skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a pipeline you can see when they’re workshopping ideas where things start at some think tank or other very openly ideological organization and moves through Reason, TNR, Fox, on to the WSJ and NYT where at each level the issue is pitched as more of a “lots of people are talking” kind of phenomenon detached from the source.

A really good example of this happened a decade ago when you started seeing these public reconsiderations where an NYT oped or someone on a Sunday news show was asking whether Rachel Carson was responsible for increased numbers of Africans dying from malaria. If you didn’t follow it before then, it looked like an organic discussion reconsidering whether an environmental success has unintended consequences.

If you had followed it, however, it was actually funded by the tobacco companies as part of an attack against public health agencies. They started with places like their lobbyist’s blog, got traction in the libertarian / right-wing blogosphere, then Reason, then the unabashed right-wing media, etc. until the more mainstream media felt the need to cover this story “everyone” was talking about:

https://www.wired.com/story/ddt-battle-scientific-skepticism...

https://web.archive.org/web/20080517020543/http://www.prospe...

It’s not uncommon to find that cycle behind “runaway government” news stories where the mainstream coverage doesn’t mention that someone’s full-time job was pitching that story to reporters.
But you avoiding the company doesn’t prevent the company from infringing on your dna privacy if a family member submits theirs.

My point is, until legislation changes, it will get worse before it gets better and misdirected anger won’t achieve a valuable outcome.
She wouldn't be the first high-profile member of the EA cult to talk to the press after a scandal, against the advice of any sane lawyer.
LineageOS with MicroG, F-Droid and Aurora store for whatever play apps you might need has served me well for years. Haven't signed into a Google account for anything on here.
I do find it fascinating that a world-leading economist could have findings in a peer reviewed study, and a random joe will reject it and be like "that's not how free market works!"

> illegal and governments do take action against price-fixing

You mean like how egg producers engaged in collusion in 2000's and the were founds guilty in year 2023, 20 years later? You do realise that it's too little, too late.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-jury-awards-177-...
The parent post question presumably was about the impact she has had as an academic or researcher (as "the leading academic on the issue of AI safety"), where the political actions on some board are not relevant.
> Sure, incomes have gone up. Prices seem to have gone up more. I fail to see how this is a meme.

It's a meme because of the "seem to have" part. You believe it because it feels true, even though it's actually false. People measure this stuff. What you say is wrong. Wages have grown faster than prices over the past 4 years. Period. You can't just throw out decades of research and process development on CPI indicators because of your Netflix bill!
> brings that concern openly to the rest of the Board in a formal setting

Yes and no.

Meetings are a terrible way to drive toward decisions but a great way to signal positions to others. Or "decision meetings" bad; "consensus meetings" good.

If you're driving one of those, you should know how everyone involved feels before they meet. You should lobby any of them beforehand if necessary. The idea is to try to make sure you have buy-in before everyone shows up - no drag-out arguments, no rabbit trails, just statements of their positions and a thumbs up.

And Altman seems to know that, given his behavior.
Although this ONLY holds if you're using HTTPS -- which is a separate thing, so maybe they're considering that you might not use HTTPS.
Yeah there was even a video compilation circulating (posted here IIRC) of recent earnings calls where the CEOs all said "blah blah great opportunity to increase prices". Surprising to read comments in here that seem to hold a sentiment along the lines of "companies are just doing what they gotta to get by".
America is in top three nations of the world for wages (OECD 2022). Sweden is 18th.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average...
You're arguing against a straw man. I've actually been to events without food options that accommodated my diet, and I've been served meals on planes that included buns and sweets which ended up in the trash. No nukes involved.

If that makes some strangers on the Internet think I'm a "jerk", so be it.
> This means that Fairphone might actually make the decade-lasting phone a reality.

