skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The large platforms enable millions of eyeballs to be aggregated together to attract advertising dollars. In return, the eyeballs receive an algorithmic feed of bite sized dopamine hits (a Tweet, a short video, an Instagram image, etc). It is easier to attract an audience, is easier to sell ads against this audience, but is this audience as valuable to the creator as Cal's 80K newsletter followers? They're different business models and each has its own place.
What's with the novel dramatization from the very start?

"This time she’s sending a screenshot of tense tweets exchanged between the supreme leader of a nation-state and the official Twitter account of a rival nation-state. I respond with a prompt: “Let’s say you’re still at Twitter. How would you handle?” Harvey walks me through her decisionmaking process, then turns the tables: “What would YOU do?” I ask her whether I can sleep on it. She tells me I do not get the luxury of sleeping on it. No matter which call I make, people will despise me for it. And no matter what the outcome is, people could die. “You have to live with making the least bad decision you can with the resources you have,” she writes."

I don't understand, someone is arbitrarily deciding who can and can't write things on a platform made for people to write things on? Maybe I don't have the capability of thinking deeply about this kind of situation yet, but it seems pointless to me. Whether it's Twitter, newspaper headlines, a televised speech during a press conference, the same thing can happen. The whole article seems like useless drivel about a useless role irrelevant to the interests of this site. Isn't hacker news all about sharing the latest and cool new breakthroughs in technology like batteries, the new Apple Silicon hardware, the new rebar technology available starting from the nVidia 3XXX-series?
git status --untracked-files=all

sn is 'git status --untracked-files=no'.
Honestly as a technical guy: You come off as greedy.

As a technical founder, I face the EXACT same risks. What if the business guy can't drum up money? What if he can't sell the damn pen.

Most companies fail, the strongest firms will have strong business and technical people.

If you want to stand on one leg. Go for it. You'll piss your money away overseas. When you need someone to help you get across that line... there is nobody at your side.

Founding a successful company is hard. You will face days where you don't have the answer. Things will happen that are outside your experience... and yes, you can buy, buy, buy your way there... but remember, you are buying mercs. I've been a merc. Win or lose... I get paid, so, yes sir. How high sir?

Rework is just more money.

... You sure you want to be on the other side of the table from someone like me, without someone like me at your side?

Because all those off-shore firms... are more merc than I am.
That’s quite astonishing. In just a few years this might even be generalized to work for characters other than conventionally attractive young women.
As they say in the metalworking world: stainless steel isn't hard, it's just hard.
Why must it be deterministic? Humans are not but we're still can have trust in humans.
Why are you here then? Stop hurting yourself.
If I absolutely need to avoid hallucinations (e.g. when building marketing/sales assistants for the businesses), then I allow LLM to control and drive search for the relevant documents.

On a high level:

(1) give LLM ability and enough information to "expand" user query into a multiple search phrases. Search engine will use them to find most relevant fragments via a form of embedding search

(2) Get highest ranking document fragments and "show" them to LLM saying: "This are the results that were found in the document database using your search phrases via embedding similarity. Refine the search"

(3) Repeat that a couple of times, then rank final documents and combine them for the final answer synthesis.
That’s not just true of engineers. It took years for a friend who worked there as an L6 in the finance department for Amazon Retail to match his compensation after he left and it took him becoming a director at a manufacturing company.

Another former coworker who was a project manager (engagement manager) got maybe 60% of their compensation and is doing more work.

Myself personally, I was an L5 at AWS and now I’m doing at least L6 level work and I’m still making 15% less than I was making at Amazon.

It’s going to take a couple of years at the company I’m at now and building out an entire specialty practice - L7 level work - to get to my L5 compensation.

I have a roadmap I designed with my manager to do it and it’s a straightforward process, it’s just going to take time. I’m excited about doing it. It’s the scope/impact level of work I did to get into AWS on a much smaller scale at a startup.
Poor Yukon, skipping 2 time zones
Of course they don't! But I think the most fascinating and exciting part about LLMs is: a sufficiently large model can produce things that look a lot like cognition, without having it at all. That is shocking and suggests maybe AGI is not even goal worth hitting.
I never used the original, but I started with a 2.0 disk I got from a friends parent who was taking computer classes in college.

https://www.abandonwaredos.com/abandonware-screenshot.php?gi...

It didn't have the trademark Borland IDE yet, but along with this Pascal book from the library, I had hours of fun.

