skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High return investment opportunities are limited in number and amount of cash which can be deployed into them. As cash under management grows a higher percentage of it gets invested into lower return investment opportunities which are better than risk-free rate, reducing the overall performance of the fund (relative, not absolute).

Hypothetical: consider 100 startups each looking for $10m investment. One will return 10x while the others will return 1.5x. A fund with $50m invests in the 10xer and 4 1.5xers, total return is $160m, or 3.2x. A fund with $1,000m invests in all of them, total return is $1,585m, or 1.52x (the max absolute return). Also an incentive issue; suppose the $1,000m fund missed the 10x and instead only made 99 investments, total return is still $1,495m, or 1.495x - very close to max possible in this scenario.

Not really fair to compare performance between funds with such dramatic differences in cash under management IMO.
It’s worse: https://prospect.org/power/monopoly-misrepresentation-and-ma...
A cheaper alternative energy would reduce usage of fossil fuels even if they became cheaper.

I agree that a single technological breakthrough is unlikely to solve climate change. It will require many. I am simply pointing out that it is incorrect to say that the only solution is a global cartel to make fossil fuels much more expensive.
> I’ve switched industries twice in my life to the tune of nearly a third a million in student loan debt.

And you're actually suggesting this as a solution to others? That they lose years of income and take on $300k in non-dischargeable debt because their employer acted like a dick, in the vain hope that with this new degree, their new employers won't? Sorry, but "just spend years and take on $300k in student loan debt like I did" is just not compelling advice.

> the actual strength of some people’s personal convictions matches the strength of the convictions you pretend to have online

You're significantly upping the "personal attack" game here. You could just as easily say that I am the one with strong convictions, continuing to work at a company that treats its employees like shit because I actually do believe in the work that I'm doing there.

> It’s strange that the people who tell you how difficult something is are almost always people who haven’t done it

It's strange to you that the people who claim something is difficult are the ones who haven't been able to do it?

> Tell me, when’s the last time you swung a hammer or pulled unemployment benefits?

Not interested in a hard-knocks pissing contest. I assumed you wouldn't spend $300k in a game of Musical Diplomas in the hope of avoiding being treated the way most people in the U.S. are treated by most companies unless you had a significant safety net. I'm not sure what you're trying to prove by saying: no, you added it onto an already difficult life. My point is that this is not good advice.
People can ignore idiot colleagues. It's harder to ignore idiot bosses.

Ergo, people bitch more about bosses than colleagues, even though there are bad examples of both.
Some sort of fight I think, the details of which have long vanished into irrelevancy. Though it was not as if it were a light bulb that was switched off. It was a long road to that junction in my life.

Do you remember your first words that you spoke or the first steps you took as a toddler? Or has speech and stride been just a part of your life since a time beyond your first memories?

To me, the idea of ending my own life has always been there, as constant as the sun rising in the east. There may have been a time when it wasn't so, but I cannot find it anymore. Because of this were were half hearted attempts both before and after; a sliced wrist here, a sloppy noose there. The one was the critical one. The one who's cause was nothing more then a piece of straw that broke the camel's back. But it broke nonetheless.

The rest as they say, is history.
A magical unicorn is about as likely as convincing the world, including poor countries, to make fossil fuels more expensive on a global basis.
Odigos – Language Agnostic Auto-Instrumentation
I think doing any math on this number has issues when you consider Apple is sitting on 60+ billion in cash.
infinite captchas
What's the argument that AND is less complex than NAND? It's true that NAND has completeness and AND doesn't, but so what? What you can build from something is not a measure of how complex it is. You measure complexity in terms of what it takes to describe something.
Perhaps I’m misinterpreting, but the article seems to claim Milanovitch cycles are based on eccentricity only instead of “ variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession.” [0] That precession is more prominent seems to refine not repudiate Milanovitch.

A fun factlet is that precession is the artistic topic of a sculpture at the Hoover Dam:

While Polaris is our North Star, Hansen’s terrazzo floor points out that the North Star of the ancient Egyptians, as they built the great pyramids, was Thuban. And in about 12,000 years, our North Star will be Vega. [1]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles

1. https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/the-26-000-year-a...
> Did you consider just making an array of HashMap, say 512 of them, and locking only one of them based on your key's hash?

A disadvantage of that approach is that even without any lock contention you would still have two writes to memory for every lock acquisition.
Weird, I swear I had a recruitment email from amazon before the pandemic highlighting that this team was doing 4 day weeks with only 2 days in the office.
I don't actually think either of those things are all that hard, certainly it's a gray area until this actually happens but I think AI generation is not all that different from any other copyright situation. Even with regular copyright cases you don't need to prove "how" the copying occurred to show copyright infringement, rather you just have to show that it's the likely explanation (to the level of some standard). Point being, you potentially don't need to prove anything about the AI training as long as you can show that the AI's result is clearly identifiable as your work and is extremely unlikely to be generated any other way.