This is already a reality with GNU/Linux phones. Even more, they have lifetime updates.
From https://www.boost.org/sgi/stl/StrictWeakOrdering.html:

> A Strict Weak Ordering is a Binary Predicate that compares two objects, returning true if the first precedes the second. This predicate must satisfy the standard mathematical definition of a strict weak ordering. The precise requirements are stated below, but what they roughly mean is that a Strict Weak Ordering has to behave the way that "less than" behaves: if a is less than b then b is not less than a, if a is less than b and b is less than c then a is less than c, and so on.

So if I take it correctly, std::sort will happily ticker-tape your array into the nearby dragon's lair if the sort callback doesn't return -1/0/1 correctly?

<Rueful mental note>
Read both fiction and non-fiction but really got back into fiction this year. I was job searching for the majority of the year and as cheesy as it may sound, it feels like reading brought childlike magic back into my life. Here are my favorites:

1. The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh
2. The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews
3. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
4. Daughter of the Moon Gooddess by Sue Lynn Tan

1. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
2. Eat & Run by Scott Jurek
3. Center Center by James Whiteside
4. The Color of Water by James McBride

(Two books I recommend that I read last year: The Signature of All Things and Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert)
Whether or not Google truly 'lost data', any backup is only as good as the last verification done by the datas owner.

Simply putting varying degrees of closed-source Syncing App in place long term, then expecting them to just keep working perfectly in all circumstances, through all possible future PEBKAC (either by the user or the corporation) - to the extent that they're reliable as a persons long term and only data backup - is a false expectation that the masses have bought into as part of the whole mobile/cloud world hype.
> Leadership is fundamentally about manipulating people.

This is true...if you are the leader of a cult, which exist to deify you more than benefit the group.

> If the people already agreed, they wouldn't need leadership. Your job as leader is to get them all working in more or less the same direction, even though they don't really want to.

Yes, but if you're having to puppet people to do it, it's not leadership. It's just manipulation. You should be able to do this through inspiration, and transparently in group settings, not by compartmentalizing lies and half-truths privately. That's just fucking embarrassing. Altman's leadership skills are on par with a 14-year old influencer.

I feel like you're taking the argument for why "we let Pearl Harbor happen" and using it to excuse the whims of a psychopath.
1. Many USB-C jack adapters are poor quality.

2. USB-C adapters are one extra thing to carry around and easy to lose or forget, unless you just never unplug it, which is cumbersome

3. Many people who were born before the year 2005 (me included) have wired headphones that they prefer and have used for years that still work fine and have the sound quality and comfort that fit our needs.

4. Outside of the smart phone world, 3.5mm audio jacks are still very common and not obsolete

5. Bluetooth is cumbersome on many phones and headphones, introduces latency, and affects audio quality

I wouldn't buy a phone just because it had a headphone jack, but it's definitely a draw for me when a phone does (+ a removable battery or expandable storage, but HN is probably gonna tell me those things are obsolete as well).
Evaluating LLM reasoning via debate
I can already see modding: print your own "waveform discs".

Also, use the fingers as a break for low frequency modulation.

The idea is brilliant as a novelty synth. Remains to be seen if it's actually useful and expressive enough.
This is how it became so popular so fast. If they had charged for it, all those Teams users would still be using Zoom.
plenty of split dongles that do power and audio, right?
> Seriously: who needs a headphone jack anymore?

People born before the year 2005 who don't throw away perfectly working electronics when a new shiny alternative comes around the corner.
I'm not totally anti-webhook or the person you replied to, but I'd prefer at-most-once delivery via something that establishes a reusable connection (grpc or even websockets?) and backed by an events endpoint like Stripe's where the client can read everything that would have been sent. That way the client can replay all the events at leisure and retries aren't the server's responsibility.
If you insist:

- Heinlein

https://www.spectator.com.au/2019/03/robert-a-heinlein-the-giant-of-sf-was-sexist-racist-and-certainly-no-stylist/

- Asimov

https://www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empire-asimovs-wall/

- Clarke

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjxp5m/we-asked-people-what-childhood-moment-shaped-them-the-most

(nebulous, but credible)

- Orson Scott Card

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Homosexuality_2

Sorry if that toppled any of your heroes.

