skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vax doesn't prevent you from getting covid. Everyone I know that was vaxxed (including me) has gotten covid multiple times, some severely.

Now it's impossible to actually know if it does anything to help. The more likely scenario is a weakened virus and herd immunity.
I don't see it. Run me through how this is a conflict of interests; ie who is it in conflict with.

Forbes is suggesting he fronted all the money and put his girlfriend in charge. While I wouldn't call that the highest-success strategy, it doesn't seem like a conflict. Presumably she is competent enough and I don't see anyone involved complaining. Did I miss something in the article?

It isn't a conflict of interest to appoint someone close to you to be CEO. It might be nepotism (read: is), but if someone fronted $100 million to some group then they get to engage in a little nepotism if they think it is a good idea. It is like a small businessman installing his son as 2IC; it isn't a cerebral choice but it is unproblematic.
ENTERPRISE baby. Business tiers are almost universally more expensive than individual tiers.
You should check out the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/submechanophobia/
Uhhh but what about the Keynesian tools we need to get us out of jams that a fixed money supply doesn’t afford us? They apparently worked great the last two crises.

I know, I know… it’s all part of one of Dalio’s big cycles, and I just haven’t seen it play out yet, I’m naive and all that. Bitcoin save us.
The delta is the price for disallowing training on chats while retaining all functionality of the web interface and app (e.g., Voice chat).
I don't know that there's a way you can pitch your reasoning to me where I would agree. The two statements sound equivalent to me. API rate limits are just that- rate limits. This is not akin to hacking and a software engineer I doubt would ever confuse it with hacking of any kind. What would be an example of "exploiting a rate limiting bug"? Either the server limits/throttles requests, or it doesn't.
Thank you for this link!
This is a way to create moat, you think Zoom can survive open source with just bland features serving moms and pops? That’s how you get them to stay out of open source
That very much depends on the person. It might be an upside for you but a downside for me.
The article goes into this:

"The old coal generator provided three key values to Oahu, Keefe explained: energy (the bulk volume of electricity), capacity (the instantaneous delivery of power on command), and grid services (stabilizing functions for the grid, wonky but vital to keeping the lights on). The battery directly replaces the latter two: It matches the coal plant’s maximum power output (or “nameplate capacity,” in industry parlance), and it is programmed to deliver the necessary grid services that keep the grid operating in the right parameters."
no training on the data; more requests per hour.
It was much more broad than the Assistant org.
https://github.com/bmoren/drawing-garden
I don't use any feature of Google Assistant that wasn't present in the original Android voice search feature over a decade ago. And the few features I do use haven't improved in any way that I've noticed. In fact I feel like reliability has regressed. Google could have fired almost the whole team years ago and my user experience would not be different today.

I consider voice assistants to be a failed experiment. It's clear that they were doomed to fail without the true ability to understand natural language and perform common sense reasoning that is only now starting to become a possibility with large language models.
“I see more psychotic people here than I did in Detroit. We’re just making this huge population of people who we can no longer fix.”
So what's a good employer now, now that Google has been losing the reputation for treating employees well?

(Multiple rounds of laying off people isn't treating only those people poorly, but also increasing stress for the people who remain, knowing they can suddenly be laid off as well.)
maybe we can ask the AI to filter it
From the second link

"There have been some experiments to show that abstract problem solving does raise the brain’s metabolic requirements, and the higher your IQ, the more extra energy you can expend in this way. But it’s unlikely to amount to more than five calories an hour, either way. So you can’t Sudoku yourself slim"

5 kcals x 15 hrs = 75 kcals.

Actually, this is significant in the sense that if you over kcal by 100 kcals per day that'll add up.
75 is 75% of 100.

