wiring harness". Super easy maintenance, eh?

> go faster, have more power,

The amount of morons who think they are the king of the road has massively increased thanks to COVID and the last thing we need is to empower these morons with faster piles of metal.
> LLM-generated spam is trivial to automate inside of a normal browser.

Sure, the analog loophole (or analog input loophole) will remain. But it's times more difficult than what is possible at this point in time.

> And if advocates are willing to so quickly say today, "there's LLM spam, so sure, lock down the OS", they are also going to say in the future, "there's still LLM spam, the problem is worse than ever, lock down the extensions."

There's always going to be spam, just like there's always going to be ways around DRM. The difficulty changes over time. Up to the person to decide if it's good or bad.

> If you believe that blocking bots justifies attacking user agency, there's no reason to stop at blocking users from rooting their phones.

Noone has stopped there, SafetyNet already does that.
And why fake it in the first place? I don't see the benefit.
there's also Jarvis and Alfred, on the male side, but yeah, it's a known cognitive bias to implicitly associate subservient things with female names. not much to do except be aware and try to correct for it. i think there's like 3 AI assistants named Samantha. obviously inspired by the movie, but does show a lack of imagination.
The next best thing: the Common Lisp HyperSpec: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CLHS/Body/05_aa....
I gave up after the third level because the UI was bad enough when the answers were simple that I had no interest in making anything complicated.
Ditto. But I do wonder how much ad time is just people using it to listen to music in the background and not really listening to ads (maybe this is priced in anyways and it doesn't matter, but traveling around eastern europe a lot I was surprised how many people used Youtube this way)
Exciting paper. I hope this won't be the same scenario as the other team that claimed a room-temperature superconductor in 2020 and was later proven to be a fraud.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02401-2
Back in the day, it would take ages to download and install software, and it could mess up your system. If now was then, I'd see your point.

But if you don't trust a software, then you should never install it, and you should never ask for reinsurance from the software makers. If their goal is to compromise personal computers, then they will also lie in any information they put out.

It's like being at a car dealer that you think is a criminal, and asking him to double-pinky swear that the car you're looking at wasn't stolen.
I'm not saying latex should be banned or disallowed anywhere, no actual gatekeeping in that regard.

There are big geek communities that lead newbies astray by recommending it, it's a nerd snipe that wastes a lot of brain cycles better used elsewhere. It's only little b bad, not big B bad.

I am saying it's a poor tool, a waste of time and an evolutionary dead end, people are allowed to fetishize poor tools, efficiency, simplicity and legibility are very poor in latex world with a high learning curve for a task that is at best tertiary to the task of doing real research, it's a tool that promotes rabbit trails, bike shedding and procrastination.

And the small amount of research that has looked into this has apparently born this out in at least some small degree. It's not a hot take if it's got backing.
YTDL over my dead body.
It seems like that's nearing the sweet spot of fraud prevention, where committing the act of fraud is as much work as doing the real thing.
> In the last 3 years we had government officials directing, in very strong language, various tech companies on what was and was not allowed on their platforms.

And, as is their First Amendment right, those tech companies frequently responded with "no". This is very clear from the Twitter Files information, even if the journalists involved glossed over that point.

For example:

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3849819-trump-asked-tw...

> Then-President Trump asked Twitter to take down a tweet from model and television personality Chrissy Teigen in 2019 because he saw it as “derogatory,” according to testimony from a Twitter whistleblower and former employee.

Trump has the First Amendment right to ask. Twitter has the First Amendment right - which they exercised - to decline that request.

If Trump had sent US Marshals to seize Twitter HQ when they said no, that is where we have issues.
Recently someone at Google published a proposed change to Chrome that would make it easy for sites to restrict how people can browse the web, and then closed discussion, saying they'd bring it back at the end of the weekend and not bringing it back. https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

Google went down this accusatory path before, when they sought to remove the URL from the address bar. This thread was started by another developer working at Google (This developer now works at Shopify).

Edit: It gets a bit wilder down the thread:

"We shouldn't forget how weird URLs are. Just look at them. Weird delimiters. The order of specificity changes half way through…

The browser doesn't show the user raw HTML and expect them to figure it out themselves. I don't think we should do that with URLs either."