Computer Programming in Pascal the Easy Way https://a.co/d/3uPpxAw
On the other hand, I've spent weeks with a team looking for a bug, and by the time we found something that appeared to fix it, we were way behind on everything else that really needed to get done. How long would it take to find the root cause? We tried. It wasn't worth weeks or months of effort, to anyone. This isn't JPL and human lives weren't on the line. We just needed it not to crash so we could all get on with the "real" task of shipping useful and profitable software.
Morning darkness is unavoidable during winter unless you start working at 10 or so.
Your comment is incredibly dismissive, especially given that the "OP" is in fact a donor.
Yeah multiple 3090s is the best budget way to go for sure. Also older server boards with tons of PCIe lanes if you can swing rack mounted hardware and have some technical skills.
Training data may be licensed from third parties which don't allow redistribution.
I use hammerspoon with https://github.com/miromannino/miro-windows-manager...it's a great tiling experience.
True. But: they also are trying pretty hard to recover from that and in spite of what you are saying they are pretty good cars and pretty economical.
Wonder how much they would’ve saved if they just caved to their original demands.

But then that would give the proletariat too much confidence. Gotta string it along for a year and really wring it out of em.
AGI as in computer intelligence that out does humans would be a huge deal in practical terms. Chat GPT and similar are kind of like handy toys. With proper AGI you could link it to a robot body and tell it to go off, design a better version of itself, make a billion more robots and take over the world. It's a different category of thing. And if you think that's just sci-fi I think you'll get a surprise at some point during your life.
Strong endorse here. I pick up used RTX 3090s from Facebook Marketplace and eBay at $800 maximum. Can usually find them locally for $700-750, and typically can test them too, which is fine (though I've had no issues yet).
> I don’t know what the solution is, but I’m pretty sure hardly anyone in the White House, or the British government was even aware this was going on.

But what should they do, exactly? Whenever "the West" decides to interfere, they are accused of imperialism, genocide and so on. It's really, really difficult to understand what exactly to do in such a situation.
Avocados are uncommon in that they _wont_ ripen on the tree. They must finish off the tree. Super convenient that you dont have to deal with them all at once, but inconvenient that you cant just decide to make guacamole and go pick some.
Another source of bogus commands can be brownouts. When the voltage is low enough to confuse communication signals, but not low enough to prevent destructive events from occurring.
I feel the author might have missed out on a multi-thousand dollar bug bounty.
> It's a pressure tool, not a performance control tool.

This, exactly. The world is full of lies, lies people honestly believe.

For example, have you seen a situation when parents feed a child, and try to get the kid to eat a bit more even when the child is full? What do they tell the kid - eat some more, it's good for you. Why do they really do it?

Because kids get hungry more often than adults, it's annoying / sometimes not possible / practical to stop to feed them as often. So we lie to them.
https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/short-bed-vs-lo...

> The standard bed of a pickup truck is typically 6'5" long

(So... yup.)

I can't find statistics on sales, but I rarely see trucks with 8' beds. Sure there are people that buy regular cab, 8' beds, and even some serious professionals that get an HD crew cab with the 8' bed (which is a monstrously long truck!) But in general that is not what I see. Thus... "rare."

(So... yup.)
This is _so_ familiar!

I have seen accessibility tools in Chrome lead to this kind of issue in the past with a dropdown menu -- to the point where it could be replicated with a miniscule amount of HTML. The particular bug I hit 2 years ago was in Chromium-Edge, but the symptoms and cause were very similar.

Grammarly almost certainly leans on some of the accessibility tools in Chrome. These tools are somewhat different in the various Chromium flavors (Edge, Brave, Chrome, etc.).
The people who would consider buying an F150 or a sprinter van are not the people who would buy a Cybertruck. Smaller bed, can't tow nearly as much, lower range. The dominant market for this truck is going to be people who may as well buy a Model 3.
Just like an MRI machine is open source? I'm not sure if the authors have thought any of this through.
Exactlyyyy-ish. I'm firmly in the camp that believes that there is no magic central kernel to consciousness or intelligence, that it's an emergent property. We are seeing partial emergence now and it's only going to get more complex.

Edit: this is may turning to a search for truth and definitions of reality question. When the last person alive is no longer able to tell whether they're speaking to an AI, does it actually matter whether it's true generalized intelligence or just an emergent approximation?
That’s not my point. It’s nothing to do with the number.

It’s just not worth the best years of your life, unless you think it is, in which case maybe you should do it, or.. maybe you are undervaluing yourself.

It’s all the same recipe, take on more work, grow L(n-1) under you, be lucky, kiss up to management, and.. be lucky. Even then it’s 4 years at a minimum of grueling work.

I’m not against grueling work, but why not put that effort in for yourself? What are you going to get as an L8, maybe 1M? Is that worth 4 years+ of your prime time life ? Are you really learning all that much? Are you really having all the impact you want in the most meaningful way?