It looks small but in the context of weight, 75 kcals per day is enough to make a difference.
We have as many reasons to believe that the legacy of the Roman Empire, through the Catholic Church, still exists today and is a billion people strong as we do why it fell at any one particular day for any one particular reason.
I had bought into the hype initially, but over the last few months the more I use ChatGPT for real work the more I realize that it is mostly coming from people who aren't actually using it themselves. They are instead hyping the idea of it that exists in their head.
Thanks, this is what I was looking for:

Category Energy Consumption by End-Use Sector
Residential 30.5 11.9%
Commercial 36.2 14.1%
Industrial 46.5 18.2%
Transportation 142.7 55.8%
None of what you said is inherently wrong. Much like the OSI model, if you reinvented Bitcoin today it would look much different.

Unlike the OSI model, Bitcoin's solution to finance is not modular or all-encompassing. If it's not going to adapt to modern demands, it will get replaced. There's no point in keeping around a financial solution that is impossible to fix when it breaks.
meh, openai is dead. just use https://www.forefront.ai/ or chatbotui.com with mixtral, invite team, done
I know intellectually that smartphones are more powerful than an N64... but playing this in a browser on a low-end smartphone is surreal.

PSA: bluetooth keyboard: X, C, space; arrow keys. Adjust view with WASD
I bet they will prioritize this traffic as well.
Google's done company wide layoffs today in a fragmented way to make them look localized, but it's affecting the whole company, see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947580
I'm not really commenting on the company side, but yes: plaintext passwords are bad, companies should notify customers when legally required, and I'd like companies to go further.

Legally, bypassing security controls, using credentials that are not yours, and accessing data without authorization is a crime[1]. I see no indication that this blog post was authorized. Others should not consider this blog post as a good approach.

Look instead to bug bounty programs and stay in-scope. Often that means creating your own account and avoiding other customer's data.

While it doesn't make a good blog post, I still emphasize that the author should have reported the leaked credentials and stopped.

[1] varies by jurisdiction, I'm not a lawyer, etc.
if they diverge because an economic shitstorm has started and everybody is buying food for survival with bitcoin, but the rump government still wants its cut of your new mad gainz, bitcoin in the ETF and bitcoin out of the ETF might maintain independent values, FEC vs RMB
don’t even get the option to force SSO unless you “contact sales” for the enterprise tier from what I can see :/
"Thinking back to his decision to major in computer science as an undergraduate, he said he now feels "very naive.""

Well, at least he can claim he is computer literate.
regrettably the ign link and to a lesser degree the twitter link caught on

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38945090 (ign)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38942189 (twitter)
A lot of military silicon is, in microarchitectural terms, very old. People overestimate how much CPU is required. For example, reliable hypersonic kinetic intercept of hypersonic targets (i.e. the proverbial bullet shooting down another bullet, where both are hypersonic) can be, and has been, done all day with a MIPS R3000 CPU. The physical limits of materials restrict systems to much lower reaction times than even ancient CPUs are capable of.

The advantage of old CPUs is that you can harden the hell out of them and be made to have very predictable properties. Also, the CPUs tend to be for orchestration and control. If you need any kind of heavy exotic processing, there is a dedicated piece of silicon for that purpose.

Complex US weapon systems like the F35 are a mixture of silicon that was old before some people here were born and state-of-the-art beyond what is available in commodity systems. They generally use the oldest most reliable tech that won’t compromise requirements for any particular use case.
I used to help run a Facebook page that shared a variety of content. We'd post political things sometimes and we'd get a few angry messages, that was normal.

One incident stands out because we received far more messages than I'd ever seen, it was the time we posted a news story about Netanyahu blaming a Palestinian for the Holocaust. We got several messages about what horrible lying racists we were, that was common to all the messages, but they had one main difference. About half the messages claimed Netanyahu never said what he said. The other half claimed he did say it, but he was right.
No, but assuming most of your friends and family haven't been murdered, we may assume murder is unlikely to be the cause of your death.
Federal government. No equity, but stability. Best place to take shelter during economic uncertainty or bearish conditions imho. Rode out the 2008 GFC at a DOE lab.

https://www.usajobs.gov/
I don't see how Valve would be involved in this unlike with the Dolphin Steam fiasco
Non-Standard Sound Synthesis with L-Systems (2009)
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38941942.
It is surprising that the article mentions Karl Marx, but not Henry George, whose ideas were the main inspiration for The Landlord’s Game.
The author seems to believe that GPS is the only and primary form of navigation.

