skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So we would have an express lane in one direction and a stopping lane in the other? Why is that a good thing?

Simulate it and see...

Turns out that despite most users needing to make more changes, they will complete their journey far faster. The few journeys that are not completed faster (eg. taking the tube one stop) tend to either be walking distance or have an equivalent bus.

Combine it with the fact there are multiple routes from A to B and there are many people who can take the fast train in both directions.

For the railway operator, the trains are a big capital and operational cost. If you can make the trains run faster, you can get better utilisation of the seats, and therefore extra capacity/revenue. That more than outweighs the extra maintenance and electricity costs of going faster.
It’s nice to be able to go to Cockfosters in comfort.
I think there could be a market for a more ethical app, a better way to solve the problem of transport on demand, and this issue might be the perfect way to get into the market.

The app would be a subscription for drivers or passengers that is inexpensive and simply connects drivers with passengers. The drivers have to figure out how much the journey will cost which keeps down the server interaction/processing required per customer. Maybe the drivers could bid of there is a relative surplus of drivers, much like some apps offer now.

The idea is to make an open market place to connect drivers and passengers, maybe even payment processors as well. The app should interfere and interact as little as possible with trips
Interesting and bold proposition, but I suspect the reason why this has not been treated as a feasible vision by any government is that it is optimised for least-cost in the median scenario, not high energy security in the extreme scenario of wind and sun droughts, and that it does not factor in the limits to wind and PV deployment rates. Also, the first scenario still favours electrolytic hydrogen over li-on batteries anyway.
I have the complete opposite view. I'm a fullstack dev, so I'm comfortable using Javascript and a backend language.

JS replacements like Blazor clearly serve backend engineers who don't want to deal with JS. That's fine, and it's a valid way of developing, but it's clear that using JS with C# is a more holistic way of developing.
TypeLite used to offer something similar, but it's somewhat dead nowadays.

OpenAPI client generators are probably what's popular today.
> Netflix couldn't make a language picker look nice for that many options so he asked a too-smart data science guy to figure out the most common languages for each region.

Odd they couldn't ask your preferred language(s) in your profile, then include it whenever available with the regional list.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38246668
> heavy grain of salt
> "solid state" or "sodium"

This made me chuckle a little. Thanks!
I found a good question to spring is 'name a time you had to make a moral decision'. If someone thinks about decisions in terms of morality it's a good open-ended question that'll lead into how they approach moral dilemmas. If you suspect you're getting a rehearsed answer, follow up by asking about a moral decision they made where they would have acted differently today. Anyone who rehearses an answer to that question is going to rehearse one where they made the right call, but anyone who actually thinks about things in terms of morality is going to remember a time they made a mistake.
Do you know what kind of tech/tech-adjacent work you would be interested in? What field/industry?
exactly which meek, publicly facing employees are working in police stations in NYC? How does that boot taste?
This is the current setup I'm using for my TypeScript monorepo: https://github.com/tommyguo/node_monorepo. I tried avoiding Lerna because I didn't feel like I needed it. Happy to hear feedback!
Yes. And particularly in California.
What if we removed selective police immunity for First Ammendment violations? How well informed about enforcing the law would they become?
By what standard do you define morality?
We strongly & emphatically disagree

Why are you saying 'we' in your comment?

computational regime

I think you mean environment instead of regime.

the said “infinite” store

None of this is true for basic O notation, it's just what exponent the algorithm carries on the number of elements.

Big-O notation doesn't even have to do with this article, it's just showing that memory access isn't strictly constant. This all seems like you're trying to argue something that isn't a part of this thread and I'm not sure what that is.
> IMF provides loans to developing countries on the condition that they dont have 'socialist' policies

Because these 'socialist' policies are usually the reason why these countries need IMF loans.
If they were in it for purely noble reasons, they would have already left when it became NotOpenAI.
The opposite is also true. A belief in a higher power is no more or less indicative of destructive behavior than a belief of a universe without
Frustration: Still a Common User Experience
The promo video has a perfectly flat body of water. I'd be interested to know what impact waves have on a hydrofoil.
I knew microsoft lacked ethics but this is beyond that. This is akin to a hostile takeover, simply because openai fired their inside man.

Having said that - i hope they do move over. That’s where ai ends and becomes nothing more but clippy with sprinkles.
But is there is something inherent to Lisp that makes it "clunky" to work with matrices?

Lisp can be at least as high level and expressive as any other language.
I never could get that to not work. No matter what I did the signal didn't degrade.
I have finally a disconnect between investor expectations and the reality of shipping prototypes with php that I wonder if anyone else has seen?

One recent raise that I was talking a new entrepreneur through had the investor take a hard pass as soon as they found out he was building with Laravel.

