skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a coworker a few years ago who worked ONLY on his laptop. No monitors. No keyboard. No mouse. He programmed all day on a 13" Macbook Pro.

I will never understand it because I absolutely hate having full screen windows and I am almost worthless working off my laptop when traveling. Just lots of frustration juggling windows back and forth. I always have 2 or 3 apps side by side on my 48" and I have a 28" 16:18 DualUp monitor next to it for long text/dev.

I didn't work with him so I don't know how productive he actually was but I've always been curious if he kept up with the people who had 2-3 monitors and input devices. I have a hard time believing that he did but no actual idea.
Yes, I've been using GPT2 for quite a while before, but ChatGPT as an app really did feel like an overnight success.
The sentiment is pretty spot on, the reasoning not so much.

EDIT: don't read this more than once. It gets more disgusting with each pass.
To be honest, three-tenths of a second per page load just doesn’t matter very much to me. Logging in and out all the time will take much longer.
It's tough. I had an excellent colo provider that gave a nice discount because of all the open source stuff my servers do, that didn't have me go through layers of trained monkeys to communicate with someone technical, that communicated well through email rather than through billing. Unfortunately, they closed very recently and I'm just now looking for a new home for that collection of servers.

Another colo I wish I could still recommend is Turnkey Internet (http://www.turnkeyinternet.com). They were a smaller facility - quite literally - where everyone was friendly and personable, with no fuss, no issues, and very good pricing. They've now been bought by ColoHouse, and I have no idea how that will affect things there.

If the acquisition hasn't changed the people and practices in their Latham, NY facility, then I'd recommend them.

I'm interested to check out some of the recommendations here for my own machines :)

On another note, it is interesting to see how many people go out of their way to try to discourage colocation in favor of renting / using service providers. I've always believed that movement to be successful marketing, both to make money for the large providers, and if you're the conspiratorial type, perhaps to make as much data as possible accessible to government TLA agencies. But why do people think it's OK to answer someone's question with, "don't do that, because I have an opinion about something I've never done"? Hmmm...
I think this comment deserves to be read more widely. It always seems all around the world that the three letter agencies are trying very hard to convince people to spy more and I have often wondered where the justification comes from internally and if they have any debate inside.

Self selection would be one example. To be fair, when I once had a beer with someone who worked in that area before coming to academia she basically said you could work out how many intelligence officers a country had, and realise that given the amount of time effort and money it takes to properly surveil someone they were limited to a small multiple of that number of people to spy on "properly". I felt reassured by that. I can also see it being a justification for RoboCop.
I found that https://endel.io/ worked better for me than brain.fm. YMMV of course, but it's worth a try if brain.fm isn't your jam.
No?

Coal fires are pretty obvious.

Acid rain is pretty obvious (and easy to measure with ph strips, which are easy to find).

Nasty smog is pretty obvious.

Plumes of gunk from smoke stacks are obvious.

Now, co2 and fine particulate contamination (like say radioactive contamination from ash), yes. Those take decades to be noticable (if at all). There have been big issues because of it, statistically. But those are not well known/accepted either by the public. And certainly not the most common 'acute' problems.

Something like a release of radiation from a nuclear power plant can (and usually is), completely invisible. As is things like ingesting fallout. It usually kills years or decades later.

If you can see radiation, you're pretty much a dead man walking already.

A reactor melting down is a sudden acute incident that can release massive amounts of completely invisible radioactive elements that won't kill anyone for decades - or in weeks/months, if really bad.

By the time something has obviously gone wrong from the outside (like the core blowing up in Chernobyl, or the reactor building blowing up due to Hydrogen explosion in Fukushima), massive releases are essentially guaranteed. But still usually invisible. Cherenkov radiation 'sky beam' from chernobyl excepted. [https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1142309/Chernobyl-dis...]

And with a little avoidance, a lethal dose might be easy to not have! If you have good data. Without good data, it's a crap shoot though.
I used Bard to figure out what the life expectancy would be for someone like me who's an older, but otherwise "typical" HN-er and the result was 84 years, thus corroborating your point.
That's fair, yes. At the same time when the process takes long enough, it's hard to retain any sense of ownership by the end. Exhaustion is more like it.
For better or worse, I think Wayland is here to stay and that's where all the development is going.
grammatically you'd capitalize Great Spotted Woodpecker, and similarly if speaking of all apples as a category, Apple should form a proper noun
I then had ChatGPT write a script that combines all files in to a single txt-file keeping the layout.

Mind sharing?
The God of War
Good. Now sell it for ~$6k and maybe I’ll consider buying one.

Meanwhile, I’m sticking to used cars.
We did a full body burial at see for a friend a couple years ago.