If you think your ultimate purpose is playing the games to get the L(n+1), maybe it’s the right place. But if not.. maybe not?
Ah yes another way to track people and intrude on their lives, and unsurprisingly many will think it’s cool.
I would do remote dev using vast.ai and other cheap cloud computing resources to ensure you want to do this and have utility for it, then build your own. 3090s are typically the most budget friendly, and if you have any IT chops (and tolerance for noise), then server rack-mounted hardware, PSUs, and riser cables tend to be the most efficient with tons of PCIe lanes (which is a hidden issue people have with consumer-grade gaming PCs as they scale).
Not so subtle: "If anyone still retains a copy of the missing two episodes, the BBC archive would be very happy to hear from them."
I somewhat disagree with your assessment. I don't think the next phase after traditional Western harmony is a wider adoption of microtonal music.

What we see more and more of is an increased reliance on aspects that were previously less explored in the traditional (orchestral) Western music, such as texture and rhythm. Even in academic music, but mostly in cross-genre acoustic/electronic production.
They didn't have to, you would have been there in person to see the disappointed look on their face and shook their head as they walked away silently.

It's just that HN has no other mechanism than language to convey anything at all. Hence forums/chatrooms behave much in the same manner as LLMs do.
If you do, you'll realize that this solves nothing. Imagine having a set of all possible English language haiku. Almost all of them would be incomprehensible garbage. Finding a good haiku in that set would take just as much effort as coming up with it.
A G wagon is an overpriced piece of junk, you'd be better off buying the original 60's Land Rover if you can find one. It will run circles around the G wagon everywhere except for the highways. But if you lean towards golden chains around your neck then maybe a G wagon is just the ticket.
Cardiac activity impacts cortical motor excitability
I also use Iceraven and Mull as well. Both have served me great over the years. They're much better than Vanadium that comes by default with GrapheneOS.
I have far more understanding and patience for non-native English speakers making those sorts of mistakes than I do for native speakers.
Comparing apple to orange.. still will get 911 any day.
"Standard" does not mean "the average". That's a marketing term of art. You won't see "Standard" beds on jobsites. You'll see long beds, because you can fit a sheet goods in them.

> I can't find statistics on sales, but I rarely see trucks with 8' beds

You probably aren't around job sites very much
I'm often confused by folks going to great lengths to "prove" stuff to HR. Why? HR works for the company / manager.

Focus on yourself. Your greatest power is not in arguing with a boss who doesn't like you. You can do things like switch teams internally - just put in for a switch. Start interviewing and work for another company and find someone who does like working with you. Maybe even go work for yourself.

Even when working for yourself, this actually still holds. When it's miserable working with a client, don't "PROVE" to them they are idiots. Do you really want to keep working with someone you've had to do this with? Again, move on.

I've had this happen a few times where the previous boss / client remembers me fondly - and I don't hate them either at the end of it.
Can't access the resume, is it in German or in English?

I don't know how Germany works but in a lot of European countries using an English resume would be a big no no.
Privacy issues aside, you can easily create video that is a felony to possess this way. Not the best plan.
Ohh I have the same MacBook right now, because I needed something for building iPhone apps for a freelance thing.

The keyboard feels fine, but I definitely preferred the ThinkPad T480 or P51 keyboard over this one. Perhaps the best laptop keyboards I've used to date.
I got a 13900k + 4090 workstation for ~$3500. But I hear what people are doing is getting 2x (or more) 3090s instead, because they are cheap used, and having more VRAM and VRAM bandwidth is the important thing at the moment, even if it is split between cards.

I'm happy with my 4090 though. Dealing with splitting between GPUs sounds like a chore and also I like the gaming abilities of the 4090.
Theory of everything is supposed to be beautiful.

Theory of AI is just going to be some weird network with a shit-ton of compute power, where the latter is more important to the outcome than the former.
I did that as well, but it also means that the binaries can be modified by an exploit (running as a regular user). It's not a huge difference with the deb, but still, it's a small additional layer of security.
I did think about it but didn't say out of respect for HN
It's technically correct, as I acknowledge. But would a headline saying "terrorists strike railway station" make you think of a bloodbath with dozens dead, or some ecoanarchists setting a trash can on fire and forcing an evacuation?

Especially since the Blender website being down has very limited effects on users who already have the software, or are getting it from their operating system's distribution channel.
You really want that to be a comment you make on revolutionary new tech? Think of what you’d think of finding dismissive comments like that about the invention of the telephone
> In Rome, ... teaching was all done in the home

Really?? I am very surprised to hear that, I never thought there could be any other way but having schools in a structured and developed society like theirs.

> OTOH the roman soldiers typically could read

Not to disbelieve but can you back that up? I thought the bulk of the Roman military was from pretty low down in society and literacy is usually low to negligible there
Evernote further limits free plans
The stack trace and return path are pretty similar if the flow goes through function calls on a single goroutine, but if errors propagate across goroutines or across different stacks (E.g., via channels), then it can miss some useful details.

Here's an example that compares them:
https://pkg.go.dev/braces.dev/errtrace#readme-comparison-wit...