Pilots in the US are trained from day one to use landmarks and dead-reckoning. From there the skills are built upon to where I believe it would be difficult to push a crew to such a gross navigational error that it causes disaster.

I’ll need to read the article more closely but it appears to be a lot of fluff and leaves out the many layers of navigation still available.
ty! feel free to excuse the email if it sounds a bit agitated, this just bites me all over the place so it's really annoying to see it perpetuated
For example with facial recognition, see this outcome with Rite Aid being banned from using it after a "warning shot" https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/20/rite-aid-facial-recognitio...
Learning this finally killed off my intermittent vim usage.
Or... you could sweep it into your nearest waste bin.
Not really, just ask about the features.
And you get bonus days off any time congress needs to raise the debt ceiling!
High interest rates. If Fed dropped them to 0 overnight, everyone on the list would have happily hired everyone back. But then the grocery prices would start growing faster than SPX.
I would counter that voice assistants are not a failed experiment. I would suggest that Amazon and Google’s execution of said experiments have failed.

I am extremely excited about the potential of projects like the Rabbit R1 and Humane.
This link seems broken.
Sometimes better than random layoffs because someone needed to juice the stock price.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-layoffs-cut-jobs-exce... (“A major Alphabet investor said the company should cut even more jobs and address 'excessive' pay in the wake of mass layoffs”)

(Edit: retracted an unnecessarily snarky statement)

(I admit Congress needs to get its shit together)
We're all going to find out. It's going to be wild.
Google lays off hundreds in hardware, voice assistant teams
Get serious unless the employee is open about what is going on none of that is ok. And if they are open they won’t be employees by multi employers for long.
No, it couldn’t. The tools to which you compare require a different or complementary set of skills to use, and the user must understand the output or mode of operation that the tool conveys.

Prompt engineering (within the context of ChatGPT) is more useful for jailbreaking than using it for its intended purpose, aside from which, the complaint of the OP from the linked post is that their coworkers do not understand the output, if they did, they would not rely on ChatGPT as a smokescreen.
This could have been the direction they went. "Wikihouse" and "open source architecture" could just as easily mean a wiki on DIY financing, development, design, construction, maintenance, and beyond using standard techniques. But somewhere they got in their head that they had to use CNC.

I wish it was possible to develop such a thing, but it would be very hard to gain traction without major support. And who with means to do so wants to support a movement to consume and waste (and thus spend) less, do more with less, do it on your own (thus not "create jobs"), etc?
Meta layoffs: all TPMs in Instagram laidoff today
I think at this point most people have are beyond pandemic fatigue, so a lot of people are basically pretending that Covid is gone and not doing anything to protect themselves anymore.

I was extra careful from March 2020 to about April 2022 myself (rarely leaving the house except when it was low in summer, only meeting people outside, getting groceries delivered, wearing a mask when I did, etc).

But this winter I haven't bothered to do anything other than get the updated vaccine (and flu shot), keep an eye on CDC stats, and avoid events where people have recently had Covid, assuming they've announced it (happened a couple times).

I've gone to restaurants, bars, grocery stores, shops, meetups, the ocassional work event, etc. this winter. Stuff I wouldn't have dared do in 2020 and 2021. I probably shouldn't go as often, but I also don't want to just spend yet another winter trapped at home (already happens enough as is, hello incoming blizzard keeping me home this weekend).

