skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the shows you have listed were created by traditional networks (a lot of HBO and FX).

I haven't seen any of the Apple TV shows yet, but a lot of the other streaming ones I think prove my point. Mandalorian is okay. Loki is okay. (I Think You Should Leave is a good one though).
This is true, but cavemen also regularly murdered other humans, a practice that we rightfully abandoned.

"Cavemen did that too" is not enough justification for some behavior. Cavemen also did not use computers. In fact, we evolved to communicate using only our bodies!

We have long crossed the point where humanity can decide how it wants to live.
I agree about the long-term problems (and I'm very happy the students are finally getting paid, and they should get normal market salaries), but it's still much worse now. It's too easy to say, 'everything in the world in imperfect, and therefore all the same'.
Skill issue. What you intend as "clear" has an aggressive tone.

It may be related to power differentials: when talking to peers or superiors people tend to use more deferential and roundabout phrasing. When talking to an underling, communication can be much more terse.
You can't post like this here. I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Apologies, it was not the technical side of it that had me musing on it. I was genuinely curious why and how I would "scroll" through that much data in a meaningful way.

And I don't mean this as a heavy criticism of the idea. I'm assuming it is useful to you. Always fun to hear about how this sort of thing is used.
Here's a graph of Hawaii's power prices.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APUS49F72610
> No he didn't. His employees did.

Gates traded money for the work of his employees. It was a fair trade, as both parties freely agreed. (Pedantically, Gates wrote Microsoft's first product - BASIC.)

> The transfer of wealth was from the employees of Microsoft to Bill Gates by means of information asymmetry: Bill Gates knows what his employees are worth (i.e. the value they create, on average), but they don't.

You imply that they were stupid. They certainly were not. And at any time they could have demanded more money. And at any time they could have quit, started their own company, and received the full value of their work. (Many did so, the PNW is full of them.)

Story time! I know of a very successful salesman at BigCorp. He generated vast quantities of sales for them, and was paid him well. He could walk into any company and be ushered in to see the CEO, and make a sale. He quit to join a startup and do the sales.

He was unable to close a single deal. He couldn't even get an audience from the decision makers in other companies, let alone see the CEO. He returned to BigCorp, who was happy to get him back.

The point is, it was BigCorp standing behind him that enabled his success. Without that, it just didn't work for him.

> consider the cartel behavior of major SV employers

I know about that. The cartel was a handful of employers. It did not cover the zillions of other tech companies, nor was it remotely effective in stopping startups that they could start.
Madhava Series
Not even that, if you change what you eat, you can have a dramatic effect as well. Try cutting out carbs and sugar as much as possible, results in two weeks.

Changing when you eat is a factor too.
Recent discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38933315 (yesterday, 405 points)
A spiritual void, a loss of social cohesion, isolation, alienation, a loss of a culture that reinforces ways of life that enable flourishing, radical individualism. The decline of traditional religious faith in the West. The sexual revolution and its dreadful distortion of human sexuality. The culture of consumerism and the worship of desire and appetite divorced from reason and one's objective good.

So what's a smell that suggests this is the case? According to the triple melting pot theory, in countries like the US, ethnic identity, under the tendency toward some kind of assimilation, gives way to religious identity as not only religious identity, but a substitute for ethnic identity.

So what happens with the waning of religious identity? Various dehumanizing ideologies start to look attractive. This explains both the appeal of the sexual, racial, and ecological ideologies that have become popular recently. These ideologies promise identity and social belonging, perhaps even an alleged higher purpose, which is to say they offer false and flimsy identities, ones that have political utility for those who control them. Various subcultures, many created by corporate interest around various products, do the same thing. You have "communities", so-called, that center around owning a particular brand of something. Corporate brand constructed false identities.

People don't know who they are. They've alone. They don't know the address of the destination, or even that there is an address. Their horizon goes only as far as satisfying their base appetites, and they pay lip service to ideologies to avoid being shunned from groups without which they cannot satisfy those appetites. And when they do, they discover that their satisfaction isn't all that it is cracked up to be. Here follows the realization that no hope is to be found in what has been sought. From here: suicide, or some higher realization.
on 08 dec larson wrote

"the problems AI currently solves can only be cracked if very large repositories of data are available to solve them. ChatGPT is no exception—it makes the point. In fact, it's a continuation of previous innovations of Big Data AI taken to an extreme. The AI scientist's dream of general intelligence, often referred to as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), remains as elusive as ever."

https://erikjlarson.substack.com/p/ai-is-broken
WebMD is mostly famous for being a thorn in the ass of doctors, when panicked patients insist that their latest symptom is definitely cancer, and not trapped wind. They're a gift to unethical pharmaceutical companies and they add little to no value.