The body is not embalmed. They are wrapped in a biodegradable burial shroud. Then, you take them on a boat and head toward open ocean (for about 2 hours). Then strap 600lbs of rocks to the body and toss it over board. They said the body is just a skeleton within about 6 months.

The whole thing cost $10k. This included body transport, preparation, boat/crew, and a catered meal during the ride back to shore. It was a really beautiful way to say goodbye to a friend, and a very eco friendly option that I don't think most people are aware of.
A+ quality rant. Some of thes are 'out there' and indulge in compositional fallacies, but I agree with the sentiment – and it can all be mapped backed to the attitudes of the robber barons of yore.

I don't think it's conspiracy so much as emergent though; an ideological slope that you can't help but fall down given the way incentives are aligned in SV and big business writ large.
Anyone noticed how they wash and rinse behind bars? It can be terrifying. The ones that don't use industrial dishwashers (bad as we're learning here) also just do a rapid sub 1 second dip into one sink with detergent chemicals, a sub 1 second dip onto a second water sink, and then upside down it goes on the shelf, ready to be reused.

How naive was I to think it's both cleaning well and not leaving dangerous chemicals as residue to mix onto a water or beer.
I could buy this bullshit if gamedev was better paid than average IT job. But it's underpaid and overworked comparatively and has less women. So I highly doubt it's because of patriarchy and sexism ;)
Playground fights are almost as old as playgrounds themselves.
Here we can see, what Google thinks such things are worth. Next time we see an anti-trust case or other case that touches this matter, we can conclude an appropriate height of a fine for Google to pay.
Seems like a different use case. This tool is very helpful when you know what the symbol looks like but you don’t have an example sitting in front of you.
> Why? Imagine a world where big tech was cool with remote workers. They would be able to out-pay and acquire all the best talent, everywhere.

Assuming this is true (which I think is very much in doubt), then it indicates there is a much bigger systemic problem that needs to be dealt with: namely, big tech functioning as essentially the landlords of the Internet and skimming profit off of everything that happens there.

No one sector of the economy should have this much influence. Certainly no group this small of companies this large should have this much power over anything.

Any time you find yourself saying, "Well, yes; this change should make life better for tens (or hundreds) of millions of people, but if we make it, this group of people over here will be able to take advantage of it to enrich themselves at everyone else's expense," I strongly recommend taking a look at that group of people over there and considering whether they should have that ability, and if not, how you might be able to change that. (And if so, why, exactly, you think anyone should have that ability.)
Now that you're mentioning that, why doesn't the default calculator app on a phone have prominent functionality for that, it's so useful in everyday life.
Yeah, you handwave some of the most visible and effective unions in the United States (SAG-AFTRA, WGA), you're also ignoring education unions, healthcare unions, and many other careers where pay is not just about seniority, but also education, certification, specialization, and other factors.

Even unions in industries with legitimately undifferentiated labor will have shift differentials built into their contracts.
Oof, the pre-filled email they send has a typo:

> I implore you not to support any attempts to renew Section 702 of FISA without major reforms that project privacy

I assume that should be "protect" privacy, not "project"...
Poker has taught me so many things about life that I probably never would have learned otherwise. Yes, it’s gambling and there is a random element, but it’s a strategy game played in the currency of the world in which it is set. This has wide philosophical implications far beyond the poker table.

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Put it on my tombstone: “he got it in good”.
Show HN: Minimal nextjs starter which handles auth, stripe, emails, forms
I built this starter to save hours of time fighting authentication, building auth components, social login, managing stripe subscriptions, form validation, sending emails.

I am looking to add lot more features going forward
While I agree in the macro perspective, the micro perspective shows a different picture. There is no need for a company to be all-in in one way or the other, but smaller units, eg. teams, should coordinate when they are remote and when on-site. Like a senior dev once told my young and unexperienced self: "If one is remote, we are all remote". Meetings with 3 people at a table and 3 remote are miserable. You are better off being completely remote, even if this is worse than all on-site. I have yet to see a remote meeting that offers the same bandwidth as a face-to-face on-site meeting.

That being said, Amazon is stupid for punishing people for WFH.
China Claims Fastest Internet with 1.2 Terabit-per-Second Network
Worth noting that the GPTs feature in ChatGPT and the Assistants feature in the developer Playground are entirely separate things, which is really confusing because they have almost exactly the same set of features.
time is base 12 or 60, ounces are base 16, feet back to 12, but miles are base 5,280
What about the word conspiracy makes all conspiracies false? This is yalls logical fallacy

“Guy fawkes is about to destroy Westminster palace!”

“Tinfoil hats”
> > believing in the truths of science is unavoidably an act of faith.

The purpose of science isn't to establish truth, it is to find the mostly likely hypotheses to explain natural phenomena (or the hypotheses most unlikely to be false).