This isn’t the first time but in the past it was suspicion and wasn’t so explicit. They literally passed on giving a term sheet specifically because they were built in laravel… so I finally got someone “on the record.”

I have built startups with PHP and had great success, though I use a lot of platforms now and not as much php anymore, but I wonder if there is any issue with the raise.

I know the technicals (and how dumb it was, the first version gets trashed always anyways) but I wonder if others have seen this?
Time's Up for Yaccarino to Exit X
A bit late but I had completely forgotten about KDE Connect. Back when I last tried it, it did not filter out spam messages (though maybe Google Messages' spam filtering operates on its own layer and thus spam classifications are not reflected back in the OS SMS store, making it impossible for KDE Connect to know about them). Regardless, I get much less SMS spam these days, so maybe that'll be a viable option once more.
I think it's not necessarily accurate to predict the worst-case scenario.

I would argue that Sam will be back as CEO and OpenAI will still be here in years.
I read something a few days on another unrelated thread from the AMA [0] with an immigration lawyer who works with YC companies that the administration prioritizing AI-related visas. Based on that, I could see folks making exceptions/expediting the process to stop brain-drain.

Link:
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38207857

Edit - added link
This company changes their licensing terms every three years or so. This is the same deal that Game Maker Studio 1.4 was licensed under, then they brought out a subscription model for GMS 2 with no free tier. It's hard to take them at their word and have faith that there will really be a full-features free version "from now on."
Why would they shut off public access?
Many countries have immigration systems that are similarly bad the U.S.'s.
the kernel and device drivers are both a bit out of date unfortunately, hope LF can found new revisions of them.
Python, Rust. Given that Python was one of the first open source projects to choose such a model, and Rust explicitly adopted such a model, that's probably not so surprising.

(Somebody is going to bring up the Python packaging clusterfuck as a retort to this, but the fact that Python packaging is both assumed and held at a distance is a larger problem than just documentation)
>I don't share the assumption that people should only exist if they're a benefit.

Well it's not a matter of the people existing, it's whether they are rich or not. They can exist without the money.

Anyway, if you don't think it matters if they are of benefit, then why did you bring up the fact that they pay taxes?
Surely quality of life for the citizens should matter more than the aggregate amount of wealth held/generated by a country, no?

Whether Europe is ahead in this regard can be debated I suppose, and in some ways some forms of wealth is a means to this end, but does it really matter in the grand scheme of things that Britain might be as poor as Mississippi?
A lot of laptops do this when running on battery power. Do they pop up notices telling users they are running in reduced power mode?
You get a little closer with Fable to compile F# to JavaScript. It lets you model your domain using F# types (which are just as good as – if not better than – C# types) and then you can use them both from your C# backend and F# or JavaScript frontend (whichever you prefer.)

It does require you to faff about with toolchains for building frontend code though (WebPack and the like), and it's not always completely seamless, but if you want to invest in a shared domain model it's the most compatible I've been able to go at least.
You hit the nail on the head.. I dont find income based taxation to be ethical at all, and believe either a Land Use tax, Service fees, or contextual public finance is a better way, not stealing a part of a persons labor.

I also see government as only being needed for "night watchman" status, not as providers of all your needs from craddle to grave, under such a system of governance visitors to the nation are no different than citizens, as everyone is equal before the law, and the law is only used for peaceful dispute resolution between 2 parties. Not to dole out political based favors via an ever increasing state via both government contracts to big business, and government subsides to protect business, and social welfare which also is a handout to large business..

Once that state has no power to redistribute wealth (often from the poor to the rich in practice not in the manner many democrats envision the redistribution is going in their fantasy) then the need to track every dollar, and every person drops to near zero

Smash the State, Eat the Rich[1]

[1]https://c4ss.org/content/30085
> Maybe not an HDMI cable, but maybe that is key to your argument somehow?

Yes, because the file has to be downloaded on my computer. Once it's on my computer, it's no longer Google's business what I do with it. What's your issue with this argument, exactly?

> Cafes are also publicly accessible, that doesn't mean the coffee is free.

Not a good analogy, downloading content from a publicly accessible server is free, while getting coffee is not free.

A better one would be that a cafe is giving away free coffee with the condition that you also take their advertisement pamphlet. Once the coffee and pamphlet is in my possesion, it is no longer cafe's business what I do with it - I have complete freedom to throw the pamphlet away and enjoy the coffee.
Once you get them in a state where they can't lie, ask directly how trustworthy they are
Most Georgian wines are not natural or qvevri wines, the vast majority of the production there is stainless steel tank produced wine + barrel aging (for reds) like anywhere else.

The Qvevri wines I've had have always been... interesting. But they're not consistently good.