I have book by all of them on my shelves but they're not necessarily saints.
That may be the median for all dwellings including apartments. The median detached house price is closer to $1.4m AUD in Sydney at the moment. Grocery prices are still near record highs, petrol has come down slightly but give it a week and it’ll be back up with our cycles, and products are still being shrunk in dishonest ways.

Still waiting to see the ‘prices come back down’ from the parent post, meanwhile our main shopping companies all posted record profits.
Ahh, I had heard people complaining about systemd having a qr code generator included a few years ago.

Hopefully this one can do something useful, like include details of the actual crash so you don't have to transcribe them. Unlike the windows one, that's hardcoded in.
Regardless, using housing is pretty disingenuous anyway. It’s a largely second-hand peer-to-peer market. Not like my eggs…I hope.
> Without the ability to confabulate, he would have been unable to tell his story.

You can tell a story without making up fiction. Just say you don’t know when you don’t know.

Inaccurate information is worse than no information.
> I remember watching many years ago a talk about a mesh network scheme where its users would unambiguously assign themselves addresses through some hash function.

Was it this one -> https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/ ?

Anyway, I fully agree with you. Assigning meaningless (and therefore collision-prone and spoofable) numbers to people/machines just seems like such an arcane idea in light of all the cryptographic advances people have made.

Whatever network I configure, I always need to worry about collisions or possible misconfigurations. Whether I set up some private VPN for myself and have to worry about potential spoofed IP packets from outside, or whether I connect to a corporate VPN from home and suddenly I can no longer ping 1.1.1.1 because their IT department couldn't be bothered to configure their routes correctly. It's insane.
This is like critiquing Disney for putting out garbage and then defending them because dummies keep giving them money regardless of quality. Having standards and expectations of greatness is a good thing and the last thing you want is for mediocrity to become acceptable in society.
Each year, I put up a list of the books I've enjoyed during the year but haven't gotten this year's list up. Here are my lists from prior years: https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-books-2022/

Here are two I've enjoyed so far this year:

"Slouching Towards Utopia" by J. Bradford DeLong (2022). This is a narrative economic history of the 20th century. It heavily focuses on the interaction between policy and economic thought.

"Lost Continents" by L. Sprague de Camp (1954). This book looks at Atlantis and other lost continents as rhetorical devices in ancient history and philosophy, 20th century pseudoscience/pseudohistory, and science fiction.
DOE HPC people are not having this problem with AMD GPUs: here’s a paper that reports 1.36 TB/s on one GCD of an MI250x (theoretical is 1.6TB/s).

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3624062.3624203

Table 6
Average gas price in Australia during November $1.3 was per litre.
Hard to say definitively.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/13/1182019025/is-greedflation-re...

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/18/once-a-fringe-theory-greedf...
With a 7-10 year lifespan it’s only the initial cost that may be big, the cost over time is much less and the resell value once one upgrades also holds up much better over time
I really mean "extremely heavy use"
Anthony Levandowski, to name one.
I mean, that’s great that you can make your schedule work for you but everyone’s situation isn’t the same. You clearly have a very unique situation that you can work with your wife and consider your job your hobby. Not everyone can maintain their relationship by hiring their spouse. Do you work a desk job? Do you WFH? Do you have downtime during the day? Are you your own boss? People’s situations vary greatly and not everyone has those same luxuries.

Add in 1-2 hours of commuting and those 4 hours become 2. That’s 2 hours to make and eat dinner, cleanup, take care of pets, shower and get ready for work the next day in order to get 8 hours of sleep; and that doesn’t even factor in time to get ready in the morning. If I want to do anything else beyond that, then it will have to cut into my time for sleep.

The point is absolutely the hours worked. I shouldn’t have to sacrifice my sleep and health in order to take care of things in my personal life because the entirety of my waking hours are taken up by work.