This part "The order of specificity changes half way through". It doesn't so much because of chunking. When I think of news.ycombinator.com my mind recognizes that right away. It doesn't rehash the order each time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology)

As for "weird delimiters" forward slashes are the only delimiters in play much of the time. Those make good sense for representing a hierarchy to me. As for https:// & http:// those are hidden for me and I have no problem with that. And it's sufficient on desktop, but on mobile they make it too much of a pain to view the whole URL, or even the whole domain name. Wrapping the text would work.
The Leopold F660C keyboard with Topre Silent 45g switches isn't silent, but it's an obsession killer. If one want custom QMK firmware, get the Hasu aftermarket controller.

https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_det...

https://1upkeyboards.com/shop/controllers/fc660c-controller/

I too have a closet full of mechanical keyboards, somehow indulging the obsession while failing to see the point. A Topre switch is so much better, it allowed me to focus on my layout then get back to work.
Obligatory Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri [1] quote:

"Important? Yes! Critical? Absolutely. I would go so far as to say that Superconducting Fiber alone makes our present economy possible."

Just imaging what the changes in our world would be if even half of what's possible comes true.

[1] https://alphacentauri.fandom.com/wiki/Superconductor
This is very interesting. My experience at a large company migrating to GCP. The consultants and reps were 10x more eager to help us compared to AWS, and the migration went fairly smooth for most parts
If you're looking to try a Heinlein book, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is a fun novel about libertarian rebels overthrowing a penal colony on the moon. It tells a great and imaginative story and doesn't shy away from Heinlein's beliefs without letting them completely take over the narrative with ranting. I don't love Heinlein's politics but I can still appreciate his books, but then as a teen-aged white nerd I was kind of the target audience when I first read them.
Climate moves a lot slower.
You could find ways around that .. after all this is Hacker News.
Did they actually pay Netflix level? Either with huge cash salaries or very very large equity packages?
Interesting final point. It's like the business equivalent of NP-Complete problems, difficult to compute but easy to verify.

Can you give any examples of those types of problems you've encountered?
The bar may be lower but their risk aversion is just as high, so they're also doing 7 round interviews where a single 'meh' ends the process.
If that is true then it means they hired more people than they needed and then instead of admitting it they gave some nonsense about macro economics
This story is either fake or exaggerated, the number of roaches in xroach is constant, and there's a hard limit as they are statically allocated (I checked the original source code)
While I don't even get your point, most people aren't going to sideload anything. Just like pretty much no one sideloads anything on their Android phone. It's irrelevant.
Ultimately Texas A&M allowed Alonzo to keep her job after an internal investigation could not confirm any wrongdoing.

It's really not that hard to judge at all. They found no wrongdoing, and refust to even release what the purported problematic statements were. Their refusal to do so, and how that affects how you view the situation and whether it was warranted are exactly why it's problematic to behave like this in the first place and should be condemned.

Accusations should include some level of evidence. Public accusations should include some level of public evidence, otherwise what's the difference between slander or libel? If I called up your local police department and told them that harshreality is a pedophile, I wouldn't expect them to take any action other than to possibly quietly investigate if they thought it was credible, and if I supplied evidence, I'd expect them to verify that evidence before and public announcements or arrests, as I suspect you would and anyone would when accused of a heinous crime. To do otherwise is to allow the public to be swayed by innuendo rather than fact.

We should not condone behavior such as this.
I can't respond to arguments made, because I'm not a climate scientist, I just move pixels around in my day job. I don't know anything about climate simulations, the past and present literature, etc. In the same way I trust doctors when they say I need stuff cut out from my body, or that ingesting this or that would give me cancer, in the same way I trust people who study climate science for a living, that have a career in climate science and that have published in scientific journals. I'm not a superman, I can't learn every domain that is to learn for every study published. We have some people that study a thing -- we will trust them. And like wise, when people need pixels moved, they can come to me, they can trust me to move the pixels.
The lack of package signing and reproducible builds leaves a lot to be desired
Back in those days I had Northgate keyboards. Those were keyboards you could use to smash other keyboards to tiny bits and go right back to typing. But it's true, today you can get some pretty nice keyboards without having to try to retrofit a 30-year-old bit. And a much wider array of key types and layouts.
A command-line murder mystery (2014)
But remember that the Model M (and the F that it superceded, which was if anything even louder) was released into an environment where the default "keyboard" sound was that of a Selectric typewriter or Teletype unit! These weren't "quiet" devices by the standards of their day, but they certainly weren't seen as especially noisy.