I wish I had a Qvevri of my own to make wine in. But it'd be difficult in this cold temperate climate where the ground freezes. They'd have to be in a heated shop or buried 3-4 feet deep.
What if they aren't really familiar with what that is? I know it's associated with SBF's embezzlement somehow, but if I just heard the term I'd think, "It's gotta be better than ineffective altruism"
The attribute for controlling this is implemented but not yet stable:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/unstable-book/language-featur...
https://electrek.co/2023/11/20/world-may-be-on-track-for-tri...

> Governments plan to double renewable capacity by 2030, and tripling is within sight, according to a newly released report.

> Many countries are already on track to exceed their national targets, and more ambition is achievable to bring a tripling of global renewables within reach, according to an analysis of national targets by energy think tank Ember.

> The report analyzes renewables targets for 57 countries, plus the EU, that collectively represent 90% of global power sector emissions. According to these targets, global renewable capacity will reach an estimated 7.3 terawatts (TW) in 2030, more than doubling from 3.4 TW in 2022. More than 75% of renewable capacity in 2030, where stated, will be from solar and wind.

> However, the current renewables boom is already outpacing governments’ planned growth. The world could achieve a doubling just by continuing the deployment achieved in 2023 throughout the rest of the decade – yet all signs point to a more rapid growth curve.

> If the countries analyzed by Ember continue the growth rate of 17% achieved since 2016 throughout the rest of this decade, it would put the world on track for a tripling of renewables.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/13/chinas-carb...

> The most striking growth has been in solar power, according to Myllyvirta. Solar installations increased by 210 gigawatts (GW) this year alone, which is twice the total solar capacity of the US and four times what China added in 2020.

> The analysis, which is based on official figures and commercial data, found that China installed 70GW of wind power this year – more than the entire power generation capacity of the UK. It is also expected to add 7GW of hydro power and 3GW of nuclear power capacity this year, said the report.
Paying attention to the micro interactions of a person (or CEO) with others especially those who have no business interest with them can give a good view of their morality. These can be simple things like a conversation they have with random strangers and their judgement on that.
Maybe there's a gap between "OpenAI is dead" and "MSFT can build the same"?
Frankly the information that is available is extremely non-specific and open to interpretation and framing by whoever wants to tell one story or another. The way I see it something as specific as "has not done xyz" is a specific thing that can be falsified and invites whatever it is into the public to be argued about and investigated whereas "not sufficiently candid" does not reveal much and just says that a majority of the board doesn't trust him. Altman and all the people directly involved know what's going on, outsiders have no need to know so we're just looking at tea leaves and scraps trying to weave narratives.

And I agree the board should care if the work is actually done and that's where if the CEO seems to be bluffing that the work is being done or blowing it off and humoring them then it becomes a problem about the CEO not respecting the board's direction.
Wow, I wonder how MS employees are feeling right now
You guys are getting 480p? I'm only getting 240p!
Sharing https://github.com/tommyguo/node_monorepo if this helps folks. It's a Typescript monorepo template with everything you need included.

I'm currently using this setup to run multiple services on AWS.
If you look back in history "fear of god" and religion are responsible for more of the most evil acts in it than almost anything.
I feel like your comment touched a million different places so I'll try to compose my arguments in a compact manner, hopefully to make some sense.

> All the dis-advantages are not relevant for enterprise LOB apps, which Blazor is best suited for.

Where does this conclusion come from? At least from my humble experience,I've been doing them for ~10 years with various tools, both JS and Blazor/Razor Pages and the fact that they "work" does not mean they stand on solid ground.

I've written apps in Blazor, yet I don't understand its existence. Most apps, even LOB as you said, Razor Pages are more than enough. Razor Pages are amazing. What seems to me to be the source of the problem is the whole mentality:
> But, as a developer who has done exactly one complex web app for a client, let me tell you, the ability to use C# models, directly from your domain, in web app markup code, using Razor components is a god send...
You can ship server side generated HTML with Razor and just LEARN a bit of JS. I don't understand the allergy of the so called "back end" developers with JS. Yes it's shitty. Yes it feels better writing C#. I also like my bike more than my car. Will I take my bike to drive 500km? No. There's a time and place for everything.
I feel efforts like Blazor just fight against the (unfortunate yet inevitable) current that JS is the only language that can manipulate DOM. I really think all of us should be open to use whatever makes sense for the job, even if it occasionally makes us feel uncomfortable. This is the dev community I want to be a part of.
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Few people are going to want to move unless most people are moving. So there is a coordination and timing issue here.

I really wonder if there's going to be a new letter from OpenAI employees about demanding the board reinstate Sam and Greg and then resign -- but this time with an actual deadline that the undersigned declare their mass resignation if not met. A genuine letter of conditional resignation. No more "may choose to resign" -- this time, "do resign if".