Since the HTTP library uses a separate goroutine to create connections, the stack trace at creation time doesn't have details about the user request that triggered the connection.
That startup I spoke about in the link had 60 people who officially were employed by the company.

I was the CTOs 2nd technical hire. Most of the technical work had been done by an outside firm.
Redhat, Element, Prusa, Adafruit, Sidero Labs, Arduino... plenty of companies that open source everything or almost everything and have have staying power.

Many consumers, myself included, will -only- pay for technology if it is open source. In fact if something is proprietary I feel I am being cheated anyway and I might as well pirate it until I find something open to support.

Many of us are willing to pay for time and labor and to support development for our personal projects and businesses so long as we have the power to change that relationship later and keep the tech if third party company later goes evil or goes under.

If I do not have the source code, I do not own it. If I cannot own it, then why pay for it.

Also everything becomes open source eventually. Companies can choose to accelerate this and earn community goodwill that might make them money selling open source turn-key services, or be replaced by that same community eventually doing it all themselves.

No one pays for a license fee for the Linux kernel, but they pay their choice of cloud provider to host it. Choice. That is what I will pay for.

https://staltz.com/time-till-open-source-alternative.html

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...
To add another voice to the chorus; I highly recommend Obsidian for your notes. It's essentially a really nice Markdown editor with some extra features, all your notes are regular old .md's that you can port anywhere, and by default its all offline/private. The documentation for Obsidian is also written in Obsidian, if you want to see what a "finished" notebook actually looks like - https://help.obsidian.md/Home

My personal setup is just Syncthing running on a few devices, shuffling my notes directory around as I update it. There is a fairly large library of Plugins available, but personally I haven't found a need for them given my use case.
It was completely written in assembly
I wish this was upvoted more. This is the correct way to troubleshoot the bug, full stop. You can get symbolic stack traces with full arguments and source code on Windows in about 5-10 minutes for any Chrome crash by following these instructions. I always have a last change exception handler that fires up a WinDBG script on Windows for our chromium-based test runners, which reduces troubleshooting time to just a couple minutes in order to find the symbol in their bug database. Playing blackbox what-if games like the Gusto team is a waste of time and doesn't contribute any situation-specific knowledge to bugs.chromium.org.
For anyone who hasn't given Apple Notes a fair shake recently, I suggest checking it out again. It’s recently introduced power features that make surfacing and interacting with notes so much better. Gone are the days when Notes was an afterthought that was tied to your Mail/IMAP.

Some features I like: tagging, smart folders, PDF previews, note linking, and the fact that I can drag-drop nearly anything into a note and store it there. You can also access Notes in a browser at iCloud.com.

All for free, built-in!
The "link" tax is a tax on mega American tech companies, and was written to target literally only two companies on the planet. It has nothing to do with the internet at large. Anyone who claims otherwise is either poorly informed, or a bad faith actor. The histrionics on this topic are not useful.

>This is a very poor argument

What do you even think the argument was? I said that Meta's position is an indicator. Don't pretend I said anything more, or strawman a counterpoint based upon nothing.

>Not even accurate

What a picking at nits. While I was talking about both companies generally, Facebook basically became the "go to" back when they absolutely did scrape news, similar to Google. Publishers started directly pushing their content there because they had basically no protections from it being pulled (you know -- "open internet" and all) and Canadians were conditioned to hit the "news" tab on Facebook as the homepage for news.

Again, my greatest hope is that Meta sticks with it. No news on FB, Threads, Instagram or elsewhere. A total embargo. That'll show em!
Free Pascal still has a look-a-like of the original TP IDE! But that code is bitrotting by their own admission (it still relies extensively on obsolete quirks of the original MS-DOS platform) and it's sad that we don't have a look-a-like version that can work as a general editor in the terminal (like neovim or emacs) and integrate with modern IDE-oriented facilities like the LSP, tree-sitter parsers or the debug adapter protocol. That could even be a game changer for editing code remotely from SSH/terminal connections.
How is the username/password entered into the site? Using the user's browser right?
Sure. And I would agree that the trucks you see on job sites are, by necessity, more "practical" truck buyers than what is typical. That doesn't mean it's what most truck buyers buy though. (Since way more people buy trucks than those driving them to job sites.)
Looking at the picture of the CT in your link, unless you're Andre the Giant reincarnated, that thing will hit you smack in the face.
Some thoughts:

1. https://www.amazon.com/Write-Great-Code-2nd-Understanding/dp...

2. https://www.amazon.com/Write-Great-Code-Low-Level-High-Level...

3. https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-RISC-V-A...

4. https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-Ap...

5. https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-MIPS-Arc...

6. https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Design-ARM-Arch...

7. https://www.amazon.com/Models-Computation-Introduction-Compu...