Ex. CoPilot can insert whole blocks of code with comments and variable names from copyrighted code, if those aspects are sufficiently unique then it's extremely unlikely to be produced any way other than coming from your code. If the code isn't a perfect copy then it's trickier, but that's also the case if I copy your code and remove all the comments, so it's still not all that different from the current status quo.

The bigger question is who gets sued, but I can't imagine any AI company actually making claims about the copyright status of the output of their AI, so it's probably on you for using it.
Microsoft Infuses AI with Human-Like Reasoning via an “Algorithm of Thoughts”
If the business is doing very well, why not just raise prices? Most restaurants simply don't scale or lose alot when they do. They are great because it's the team and leadership that work there that makes it awesome. Not every single restaurant has to become the next franchise in order to be considered a success.
I think this is the more comprehensive long-term dataset:

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/extended-reconstructed-ss...

Note also the most reliable data on this is probably from the Argo floats, there are about 4000 of them deployed globally (collected data besides SST, such as mixed-layer depth, salinity etc.), since 2000:

https://argo.ucsd.edu/about/status/
I know, the food is so good here and hard to give up. It's the biggest thing we notice when visiting home.
Pretty sure I know an org that has baa with OpenAI directly. Agree that azure is more straightforward (and what I did at my startup).
Having gone last year for the first time in my life and at very high financial costs, I can tell you that blocking the path near the end of my massive journey from Philadelphia to Black Rock City would not arouse any sympathy to their cause. I don't care what the cause is. I was already livid by the time I crossed where it appears the protestors sat because of all the other things that I couldn't find anyone to blame on.

This whole blocking traffic protest trend only arouses hatred to both the protestors and their cause in all instances and it is not something Gandhi or MLK did because there is nothing linking what their method of protest to what they say they want to achieve. Protestors did it in Philadelphia, too, to protest some nazi-sympathizing group speaking and all it did is make every inconvenienced driver that learned what happened much more nazi-sympathetic. That's how it works. That's why you don't hear about famous non-violent icons doing this crap.
This self taught Mexican genius had an amusing description of ML languages.

You look at the code and go what? Then you cock your head and it's still what. And then you turn your head sideways and suddenly it makes sense. Then you look at code in another language and go what?
In United Kingdom it's even recommend.
Disagree and commit is a leadership principle at Amazon. That’s why he used those words.
Just to add to this:
It's my observation as a layman (not a linguist) that over the past half-century, commas seem to have gone out of vogue for some strange reason, so a lot of contemporary English writing has become much more difficult to parse as a result. This line we're discussing here is a great example of this.
Link to Google Fi settings where you can opt out: https://fi.google.com/account?pli=1#settings/privacy
> Seems net income per employee is only ~$120,000, though.

Isn't that _after_ they paid the employees though?
Your observation highlights the complexities of legal actions related to AI-generated content. Proving the exact source of a specific piece of content from a language model like the one I'm based on can indeed be challenging, especially when considering that training data is a mixture of publicly available information. Additionally, the evolving nature of AI technology and the lack of clear legal precedents in many jurisdictions further complicate the matter. However, legal interpretations may vary, and it's advisable for any legal proceedings to involve legal experts well-versed in both AI technology and intellectual property law. Also, check out AC football cases.
>Cozy abode on the web.
127.0.0.1

Didn’t work, have no idea what’s going on, maybe some description how to play would help.
I don't understand why everyone is saying this is illegal unless they are just not reading past §64.2003(k) as (l) provides for a the opt-out method, and §64.2007(b) is clear the providers can use either:

>§64.2003(l) Opt-out approval. The term “opt-out approval” refers to a method for obtaining customer consent to use, disclose, or permit access to the customer's CPNI. Under this approval method, a customer is deemed to have consented to the use, disclosure, or access to the customer's CPNI if the customer has failed to object thereto within the waiting period described in § 64.2008(d)(1) after the customer is provided appropriate notification of the carrier's request for consent consistent with the rules in this subpart.

>§64.2007(b)(b) Use of opt-out and opt-in approval processes. A telecommunications carrier may, subject to opt-out approval or opt-in approval, use its customer's individually identifiable CPNI for the purpose of marketing communications-related services to that customer. A telecommunications carrier may, subject to opt-out approval or opt-in approval, disclose its customer's individually identifiable CPNI, for the purpose of marketing communications-related services to that customer, to its agents and its affiliates that provide communications-related services.