Then everybody knows to move to Microsoft literally the next day, all at once.

Given the holiday, it seems like midnight the end of this Sunday would be suitable.
With these kind of things I don't think asking questions is really going to tell you much.

People can present themselves differently than they are, and especially people with lower morales will have no problem presenting themselves differently if that is in their interest. Look at pretty much any big company CEO.

If you do need to gauge someone, look at their history, look at their actions, and look at their incentives. If they don't align with what they're saying you should not expect them to act any different than they did before.
That doesn't make it any less slavery
>The Europeans were starting to loosen Iraqi oil sanctions

Any links I can read about this? I'm open to the idea that suppressing Iraq's oil industry was the main objective of the war. I don't like claims about "the US's quest to take other nations oil" being that it never happened either in Iraq or even Iran. At least when I ask for a source I can never get one. To me the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were mainly about projecting power, not oil. Certainly not Afghanistan because there is little to no oil there in the first place. Even regarding Iraq it is OPEC that sets the price and I doubt they would let Iraq greatly reduce the market price. It would have to be as you say: people with connections using the US's power to suppress competition. Many people online, however, seem to have the idea that US foriegn policy dictates collecting oil and that the US is stealing trillions of dollars of oil from various third world countries. I think the US gains a lot more from war to project power. Iraq for the most part today is a US ally. And if we are looking for people who would gain from the war it would more likely be Lockheed than Exxon. Lastly, there is no reason to say that US oil companies staged the war exclusively. It is possible that eg. SA were also involved or the main initiators.
I use a Chargie (chargie.org) hardware device to limit charge on my devices to 80%, and the batteries last nearly forever. Currently typing this on a 4 year old iPhone with like new battery function. I highly recommend these, I’ve been using them since they were first sold. I have no affiliation, but am a very satisfied customer.

For my Macbooks I use an app called Al Dente. I still have have 2016 MacBook with like new battery life.

People will ask is this worth it? Isn’t it a pain to have a device only charged to 80%?

It is totally worth it- because I only do it 80% thing when staying home, so when I travel my devices have full battery health and don’t run empty when I most need them.
Blazor Hybrid looks promising to completely negate the load time for Blazor WASM.
I think there’s a historical reason for this, that probably made more sense back in the 90s … I seem to remember learning computer graphics back then and being similarly frustrated by the reversed notation. My guess is it goes back to raster based calculations where you would go down a number of lines and then across. Oh yea orig is top left rather than bottom left as one would also naturally expect
I’ve wanted to make a game for a while now as a side project; but art styling matters immensely to me - more than the gameplay itself, honestly. I feel like I need to become a good artist first…
- "Do you support tech workers unionizing if they choose to?"

- "Should Palestine should be free?"

- "Do Black Lives Matter?"
We'll see this again in discovery.
Of course not. But it's possible to catch the dishonest ones in a lie.
Good luck trying to convince a large group of maths professors to change the way they are doing things.
Sure but it's alternative uses were already known. It just so happened that a world-altering invention (the consumer automobile) came along to dramatically raise already existing demand for it. There is currently no demand/use for desalination brine. For every "this byproduct is actually useful" story there's likely 10 byproducts that simply stay byproducts. Still, it's urgent we figure out something to do with it since it's damaging our ocean ecosystems
There’s an interesting dynamic here. What value of OpenAI to use for conversion calculation? 86b round is pretty much dead if they move to MS, yet 29b is too low (even 86b is low in terms of future potential). And what kind of upward room there will be?

I have no doubt that MS can spend billions in cash or RSU to compensate all of them, but I do believe there’s some gotcha if exodus actually happens and MS might not be so generous in throwing millions of dollar cash for a general backend engineer recently joining OpenAI.
A small area in Chester County became the 'Mushroom Capital of the World' (2022)
> this works out to 376PB per year!

And Alphabet's 2022 net income works out to $59 billion. Let's not pretend that YT is some struggling startup that could be bankrupted by cloud costs at any moment.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG/financials?p=GOOG
Contrary to Google, MS never kills any tech. You can still develop Winforms apps today.
That's fine, but then the title should be something else.
At this level, MS could go to the White House and insist that keeping these people within the US is a matter of urgent national security, for the same reason there are Nvidia export restrictions to China.

These are not your average groups of H1B workers.
If trustworthiness were able to be gauged by a single question world political history would be much more boring.

That being said, asking a CEO to take responsibility for a mistake is a pretty good indicator.

If they own the mistake. That's good.
If they own the mistake and try to fix it. That's better.
If they own the mistake and ask the people wronged how to make amends. They're probably not a CEO.