skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has zero mention of the quality of work. If you don't want to work for MS or Amazon Seattle probably doesn't look as good.

Hardly scientific but I tend to think each city seems to have attracted different kinds of companies, and not all of us are as interested in working for some types of companies as others. Personally I'd rather avoid anything to do with social media, advertising, online shopping, etc.. Health insurance SWE jobs would also not be at the top of my list.

I do wonder if this matters less if you're a PM, as the author is, and whether the fact he's a PM changes his calculation as much. I think if I was a PM company culture and how demanding customers were might be a big factor.

PMs seem to be in short supply even compared to engineers and the pay figures he's citing might reflect that. A lot of places I've worked PM has seemed to be enough of a disaster people don't want to do it. And that's even with it seemingly being easier to move from engineer -> PM than the other way around.
> Instead of an ad-blocker, try a YT premium subscription.

Why should I pay 10 times more what Google gets if I was watching ads? Where's the logic in all all of that?
Other than the general shortcomings of a rat study, does this result run counter to your understanding of the effects of stress on genetic expression in the brain?

My understanding is that early childhood stress in humans has also been fairly reliably linked to things such as “psychopathic” behaviors. e.g. [0]

[0] https://www.academia.edu/download/89809148/2128.pdf
I use a Google mesh network and get the same issue, which I assume is related to it using 8.8.8.8 by default.
That's not how Elo scores work. A 120 point elo difference is a 66% win rate, which means you win 2:1. That means GPT4-Turbo wins twice as much as Vicuna. And even that isn't a fair comparison, since Elo isn't linear: it gets more and more challenging to go up in Elo as you go further and further.
I could get onboard with legislation mandating that recordings of such communication should be made available to public in 3 months or something reasonable.

But I see nothing wrong in encrypting live communication.
Show HN: NextCast – static analysis and meta programming in NextJS
It's nice to see level-headed crypto optimism here. It's disheartening seeing bulls who have long since stopped pretending their favorite coin has any utility beyond being a speculative asset and a get-rich-quick scheme given its poor transaction rate, or that the features they've bolted on will make it valuable, none of which make it viable as a currency.

Why would anyone bother with Bitcoin?

If you want to avoid financial regulations in transmitting value across borders or purchase black market goods and services, you're going to be caught since all/most Bitcoin is KYCd and impossible to keep private, unlike Monero.

If you want to avoid transaction fees, you're SOL since it's at $10 right now versus $0.06 for Monero.

If you want a store of value, it's poor because it's volatile, not backed, and theft is not reversible, unlike virtually any other regulated security.

If you want to make legal purchases with it, any transaction costs $10 and can take hours or days, and is not reversible if you are defrauded, unlike USD.

Bitcoin has no value proposition beyond being a speculative asset and a Ponzi scheme for early buyers.
My very-rough feeling about it from playing around with Stable Diffusion is that it takes about 4x as long if it runs out of GPU memory and needs to shuttle data back and forth from system memory. There are a lot of variables though - on my 3070 with 8GB of RAM, I can get very impressive 512x512 images in about 10 seconds with somewhat low sample counts, or I can set it to a higher resolution and sample count with 2x upscaling and get a really sharp image in around 2 minutes.
Nope, all commercial models are severly gated.
It's definitely pretty impressive already. If there could be some kind of "final pass" to remove the slightly glitchy generative artifacts, these look completely passible for simple .gif/.webm header images. Especially if they could be made to loop smoothly ala Snapchat's bounce filter.
It is a deliberate oversight, the author picked metrics and test based on the result not the other way around. Even the first test (# of jobs per location) should be adjusted to jobs per population or something else since most people value diversity in their social circles.
One is a run of the mill software engineering consultancy, the other a startup making a development as a service platform where they link companies needing work with engineers in the developing world.
A little too freshman's first bit off a bong for me. There is, of course, substantial differences between video and reality.

Let's steel-man — you mean 3D VR. Let's stipulate there's a headset today that renders 3D visually indistinguishable from reality. We're still short the other 4 senses

Much like faith, there's always a way to sort of escape the traps here and say "can you PROVE this is base reality"

The general technical argument against "brain in a vat being stimulated" would be the computation expense of doing such, but you can also write that off with the equivalent of foveated rendering but for all senses / entities
I just got started with a Next.js project coming from React with JS and…. another JS/TS rant incoming…..

For an ecosystem that purports to be ready for professional use it absolutely boggles my mind that the tooling is stuck at this very amateurish level.

Why isn’t there a ready preset for me to use ESM syntax with Next.js / Typescript?

What’s wrong with the culture around Node/TS/JS tooling in general that it’s so consistently broken all the time? What the hell.
>Usually curing would mean fixing the problem

No, I believe you’re thinking of “problem” in a different way.