Edit:

I’d also like to point out that in one of your comments you claim that you got 3-5 hours of sleep a night throughout your 20’s working at your first company, so clearly you haven’t actually managed to be happy and well rested for all those 30 years. It seems you’re only sleeping 8 hours a night now that your older and financially comfortable.

“Never slept better getting older; I used to do 3-5 hour nights in my 20s because of stress for my company, sold the company and had no worries anymore so slept 8-9 hours/day. Opened another company but with far less worries (if it fails it's sad but far from the existential stress the first company was) so now into my 50s I lay down, pass out and wake exactly 8 hours later.”[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38514444
I'd ask that you define what "playing" a synthesizer entails. A lot of that comes down to designing sounds, especially given the fact that you have so many different kinds of oscillators interacting with each other.

Someone can play a keyboard, perhaps, but that's only one of many interfaces to interact with synthesizers.

It's not really the same as a guitar, where your fingers are directly responsible for the vibrations coming out of the strings.
Greedflation is a weird way of spelling capitalism.
Shrinkflation is hardly a new phenomenon. There is no evidence to indicate that firms were less greedy a few years ago.

Temporary high egg prices were at least partly caused by a temporary supply shortage from a bird flu outbreak. That was somewhat different from the monetary issues which usually drive inflation.

https://apnews.com/article/bird-flu-outbreak-turkey-egg-chic...
What is interesting is that we've gone through 3 phases of consumer NAS:

1) Western Digital (MyBook I think was the name?) with built-in HD -- notoriously buggly and unreliable pieces of junk

2) Then just... no NAS as cloud seemed to be the answer

3) Now, Synology NAS enclosures and their custom OS (DSM) exists which is just a dream of ease-of-use

If there is a new era of NAS, I'd say it's single-handedly being enabled by Synology, which is really quite remarkable.
That's a problem, but it's not the problem. I'm not sure why you guys are acting like it's an unreasonable suggestion for a sushi restaurant to serve sashimi.
First, congrats on starting your new career!

I’ve been a dev for over 20 years and trucking on still, so I can give you my 2 cents.

If you’re just starting out, your boss ought to be taking a more ‘mentoring’ style with you. Your reasoning is fair, and taking care to do things right is a good philosophy. However, there’s often a balance between time sensitive deadlines and doing things rigorously in development. Knowing what compromises you’re making as a developer and why you’re making them is something that comes with experience. Essentially, we’re making design decisions in the interest of time. As a manager, I’d be uncomfortable expecting a junior dev to get this right, but the fact you’re aware of the right way to do it, and what you’re being asked to do is a compromise, is a good signal that you’re a good developer . All my developers had their own ideas of how to do things and discussing whether a particular idea was worth the risks it brought to the deadline was all perfectly normal, reasonable and expected. Just normal project management mojo. So long as you and your boss can have productive conversations about your concerns, I wouldn’t be too hasty about leaving.

I’d suggest you learn what you can where you are, realise what’s missing from your current role and keep an eye out for other job opportunities.
> I've yet to see a real-life example of some other query language that gracefully handles queries that would be difficult in SQL.

That's exactly it. Nothing has come anywhere close to seeing the same kind of effort as SQL put into it. SQL is the best application of relational calculus (or close approximation, at least) we have – but that doesn't make it good. A concerted effort to build a better application of relational calculus would undoubtedly yield a major improvement for developers, on the order of how something like Rust has improved over C, and as I said before it is unfortunate that we as an industry are not showing interest in a better language like we do with regards to general purpose computing.

SQL gets the job done, but we can do better.

> The only real alternative I can think of is the map-reduce pattern

The alternative is to build a better language, not jump to a completely different and unrelated model. Indeed, there is a place for map-reduce for certain problems, but they are outside of where you would use the relational model.
Google Assistant is better these days, in my experiments.
You don’t need collusion to make it work. They just all have the same idea. Charge more and see if people still buy it. They do? Charge a bit more.
This paper is primarily considering nontrivial oscillators, i.e., oscillators in which at least one cell oscillates at the full period, not just some divisor. Still, there are many nontrivial "LCM" oscillators that can be constructed with two lower-period oscillators that just slightly interact. Such an LCM oscillator for p42 ("unix on 44P7.2") could have been constructed for decades; the actual last nontrivial periods to be discovered were p34, p38, p19, and p41.
Show HN: Merge folders and simulate merging–count of conflicts, trumps, and new
> In the end the quality of the information it will get back to you is no better than the quality of a thorough google search.. it will just get you a more concise and well-formatted answer faster.