Don't get me wrong, I think this is pretty shitty, and I already opted out, but everyone in this thread saying it's illegal needs to brush up on how to read the law.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2018-title47-vol3/xm...
In small groups where decisions must be made in a timely and decisive manner, a mediocre leader is often better than the best democratic committee. Even in programming teams, somebody needs to put their foot down eventually or things will be bikeshedded to death. FOSS projects too, generally benefit from a BDFL.

Be careful about extrapolating this out to the rule of countries though, dictatorships can make things go south worse than any other system. At least with FOSS projects, people can fork without fleeing their homes.
Heata is now using servers to heat water for homes
Sometimes they do raise prices, sometimes it'll scale to at least an expanded set of tables next door, and rarely they'll just let the line get really long (usually cash-only ramen shops). Unless the restaurant benefits from exclusivity, it's usually more profitable to expand if the owners are capable of managing that.
Common Lisp has complex numbers: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/numbers.html#comp...

Is stack-free function calling equivalent to tail call optimization? If so, then many CL implementations support it, including SBCL. For Scheme, it’s part of the standard.
It's not logical, because how can the company prove that could never happen from 80,000 employees writing things?

i.e. Without ChatGPT an employee could still copy and paste something from somewhere. ChatGPT actually doesn't change the equation at all.
Increase value for the shareholders taken to it's logical extreme. Just gotta increase the perceived value to the potential bagholders so the current bagholders can wipe themselves clean.
This has been on the frontpage half a dozen times over the years. I don't entirely understand why, because it's not a novel game to start with, and based on the earlier HN threads even the implementation had been ripped off uncredited.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12937367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13116845

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16459508

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24050651

(That's just the ones with multiple comments. The submission history for this looks incredibly spammy.)
I went last year and if there were any truth their "wild orgies" claim, I assure you I'd be going again this year.
Not hi-trust afaik, but they will do hipaa eligible baa with select customers. As sister comment says, it’s easier to go through azure and you get basically the gamut of azure compliance certs for free.
In graph theory, a planar graph is a graph that can be embedded in the plane, i.e., it can be drawn on the plane in such a way that its edges intersect only at their endpoints.
Actually, I'm curious as to why someone would buy a Roku tv and not hook it up to the internet?
Just curious, do they have bans on "traditional" online sources like Google search results, Wikipedia, and Stack Overflow?

From my view, copying information from Google search results isn't that much different from copying the response from ChatGPT.

Notably Stack Overflow's license is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, which I believe very people actually realize when copying snippets from there.
I really don't feel Apple is a good company, but compared to Google, wow. What happened to don't be evil?
> milestone for USC researchers whose stem cell patch is under development to treat advanced dry age-related macular degeneration

Teaching human bodies how to regenerate lost / damaged bits is definitely cool.
I would agree with you that an NFT in itself does not constitute a security. An NFT as it was actually used by crypto people is a different story, though. And I would say that the "NFT as a pre-investment in a project" is the norm, not the exception in that regard.
https://archive.vn/lTQp2
I’ve been using Fig since the beta days and I love it. I’m sure there will be some changes but at least they didn’t sell to Google. Congrats to Brendan and the team.
> it's just that a lot of its stable-states are hostile to ~~human~~ life

FTFY. We humans are part of nature too.
Not anymore. I can't imagine what media doesn't have a free type of publisher (Youtube for videos, Amazon or Lulu for text, itch.io for games, Github for software, play store for apps, etc), and getting traction is as easy as a Reddit/HN post.

If your content is good, it takes 5 minutes to get it to the entire world for free.
versus the status quo, where it's not about what you can do, but making the owner like you?
Is it really novel to you that a more modern system is based on powers of 10 for ease of use? Were you just as mad when you discovered Egyptians used hieroglyphics as their method of writing?

I don't understand this feigned "outrage".
Show HN: With each 'thank you,' bonds form, friendships renew
Carriers can only use opt-out consent for a limited subset of the actions that they can use opt-in consent for. The actions that they say they plan to take do not fall under this subset. See § 64.2005.
Advice from Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++ [video]
Seems likely and there's good correlation. I guess the previous theory about CO2 being involved was wrong.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-the-rise-and-fall-...
This is it an either/or: you can find the problem libraries and submit the work back upstream so you don’t have to maintain it. Then, for the upstream that don’t cooperate, fork temporarily until you find an alternative.
If you're ok with single writer as a constraint, hazard pointers get you similar read availability at the cost of maybe more expensive writes (and similar 2x memory overhead so long as the read sections are relatively short).
> What about asking the OS for the list of changes like Everything on Windows does

That's not, the last time I checked, how everything on Windows works.

Windows provides the ability to hook into FS system calls, so that things like virus scanners work.

Everything uses the hook to get notified of all changes, and uses those mods simply to update its index (which is faster than scanning a file for viruses, so it's imperceptible to users).