I think that is the real difference between a religious statement and a scientific explanation: the former is a statement about truth, the latter a hypothesis that could be refined based on further evidence.
It’s hard for me to read this kind of article because I share the author’s frustration on the one hand, and can’t help but feel he is making a spurious comparison on the other. Silicon Valley isn’t a person. If you take any sufficiently large group of people, the mass behavior will appear as a personality disorder insofar as there is a plurality of personalities involved.

If you want another example, look no further than hacker news.
Did you not read about all the visual and social interruptions they talked about? Noise-cancelling for your eyes is called a blindfold.
I don't have ADHD but I also get destroyed by meetings. I'm not sure if it's the fact that I was in a deep flow just before the meeting and it was near impossible to fully disconnect and actually be present or that I felt the meeting itself was a waste of time and the realisation I just clocked in 1hr of unproductive work. Often it's a combination of both and it can be quite distressing mentally.

Regardless I would never allow myself to browse anything not work related when I'm actually working (i.e. twitter, reddit) even when I'm "destroyed". I think cutting the unproductive crap out completely when working and trying to find more healthy coping mechanisms is far better.
It's going to take time, but momentum is seriously starting to build up now. Laptop market going to pick up with Snapdragon X and cloud providers are going to continue with more powerful designs.
Bethesda, MD and the surrounding areas, please stand up.
Shortcuts 100% exist.

Imagine another physical problem. Simulating a sand grain and how it bounces off other sand grains or lodges against them. If you wanted to simulate a sand mountain, you could use a massive amount of compute and predict the location and behaviour of every single grain.

Or, you could take a bunch of well-known shortcuts and just know that sand sits in a heap at the angle-of-repose. That angle decides how steep the mountain will be. any steeper and it will tumble till it's at that angle.

Suddenly, the computation is dramatically reduced, and you get pretty much the same result.
On the contrary, as a stupid American, I'm grateful for the imperial system because it doesn't require much thinking at all.

The intuitiveness of the imperial units actually don't demand much thinking from my American pea brain: an inch is about the width of my thumb, a pound is about the weight of how much meat/grain I can fit in my hands, a mile is about a thousand paces - it's actually quite simple and intuitive, which is perfect for a dumb stupid American like me.

I can't imagine doing something like woodworking without my brainlet system. Inches are a nice "bite-size" unit that fractionates quite nicely for cutting wood. They don't make me think too much. In metric, my thumb would be about 2.53 centimeters, the kerf of my saw is 1/8 an inch, and that's like 253/800cm as a fraction - yikes! An inch is a good whole number to start working from.

And then like - what's a centimeter even? It's one hundredth of one ten-millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the Equator passing through Paris. Woah - get me outta here! That's just too much numerology for me. And my brain can't relate to or conceptualize that. Again, because I'm just so stupid, and American. I have to stick to the simple stuff: thumb -> inch, pound -> fits in my hands, mile -> thousand paces, gallon -> 10 pounds of water.
You're allowed to have a first impression that's "stupid and wrong". That's why it's called a first impression.

When you say "wrong assumption" what do you mean?
> What am I supposed to do ??

You're supposed to "growth hack" AKA post on popular subreddits, forums and sites pretending to be a casual user (or use bots) that links to the site while talking about how great it is.
The old Sam Huntington cultural determinism nonsense…
Is there any interesting theorem or result from l-functions or modular forms that covers this result?

I am learning about them and I find the topic fascinating.

I discovered them watching https://www.peakmath.org/quest-for-f1 videos on youtube.
Also worth exploring: http://lmfdb.org
The girl is lucky to be alive, because pit bulls are a dangerous breed that often refuses to stop attacking - they are specifically known for that behavior, as they were bred to be fighting dogs. Putting down a pit bull after it bites a child is absolutely reasonable.
When WASM has direct access to the dom, everything will change.
It becomes more applicable, not just as applicable.
> Amazon announced theirs last year

Inferentia (inf1) was GA'ed in December 2019 so it's actually
almost 4 years old now. The trainium (trn1) chips and the Inferentia 2 (inf2) refresh is indeed 1 year old though.
Having seen some submissions from various LEOs ( non-FISA stuff mind ), I have zero problem accepting the premise that the government is not that selective. Fishing expedition concept exists for a reason.
That's simply an incompatibility in choice of partner. Some people want a stable financial life, with steady slow growth, and long-term planning where the trendline doesn't deviate from the projected growth.

Others want to take a shot at the moon, and financial failure in this shape is just part of the deal. If you're in the latter category and you want to pursue that but your wife is in the former category there is going to be some strife. You can't give them the certainty they desire. Someone who is expecting the success case isn't really ready for this when they're considering framing post-its after your successful IPO.