But don't take my word for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebMD#Criticism
Yup, absolutely. Places with high energy costs due to being geographically isolated / without a lot of local energy resources have always struck me as some of the best initial places for solar+battery.
I still miss MSN. It just worked for non-work stuff. I met my wife during the peak MSN years.
I'd like to take a moment to appreciate the languages like Mariposa that immediately show me the syntax examples.
What is going on with their rollouts or A/B testing or whatever they're doing? They have this big announcement, and yet my paid account doesn't show this functionality at all.
This is disappointing. Open access to information can help build healthy societies that thrive.

The Iranian people that I met in the U.S. are kind and friendly. The Iranian people deserve a better government.
This is an unreasonably generous interpretation and doesn't make sense in context.
If you haven't see it already, there's Rabbit r1[0] which takes the "in the future there wouldn't be individual apps" approach and on the other hand OpenAI seems to adopt the "in the future, we will host all the apps" approach.

I'm curious who will win this one but IMHO there's a value in having an individual well defined app even though I previously argued that in the future there wouldn't be individual apps. The value, I think, is that having an object with a statement gives you a spark of ideas and trust through branding. The branding part might be the "killer app", if you think about it we are and we live among biological neural networks who are about capable the same but then we go around and specialise in things and then seek individual personas since we don't have a way to measure the quality of the output in advance.

[0]https://www.rabbit.tech
You just proved the point you want to disprove. Those that absorb more calories gain more weight, thus CICO.
I've had a hard time with this one, not having time to dig in:

1. Why does the article describe the technique as persisting through password changes, and then ends by recommending a password change?

(answer: "Changing the password alone may not be sufficient. The exploit allows the regeneration of authentication cookies even after a password reset, but only once. To fully secure the account, users should log out of all sessions and revoke any suspicious connections.")

2. Was this a flub on Google's end? How does this even happen? Was the multilogin API not checking revocation like all other Google APIs or what?

3. Is it conspiratorial to say maybe this was intentional, or intentionally not fixed here?

I'd seen speculation that this was used as part of some sort of account recovery flow, where those invalid sessions/tokens might be a useful signal. But I can't imagine why such a feature would re-validate those tokens.
Event sourcing (+ materialized views and indices) != abandon your RDBMS. You can have both. Though you might find that traditional RDBMSes don't optimize well enough in the event sourcing (+ materialized views and indices) model.
You’re just old. And maybe not looking in the right places? I find the sentiment is similar in many music scenes among older folk but there’s so many amazing modern bands in a plethora of genres that I can only assume their taste is hyper specific or they’re not looking correctly.
Aren't American workers generally "at will"? What would be the basis of a lawsuit? Working remotely isn't a protected class, is it?
Isn't that because HN is currently temporarily behind Cloudflare due to the ongoing (?) DDOS attack?
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Companies trying to work like it’s the 1990s will become defunct in the coming decades. Being able to work remotely is a skill. Those unable to do so and companies implementing blanket policies to return to office are fossils in a digital age.

I finish work in 1-2 hrs. With RTO, I finish work within 4-5 hrs. Combine this with a physical commute.

Constant breaks in attention. People just asking stupid shit irl when it’s clearly documented online. The cOlLaBorRaTiOn is really just micromanaging issues projected onto us.

Oh and let’s not forget the exposure to your virus of the week/month from people with kids in school or daycare!

Just another deadass company and one that I will never directly work for
PTSD can be caused by any trauma, like a car crash or abuse. PTSD is actually a fear of a traumatic memory. A person experiences flashbacks (pieces of the traumatic memory) and fears that the traumatic event will reoccur. The most effective treatment is exposure therapy - in a nutshell, you eventually write down the traumatic memory in full (not just pieces of it) and read it until it becomes boring/you understand that for example it wasn't your fault. Here is a recent meta analysis https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02727...
Lucky. The one time I flew when my ID didn't match my ticket (using an airline account that I forgot to update with my married name first) and it was a pretty big headache. I had to stand in the security line for about 15 extra minutes for them to verify that yes First Maidenlast was the same person as First Marriedlast. I made sure to get the situation fixed before my return flight.
Strongly agree. I think a point not explicit in OP's article is having low quality initial Plans in order to move forward.

Logically, we want a Plan to move towards our Goal. As Engineers we often suffer from Analysis Paralysis: lots of paths to the goal with no clear winner. We also slow down from Impostor Syndrome: surely a smarter/more talented person knows the one true Plan forward to the goal.

> I make a plan, then do the plan, then learn from my efforts by reviewing my progress. I do this every day of the year, going on half a decade now. [At many time scales: three hour cycles going up to three-month cycles.]

I believe OP would agree that the Plan should be low quality, at least at the beginning. This encourages forward movement, and learning, vs just planning in circles and without using real-world data.