It's a great idea, and I don't think there is anything similar in Linux or BSD (inotify isn't the same thing, AFAIK, it uses up file descriptors).
You don’t need to have touch it to see. Just browse this thread. A big one mentioned is over promising, which is pretty interpretive for a language only on version 0.4 of its development cycle. Most other complaints are slight variations of this. Promising magic performance or magic features without a good explanation, is another variation. This would be well and good for a fully released language, which this is not. All that tells me is the creator is overly ambitious for their own good and possibly naive, which I hardly classify as a sin.

Whenever this topic comes up I’m at a loss to understand why anyone would waste so much energy mud slinging over some personal language project. It only makes sense if it’s become a hate meme. My pocket word for an event that’s a sort of social singularity. It occurs when enough popular voices have directed the entirety of a community to shame a target based on some perceived wrong, real or otherwise.

Wherever it comes up I’m pretty taken aback by how tribal and ego focused we can be, even among the smartest of us. And that thought isn’t meant be taken as condescending. After all, we’re only human. And for a larger span of human history, that word has meant “hairless ape” more than anything else.
It isn't. We can't build anything big and complicated without costs spiraling out of control. You're going to have to fundamentally change our management approach in this country to get cheap nuclear.
Since they’re subsidized by all the spyware/services they’re cheap.

So people buy them, even people who (like many ok HN) hate “smart TVs” and intend to only use it as a monitor for an Apple TV, Chromecast, cable box, etc.
When I worked at EA it felt so weird to be talking at the office about how cool some mod projects were while simultaneously being forced to implement features specifically designed to make modding much harder.
I've gotta ask... how many people are paying 8 bucks to read a free book?
> He said salary and contractor rates have fallen by an average of 10 per cent to 15 per cent compared to 12 months ago. “The high salaries that occurred in the post-pandemic boom of tech for permanent and contract employees were not sustainable and employers are now looking to reduce costs,” Mr Munson said.

Lol, so it went up 10-15%, almost matching 2 years inflation, and then it dropped. And that was unsustainable?
Related ongoing threads:

Lfortran: Modern interactive LLVM-based Fortran compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37295144 - Aug 2023 (49 comments)

Fortran - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37291504 - Aug 2023 (209 comments)
As sympathetic as I am to these, at its best these make no impact to overall CO2 numbers in the time we need.

At its worst its propoganda to convince people its ok to keep buying things and living as they currently do as the rich abscond with the profits.

If I were you I would be extremely suspicious of media that promotes these kind of tepid measures as effective.
Is it that typing javascript into computers is the source of all knowledge, or does knowledge lead to typing javascript into computers?

Man may never know.
80 years ago vast swaths of the world sent a generation of their young people off to Europe and Asia to die for the sake of political alliances. Killing all those people was extremely expensive.

When did we become such losers?
More like plenty of spam comes from correctly configured servers.
It's off-topic based on current rules, but if people completely stop complaining about it, the rules will never change. And maybe they should. See this is a form of civil disobedience!
EA has quietly condoned tons of modding projects in the past. Command and Conquer: Generals had a massive modding community and EA allowed them carte blanche, as long as it didn't allow piracy.

I mean, I know "urggh, EA" and they're the big bad and all. And I have plenty of reasons to hate them, but this just sounds like a kneejerk response.
I've wondered whether or not longer term this will have a cooling effect because as the atmosphere clears up, shouldn't clouds become more reflective therefore having a cooling effect?

A whiter cloud not reflect more sunlight back into space?
I don't see how any of your points don't apply to 'having shareholders' equally.

A board management can elect a leader/ceo/dictator if they wanted (and from the sounds of it probably should).

Just like having a company run directly by shareholders is probably a bad idea.

Having a company that is 100% Owned by the same people that it employs does not make a decision on how it's run, it just aligns workers and shareholder interests completely.
Ask HN: Is finding a dev job getting difficult in 2023?
Hello HN,

Why finding a job in 2023 getting hard. I remember two years ago you would apply for a job and hear back within a week but nowadays you don’t even hear back
Disappointing to see Wired uncritically repeat Meta's deceptive marketing. Llama 2 is not open source because it does not allow unrestricted use. In addition to the "Acceptable Use Policy" and the "700 million users" restriction mentioned in the article, Meta also does not allow any user to use Llama 2 to improve other LLMs, which is another usage restriction that prevents Llama 2 from being open source:

> v. You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Llama 2 or derivative works thereof).

https://ai.meta.com/llama/license/

On the other hand, Ars Technica correctly saw through Meta's deceptive marketing to discern that, despite Meta branding Llama 2 as "open source", Llama 2 is only source-available: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/meta-...
Easier to make 1 person happy than 50.
One of the books linked within is interesting

https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-David-Halberstam-ebook/dp/B...

I read it some years ago, and its very very interesting.
What are some examples of fields in the theory of software engineering?