That being said, if the numbers were double or triple what they are now, I'd probably be more hesitant, and go to less things.
The other way to look at it: there are old planes still running that seem unlikely to have an installed GPS. Air flight pre-dates GPS.
Netflix isn't just competing against movie theaters though, it's competing against 10 other similarly priced streaming services. If they let their quality degrade too much people are going to start choosing other services as their movie theatre alternative (likely already happening).
Your rhetorical point about Alex Jones is contradicted within your own post. Alex Jones does not receive grant funding from the US government, but this group does receive a portion of its funding from the Israeli government.

James Bamford has written at least 3 good articles about Israeli government influence of US civil society (social media) and elections (the leak of the DNC hack materials), all in the last year or so, at The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/james-bamford/

And until extremely recently, the IDF and associated arms of the state have been engaging in even more deceptive actions, such as creating sock-puppet accounts to bolster support for government policy, targeting Israelis themselves: https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-admits-psychological-warfa...

It's impossible to be certain of anything related to these highly unaccountable and secret operations, but the "grain" of truth runs very much in the direction of Israeli state interference, with quite wide scope -- but effectiveness unknown.
Ugh, I also have a reverse Osmosis system and this is the first time hearing about this. Anyone here knows is there is research suggesting that these filters may have adverse health effects?
Thanks for mentioning this. I did a bit of reading about the special alignment - very interesting stuff!

It seems like the alignment you refer to inspired the launch of Voyager 1 and 2 because they could visit so many planets at one time, and indeed it did slingshot them at quite some speed. However newer launches have reached similar speeds, and will escape the solar system due to improvements in launch technology.
By that logic monetary value is a company’s most valuable asset.

Edit: I understand it was satire.
Currently, if you disable chat history, you'll see this message:

Chat History is off for this browser.
When history is turned off, new chats on this browser won't appear in your history on any of your devices, be used to train our models, or stored for longer than 30 days. This setting does not sync across browsers or devices.
I agree, I just think these new projects based on LLMs should be considered a different category, AI agents or something. The traditional grammar-based voice assistant architecture used by Google Assistant, Siri, Alexa, Bixby, etc is an abject failure, and not for lack of trying.
Things don't seem to be going well at Humane, either: https://www.fastcompany.com/91008117/ai-pin-humane-layoffs
> Miners and node operators can operate on whichever fork they want, but that doesnt mean Coinbase or Fidelity or whoever is going to recognize that fork.

Mate that isn't how it work. If Coinbase or Fidelity don't recognise the real blockchain then they no longer have real bitcoin, they have a forked coin (because they are not on the true bitcoin chain). The Bitcoin chain is determined by consensus of the majority of miners/nodes (not bitcoin holders!) and if they break from that they now have a substantially devalued asset (look up the price of BCH and BTG these days).

You seem to be under a misapprehension that owning the most bitcoin gives an institution or individual power over the network. It does not.

Bitcoin, by definition, cannot exist on two separate chains. If an institution attempted what you are saying all they will have done is reverse alchemy: turned gold (bitcoin) into lead (an unrecognised chain with no mining occurring, no recognition by nodes etc).
If you file something through FA, the advice in the community lately has been to re-file the bug against every beta of the OS and every new version of the OS until it's resolved. If you have any new information at all, re-file the bug with the new version. Apple's bug triage team doesn't route things that are old/ancient/sitting in the system forever. Your bugs probably haven't reached the team yet.
Are you referring to the 60 days (from WARN act) to find another team before getting removed from the company? If so, yes, but imagine the difficulty of finding another team to take you while the company is actively shedding roles.
> if you take a medicine you can keep stuffing yourself

That’s not at all how these new medicines work. You can’t (well, don’t) keep stuffing yourself on Wegovy (Ozempic) and Zepbound (Mounjaro), because you no longer spend all your time wanting to. These drugs work by switching off your desire to stuff yourself, not by allowing you to stuff yourself without weight gain. When you eat a big meal on these medicines, you feel satisfied and over-full, rather than like an addict who just got a partial hit and wants to ride it.