Source: writing a book on Feedback Loops
https://chat.openai.com/gpts doesnt load for you?
If you think so, make an argument for it! I'm all ears.
What powers Hawaii at night?
Like asking the ultra rich to pay taxes?
What I think you'll see happen over the next 1-2 years is that as some jobs return to office the WFH roles will attract more talent, but also be lower compensated on average since some people are happy to take say a 10-20% for a fully remote role.

Personally I don't understand why there is even a push to return people to office if they are working fine remotely. We're having this argument at my place right now... Most of us have been remote for 3 years and there's no obvious signs that we're delivering lower quality or any slower than we were before. I think everyone is onboard with occasional team meetups, but requiring an arbitrary amount of office per week serves no good purpose.

I do get the need for office work in some cases, but outside of that it seems to me a lot of this is simply driven by managers feeling less important when they can't be office busy bodies. At very least it's interesting to note that the desire to return to work appears to be highest among those with more "power".
I liked Rings of Power and I’m a huge Tolkien nerd and also generally cynical and hate most new shows. No idea why it gets such a bum wrap
It's the repeated exclamations (!!) that are the true offenders.
Apologies, that was not what I meant. I meant it more directly in assuming the technical side works and you are able to scroll just fine, how do you meaningfully do so with that much data?

And I don't mean this as an attack. I presume there are some techniques that I just don't know. Or data sets I just don't typically interact with.

For the ones I am used to, aggregates are key to working with them. That and graphical visualizations. (Though, it is frustrating how many visualizations can be reduced quickly to "top N" or similar.)
That (fallacious) argument applies to nearly every other "tech" platform, from YouTube to Hacker News.

The barrier being low is not the problem -- the question is how high does the ceiling go. Is this thing capable only of preconfigured prompts based on a customized data upload, or something vastly more?
Well, yeah. Or rather, if they’re going to take this tough guy “obey or else” stance, what other choice do they leave themselves?
Being a question, it should read “You know what?” ;)
True, but a lot of companies want to source it all from a single vendor so they can talk to one entity when dealing with configuration/integration issues. Its not how I roll but it is how a lot of big companies operate.
It would be nice if the whole world would transition away from fossil fuels all in lockstep, but that's just not realistic. The energy transition is going to be/already is very uneven. It's going to happen first in the places that have a strong desire to lead and the financial and the natural resources (e.g. abundant sun) to enable that. Hawaii happens to fit all those criteria.
Downturn has no effect on growth only on income.
2024-01-10-Next 10 years of Node.js [video]
It sure would be nice if Nvidia just named the new card 4075 or something. The whole 4070 vs 4070 Super vs 4070 Ti vs 4070 Ti Super naming scheme sucks.
We also frequently kill each other, we've just abstracted/outsourced the process here in the West. Computers also simply abstract or outsource verbally communicating and thinking.

Vegans also outsource killing animals to the farmers who mow down billions of small (and large!) animals and insects every year to grow their vegetables.

We don't have the control you imagine we do.

Edit: here's a source on vegans killing lots of animals

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10806-018-9733-8
I had to watch three times and I am still not sure if its not an episode of "The Office"...
Nobody was arguing that “cavemen did it too” is an argument to continue some practice, just saying that it is reasonable to assume that wanting to eat meat is more likely to be the result of evolutionary pressure than brainwashing.
I'm happy with it. It's a nice improvement over HLSL/GLSL in Bevy.
There are so many different kinds of scrolling though.

For me:

- HN scrolling to find ideas/inspiration, staying longer if I find something interesting

- Twitter scrolling to get a glimpse of what's going on in the world and then staying if I get baited by something :D

- Facebook scrolling, usually for a particular purpose these days (maybe once every other week on average, to check up on someone in particular I happen to think of), then staying scrolling for a bit, past irrelevant posts for a while, where I might get warm/happy/nostalgic by some updates

- Instagram scrolling takes literally 30 seconds before I get annoyed by the ads and close the app (happens 100% of the time although I might last 1-2 minutes some times)

Those are all quite different experiences and I could do them all in quite different ways. I used to mindlessly scroll FB for example while not using Twitter at all. The psychological effects were quite different, but perhaps more socially attuned?

Nowadays I scroll less overall and more for intellectual reasons.

But... getting caught in the "must... scroll.... more...." mode is the same for all of them psychologically (Youtube as well), the same addictive behavior.

So yeah. I think there needs to be a distinction between scrolling for a (moderately healthy) while and doomscrolling. The algorithms can be quite very helpful in presenting relevant data, but they're also a potential black hole.

Oh and I'm not sure why I was replying to you specifically. I guess you got to be my therapist today.
Applephrase: Generate memorable passphrases in multiple languages
applephrase is a commandline utility to generate memorable passphrases composed of a number of randomized pseudowords and a brief random string. The pseudowords can be generated for a number of languages: Dutch, French, English, German, Polish, Basque, Spanish, Italian, Serbocroatian Latin, Serbocroatian Cyrillic, Vietnamese, Estonian.
Plenty of oil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Hawaii

Coal was only a small percentage of the energy mix in the last decade.