Offices used to be very different places, acoustically.
Okay, do you want to make 100% of profit or loss on your portfolio of $1,000,000?

or do you want to make 1% of $100,000,000 win or lose, you still get paid every year?
Exactly where we're headed :)

Thank you for the kind words / reference
Yeah, the author has to resort to tone-policing because they have no good rebuttals for the criticism being received so they are trying to invalidate and dismiss said criticism due to its 'tone'.

What a lazy rhetorical device.
Ok, let me just add the obvious disclaimer: don't try this yourself unless you have a pretty good understanding of chemical lab safety.

Really.

It's more likely that you will contaminate your land, and possibly your neighbors land too than that you will manage to replicate it.
The controls are that if 4 years from now they decide that the servers need replacing after all and take a write-down then shareholders have a very solid case to sue the company.
Or maybe not anymore ...
The constant keeping in the loop of the Lt governor (Patrick) is disturbing on several levels. One, that students and faculty would tattle on a lecturer holding an adverse opinion of a politician in efforts to punish them, and two, that the LtGov actually cares enough to stay engaged.

For those not from Texas, know that Dan Patrick is one of the most despicable politicians in the country, and wields almost total power over what gets presented to the Texas legislature. As horrible as this story is, I am not surprised by his behavior.
As someone who has worked/is working on building LLM driven agents, this allegory basically reads to me like:

1. I ask a LLM for paperclips.
2. ~Magic happens~.
3. Humanity is doomed.

Even if a LLM was good enough to drive a system like this (current ones are not, by a long ways), there's a million reasons it would not and could not play out this way.
As of 2020 there was about 400 GW of installed UHV transmission in China now.

For comparison, Hoover Dam is about 2 GW.
Super cool!

What's the queue of things we'd like to do with a room temperature superconductor, and how might they affect my life?

[I'm not being sarcastic, genuinely curious]
Depends though. I want my $1500 setup for things other than VR, like 4K gaming. I bought the Index on pre-order because I was already using and abusing my Vive daily. I ended up only using the headset.
In no particular order

EXAPUNKS, Automation, Virtual Circuit Board, Turing Complete, ShenzenIO, among others.

That being said, I would rather use these problem solving skills in an actual product than a game that at least in theory will have some financial returns.
Advice from Steve Wozniak “Woz” on Starting a Startup (7 Min Video)
Has a car manufacturer ever lied about rated tow weights in recent memory? I genuinely don't see the incentive - it would just lead to crashes, warranty claims and eventually a class action lawsuit, or worse if deaths resulted. People rely on these numbers to drive safely.

14,000 lbs is absolutely within realms of normal/possible for a nearly 20 foot long 6000lb truck - its more or less exactly the same as high-spec Ford trucks.

It's almost a given one of the first things youtube is going do with a production Cybertruck is find something that weighs almost exactly 14000 lbs and try to tow it up and down the steepest inclines they can find.
> You cannot "patch" important parts of your OS (outside any zero days)

So basically you just need to stop updating OS for 2 weeks and grab a fresh vulnerability to bypass attestation?
MRI will get much cheaper, but you still need a good upper critical field and a proper access control (Zone 2/3/4) protocol. So probably not in very small buildings.
What kills me is seeing ads for boot camps talking about “tech jobs are booming in [your area]”. Yet I’ve had the fewest number of recruiter contact in my career ever, including when I was trying to break into the industry.

Not that I don’t expect the industry to be full of liars at this point, but it still losses me off when I see them.
Completely unrelated, but reading "FreeAgent" just now released a core memory for me of reading USENET in the 90s with the free version of Forte Agent. This site has the 16-color image that IIRC was the basis of the icon for Free Agent: http://www.diginfoserv.com/agent.html .. I think the icon was just zoomed in on the lady at the table?

edit: wow, of course there was a 16 bit version available:

> Agent is fully supported by the Agent Support Team and is available in 16 bit and 32 bit versions.
Read this, the doctor had only success if he combined multiple things together and has lab data showing no effect when either of them was taken separately:

https://xdrx.substack.com/p/how-i-recovered-from-long-covid-...

This could help your scientific brain a bit ;-)
Assuming you have Java installed. And it's on the path.

That may not sound like much, but it's the kind of thing that is incredibly hard to figure out if you don't know what the problem is. Command lines are kind of unforgiving. When something is missing, the errors are often unhelpful. And if your next crack at it doesn't work, you get the identical error.

Googling stackoverflow isn't going to help, either.