A cure permanently relieves symptoms of a disease. The symptoms are what’s “gone and is never coming back.”

That much alone is called a “functional cure”, it’s not just a treatment.

The difference between a cure and a functional cure depends on the disease but in either case, it means it’s not coming back.
Oh interesting, good to know. I don't use Apple private relay so that wouldn't be the problem for me.
> I will never believe a study telling me that spending 2 hours watching star wars is better for a kid than going to build a fort in the forest.

The kids with screens already built forts and gained that, in this scenario it is the kids without screens that do the same mundane activity over and over while the kids with screens are experiencing new things. You learn the important parts about building forts or dams or tools very quickly, it isn't something you should be doing for years.
> Who's paying the creators for the content they watch?

Such a tiny fraction of subscription and ad revenue goes to creators.

> Who's paying Google for delivering that content?

ISPs who have peering agreements with Google.
How do you improve quality of life if 1% robs the 99% so they can't afford to improve their lives?

GDP is a bad measure. We all know this.
First, I don't think that "capital efficiency" is something that we absolutely need to optimise for regardless of any other concerns, and even if I would concede that, there's an argument to be made that concentrating capital in the hands of more people leads to more diverse markets that cater to more, and more different, people's needs. The thesis that a few number of people are just naturally more efficient at everything seems questionable to me.
https://artsy.github.io/ works fine.
Martha Stewart was clearly an unusual situation where they were trying to make an example to hit hard in the public discourse.

I don't think the average citizen will care so much. When it comes to white collar crime making some white lies to bolster shareholder confidence is not in the same orbit as the type of massive fraud for notable jail time cases over the last couple decades.

At worst it should be a moderate SEC fine, perhaps a shareholder lawsuit if things don't turn out favorable. And this is assuming a lot that has to go wrong.
Stab in the dark here, but I would not be surprised if such a phrase is untraceable in origin due to long usage. There are many ancient stories where men battle with gods and they are analogous to fighting nature. Especially considering many gods are considered to be those that control nature and who's moods are characterized by it. We can even find references in the bible but I don't read Hebrew so idk if these are direct translations and not bothering to check changes from versioning. But I suspect that this phrase, in some form or another (battling with god, fighting god, etc), is rather old and not even unique to westerners. So I wouldn't be surprised if the phrase is older than language itself. But I'm not a linguist or historian and this is pure conjecture. Just someone who enjoys language and mythos as hobbies.
Some speculate that Helen and Adam were on the verge of being forced out by Sam, the former in the lieu of new investors needing a board seat for their person and the latter due to conflict of interest (via Poe after GPT Store launched on Devday). Once Ilya bought into their concerns, Adam and Helen, without informing any stakeholder (incl Microsoft), moved swiftly and decisively before any director changed their mind (like Ilya eventually did).

https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1727026942560330172 / https://archive.is/l89JO
Of course it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetW6R9Jxs4
The west has better sushi than the east in general, but SF still beats Seattle for sushi.
The license is a contract that allows you to use the software provided you fulfill some conditions. If you do not fulfill the conditions, you have no right to a copy of the software and can be sued. This enforcement mechanism is the same whether the conditions are that you include source code with copies you redistribute, or that you may only use it for evil, or that you must pay a monthly fee. Of course this enforcement mechanism may turn out to be ineffective if it's hard to discover that you're violating the conditions.
> Cooling the stations is not an engineering challenge. Installing and operating huge chillers is a solved problem.

Not correct in context. You cannot successfully chill air without having a place to vent the resulting waste heat.

Where, in deep tube lines, to vent the waste heat, is _not_ a solved problem. It _is_ an unsolved engineering challenge.

The heat has been accumulating there for decades.

As detailed here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_cooling

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38364027

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38363476
transfer pricing
>There’s plenty of free cash/food/shelter around for those who need it.

There's plenty, but very little is actually given to those who need it.
The underlying basis for his statement could be, not that MS has the necessary rights to all this wonderful OpenAI secret sauce, but that MS knows enough to know that there isn't any secret sauce--whatever they don't have rights to is not worth it anyway.
the people owning the remaining 51% of OpenAI?
The world where Mrs. Carter had the responsibility of deciding what Christmas decorations to put around the White House solar panels in the early 80s…
If you believe that your profit share is going to be worth much much more with the current board gone, then threatening to walk away to force them to resign isn’t really walking away from much.
> I wish Claude had fewer refusals (as erroneously claimed in the title)

Yes, the submitted title ("Anthropic announces Claude 2.1 — 200k context, less refusals") broke HN's guideline against editorializing. The word "refusal" doesn't appear in the OP.

Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you want to say what you think is important in an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
> You can bet I will do everything I can to not display ads.

There you go: https://www.youtube.com/premium

"YouTube and YouTube Music ad-free, offline, and in the background"
I would argue the best city for tech has never been the bay area. Its the best place to make a lot of money in tech, but by far the best engineers I have met, and the ones who have the happiest most well adjusted lifes do not, and never have lived in the bay area. Seattle is somewhat similar, for new transplants, but there is a historical core that had a great quality of life previously.

If you are starting a company today and want the top decile of talent, you will mostly find them looking for remote roles. You will find some great workers who live in the big cities, and still want the in office experience, but by far the best people are living remotely.
I have seen them, the workflows to create those videos are extremely labor intensive. Control net lets you maintain poses between frames, it doesn’t solve the temporal consistency of small details.
Exactly it’s always been a play to sell to Microsoft and incentivized toward it. And as you state the longer this goes on the less valuable GPT v5 becomes and the faster OpenAI’s darling status burns up. It’s probably already too late.
It's a distinction without meaning once you know how it works

For example, if you give Claude and OpenAI a JSON key

```

{

"hello": "

```

Claude will continue, while GPT 3.5/4 will start the key over again.

But give both a valid output

```

{

"hello": "value",

```

And they'll both continue the output from the next key, with GPT 3.5/4 doing a much better job adhering to the schema
Haven't implemented negative prompts yet, but from what I can tell it's as simple as substracting from the prompt in embedding space.
Fantasy.ai was subject to controversy for attempting to license models.
They should or they shouldn’t.

The issue is the right to know as a competitor or potential competitor isn’t it? These aren’t deals between two companies, they are terms for public marketplaces, and that is a critical difference.
The following Dell laptop would be better than a vendor locked in Chromebook:

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-15-lap...
Do you think rich people should be responsable for others or they have the freedom to get rich and do nothing?
Genes are made of DNA which degrades and does change. The mRNA vaccine and viruses also change your DNA. It won't change your gender or race but it will affect you mentally and your phenotype. Cancer is another way genes can change.
I have been developing a product that uses vpp in production for a few years now. It is very cool to see how much you can squeeze out of cheap low power CPUs. You can easily handle tens of gbits in iMIX with a a few ARM cortex A72s.

Vpp has very good documentation: https://s3-docs.fd.io/vpp/24.02/
A very cool unique feature is the graph representation for packet processing, and the ability to insert processing nodes to the graph dynamically per interface at some point in the processing using features (https://s3-docs.fd.io/vpp/24.02/developer/corearchitecture/f...)
Embeddings and Vector Databases with ChromaDB – Real Python
Jeez. SV tech culture really is a deadly virus
This is gonna change everything
For further protection, store those titanium blocks in a “portable Hole” so they exist only in the Astral plane:

https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/4699-portable-hole
Yes, the EAs and longtermists on the board probably disliked the commercial focus of “Open”AI or its rapid scaling; I’m not blaming them for Laundry Buddy. But make no mistake: the nonprofit board had even less interest in opening up their research or sharing their code. They and the “superalignment” team believe AGI can end the world and needs to be in safe hands (i.e. their own hands). The EA movement which they are embedded in is one of the leading forces advocating shutting down open AI development through regulation.
The board has strong EA and doomerist ties. Within OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever is on record as saying that the world will realize open-sourcing weights is foolish by 2025, and the Atlantic reported he literally burned an effigy of “unaligned” AI at the company retreat. Helen Toner is similarly involved in “AI governance” and not coincidentally took funding early in her career from OpenPhil, one of the key EA slush funds. The new CEO, their appointee, is quite literally a character written into Eliezer Yudkowsky’s rationalist fanfic in a cameo, and believes the probability of AGI killing humanity is 50%.

These people have absolutely no interest in decentralization and accountability, and were more than happy to let OpenAI accumulate power to “protect humanity”—until they pulled the plug for reasons they still refuse to disclose. Let me be clear: this is unacceptable. Not coincidentally, their so-called utilitarianism and altruism merely justifies accumulating all power in their hands, and taking any action (like the backstabbing we saw last week) to make it happen. For all MSFT’s faults, they play by traditional and predictable corporate rules of greed and can be reasoned with. The safety faction are true believers and implacably opposed to openness anywhere, and moreover happily gave the veneer of altruism to the regulatory capture of the commercial faction anyway before they realized they couldn’t control it. I know which one I’d pick.
The UK is somewhat unique in terms of the level of public trust it places in its police[1]. It's probably an error to extend that level of trust to American policing, where the public's consent is not generally a significant concern.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
Yeah, that's my guess.
Removing “broken cruft” from a programming language’s standard library has a very high cost associated with it. If you look at Java, the list of things removed in the past decade is quite short [0], and the removed things probably weren’t super important or popular. Python’s deletionists go too far IMO.