I would say it’s worse than Google search. Google tells you when it can’t find what you are looking for. LLMs “guess” a bullshit answer.
For the planet: Not much better
> Having said that, this WILL become a maintenance trainwreck when scaled up, telling from my devops experience. All the libraries/apis/infrastructure (especially in nodejs land) tend to have breaking updates all the time, so better have at least one FTE dedicated to maintenance of all the moving parts.

Oh man, this sounds like a dealbreaker, but thanks for sharing your approach nonetheless!
Yeah and, worse comes to worst, you can just use foreignObject to bounce back to HTML, do something with flexbox, and then go back to SVG!
Creating RenderMan: Pixar's Impact on CGI Is Recognized with an IEEE Milestone
No Secrets Quickly find sensitive files in your GitHub repo
Makes sense. The slower you eat, the less food it takes to feel full, because the nutrients have had time to absorb into your blood and hit the feedback mechanisms. So the longer in between servings of high cost items, the less overall will probably be consumed.
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> The great thing about PoE standards is there's so many to choose from.

There is nothing to choose there. They're supersets of each other with increasing power budget, each including the previous revision as lower power classes.

(and PoDL is not PoE; PoDL is for automotive ethernet, which has nothing to do with the RJ45 you see everywhere on consumer/business IT. You never choose between PoDL and PoE, the choice is made when you decided between Xbase-T vs. Xbase-T1.)

> ethernet introduces a degree of non-determinism with respect to time in the link layer

That's what TSN is for, cf. sibling comment.

> plus increased bringup times

That's generally an IP problem, not Ethernet.

> a potentially more costly core switching fabric

I guess it depends on your application; a TSN-capable 8-port automotive ethernet switch is $10: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/microchip-technol... (non-TSN non-automotive is cheaper…)

> heterogeneous infrastructure costs

Automotive ethernet is supposed to replace CAN and the various heterogeneous higher-speed interfaces that were added to deal with higher bandwidth requirements with a homogeneous ethernet world :)

(Source: I work on some software remotely related to some of this shit. Which does mean I'm biased since I don't know whether it will in fact proliferate, I just make it work ;)
> wiggle a voltage in proportion to the return value, feed the output stream into a digital-to analog-converter

The first part of this sentence, the wiggle, is already a DAC.
What’s the environmental cost of USB charging assuming wear on the cable? I seem to naturally go through one per year, I have a friend whose pets love to destroy cables so I assume they go through more.

Electricity can be solar, meaning that it could be close enough to zero environmental impact - think 20 years from now when we’ve got our crap together when it comes to sustainable energy..

Edit: a point below comments on increased battery wear which I fully agree with.
https://www.buttersafe.com/2010/05/20/the-five-stages/
Imagine it's one device but when you pull it out of your pocket, you pull it in half and only slide out a touchscreen leaving the battery and other guts in your pocket. With some magnetic clips, it could be seamless to slide it back into your pocket to become the larger single brick again which it stays as you take it all out at night to plug in and charge.
To be clear - I’m not saying this makes Gemini good. Just that it isn’t bad for these reasons!
Please, please let me know before you fly next. I cannot wait to hear you explain to the gate agent that you purchased a ticket so legally the plane is now yours.
Not to mention that they really are cartels. According to Oxfam international only 10 megacorps control the majority of top brands (1). It may look like there's lot of competition for say cereal, but there's basically just General Mills and Kelloggs with a few generic brands available.

1: https://www.good.is/Business/food-brands-owners-rp