Can we move on from the tired old "haha idiots forgot about night time" slam on renewable energy yet?
SEC.gov – approval of 11 Bitcoin spot ETF [pdf]
Are you shorting Bitcoin? There are many on-chain perps exchanges where you can do that and get paid for being correct. Are you confident enough with that statement to put money on the line?
Note that graph seems to have no data between 1986 and 2018
Shows the same thing as before, the 10 example GPTs that OpenAI made that have been there for months.
Probably I would not be much fun at parties of people who are really into driving petrol cars.
You might find this interesting: https://usemassive.com/
Agreed, WARP mode on the Nexus does give some pretty nice port-to-port latencies (for a L3 switch - L1 gear blows them all away).
That was fast! Are you notified on keywords or just happened by? It seems like an LLM assistant could make this task much easier.
It's worth noting that SPIR-V isn't really compiled for the target ISA, it's not even guaranteed to be in a particular optimized form already.. so when the GPU driver loads it, it may or may not decide to spend a lot of time running optimization passes before translating it to the actual machine code the GPU needs.

In contrast, Metal shaders can be pre-compiled to the actual ARM binary code the GPU runs.

And DirectX shader bytecode, DXIL, is (poorly) defined to be a low-level IR that LLVM spits out right before it would be translated to machine code, rather than a high-level IR like SPIR-V is. i.e. it is guaranteed to be in an optimized form already, so drivers do not expect to run any optimizations at load time.

SPIR-V seems a bit of a mess here, because you don't really know what the target GPU is going to do - and what you can expect in terms of time the GPU spends on optimizing the SPIR-V when loading it varies on mobile and non-mobile GPUs, depending basically on what the GPU manufacturer felt behaved the best based on how random people making games distribute optimized or unoptimized SPIR-V.

Valve even maintains a fancy database of (SPIRV, GPU driver) pairings which map to _actual_ precompiled shaders for all games distributed on their platform, so that they aren't affected by this.

Whew, what a mess shaders are.
Reminds me of a similar story from my childhood. I was also quite young at the time, accessing the public library OPAC from my home computer, and noticed the URL for the page ended in (I think) `.exe`. I know now that the OPAC was likely using CGI[0], but at the time I was curious, and somehow was able to download this `.exe`, Given it was a`.exe` and that it actually ran, I can't have just saved the webpage. I have a vague feeling I might have stripped the query parameters off the end of the URL, and that caused the web server to serve up the underlying `.exe` file. But whatever happened, when I ran the file, all it did was cause my printer (a parallel port one, not USB) to start printing blank pages.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
Car parking loophole that could help you avoid parking tickets
Having worked at Amazon through RTO I can tell you that it was effective at getting a lot of people to come in, but no one is happy about it and it has made work much less efficient and productive for everyone.

Most people are maliciously complying. They will come in at 11:45, grab lunch, and then leave. The clever ones then come back late at night to badge in and out again after 6pm so it looks like they were there all day, just outside. So far they aren't counting total time on campus, but when they do those people will have good numbers.

But it means they are now not working during those drive times. And they ones that are coming in all day waste a ton of everyone's time, including the remote people, looking for meeting rooms and setting up video calls, because every meeting still requires video, since all the teams are spread out over multiple offices.

And they also had to resort to denying promotions and raises for anyone who didn't RTO.
I think that the term "software system" can have a much broader meaning than the one you are using here.
Not to discredit, really I am actually interested and may even agree with you.

Give me an example of a text editor that you concider to have good UI design.
This is true and important - but subtle and easily misunderstood as simply outsourcing emissons .

There is a fundamental pollution that occurs in a coal plant: its purpose is to combine carbon and oxygen to produce heat and CO2.

There is no such fundamentals in producing a lithium cell or a solar module.

We are bootstrapping this carbon free energy system from our existing energy system - so of course, emissions abound - but once bootstrapped, it perpetuates without fossil fuels.
I still remember years ago, when you couldn't say a bad word about Bitcoin without being subjected to the longest, most unbearable lectures about "Fiat" and "Decentralization" and "The future of money." I wish it didn't take the better part of a decade for public opinion to shift enough that brigades of bag holders and sellers couldn't dominate the discourse.

Even more so I wish people would generalize this lesson, but as we see with "AI" that isn't going to happen.
Status page now says

>Global Networking

>Our Engineering team is currently investigating multiple reports of issues, including increased error rates with our Cloud Control Panel/API, Droplet networking, App Platform app deployments/apps loading, and possible other impacts.

>We are working to clarify impact and root cause and will post an update as soon as possible.
>Jan 10, 2024 - 20:59 UTC

And the incident page is at https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/33vqf05m8396