I take an immensely helpful SSRI for GAD, that no amount of mindfulness, therapy, or healthy living seemed to touch. I take a GLP-1 agonist for a food compulsion I’ve had for 25 years and couldn’t shake. I never got properly fat, but fighting a desire to EAT ALL THE FOOD no longer occupies 50% of my mental energy.

Have you ever come off nicotine? If so, you’ll know the little voice in your head that is continually telling you that you should have a cigarette for the first few days. You can’t shut it up. Hey, have a cigarette. You know what’s be good right now? A cigarette. Oh you just woke up? Have a cigarette. It fades eventually for nicotine. In my experience, and, in that of many/most fat people, you have that constantly for food, that food noise. GLP-1 agonists turn the food noise off.
The common place to use something like this would be to mmap an existing external data structure. There are a number of existing mmap-able 0copy k/v library/db formats that fit the bill here.
....so after all of that effort to create walkable cities, remove car lanes for bike lanes etc. this is where we end up? Not sure if trying to create more walkways, removing traffic lanes for bike etc. are the answer if this is the net result.
You mean a humiliation ritual? No, thanks. I am not going to build my career at the expense of the dignity of other people.

Build the skills, the trust and the enthusiasm and leave people work in peace. Nobody likes micromanagement. If people could get a paycheck without ever having such conversations they would prefer that. It's a cost to be minimized, not a reward.

Your only value is how much you empower others compared to you being absent. That is the baseline you are optimizing against. And if everything you do is to chase people to forcibly spoonfeed them you are not achieving that.

> A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. - Lao Tzu

Right now you are like a first time plant owner that overwaters plants and kills them. Stop micromanaging people.
Content by Andrew Ng seems to be a good starting point. He's got several courses on Coursera.
> doesn't offer any ways to reorganize sections of your song

I find thisfeature very refreshing and liberating. Sure, having patterns or other blocks you can copy and move around makes life easier but too easily you might end in a trap of repetitive, schematic composition. Without patterns it is more natural to experiment with less orthodox stuff as you literally don't have any boundaries. I feel it every time I switch from Ableton or Milky Tracker to improvising with my Korg gear.
>I know some of the folks involved and they are working on 50 years to launch.

I.e. far enough in the future to safely assume all current employees will happily retire. Isn't that brilliant?
Why lay-off instead of repurpose?

Will we consider smartphones as "Personal Assistants" anytime soon? AI has advanced considerably in terms of what can be processed locally but the restructure seems a bit over the top considering it's still the same concept in a broader sense.

It's like laying off a team of developers simply because you changed branding.
Ask HN: How to reach anyone technical at Cloudflare?
All I get from their support tickets are automated responses.

I've been having an issue where they'll send the javascript challenge responses to the wrong origin if the page has a <base> element in it with a different origin, and I just can't seem to be able to reach anyone at CloudFlare for them to fix their code.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/requests/3080539
Well if there are multiple companies competing to provide the same product then the one extracting more labor from its employees will win out….
So here's a question I don't know off hand:

Can someone short bitcoin with this ETF?
what if you start with a good job?
2 days ago. 195 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38922657
Bitcoin and BFT consensus primarily solve the principal-agent problem, and give us a better means to experiment.

Personally, I don't think a deflationary global reserve currency is the precise answer, but I do believe that these experiments in monetary governance (like Ethereum's burn and mint model) will allow us to move closer to it.
In your opinion what is the proper way to do a layoff? Or if any layoff is a problem, how do you prevent companies from hiring too quickly or whatever?
> cloud feudalism

nice
Was it me? I ask questions like this all the time. I’m a senior engineer that has spent the better part of 2023 migrating failed react-native disasters back to fully native projects and retraining the devs to use a new stack.
Smartphones have been able to emulate Mario 64 for a very long time now. For a truly surreal experience, play the Funkey S port: https://youtube.com/shorts/FfeRFmd27Jc?si=0WU8MW_ZtXcqOOkz
> Why lay-off instead of repurpose?

Appease investors probably