This isn't supposed to be a major challenge. But it can really throw off a beginner. And even an experienced developer will feel stupid to have to say, "Sure, I can program in 30 languages, but I don't know how to install the FooLang compiler."
Which aligns with the primary difference between Google and Amazon, customer service. Amazon is as good at service as Google is bad. If my memory serves me correct, Google had outsourced at least some of the GCP customer service to HP.
Agreed. The switches on Model M are loud as hell, and those big plastic cases they used on various vintage keebs give them a real growl you don't get on more modern cases that tend to be smaller and/or machined out of solid metals. I'm not an audio engineer, but seems like the cases act as a resonance chamber and give a really unique sound signature.
>I don't think company-sponsored social events are designed to exclude non-social types

They are particularly designed without a single thought given to "non-social" types.
Didn't Windows drop the POSIX APIs and then eventually introduce WSL instead?
If you have to let leave some apples without scaring the other ones, doing it while everybody else is doing it is a great chance
I've used mechanical switch keyboards in the past. I can't be sure whether the tendonosis I suffered from was caused by the keyboards or something else, but after cutting out other probable causes, going through course(s) of medication, and using wrist supports and splints I moved to a cheap wireless keyboard and mouse combo and all pain disapeared. I've fully embraced the wonderful mushy, smudgy goodness of my keyboard now.

Edit: am Emacs user.
I would guess that people who are addicted to it or whose job depends on it are not the majority of Twitter users.

I agree that even out of those groups, there are not a lot of people deleting accounts and moving to other places. But, my perception is that a lot of people are indeed spending much less time on Twitter. Twitter competitors are not only Mastodon or Threads. It is also YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Netflix and alikes, advocacy for consuming less social media overall, etc.
I have not yet employed an interview coach, but I suspect it would be helpful to have a frank evaluation. I have a pretty large online presence, perhaps it is negatively affecting my opportunities in ways that I do not see. Hmm.
The worst houses are owned by landlords that rent them to poor people.
Looks like it’s just another chrome wrapper.
Is it not possible to go back in 4 years and explain in 4 years that the market is more competitive than expected?
The headline put me in mind of a different memory I had of the campus BBS from undergraduate days, and then I clicked through and realized that the author was actually the admin of that BBS!

Anyway, in addition to the BBS there was also an IBM mainframe (?) running VM/SP that you could connect to, and somehow that was how you got to IRC.

One night several of us spent hours chatting on IRC, and the next day we got called into the campus computing service where it was patiently explained that some professor's overnight batch job running stats had failed because it was constantly being interrupted by interactive-priority jobs ... i.e., our chat sessions. Which we should now stop.

I remember writing a passionate open letter using my vague knowledge that had trickled out about "hacker culture" in places like Berkeley where students were surely right now exploring these new things called "Usenet" and "the Internet", arguing that even though we weren't doing anything fancy like running stats for an economics paper, and even though we didn't know what any of it would actually amount to, the important thing for our education was that we had the chance to experiment with it for ourselves...
Yeah, I agree, and that's one problem with focusing on what "intelligence" means: it kind of connotes, as you say, abstract or academic problems over practical shrewdness. (It doesn't have to have this restriction but people sure seem to take it that way a lot.)
Can anybody share resources how to setup a state of the art devcontainers locally? I've done it once per repository, but couldn't find a way to have "user" owned extensions/themes/settings automatically installed when the container starts (I'm talking about bits that each dev may want to customize).
The first year medical school student who started things is the daughter of a GOP state official, she didn't fall far from the tree despite wanting to be a doctor.
I don't see anything special in that video, you're using eddy currents to exert forces on a conductive material. It wasn't levitating.

Given the apparent size/strength of the magnets, you could probably replicate that with a silver coin
Looks like the number of employees increased from 174,014 to 181,798. This includes the 12,000 laid-off employees.
The word mark registers the word as a trademark.

The typographical and design treatment of the word can have separate trademark protection.

That can be true whether or not a design mark is registered.

If you started a car company called ‘Beep’ and write its name in olive green Helvetica Black, Jeep might struggle to make a case about your name’s similarity to their word mark (beep is a different word and rhyming is not a crime), but they for sure could take you to court for stealing their trade dress.
I mean, everyone knows that PPC is 95% of Google's revenue business. They could probably eject 80% of the company and the revenue trajectory would not change.
It sounds a lot easier to retype what you see rather than to create it.