[0] https://javaalmanac.io/jdk/17/apidiff/8/
I think it'd more effectively go into the appropriate hands by at least charging some nominal amount. Advertise that anyone may visit the public library and purchase a subsidized internet-capable device for $20. Or $5. Free just has no chance of being an efficient distribution.
It's pretty interesting question actually. I think for an honest accounting you would have to take into account the positive externalities as well.

One way to start thinking about the question is to benchmark society before gasoline.

Mass use of gasoline kicked off around 1900, with the popularization of the automobile.

You can compare life now versus 1900 to get one estimate. The world definitely had problems and Wars before 1900.

What the world would look like today had gasoline never been discovered is a lot more tricky, but my gut feeling is that we would be worse off than today.
What is it with people and not understanding percentages?
"How Much Less Do Techies Get Paid Outside the Bay?"
"SF Bay Area 100%"
"Miami -88%"
So people in Miami are paying to work?
And even if it was meant to be relative to a baseline (which is not what it says!); i have a very hard time believing that they get only 12% the pay in Miami compared to SF.
A classic case of enshittification. Quora is the new Yahoo Answers.

The funny thing is that there will be a new one soon probably.

Or is it the AI app he’s already building?
It seems like the breakthrough is that the video generating method is now baked into the model and generator. I've seen several fairly impressive AI animations as well, but until now, I assumed they were tediously cobbled together by hacking on the still-image SD models.
Starving your kids makes them appreciate food more, but that doesn't mean that starvation is good for them.
MSFT doesn't have the culture to continue development at the same rate. So even if it had everything - people, code, weights, office plants, all of it - it's still not going to be able to do much it in the future. GPT5 might keep the momentum going for a while, but that's going to be it.

MSFT actually is fighting for its life. GPT4 is an intriguingly useful curiosity, Later GPTs had the potential to be culturally, politically, financially and technically revolutionary.

That likely won't happen now. We'll get some kind of enshittified prohibitively expensive mediocrity instead.
What is blender's favourite song?

"Under Pressure" by Queen.
> jobs program

Bastiat would like a word.
Indeed. Every time I do work on a recent javascript framework I find myself crying into my coffee because of all the (what feels like) needless complexities. Svelte is pretty good though. Still love me some python, go, rust and laravel though.
Visual Studio Community (and many other products) only allows "non-commercial" usage. Sounds like it limits what you can do with what you produce with it.

At the end of the day, a license is a legal contract. If you agree that an image which you produce with some software will be GPL'ed, it's enforceable.

As an example, see the Creative Commons license, ShareAlike clause:

> If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
Are these Chromebooks the ones that are administered remotely?

If so, they better say it up front.
I'm not going to pay for a centralized BigTech that is going to keep 95%+ for themselves.

And I'm also paying 5* that monthly subscription costs to creators I support.
“As a partner, I think it does deserve you to be consulted on the big decisions.”

Especially big decisions that potentially annihilate your investment.
Insiders are usually disqualified from bidding because of an inherent conflict of interest.
I think the "real" programming part should be removed.

All programming is real programming and this encourages throwing shade on languages and people that are not deemed "real".
> Like, at this point, what are the technical counters to the assertion that our world is a simulation?

How about this theory is neither verifiable nor falsifiable.
Well the other thing about Denmark and many other European countries is that cars are also much more expensive to buy, to own, to register, etc. so people who are on the verge of not having basic necessities certainly cannot afford a car. So the people who are driving are by and large people who have something to lose by flouting the law, which tends to make them act more responsibly.
Try QwikJS. It solves what you ask for, create a project and you are ready to go.

Qwik feels so right to use, if you have 5 minutes you should read about it: https://qwik.builder.io/docs/concepts/think-qwik/
Some service providers offer no options other than a long contract. HughesNet, for example, has a two year commitment, which doesn't include the equipment that you have to buy or rent.

That's a pretty long time.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365934.
This is the true comparison I want to see in data and fancy charts.
South Lake Union, West Seattle, and Bellevue must be the totality of your experience. Go up the hill and you’ll find a lively scene till about 3am year round, head downtown and you’ll see a dozen cultural events a week. I’m blown away by how many people project their depression and anxiety onto a large metro area without realizing it.
It’s bad that public funds are being used to coerce people into using adtech surveillance services.

You can’t use these meaningfully without agreeing to the Google TOS. Tax money should not be used that way (but there are precedents in things like sports stadiums et cetera). It seems like simple public-private wealth transfer (ie corruption) to me.