As an example, I think most partners of founders I know are easier to talk to. It's not that they're all rah-rah "you're gonna do it!". It's just that you need support and a team. Someone to run ideas by who's a friend. And if you're married to the right person, that's your wife.
I think it's a mistake to assume that there is just one SV ideology. Of course there are multiple. In the 'Personality Disorder' section, the author switches to talking about CEOS, but (a) are those really the only people who matter to such a discussion? and (b) to the degree that they're true of any group, are those traits often also true of CEOs in non-tech/SV companies?

I think there are a lot of really valid critiques of tactics, companies, and people in SV, but painting with such a broad brush obscures important details.
> Steam deck in the bedroom

> watching starwars with the wife... in the bedroom

What's messed up about this?

> terrible startup ideas

I mean... aren't those the vast majority of startup ideas?

Agree about pit bull though. That part was wild.
https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/training-on-tpu-pods
TSMC manufacture (more or less) all of them. There's very few companies in the world capable of manufacturing high performance chips.
Different cultivars that grow and yield at different rates can help some too.
People already take random posters on social media as unchecked truth, yeah it's going to get much worse.
If they acknowledge there is even a problem, then they are liable for that problem.
Agreed and part of why I'm a career long SysAdmin is I like to tinker. :)
Thank you for noprocrast feature. :)

I wanted to do pomodoro - so I ended up writing a pomodoro python app. :(

I wanted to build some games - so I ended up writing a programming language.

I wanted to create a 3d design for a cyberdeck - wrote a python library to codegen.

ADHD == Yakshaving on steroids.
As I have gained experience as a developer using the right tool for the right job becomes paramount. And the lazy answer can be much better than some incomprehensible mess of ideas.
I suspect that this is where all inference processors are heading eventually. The benefits are just too great when exact computation is not required.

Training might be harder to implement.
I don't think that's quite where we're at. I think we're converging somewhere more "like the robotic tasks that a human does". What I want from ChatGPT is bullet point facts, or short summaries. With multi-agents, I want it to do calculations or pull on detailed data that I don't want to have to search for myself. With robotics, we want warehouse workers and fruit-pickers.

Humans speak to each other in allegory, with using tales that have twists and turns to generate emotions etc. It's as much an art to generate and maintain bonds as it is a method to convey facts. When I speak to my friends, often they start with something like "you'll never guess what happened this morning", and then tell me a 20 minute long story about how they spilled their coffee in the coffee shop. I would stop using ChatGPT if the responses were like that.
Besides the actual hardware, I think the biggest problem is the software implementation of trackpads in Linux (at least in libinput/Wayland). Even running Linux on my Macbook, the trackpad experience is vastly inferior to macOS.

I don't care too much about gestures, but mostly about stable palm rejection and proper acceleration curves. The current implementations sadly provide neither.
Does Apple do it?

They don't seem to be on the forefront of the AI train at all. They haven't been building AI products the way Google and Microsoft have been. Siri has been stuck for a long time.

When I think of Apple, I think of a lot of things, but AI is not on that list.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, the article. The author makes herself and her subject sound absolutely insufferable, doing neither of them any favors.

Kind of a sad commentary on the tech industry and its orbiters, really.
I wonder what the juice smells like afterwards?

Also it’d be cool to have the option to keep the bones without grinding.
According to OpenAI, they only harvest data coming from ChatGPT (their app), but not from third parties using the OpenAI API.

> How we use your data. Your data is your data. As of March 1, 2023, data sent to the OpenAI API will not be used to train or improve OpenAI models (unless you explicitly opt in).

> Note that this data policy does not apply to OpenAI's non-API consumer services like ChatGPT or DALL·E Labs.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/how-we-use-your-data
The thing I really want to get working is citations. When it answers a question using RAG I want control over the citation that is displayed - ideally I'd like to be able t o get that to link to an external website (the site that I built the context document from.)

Here's a screenshot illustrating what I mean: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1721912151147979152
I tried WASM in an FPS and I have to say, I'm not a fan of reaching across half the keyboard when I need to slide right. ;)

Edit: looks like someone's sense of humor was taken out to a shed and shot. You enjoy that.
Seems like a very bad reason to switch. Data engineering is different (and much worse than SWE in my opinion), and it's not like you're certain that you can avoid LC interviews if you try to switch.
I know that the use-case that I mentioned as well as many of the agentive aspects can be achieved using code.
But I have to admit that using the UI and easily create GPTs, whether using them just as templates/personas or full-featured with actions/plugins, makes the use-case much easier, faster, and sharable. I can just @ at specific GPT to do something.
Take the use-case that Simon mentions in his blog post, Dejargonizer, I can have a research GPT that helps with reviewin papers and I can @Dejargonizer to quickly explain a specific term, before resuming the discussion with the research GPT.

Maybe this would require additional research, but I think having a single GPT with access to all tools might be slower and less optimal, especially if the user knows exactly what they need for a given task and can reach for that quickly.
Sounds like an opportunity for hardware startups.